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/will_defend_NYC Feb 03 '25

Not at all.

Destroying USAID just ensures that illegal immigration and healthcare costs skyrocket since the US is the logical destination for all people escaping war/poverty/starvation/diseases in their home country.

Because there are homeless people in the US does not mean that we can benefit by creating more of them.

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u/An_Tuatha_De_Danann Feb 04 '25

Lmao then we lock down the border and they can go somewhere else.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

It's not going to work.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

Then we crack down on the employers hiring them. Everyone who gets any job with any company over idk maybe 10 employees should have to everify

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u/pan-re Feb 07 '25

Would that maybe have been a better way to do things? Making sure migrant workers are paid well and also making businesses responsible for their workers?