ʻO Khalid Payenda, mai ke Kuhina Waiwai ma Afghanistan i ka mea hoʻokele Uber

Javier AnsorenaKOKOA

ʻAʻole ʻoe i ʻike i ka mea āu e hālāwai ai i ka wā e wehe ai ʻoe i ka puka kaʻa a aloha i ka mea hoʻokele Uber ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa. He kanaka mahuka mai Somali ma Minneapolis. He makuahine i hemo i ka waiʻona ma Des Moines. He Lūkini nāna i hana hou i ka wahaheʻe a Putin i ka lele ʻana ma New York. A i ʻole, ma Wakinekona, ke kuhina kālā hope loa o Afghanistan.

Ua mālama ʻo Khalid Payenda i kahi kālā $ 6.000 biliona a hiki i ʻAukake i ka makahiki i hala, i ka wā i lawe ʻia ai ʻo Afghanistan e ka Taliban. I kēia manawa ke ʻeke nei au ma mua o $150 i ka pō ma hope o ka huila. "Inā hiki wau

ʻElima mau minuke ma hope mai, ua loaʻa iaʻu kahi bonus o 95 mau kālā", ua ʻae ʻo ia me ka pōʻino maoli i ka lā i hoʻopau ʻia ma 'The Washington Post', ka nūpepa nāna i hōʻike i kāna moʻolelo.

ʻO Payenda kahi ʻāpana o ke aupuni Kabul i hāʻule i ke kauwela i hala, i ka wā i hoʻoholo ai ka US ʻaʻole ʻo Afghanistan i kāna kaua a ua hoʻohiolo ka Taliban iā ia i loko o nā pule. ʻAʻole like nā lālā a pau o ia aupuni. Ua holo ka pelekikena, ʻo Ashraf Ghani, ma mua o ka hopu ʻia ʻana o Kabul. Manaʻo ʻia he $169 miliona e hōʻiliʻili ʻia mai ka waihona kālā o Afghanistan. Ke hoʻāʻo nei kāna Kuhina Waiwai e ʻohi i kahi bonus ma ka heihei ʻana i ka pō, pinepine ma ke ʻano he kaʻa kaʻa i nā ʻōpio ʻona. Ua komo pū ʻo ia ma ke ʻano he papa ma ke Kulanui ʻo Georgetown, akā uku wale ʻo ia iā ia he $2.000 i hoʻokahi kau. E hoʻomau i ka hoʻokele me ka Uber algorithm.

ʻO Afghanistan democratic

ʻO Payenda, 40, ʻo ia kekahi o ka poʻe hoʻoponopono hou i manaʻoʻiʻo i ka moeʻuhane i hāʻawi ʻia iā lākou e nā ʻAmelika ma hope o ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana iā Afghanistan: ʻaʻole wale kā lākou pahuhopu e hoʻopaʻi i ka Taliban ma hope o 11/XNUMX; E hoʻokumu pū lākou i nā kumu no kahi Afghanistan hou, democratic, me ka hoʻokuʻu ʻana i nā wahine a me ka mahalo i nā pono kanaka. ʻAʻohe mea i hōʻiliʻili ʻia, ʻoiai ʻo ka hoʻopau ʻia ʻana o ka piliona kālā a me ke ola o nā tausani koa.

Ua lawe pio ʻia ʻo ia me kona ʻohana i Pakistan i ke kaua kīwila o nā makahiki XNUMX, ua hoʻi ʻo ia i Afghanistan i ka wā i hoʻokahuli ai ka pūʻali koa US i nā extremists mai ka mana a ʻo ia kekahi o nā mea nāna i hoʻokumu i ke kulanui pilikino mua o ka ʻāina. Ma hope mai, ua hahai ʻo ia i ka hoʻomaʻamaʻa maʻamau o nā mea hoʻoponopono: ua hana ʻo ia ma ka US Agency for International Development a me ka World Bank, ua aʻo ʻo ia ma ke Kulanui o Illinois me kahi haʻawina Fulbright.

Ma 2016, me ke kaua i hoʻopaʻa ʻia, ua komo ʻo ia i ke Kuhina Waiwai ma ke ʻano he kuhina nui. A ma 2020 ua kāhea ʻo Ghani iā ​​ia e lilo i mea paʻa waihona. Ua palaho ka ʻāina, akā mau nō. "ʻO wau kekahi ʻāpana o ka hāʻule ʻole," ʻae ʻo ia i kēia manawa i ka nūpepa ʻAmelika. He pule ma mua o ka hāʻule ʻana o Kabul, ua hōʻole ʻo ia ma muli o nā kuʻikahi me Ghani. I kēlā manawa, aia kāna wahine a me kāna mau keiki ʻehā i ʻAmelika, a ua hui koke ʻo ia me lākou. Nui nā mea i waiho ʻia. "E hele mai ʻoe i loko," wahi a ka haʻalulu ma waena o nā moeʻuhane o ka hoʻokiʻekiʻe ʻana i kona ʻāina a me ka ʻoiaʻiʻo o kona hemahema a me ke ola āna e alakaʻi nei i kēia manawa. Ua huli mua ka US i ka ʻaoʻao ma Afghanistan. Hoʻomanaʻo ʻo Payenda i kēlā me kēia kukui kaʻa a me ka hewa i hoʻohui ʻia no ka pono maoli.