In 1991, CAII was also involved with the coup against democratically-elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Saltman, 2006: 40). Since the start of the ‘‘Reagan revolution’’ in ‘‘democracy promotion’’ ((see the National Endowment for Democracy)) CAII has been involved in "projects that merged development work with political, military, and economic influence strategies on the part of the U.S." (Saltman, 2006: 26).
foreign policy interventions in ways favorable to U.S.-based transnational capital" (Saltman, 2006: 28). One example of one of the prominent projects CAII has worked on, involved them providing support to "the Contra guerillas in Nicaragua" in 1989 which highlight(s) continuities in the role of education in aggressive U.S. Since then it has received more than 400 contracts from around the world with offices in 11 countries, has more than 300 employees, and annual revenue as high as $50 million. By 1985, CAII was a multimillion-dollar business, with both government and private-sector contracts. Sometime between April 1983 and April 1984, Ilda Jones left Creative and in 1986, Kruvant and her remaining co-founders changed the company's name to Creative Associates International Inc. when it was founded in 1979 by four women, Maria Charito Kruvant, Ilda Cheryl Jones, Diane Trister Dodge, and Mimi Tse. Initially, CAII (a private for-profit corporation) was was known as Creative Associates, Inc.
Participation, diversity, and equity have driven projects seeking to improve the lives of underserved populations in more than 68 countries to date.".
#CREATIVE ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL JORDAN PROFESSIONAL#
(CAII) is "a minority women-owned professional services firm incepted in 1977.
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