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The dance of the millions for the counterrevolution
in Cuba
ON November 15, the Government
Accountability Office (GAO), the arm of the United
States Congress that investigates how the federal
government and its agencies administer the federal
budget and assesses the degree of effectiveness with
which they implement their functions and programs,
published an extensive 63-page report titled
“Foreign Assistance: U.S. Democracy Assistance for
Cuba Needs Better Management and Oversight.”
After a painstaking review of the
millions allocated by the United States government
to promote subversion in our country, and to
conceive and nurse squalid and discredited mercenary
factions in Cuba, the abovementioned document
arrived at the inevitable conclusion that the funds
allocated to that end have been squandered.
The report had been requested by
two Congress members, Arizona Republican Jeff Flake
and Massachusetts Democrat William Delahunt, both
members of the House of Representatives
International Relations Committee who have proposed
initiatives aimed at easing the blockade and
promoting change in the Bush Administration’s
anti-Cuba policy.
The report would be cause for
ridicule if the facts it reveals were not so
serious: how and on what $73.5 million was spent
between 1996 and 2005 to try to subvert the internal
order of our country.
Immediately, major U.S. media
agencies reported the irregularities and corrupt
waste in the utilization of almost $74 million that
— just via this channel, which is not the only one
for financing their mercenary groups in Cuba — the
U.S. government has taken from U.S. taxpayers’
pockets to finance its criminal and failed anti-Cuba
policy, and to maintain active the industry of the
anti-Cuban counterrevolution via programs for
promoting so-called “democracy” in our country,
which are directed by institutions like the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID)
and the State Department.
According to the U.S. media
itself, more than half of these funds never made it
to Cuba; instead, they remained in Miami. Likewise,
part of the money was used to buy articles such as
video games, canned crabmeat, bicycles, luxury coats
and chocolates and DVD players, reflecting, in all
of its magnitude, the official U.S. business of the
counterrevolution in Cuba, and the enormous
dividends that that it brings to the anti-Cuba
industry based in Miami.
The report also reveals that of
the total funds wasted, part was squandered on items
that the United States Interests Section in Havana
is trying to distribute in Cuba, to which end that
office handed out, between 1996 and 2006, some
385,000 books, bulletins and other “informative”
material, according to the information in the GAO
document. That was in addition to the correspondence
“journalism courses” for more than 200 mercenaries,
the publication of approximately 23,000 reports by
so-called “independent journalists” on the situation
in Cuba, and the financing of the visit to our
country by more than 200 “international experts” to
train the domestic counterrevolution.
This confirms the grounds for the
reiterated revelations by our government of the U.S.
Interests Section, which acts as the headquarters of
the counterrevolution, and it also shows in an
irrefutable manner how that Interests Section
flagrantly violates the Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations of April 18, 1961, by bringing
into Cuba — abusing its diplomatic privileges —
articles and materials that are not for the official
use of that diplomatic mission, but for supplying
the mercenaries who work at the service of the U.S.
government.
The GAO report provides
incontrovertible proof of the systematic revelations
by the Cuban government to the effect that the
ill-named dissidence is nothing more than a group
financed and directed by the U.S. government, real
mercenaries, on the payroll and at the service of
the historic enemy of the Cuban people: Yankee
imperialism, which today is not concealing its
voracious intention of taking over Cuba again,
something for which it spares no resources, despite
the fact that it will never attain its final goal,
which is to overthrow the Revolution.
It is unusual to verify the
disdain they have for the very people of the United
States, whom they constantly try to manipulate, to
make them believe in an immoral and failed policy
that is aimed at breaking the independence-loving
and sovereign determination of our people, and the
financing for which, moreover, they impose.
Via its subversive anti-Cuba
programs, the Bush administration is providing
unlimited travel funds for inciting unpatriotic
individuals, while denying the U.S. people their
right to travel to Cuba and to have relationships
with our country, and has cruelly reduced the number
of visits that can be made by Cubans resident in the
United States to once every three years, to those
that it has arbitrarily redefined as their family
members in Cuba.
In its turn, the Bush
administration is imposing heavier restrictions on
remittances and packages from Cubans resident in the
United States to their relatives in Cuba, while at
the same time, maintaining a wide, dirty pipeline
for resources of all kinds, but only at the
disposition of the mercenaries who make a living
from the business of counterrevolution.
The Bush administration is
imposing increasingly heavier restrictions on Cuba
for acquiring in the United States medicines that
are vital for our children and elderly and other
vulnerable groups, and maintains permanent obstacles
to the purchase of foodstuffs from the U.S. market
for consumption by our entire population; while at
the same time, cynically, it sends all types of
medicines — and even coats and fine chocolates — to
counterrevolutionary elements that lick the boots of
the empire.
The Bush administration is
imposing on the Cuban people the longest and
cruelest blockade ever known in human history, while
at the same time, nurturing and carefully
maintaining its paid parasites, as corrupt and
immoral as the imperialism that sustains them.
These are the real “humanitarian”
and “human rights” policies that the Miami mafia and
the anti-Cuban Congress members in Florida wish for
our people, a policy that allows them to receive the
benefits of an ongoing “dance of the millions” at
the cost of the U.S. and Cuban people.
Without a doubt, by implementing
the criminal and genocidal policy contained in the
Bush Plan, the U.S. government is attempting to
improve and continue its financing for internal
subversion in our country, for which it has decided
to allocate $80 million in additional funds over the
next two years, and no less than $20 million every
year following that, until, according to their
long-desired pretensions, it is able to overthrow
our Revolution.
However, they should not delude
themselves. The Cuban government and people will
ensure, as they have done to date, the guarantee
that these plans are completely ineffective, and the
total rupture of any macabre plans being hatched in
Washington to foster subversion and internal
counterrevolution in our country.
The Cuban government and people
are exposing, once again, the provocative, insulting
and unacceptable nature of the constant aid that the
U.S. government, with its criminal political goals,
is attempting to get to its counterrevolutionary
cubs, while at the same time intensifying the
iron-fisted economic blockade that it has maintained
against the Cuban people for almost five decades.
For a long time, the imperialist
U.S. government has lacked any moral authority
whatsoever in Cuba, and it is increasingly losing
what it does have in many other parts of the world.
With dignity, serenity and
courage, Cuba will adopt, at any time, the measures
it deems necessary for confronting this type of
aggression.
No matter how much money they
waste, they will never be able to break the
determination of the Cuban people.
(Translated by
Granma International)
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