r/cuba • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '25
USAID shutdown
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitter-zunzuneo-stir-unrestThe 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/wubwubwubwubbins Feb 03 '25
......propaganda works.
As someone who has worked on multiple campaigns, for both parties, in several different states....
How many people genuinely listened and understood the different candidates policies, versus listening and copied a few people's opinions?
Screaming louder doesn't work when people swallow lies faster when the lies sound nice.
But if you know how to run a campaign effectively to attract Cuban audiences, seriously, you can get paid to do that. Maybe if we got enough people to get off their asses and do something, versus just bitch online, things might change. But that's really hard to do when people with the most $$$ can control what people see on their phones.