US spends big on anti-Havana activities: Cuba
US spends big on anti-Havana activities: Cuba
Updated: 2013-03-15 12:50
( Xinhua)
HAVANA - The United States government earmarked some $205 million between 1996 and 2011 in a bid to topple the Cuban government, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
In an online statement, the ministry said the US continued to fund schemes designed to bring down the government and undermine the socialist system, but masked the operations as pro-democracy.
These programs were carried out by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Department of State over the last eight years from former US President George W. Bush's second term to Obama's first term, according to the statement.
The ministry noted that the fund does not include the $30 million that Washington annually spends on "a failed policy at the expense of US taxpayers," referring to a secret budget that finances the illegal broadcasting like Radio Marti and TV Marti in Cuba, and intelligence operations in support of anti-Cuban activists.
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