Now my memory isn't the greatest, but didn't Uzbekistan deny US military rights in response to criticism from the US of Uzbekistan's human rights record? To me, it doesn't seem that it's too big a leap to think that an aid program would also be suspended for the same human rights abuses. The NYT gets so much wrong, so often, that it's tough to take them seriously.
If that were the case , then woudn't there be matching suspensions of aid for those other countries in the region who also got the same human rights criticisms from the US but didn't revoke their military assistance .
So that isn't the case is it. In fact they got a boost for the aid programs at the time when Uzbeck got its suspended .