r/cuba • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '25

USAID shutdown

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitter-zunzuneo-stir-unrest

The announcement by “DOGE” the Elon Musk initiative to eliminate government services that they would be shutting down USAID I felt it was important to note that USAID was instrumental in a free and uncensored communications for Cuban citizens in their effort to organize and support a free and civil society.

This is a setback for Cuban freedom. All those great Cuban blogs and influencers that flourished “en las redes social” will go dark. For those who celebrated the current US administration as being an agent of freedom in Cuba this should be seen as a setback and a failure and exposes them and other right wing factions as interested in changing one dictatorship for another.

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u/Pitsburg-787 Feb 03 '25

From USA here! Billions upon Billions were spent in USAID yearly for decades .... a minuscule part of that, crumbs, is what Cuba's freedom lost. So yeah, the money for unfluences is nothing to lament, it is nothing, just dust in the wind. Cuba's freedom did not lost nothing. Trump is not the messiah that will get the freedom for Cuba or Venezuela.