U.S. Government Still Trying To Destabilize Cuba

Click here for an Associated Press article by By Desmond Butler, Jack Gillum, and Alberto Arce entitled "US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest." At Daily Kos, Meteor Blades points out the hypocrisy of U.S./Cuba policy in an article entitled "Why is U.S. Policy toward Cuba so ridiculous?":

We have full diplomatic relations with communist Vietnam where nearly 60,000 Americans and several million Vietnamese died in a conflict that lasted (officially) from 1959-1975. We have full diplomatic with the Peoples Republic of China, which, at least officially is still communist although the system there now might better be called red capitalist. The U.S. has full diplomatic relations with Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, which, despite some decorative parliaments, are dictatorships with terrible human rights records. But, for more than half a century, no relations with Cuba. On the contrary.

The "Cuban Twitter" article explains how the chance acquisition of a half-million Cuban cellphone addresses prompted the idea to start a covert network that could contact these half-million addresses with text messages -- innocuous at first, to build a trusted network, then spreading messages to encourage "flash mob" government protests. In a nation where social media and the Internet are ruthlessly censored, it seemed like an excellent opportunity to create mischief and undermine the (Raul) Castro regime.