- by Peter Farmer
- The Guardian
- Issue #2135
Action against the US blockade on Cuba in Boorloo/Perth.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has had funds frozen and is controversially being investigated for corruption.
Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez, has revealed the eye-watering amount that the allocated to promote a government transition on the island.
On social media, the Cuban Foreign Minister indicated that USAID had spent more than $120 million US to support several projects with the aim of destabilising the Caribbean island.
The Foreign Minister repudiated the constant pressure, both cultural and economic, of the United States towards the Cuban population, and insisted that they will not succeed in annihilating the Revolution.
Both Rodriguez and Miguel Diaz-Canel, the Cuban president, have denounced the USAID support to subversive activities. According to them, the agency allocated 61 million dollars between 2001 and 2006 to 142 projects and illicit actions directed against the island.
For decades, the US government has supported financially and in large amounts, various initiatives both internal and external to Cuba, all with the goal of dismantling the Cuban Revolution. USAID has been a large part of that.
