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Security & Strategic Review - April 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
US-REGION: USAID’s Cuban hummingbird and beyond
A report published in early April in the US implicated the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in a covert scheme to foster political dissent in Cuba through a mobile-phone platform which could create social networks beyond government control, envisaging effects similar to those of the Arab ‘Springs’ and the recent wave of protests in Venezuela. This comes in the wake of other reports highlighting USAID’s close working relationship with the Special Operations Command (Socom), which cast a different light on the decisions taken by Ecuador to expel the aid agency and the US military mission.
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