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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">US Finances Subversion in Cuba
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November 9, 2021</div>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>Public funding for the anti-Castro industry in
the <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnitedStates?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"
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inexhaustible. In the last year, at least 54
organizations have benefited from the State
Department, the NED, and USAID programs for <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cuba?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"
moz-do-not-send="true">#Cuba</a>.</p>
<p> Article by Rosa Miriam Elizalde<a
href="https://t.co/8BQf7ktuA7"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://t.co/8BQf7ktuA7</a></p>
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— International Peoples' Assembly (@peoplesassembl_)
<a
href="https://twitter.com/peoplesassembl_/status/1455897365550927877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"
moz-do-not-send="true">November 3, 2021</a> </blockquote>
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<p>The publication “<em><strong>Los premios, fórmula de
pago a la contrarrevolución</strong></em>” (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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p><strong>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. </strong>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="es">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.<a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CubaEsCultura?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"
moz-do-not-send="true">#CubaEsCultura</a> <a
href="https://t.co/KBUeyTIfJU"
moz-do-not-send="true">pic.twitter.com/KBUeyTIfJU</a></p>
— PortuondoBlanco (@PortuondoBlanco) <a
href="https://twitter.com/PortuondoBlanco/status/1357688996793622528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"
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<p><strong>Tania Bruguera is paid to activate subversion
following instructions from NED and USAID with the
objective of skewing public opinions, </strong>
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<p><strong>playing into the hands of those who want to
harm us and make politics a business.</strong>
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<p>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.</p>
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