Yesterday, the state-run Cuban newspaper (Granma) charged the United States with spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “subversion” in Cuba and elsewhere in the Americas, especially in those countries that are members of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas. The article noted, “U.S. investments meant to facilitate annexing Cuba not only have not decreased but actually have increased and worsened, due to new technologies and media.”
The last comment, on new tech and media, would presumably refer to the still-new crew of bloggers that continue to post from the island.
The United States does not openly do any such thing these days (that is, fund subversives, as the Cuban state claims it does), but does allocate funds for democracy-building and support of civil society—oftentimes to the very groups and individuals that the Cuban regime calls “subversives” or foreign mercenaries. It is likely, therefore, that there is some aspect of exaggeration to the Granma accusation, but it is equally likely that there is a grain of truth in it, given a long history of CIA-attempted assassinations and the like. At the very least, U.S. policy has not given Cuba reason to believe any differently.
