Subversion Against Cuba Continues Uninterrupted Amid Normalization

[polly7]

by Matt Peppe / September 15th, 2015

Superficially, it would seem that U.S. policy has moved away from a half-century of economic warfare, terrorism, subversion, and interference in the internal affairs of the nation American politicians have long considered a “natural appendage” of the United States, which would fall into the U.S. orbit like an apple from a tree, as John Quincy Adams once said.

USAID — after being exposed for its subversive Cuban Twitter program “ZunZuneo“, which sought to sow discontent and stir unrest among the Cuban population, and its effort to co-opt Cuban hip hop artists — announced last week that it is seeking three program managers to be awarded six-figure salaries.

Eaton writes that the job description calls for “experience in the areas of democracy promotion, human rights, civil society development” and that candidates must obtain a “secret” security clearance. It is not hard to imagine that these highly compensated program managers would likely be implementing similar covert programs to destabilize Cuban society and attempt to turn its citizens away from the Revolution.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) – an arm of US foreign policy that overtly carries out programs that previously were undertaken covertly by the CIA – is also hiring a Program Officer to work on NED’s “Cuba grants program” and “developing the Endowment’s strategy for Cuba.” Unlike the USAID positions, which are indicated to be in Washington, this position would require “regular field visits.”

Cuban blogger and former State Security Agent Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy writes that the position is for “someone in charge of mounting all types of subversion against the Cuban government on behalf of the NED… completely illegal, meddlesome, and violative of our sovereignty and, therefore, will not admit any of his activity in our territory.”

Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/09/subversion-against-cuba-continues-uninterrupted-amid-normalization/#more-59787

I am afraid for Cuba.

[Nitram]

1. Not all American propaganda is virulent. Just unfiltered world news is subversive enough.

For example, during the cold war, artistic freedom was highlighted abroad via traveling exhibitions of Jackson Pollock's art and others. There is nothing wrong with propaganda that trumpets the benefits of democracy, human rights, civil society development unless you are an authoritarian society that views those things as threats to their power and control. Giving Cubans a back channel for open discussion of politics and society is using the power of the internet to promote freedom of speech. Yes, it is indeed subversive, and requires great discretion and tact. But I'd rather we encouraged Cubans to free themselves than that we invade them and impose an Iraq on them.

[forest444]

2. Well said.

The arts, and artists themselves, have always been America's best ambassadors. They've won more hearts and minds than all the billions spent on CIA psy-ops bullshit artists and their keyboard flunkies ever could.

[Judi Lynn]

3. The U.S. has been desperate to control Cuba clearly since the 1800's.

There is absolutely NO concern for the well-being of the citizens. The only interest is that Cubans bend over and let the US do whatever it is it wants with them. OR ELSE.

The rest of the world admires the little country which has attempted to go its own way, even as the hardship mounted year after year, along with so many acts of terrorism against the Cuban citizens launched from within U.S. borders, which, incidently, is against U.S. laws.

Nothing will go well with Cubans until they let the US destroy and dismantle their world-famous health, education systems, and put everything back as it was with death squads roaming the streets, torture specialists getting oversight by the U.S. CIA, the hellish jaws of poverty opening up again to reclaim a vast part of the population, and the return to wide-spread intestinal parasites, lack of proper sanitary conditions, as before, no money spent on education for the children on the poor, as they might not live to adulthood, anyway, and if they do, only need to work in the sugar cane fields for several months out of every year, just like the good old days, and all their wages will be stolen by the narrow group of elites and absentee landlords living in the States, just as before.

Let's get all the proper payment for their wages out of their hands and into the hands of private owners, just the way capitalists love it. Let THEM spend the money their employees actually deserve for their lifetimes of hard, hard work, and the theft of their health, well-being, security. Give it all to those who have far more than they can ever spend honorably.

You recall the goal of business is to pay the worker far less than he actually earns, as in STEALING it through poor wages, just one step above slavery.

Get Cubans back to their past they attempted to escape by overthrowing their brutal government. Let's get the monsters back in charge, sitting on everyone's face.

Cubans do know what they have been plotting all these years. It's common knowledge. They know better than to trust the bully from the North completely.

[Zorro]

4. What a silly, simpleminded view

Just watch Cubans embrace US commerce with a vengeance once relations are normalized.

They want those cellphones and flat screen tvs, just like the rest of the world does -- whether you approve or not.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Everyone can be bought, is that it? How noble. n/t

[Zorro]

6. Well you certainly can't be bought

Not that anyone would want to.

[Marksman_91]

7. Just staying, Cubans seem to be celebrating Obama more than the Castros nowadays n/t

[polly7]

8. Exactly, and thank you. nt.

[Daniel537]

9. This is why Cuba is responding very cautiously to US biz offers, the few that are allowed anyway.

They know that the goals haven't changed, just the method. Its no longer regime change by the 101st Airborne, but by the internet and social media, and frivolous consumer-laden bullshit. Notice how few of these loosened regulations are aimed at helping Cuba buy necessities like food and medicine, still tightly restricted by the blockade. I'm not worried about Cuba's future, they know the rules have changed but they are always one-step ahead of our "experts".