Sunday, April 6, 2014

‘Cease illegal activity against Cuba’: Havana slams Washington for ‘Twitter’ program

Reuters/Enrique de la Osa
"Havana has blasted Washington’s so-called ‘Cuba Twitter’ texting service as illegal and subversive, saying the United States is persisting in its decades’ long plan to topple Cuba’s communist government.
According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, the US government attempted to develop a no frills ‘Cuban Twitter’ using cellphone text messaging to circumvent Cuba’s strict control over the internet. Directly alluding to Twitter, the program is known as ZunZuneo — slang for a Cuban hummingbird's ‘tweet’.
The project was financed by the US Agency for international development (USAID), best known for overseeing billions of dollars in US humanitarian aid. USAID staff had noted that text messaging had been a popular fuse in starting political uprisings in Moldova and the Philippines"
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1 comment:

  1. History of USAID undermining democracy globally

    USAID Subversion in Latin America Not Limited to Cuba
    http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/the-americas-blog/usaid-subversion-in-latin-america-not-limited-to-cuba

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