U.S. Spending Millions on Subversion in Cuba
Havana, Jun 19 (Latin Press) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said today that U.S. subversive plans against the island, to which Washington has earmarked more than $22 million since January 2017, are uncovered.
The White House administration’s strategy toward the Caribbean nation includes subversion, interference, threats, slander and lies, according to the president’s publication in his Twitter account.
Diaz-Canel refers to the Granma newspaper article “Where do the millions Washington finances against the Revolution go?” which reveals the funds destined by the government of President Donald Trump to provoke a change of regime in the Caribbean nation.
According to the Cuban newspaper, which reproduces data from the Cuba Money Project website, the United States used, from January 20, 2017 to date, more than 22 million dollars for subversion projects against the island.
The total figure, according to the source, includes 2,762,161 dollars for migrant programs at the illegal U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, 2,533,701 dollars for administration and surveillance, and 162,618 dollars for relocation initiatives in Havana.
He underscores that the U.S. State Department has a list of organizations financed with 1,320,804 dollars by the National Foundation for Democracy (NED); however, he says, they don’t reveal the names of other groups benefited with an additional payment of 206,535 dollars.
Cuba Money Project showed that 14 386 098 dollars went to 42 organizations that operate within the range of so-called democracy promotion projects,’ explains Granma.
Among the most benefited with that sum, he mentions the International Republican Institute, the Pan American Development Foundation, the Democracy Support Group and the Cuban Democratic Direction.
Also, Evangelical Christian Humanitarian Evolution for Cuba, National Democratic Institute, CubaNet and the Diario de Cuba Association.
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
