According to a report published yesterday by the Associated Press (AP) news agency, the U.S. government plan to create a communications network it called ZunZuneo was carried out with the goal of gaining acceptance among young Cubans in order to later push them toward dissidency.
The AP’s investigative report showed that the plan to undermine the Cuban government was promoted by the USAID agency (U.S. Agency for International Development), through clandestine front companies, with financing routed through foreign banks.
A statement from Josefina Vidal, Director General for U.S. Affairs at Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Relations, emphasized that the information contained in the AP article is a confirmation of repeated denunciations from the Cuban government.
«Once again, it shows that the United States government has not renounced its subversive plans against Cuba, designed to destabilize the country in order to provoke change in our political system, and to which the U.S. government continues to dedicate multi-million dollar budgets every year,» she said.
Vidal also insisted that «the U.S. government must respect international law and the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter, thereby putting an end to its illegal and clandestine actions against Cuba that are rejected by the Cuban people and public opinion worldwide.»
