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After firing thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development employees and gutting funding to programs across dozens of countries, this week Secretary of State and USAID administrator Marco Rubio set his sights on dismantling the State Department with the same hatchet-wielding fervor. On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported on a plan to scale back U.S.-based staff by 15 percent, and eliminate programs related to human rights, war crimes, and democracy-building. “Non-statutory programs that are misaligned with America’s core national interests will cease to exist,” Rubio tweeted on Tuesday.

But a review of USAID programs shows that, while following the DOGE playbook in public, the secretary of state has quietly safeguarded Cuban regime change programs aligned with the island’s exile base that has long powered his rise.

One of these programs is the anti-communist publication CubaNet, based out of Miami, which saw its nearly $2 million grant cut, then restored. “Our goal has always been to counteract the propaganda of the Castro regime. Without this funding, the government in Havana will have greater freedom to intensify its propaganda and repression,” the news site’s director Roberto Hechavarría Pilia said before the cash was turned back on.

Support Group for Democracy in Cuba also saw just under a million dollars cut, then restored by Rubio, as did the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba. According to the foundation’s website, its three primary objectives include “cutting revenue streams that are used to repress the Cuban people,” “supporting the Cuban people by highlighting human rights violations,” and “empowering civil society to bring about positive change.”

A grant to the Pan American Development Foundation for “independent media and free flow of information” in Cuba was also listed as reinstated on federal contracting sites. Two people familiar with the program cuts told the Prospect that exceptions were made after Cuban exile groups lobbied the State Department to reverse their grant determinations.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Always 😑

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The dumbest part is that apparently this guy's parents fled Cuba when Batista was still running the place

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Castro regime

He knows Castro is dead, right? Lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gusanos think Raul Castro still controls the goverment from the shadows with diaz canel as puppet ruler

They base this take on nothing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He's 93 years old, what's he controlling at that age?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The American brainpan can only imagine a gerontocracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well, rent, just about 0, considering how much time the name 'Castro' freely spends in the collective gusano mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

93 olds have the ability to completly control an island goverment of 10 million people apparently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

timmy-pray I pray that the Cuban Revolution can outlast the Great Satan