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US still absolutely awful at getting rid of Castro
Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:49 am
Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:49 am
This time tried to use HIV prevention
Here are some old ideas
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An Obama administration program secretly dispatched young Latin Americans to Cuba using the cover of health and civic programs to provoke political change, a clandestine operation that put those foreigners in danger even after a U.S. contractor was hauled away to a Cuban jail.
Beginning as early as October 2009, a project overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development sent Venezuelan, Costa Rican and Peruvian young people to Cuba in hopes of ginning up rebellion. The travelers worked undercover, often posing as tourists, and traveled around the island scouting for people they could turn into political activists.
In one case, the workers formed an HIV-prevention workshop that memos called "the perfect excuse" for the program's political goals — a gambit that could undermine America's efforts to improve health globally.
But their efforts were fraught with incompetence and risk, an Associated Press investigation found: Cuban authorities questioned who was bankrolling the travelers. The young workers nearly blew their mission to "identify potential social-change actors." One said he got a paltry, 30-minute seminar on how to evade Cuban intelligence, and there appeared to be no safety net for the inexperienced workers if they were caught.
Here are some old ideas
This post was edited on 8/4/14 at 10:50 am
Posted on 8/4/14 at 10:57 am to TN Bhoy
If we are using capitalism / trade to change china, why are we using it in cuba?
Posted on 8/4/14 at 11:07 am to TN Bhoy
Undertrained dumbasses are sent to be caught.
Posted on 8/4/14 at 11:08 am to weagle99
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If we are using capitalism / trade to change china, why are we using it in cuba?
I agree with this. I do not know all there is to know about Cuba. However, I know several companies that are eager to get into to Cuba and develop some of the beach properties. No reason this shouldn't happen.
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