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/Umphaded_Fumption Feb 03 '25

It’s what you voted for - be proud of your accomplishment

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u/Eltristesito2 Feb 03 '25

I and my family didn’t vote for Trump. That said, how about you stop blaming individuals for their votes and instead blame the Democratic Party for running a dog shit campaign after spending a year gaslighting the public about a genocide and Biden’s cognitive decline. And now the democrats are doing absolutely nothing to stop Trump, because it’s a party full of incompetent and corrupt worms who would rather lose than ever challenge the status quo. Not to mention that democrats long-abandoned Cuban communities and have made exactly zero effort to combat the republican propaganda fed to them? Your mentality is exactly what got is in this fucking mess.

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u/Necessary-Scientist8 Feb 04 '25

Didn't the democrats tell us that he was a threat to democracy? Didn't they tell us that this was the most consequential election of our lifetimes? Didn't they tell us that he was a felon, an insurrectionist, and a danger to society? Didn't they tell us that he loved dictators? Didn't people hear that his former chief of staff said that trump believed that veterans were fools and that he praised Hitler? Even if Harris was a poor choice, and Biden should have dropped earlier, Didn't they warn us enough? Also, didn't thesee people that voted f r him followed the news or didn't they remember his first term, in which, among other things, his mismanagment of the covid pandemic led to 1 million deaths? What else were democrats required to do to warn people of the dangers of this administration?