Author: Raúl Antonio Capote | internacional@granma.cu
April 7, 2021 12:04:35 AM
The International Republican Institute (IRI) was born in 1983 with the declared objective of carrying out a "crusade for freedom." It is considered the secret weapon to achieve the purposes of the fundamentalist politicians of the Republican Party.
This organization has a large structure that includes more than 500 employees distributed by geographical areas, and with offices in several countries, depending on their priorities and possibilities.
The IRI was involved, at the end of the 20th century, in the creation, organization and financing of the Optor (resistance) group in Yugoslavia; He has also been linked to the strategists of the "soft coup" in all parts of the world; George Soros, from the Open Society Institute, Gene Sharp, and the Albert Einstein Institute, Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall, the latter of the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC).
In Venezuela, in addition to shamelessly financing different anti-Chavez groups, the IRI participated in operations to support the April 2002 coup against President Hugo Chávez.
The crusaders of the Yankee right, grouped in the IRI, began their work against Cuba in the 1990s. Their first program dates back to 1993, and was aimed at stimulating the so-called transition process in our country, with the ultimate objective of overthrowing to the Revolution.
His program towards Cuba conceives the training, distribution of materials, money, technical means and equipment, among activists and counterrevolutionary elements, using clandestine procedures and methods with the objective of concealing their destabilizing purposes.
Its funds come from the budget that is awarded annually by the United States Congress to the State Department, and from so-called "independent" entities such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the National Endowment for Democracy ( NED), both known to our people for their interventionist actions, against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
The IRI Cuba Program establishes: «The International Republican Institute has been actively committed to promoting democratic changes in Cuba since the beginning of the 1990s, together with other funded agencies ... Since the first report of the CAFC (Commission for Assistance for a Cuba Libre), in 2004, the financing of the IRI programs for Cuba has exceeded 11 million dollars in contracts for several years.
And the Cuba Program continues: "... Notably, the new initiatives by IRI and its partners promote innovative technological solutions to break the information blockade in Cuba and help develop the capacity of civil society networks."
The document Accelerating the Transition to Democracy in Cuba reports: «The Institute delivered cell phones and information technology (ICT) equipment ... continued to advance new media initiatives, which can provide network partners in the Island greater access to information, support material and communication without connection.
The effort of the enemies of the Cuban Revolution, to dominate information or, at least, exert a marked influence on what is read, heard and seen in the Greater Antilles, in order to control internal opinion, has been financed with millionaire allowances.
The IRI has been at the forefront of this battle, in a stubborn and unethical interference attitude, in violation of international laws.