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U.S. continues to attack Cuba, 53
years after airport bombings
This week, Cuba is recalling the bombing of its
airports, ordered by the United States government 53
years ago, a prelude to the Bay of Pigs invasion
which was defeated in record time on the sands of
Playa Girón.
Commemorations are taking place amidst revelations
about new types of aggression, conceptualized in a
U.S. Special Forces manual describing
non-conventional warfare.
The comparisons are not idle. In April of 1961,
preparations for the invasion of Cuba were
accompanied by a ferocious campaign of defamation
and destabilization efforts, led by U.S. government
agencies.
Broadcasters, newspapers and press agencies imposed
a distorted view of life in Cuba and demonized
leaders of the Revolution.
These are among the non-conventional warfare
strategies described in a recently publicized U.S.
Army Special Operations Forces training manual, TC
18-01.
One of the goals of these types of efforts is the
fragmentation of society, to draw different sectors,
especially youth, into opposition.
This was precisely the objective of the so-called
Cuban Twitter, Zunzuneo, project, financed by the
U.S. government via USAID (U.S. Aid to International
Development), 2009-2012.
USAID contracted telecommunications companies and
foreign banks to establish a text messaging platform
in Cuba, meant to attract youth and promote
dissatisfaction.
Associated Press revelations about the undercover
ZunZuneo project have opened a Pandora’s box of
questions about current U.S. efforts to undermine
Cuba’s institutional order and overthrow the
government.
Cuba remains a target of the U.S. government, just
as it was in 1961. These subversive efforts will be
resisted, as the Playa Girón invasion was, when U.S.
imperialism suffered its first defeat in Latin
America. (PL)
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