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US officials defended on Thursday the controversial ZunZuneo Twitter-style programme aimed at Cuba.
They claimed that it had been “debated” by Congress and wasn’t a covert operation requiring White House approval. But two senior Democrats on congressional intelligence and judiciary committees said they had known nothing about it.
And Cuba’s Foreign Ministry director of US affairs Josefina Vidal said that the programme showed once again the US government “has not renounced its plans of subversion against Cuba, which have as their aim destabilisation in our country to create changes in the public order and toward which it continues to devote multimillion-dollar budgets each year.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
The recent speech by Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel is an affirmation of Amilcar Cabral’s revolutionary principle, writes ISAAC SANEY