USAID's "Technological Mercenaries" Deceive Cubans
USAID's "Technological Mercenaries" Deceive Cubans
Thursday, 1 May 2014, 1:55 pm
Article: Richard S. Ehrlich
USAID's "Technological Mercenaries" Deceive Cubans
by Richard S. Ehrlich | Bangkok, Thailand
April 30, 2014
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) used "technological mercenaries" in a dumb, secret, illegal assault against Cuba's government and unsuspecting population, comparable to the strategy of deceptive Nazi propaganda, according to Cuban Ambassador Victor Ramirez Pena.
"ZunZuneo, in the two years that it was in operation, didn't have enough time to do what it wanted, which was to subvert the order in Cuba," Ambassador Pena said in an interview, referring to USAID's Internet-based social media site named ZunZuneo.
"It was working on profiling people," in Cuba who had no idea that USAID was sucking up their personal data by secretly hosting and spying on their accounts, to later spam them with anti-communist and pro-American propaganda, he said.
"That is something that nobody should be doing because it's illegal by U.S. law, it's illegal by international regulations," Ambassador Pena said.
"Does one have to accept that the continuous use of deceit, lies -- as Goebbels said -- to make it a truth, is something that we have to accept? I don't think so."
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