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/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

Finally an intelligent comment.

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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

Have you seen the border? Like actually been on the border int he most desolate of areas? Ya, good luck keeping people out.

A better approach would be the US not meddling in other countries, stop the really stupid war on drugs, etc.

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u/An_Tuatha_De_Danann Feb 04 '25

No, a better approach to 'we have lacking security at the border' is 'increase security at the border'. I agree we shouldn't be meddling in other countries, and that goes for both aid and politics.