[News] US Finances Subversion in Cuba Through International Awards

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  US Finances Subversion in Cuba Through International Awards

November 9, 2021
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States designed the 
formula of delivering money through international prizes, some of them 
very well known, to mask the payment to the counterrevolution in Cuba, 
local media denounced today in Havana.

According to the web portal Cubadebate, the way to make the commissions 
arrive through “cultural awards”, offers the possibility of assigning 
high sums of money, justifying them with alleged acts of “struggle for 
human rights”.  The awards are in fact attempts to evade the 
denunciations of the Caribbean nation.

    Public funding for the anti-Castro industry in the #UnitedStates
    <https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnitedStates?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
    seems inexhaustible. In the last year, at least 54 organizations
    have benefited from the State Department, the NED, and USAID
    programs for #Cuba
    <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cuba?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>.

    Article by Rosa Miriam Elizaldehttps://t.co/8BQf7ktuA7

    — International Peoples' Assembly (@peoplesassembl_) November 3,
    2021
    <https://twitter.com/peoplesassembl_/status/1455897365550927877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>


The publication “/*Los premios, fórmula de pago a la 
contrarrevolución*/” (The awards, forms of payment to the 
counterrevolution) illustrated that these awards, many of them amounting 
to thousands of dollars or euros, went to people like Yoani Sanchez, who 
became a blogger after being recruited in Spain in 2004 by CIA agent 
Carlos Alberto Montaner.

With the purpose of positioning her internationally, only a year after 
the release of her blog, the U.S. magazine TIME selected her in 2008 
among the 100 most influential people in the world, a fact repeated in 
2021 with a local artist turned anti-government activist, Luis Manuel 
Otero Alcántara.

People Magazine also chose Sanchez as one of the 25 most outstanding 
people in Latin America, “actions that served as the basis to initiate a 
precipitous cascade of awards, something unparalleled in the history of 
Latin American intellectual circles” the source said.

“Thus was born the “shining star” of the moment, a fact supported by 
several press agencies and newspapers, which evidenced her service to 
the CIA, as part of Operation Mockingbird” (a program that attempted to 
manipulate the media for propaganda purposes), the publication specifies.

*According to the article, Yoani Sanchez is the Cuban who has received 
the most awards without having an intellectual work, only thanks to her 
subversive actions. *

Under the same financing design, last October the Oxi Day Foundation in 
Washington awarded the 2021 Courage Award to Otero Alcántara, leader of 
the San Isidro group, with a five thousand dollar grant.

Another example is how the diplomatic mission of the Kingdom of Norway 
in Havana recognized with its 2021 Cuban film fund the film director 
Carlos Lechuga and the playwright Yunior Garcia, both anti-government 
activists.

In addition, Tania Bruguera, linked for years to subversive activities, 
recently received the Velazquez Prize for Plastic Arts, awarded annually 
by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and accompanied by 100,000 euros.

    Tania Bruguera pagada para activar la subversión en ���� siguen
    instrucciones de la NED y la USAID con el objetivo de apoyar las
    matrices de opinión que se generan, hacerle el juego a los que nos
    quieren dañar y hacer de la política un negocio.#CubaEsCultura
    <https://twitter.com/hashtag/CubaEsCultura?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
    pic.twitter.com/KBUeyTIfJU <https://t.co/KBUeyTIfJU>

    — PortuondoBlanco (@PortuondoBlanco) February 5, 2021
    <https://twitter.com/PortuondoBlanco/status/1357688996793622528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>


*Tania Bruguera is paid to activate subversion following instructions 
from NED and USAID with the objective of skewing public opinions, *

*playing into the hands of those who want to harm us and make politics a 
business.*

This method of defraying actions to destroy the political stability of a 
country began with the well-known Sakharov Prize, awarded for the first 
time in 1988 by the European Parliament and given to alleged opponents 
of nations with governments not accepted by the United States.
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