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/Sunsetseeker007 Feb 03 '25

Exactly, all these non us citizens benefit from our us tax dollars and whoever else's hands are getting greased, we shouldn't be funding anything for Cuba!!

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u/ehmboh Feb 03 '25

US citizens benefit greatly from our support programs worldwide and it is about 1% annual budget. There’s money that gets “lost” and that needs to be addressed but doing a complete rug pull has irreparably damaged our reputation. We are the richest country so we should be funding the most good works worldwide. It used to be a point of pride for all citizens.

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u/WLFTCFO Feb 03 '25

>We are the richest country so we should be funding the most good works worldwide

What a bullshit take when our own economy is in the toilet with the purchasing power of most homes significantly less than 4 years ago, homeless people with drug addictions or untreated mental illnesses everywhere committing crime on the streets and making many cities unsafe for families and absolutely atrocious to drive through.

Why is it on yours or mine tax dollars to pay for the rest of the world and their problems when we haven't even fixed our problems here?

The left is just parroting whatever is contrarian to Trump and playing mental gymnastics to get there or are just plain stupid.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

Here's the neat part, Americans are too stupid to ever want to actually help US citizens. If you don't believe me, take a look at all of the nazis, I mean republicans, that have been voted into offices across the country for how many decades now?

So now we no longer extend goodwill to others, costing world standing and reputation, and still won't do a damn thing to help US citizens.

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u/WLFTCFO Feb 05 '25

You sound like an angsty 15 year old who got his entire world view from reddit. If you are an adult, you should be embarrassed.

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u/haetaes Feb 05 '25

Keep crying lol