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HAVANA.— A new investigation reveals that the US government has secretly funded a social media network programme to instigate political unrest in Cuba.The administration of US President Barack Obama has been secretly financing the project, dubbed “Cuban Twitter,” for more than two years to undermine the Caribbean country’s government, according to an investigation by the Associated Press.
The programme has reportedly been able to evade Cuba’s Internet restrictions by creating a text-messaging service that could be used to organise political rallies.
The service drew in tens of thousands of subscribers who were unaware of Washington’s scheme.
The investigation showed that the US Agency for International Development (USAid) has gone to extensive lengths to conceal its involvement in the programme. It also added that USAid set up front-companies overseas and routed money through a Cayman Islands bank to hide the funding it supplied to support the Cuban Twitter project. Havana and Washington have been at odds since the Cuban revolution, led by Fidel Castro, toppled Fulgencio Batista’s regime in 1959.
The US started imposing measures on the same year and placed an official embargo against Cuba in 1962.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in 2012, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said that after the 2008 US presidential election, Obama had promised a new beginning with Cuba but “the reality of the last four years has been characterised by a persistent tightening of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade.” — Press TV
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