With nearly $904,000, the grant could have paid for 602 to 753 full-time female alpaca farmers for an entire year. This raises questions about how the funds were allocated—was the money used to directly employ farmers, or did it go toward administrative costs, middlemen, or external organizations?
This report is part of a transparency initiative aimed at shedding light on government allocations that appear wasteful. While identifying big-ticket budgets and questionable expenditures is an important first step, our work goes deeper: we plan to investigate both who allocated the funds and who received them.
Throughout history, the greatest threat to freedom has not been war, disease, or economic collapse—it has been secrecy. Governments, when left unchecked, have an unfortunate tendency to operate in the shadows, where corruption flourishes, and power consolidates away from the people.
