Journalist Andrew Marshall writes that during the 2008 Cyclone Nargis the Burmese state - run media portrayed a «well -
oiled state relief campaign: soldiers unloading relief supplies from helicopters, generals inspecting neat rows of refugee tents.»
In 2006, the United
States provided 6 million tons of food aid to agencies such as CARE, Catholic
Relief Services, World Vision and Save the Children, which distributed the bags of wheat, rice or corn and containers of vegetable
oil.