USAID: Criminal organization

USA, February 5. - The ineffable Elon Musk has just given us interesting news by classifying the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as an institution with criminal, illegal purposes. He accused it of being linked to intelligence operations, coups d'état and even the conception and spread of Covid-19.

It is said that USAID was a creation of the Democratic Party, although it was obviously used by both parties since President John F. Kennedy founded it in 1961. Its objectives were clearly to sell a friendlier face of the proverbial imperial arrogance and, in the process, to do everything possible to undermine popular support for governments that were not to Washington's liking, through what they called soft power years later.

The Cuban Revolution was a target of USAID from the beginning, so listing all the projects they financed would be very extensive. Some examples, according to publicly available information: from 1996 to 2005 they spent no less than 74 million USD “in promoting democratic changes.” For example, the ZunZuneo project is remembered, intended to facilitate, via text messages, communication between Cuban citizens, as promised, which operated between 2009 and 2012, when it was discarded as useless.

Other projects of sad evocation refer to those implemented since 2014 to influence the Cuban hip hop musical movement, which reveals that the culture sector was and continues to be the target of this type of attacks. As an example of the perversity of these policies, there are also those designed to influence projects to help HIV patients, really a cover to identify possible local leaders with similar interests.

It is known that this is an old task of the American special services, which have always come up against the so-called visa syndrome, according to which permission is obtained to emigrate to the US, a true and not always admitted purpose. The aforementioned syndrome has now been recycled under the concept of so-called credible fear, a step to obtain asylum, no matter if the individual needs it, it is enough to create an "opposition" story on digital social networks.

To this day, the so-called counterrevolutionary cluster, a conglomerate of media and digital platforms that generate fanciful content, which exaggerate the description of the problems that Cuba faces, naturally ignoring the main culprit of them, the blockade, operates with monetary support from USAID and the NED, which would well deserve a separate analysis.

The exploits of USAID in the rest of the world are also well known, some widely denounced. The scandal that right now surrounds the government of Narnia, sorry, the spawn of the Venezuelan ultra-right abroad, are unspeakable; Also in time we remember the support for crueler plans such as Operation Condor, or the euphemistically called color revolutions in Europe and the Middle East, which left an impressive number of human victims and truths that cry out to be clarified someday.

It could be said that Musk discovered warm water, but behind this comment there are other projects, updated to the current times and the immediate future, and which represent an alternative to the practices of the now defunct USAID. No one should expect that the empire will give up its traditional plans, in an endless race to contain the inevitable loss of its once undisputed hegemony.

It is appropriate to mention, for example, the so-called Palantir Foundation for Defense Policy and International Affairs, which has existed at least since 2004 and is associated with the US intelligence services and the Pentagon. Palantir is working on developing AI for digital data collection from third countries, with the aim of replacing CIA agents, or the actions of NGOs in the physical field, based on the extraordinary influence that platforms have on digital social networks, based in the US like X itself, with segmented audiences, especially vulnerable like the youngest.

It is easy to imagine the power of subversion that this type of project has, cheaper and obviously more comprehensive than the expired USAID; Musk's participation gives it a nuance, because it seems that the character is preparing to fatten his pockets with public funds, promoting projects like the one mentioned, where it is known that he has an important participation.

What is Musk saying in concrete terms? Welcome to a much more hostile and opaque world in the modalities of attack, for anyone who tries to challenge imperialism. In any case, the criminal organization of USAID already has someone to do the job for it.

Raising an alert about this reality is urgent. Resistance to maintain and invigorate patriotic, revolutionary values in digital social networks is essential, as has been said; hence the request of the First Secretary of the PCC, comrade Díaz-Canel, when he called for a new Vindication of Cuba in that space, where the “new” USAID will have to be confronted. (Text: Francisco Delgado Cruz/ Cubasí) (Photo: Cubasí)