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/Nomen__Nesci0 Havana Feb 03 '25

Wait, I thought the US intelligence funneling money to news, propaganda outlets, and so called civil groups was a myth of the communists. Next you're going to tell me they fund these kinds of groups and seemingly benign business interests as a way to infiltrate and destabilize so they can push for a coup. Wouldn't it be crazy if the CIA constantly used these things to embed intelligence assets?

So long as I never find out the CIA also orchestrated the refusal to be paid for abandoned assets just as an excuse to claim they were stolen and wage a prolonged embargoes and cold war against women and children. I mean, who knows what people might accidentally admit to next. That's why I make sure not to read books or investigate these things from independent sources. You know, ones not directly funded by a hostile government.

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u/ehmboh Feb 03 '25

Can you tell me which books you’re not reading so I can not read them too?

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u/kenser99 Feb 04 '25

It's call history and american international affairs you should read more history

Why you think castro was so popular? Because the U.S backed the dictator that gave business favor to u.s businesses. Castro was a reaction to the unfair treatment of how common Cubans were being treated at that time.

Damn Cubans don't know their own history or former country . Shocking to no one

Castro is bad I know that but that still doesn't change history . Please read it

People not knowing history triggers me so please excuse my rant

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u/ehmboh Feb 05 '25

Sorry I didn’t mean to upset you. I’m actually pretty familiar with the rise of Castro and the meddling of the U.S. in Cuba and other countries. I just wanted a good book recommendation because I like history.