ZunZuneo, a relatively unsuccessful Twitter-style social network aimed at Cuba, was actually a plot by the USAID agency, which hoped it would spark protests and an eventual regime change.
The scheme, which Senate Appropriations Foreign Operations Committee head Patrick Leahy (D – VT) termed “dumb, dumb, dumb,” cost $1.6 million, which officially was earmarked for unspecified aid to Pakistan.
USAID head Rajiv Shah insisted ZunZuneo was not technically a “covert program,” because USAID doesn’t do covert programs. Rather, they kept the whole thing secret to “protect the people involved.”
Despite being unclear on what the word “covert” actually means, USAID seems halfway adept at doing it, setting up front companies in Spain and the Cayman Islands to funnel taxpayer money into the scheme, and recruiting ZunZuneo’s official corporate leadership without telling them anything about US government involvement.
USAID went on to issue a statement today insisting that it is “proud of its work in Cuba,” and that they believe the operation was “consistent with US law.”
The ZunZuneo program never got all that big, maxing out at about 40,000 subscribers. In September 2012 USAID pulled official support from it, and service disappeared almost immediately thereafter.
Hillary Clinton and USAID, an anti socialist, an anti functioning democracy, an anti nations independent could work and go hand in hand along way. Cuba, as always and by all means been the target of USG, now if is the state department-government doing the act or is USAID used by state department to do the act , doesn’t change the idea behind the fact that they are in business doing just that, changing regime as they please. In the other hand the changes for the worse in Ukraine costed the American tax payer thus far 6billion dollars, how many more billions they are going to spend before they realize that US schools needs money to expend for the feature, kids that are living for feature.
Exactly and it doesn't stop with USAID. Even now the well financed Clinton Foundation is involved in regime change and land grabbing in Africa. It's all big bucks for the Global War on Terror and sadly, Africa is on that list.
One wonders were all those bleeding heart humanitarian interventionists are when it comes to Cuba, Venezuela. Here are two countries utterly destroyed for the sake of the ideology of one single man. Millions of people in misery for no go reason whatsoever. And no one says peep. But if the leader of a country on israel's list of governments to be overthrown does something, anything, armies of liberals and republicans demand regime change, war.
This is exactly what they did in Iran's 2009 elections which Antiwar and its many writers refused to acknowledge and accept. There was ample proof that twits were traced to Israel and Los Angeles, yet Antiwar refused to acknowledge. Pls don't allow your likes and dislikes determine what you publish. Reality is not always what we like!