Obama Persists in Spending $20 Million on Subversive USAID Projects in Cuba

Published in Argenpress
(Argentina) on 10 June 2011
by Jean-Guy Allard (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Gabriel Floud. Edited by Derek Ha  .
While the economic crisis condemns hundreds of thousands of North Americans to abject poverty, the administration in Washington continues to dedicate millions of dollars to meddling programs whose inefficiency has long been documented.

Such is the case with the subversive USAID plans in Cuba that, according to analysts, have not done much other than to prompt the arrest and sentencing of a contractor from this office of the State Department.

The North American administration’s obsession with squandering another $20 million on programs that aim to “promote democracy in Cuba” while masking intelligence and destabilization activities faces the decision made by John Kerry, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, to suspend the funds on April 1.

Since 1990, the USAID programs conducted in Cuba have uselessly cost $150 million on “investments” in anti-government groups and intelligence “programs.”

According to Kerry himself, the United States’ funds were used to artificially “mobilize” protests in Cuba with dissident groups that were so “thoroughly penetrated” that American money is in fact helping “finance” the Cuban state’s security services.

In his criticism of USAID’s activities, Kerry denounced the use of encrypted communications, secret codes and pseudonyms that characterize intelligence operations and ordered that the numerous frauds that have been detected in the programs be investigated.

“There is no evidence … that the ‘democracy promotion’ programs … are helping the Cuban people,” Kerry declared. “Nor have they achieved much more than provoking the Cuban government to arrest a U.S. government contractor.”

He said this in reference to Alan P. Gross of Potomac, Maryland, arrested in Havana in 2009, after having illegally delivered state-of-the-art satellite communications equipment to “contacts” on the island.

In response to Kerry, the Obama administration confessed that the so-called “democracy programs” have been used to “call the world's attention on the activists” who recruit, fundraise, manage and promote outside of Cuba.

In USAID’s written arguments, the existence of a rap festival in Cuba is strangely claimed, as if rap were an element of its subversive programs.

The most recent “projects” include programs to help gays — something which already exists on the island — and the handicapped, as if Cuba didn’t already have a wide range of free services which are very superior to those offered in the United States in this area.

The “suspension” of funds by Kerry was attacked by Sen. Bob Menendez, known for his links with the Cuban-American terrorist mafia, whose “anti-Castro” non-profits have received millions in funds on several occasions in the past.




viernes 10 de junio de 2011
Persiste Obama en gastar 20 millones en proyectos USAID de subversión en Cuba

Jean-Guy Allard


Mientras la crisis económica condena a cientos de miles de norteamericanos a la pobreza sino a la miseria, el Gobierno de Washington sigue consagrando decenas de millones de dólares en programas de injerencia cuya ineficiencia es desde rato documentada.

Tal es el caso de los planes subversivos de la USAID en Cuba que, según analistas, no han logrado mucho más que provocar el arresto y la condena a prisión de un contratista de esta dependencia del Departamento de Estado.


La obsesión de la administración norteamericana por derrochar otros $20 millones con programas que pretenden “promover la democracia en Cuba” mientras encubren actividades de inteligencia y de desestabilización, se enfrenta a la decisión del senador John Kerry, quien preside la Comisión de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, de “suspender” los fondos el 1 de abril.


Los programas USAID dirigidos a Cuba han costado inútilmente $150 millones desde la década de 1990 en “inversiones” con grupos anti-gubernamentales y en “programas” de inteligencia.


Según el propio Kerry, los fondos de EEUU se usaron para “movilizar” artificialmente protestas en Cuba con grupos disidentes “profundamente penetrados” hasta el punto que el dinero estadounidense, afirma, está de hecho ayudando a “financiar” los órganos de seguridad del Estado cubano.


En su crítica de las actividades de la USAID, Kerry ha denunciado el uso de comunicaciones en clave, códigos secretos y seudónimos que caracterizan operaciones de inteligencia y ha ordenado que se investigue a los numerosos fraudes detectados en los programas.


“No hay evidencia” de que esos programas ayuden al pueblo cubano, ha declarado Kerry, “ni de que hayan conseguido mucho más que provocar al gobierno cubano a arrestar a un contratista del gobierno de EEUU”.


Una referencia a Allan P. Gross, de Potomac, Maryland, arrestado en La Habana en el 2009 tras entregar ilegalmente a “contactos” en la Isla equipos de comunicaciones satelitales de última generación.


En una respuesta a Kerry, la administración Obama confiesa que los llamados programas “por la democracia” han sido utilizados para “llamar la atención internacional hacia los activistas” que recluta, financia, orienta y promociona fuera de Cuba.


En su argumentación escrita, la USAID se atribuye, extrañadamente, la existencia de un festival rap en Cuba, como si el rap fuera un elemento de sus programas subversivos.


Los “proyectos” más recientes incluyen programas para ayudar a los gays – algo ya existente en la Isla - y a los discapacitados, como si Cuba no tenía ya amplios servicios gratuitos muy superiores a los ofrecidos en EEUU, en esta esfera.


La “suspensión” de fondos por Kerry ha sido atacada por el senador Bob Menéndez, conocido por sus lazos con la mafia terrorista cubanoamericana, cuyas ONGs “anticastristas” han sido, en el pasado, en múltiples oportunidades, receptores de fondos millonarios.

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