[News] Cuba Doubles Down Against USAID

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 Cuba Doubles Down Against USAID
February 14, 2025 - <https://orinocotribune.com/2025/02/>
https://orinocotribune.com/cuba-doubles-down-against-usaid/
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[image: USAID logo and US flag. Photo: Kawsachun News/file photo.]

USAID logo and US flag. Photo: Kawsachun News/file photo.

*USAID funding for Cuba-related media amounted to $2.3 million in 2024.*

Foreign Minister of Cuba Bruno Rodriguez has once again denounced
<https://x.com/BrunoRguezP/status/1889645787245621617> the use of USAID
against Cuba. Between 1998 and 1999 alone, the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID)
<https://www.prensa-latina.cu/2025/02/12/cuba-reitera-denuncia-de-usaid-como-instrumento-del-gobierno-de-eeuu/>
spent
more than six million dollars (USD) to carry out hundreds of illegal
operations in Cuba.

Between 2001 and 2006, it allocated $61 million for 142 illegal projects
and activities against the Cuban people.

Cuba has repeatedly denounced the use of USAID and other organizations
presented as humanitarian or in defense of democracy, as fronts to
penetrate and undermine societies, impose colonial values and customs, as
well as manipulate or outright control local elites and the press, with the
aim of strengthening U.S. hegemony.

Since his arrival to the White House last month for his second presidential
term, Donald Trump has launched a crusade led by his presidential campaign
donors, primarily Elon Musk, against USAID. They intend to reduce or
dismantle parts of the US government, with the pretext of targeting
inefficiencies and corruption.

Revelations of “USAID secrets” made by Trump, Musk and others, are intended
to attack their Democratic rivals despite that Trump’s first
administration utilized
the same funds <https://x.com/camilapress/status/1887584982387839100>
and deployed
them  <https://x.com/camilapress/status/1086380572535083009>for similar
purposes around the world.

USAID financing for Cuba-related media amounted to $2.3 million in 2024.
*Reuters *reported this week
<https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-funded-cuban-media-limbo-after-trump-orders-usaid-closed-2025-02-10/>that
US-funded outlets reporting on Cuba are “seeking alternative sources of
financing” and that their fate is “in limbo” given the plans to dismantle
USAID. The move would affect outlets like Miami-based *CubaNet*, which
received a dedicated $500,000 from USAID in 2024 to engage “on-island young
Cubans through objective and uncensored multimedia journalism”.

Commenting on X,
<https://x.com/CarlosFdeCossio/status/1888077556819132740> Foreign
Vice Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio called US-funded media “hired
lackeys, absolutely dependent on the master.”

The new U.S. administration intends to promote its interests with less
subtle and more crude methods and has shifted control of USAID to Secretary
of State Marco Rubio.



(Kawsachun News <https://kawsachun.com/cuba-doubles-down-against-usaid/>)
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