The selected programs, especially for Cuban youth and adolescent networks, include software to access the Internet "safely", without being detected by Cuban servers.
Author: Raúl Antonio Capote | internacional@granma.cu
April 29, 2021 01:04:19
As of 2004, the National Security Council, the CIA, the NED, the USAID, the Pentagon, the State Department, the United States Interests Section in Havana, the intelligence community agencies, and other forces of the empire were launched against the Island, operating together to fulfill the mission of defeating the Cuban Revolution at once.
In fulfilling that purpose, the International Republican Institute (IRI) still plays an important role. The Cuba Program, of that right-wing US organization, assumed that “the new initiatives help to develop the capacity of civil society networks, which advocate for change, and increase the number of people in Cuba who are inclined to participate in dissent activities ”.
Let's read what George W. Bush says in his famous plan for Cuba: "Reaching out to Cuban youth represents one of the most significant opportunities to precipitate the end of the regime."
The International Republican Institute's document, Accelerating the transition to democracy in Cuba, shows concern that the Cuban government is reducing its dependence, on resources, on the United States. “In particular, Cuba is trying to spend all its software to Linux-based systems, to avoid dependence on Microsoft products that, although technically banned by the lockdown, are ubiquitous.
In particular, they show great concern about the development that Cuba can achieve in terms of computer security, and everything that may mean as a brake on its plans for internal subversion. To prevent this, they guide the accelerated distribution of software and hardware for use on their internal networks.
With funding granted by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the Department of State, the Institute began, in 2010, a project to compile software, references, news, websites, portals and information resources, with the purpose of Copy them to a portable usb port and ensure easy access. It was the result of an initiative called CiberLibre.
The selected programs, especially for Cuban youth and adolescent networks, include software to access the Internet "safely", without being detected by Cuban servers.
The IRI document indicates that "Internet access is becoming increasingly important for the program ... we are going to evaluate the budget in this regard and make recommendations to the USAID, with clearer long-term perspectives."
The CIA analyzed, as a number one priority, creating increasingly extensive internet access networks within Cuba with better trained activists, and commissioned the IRI to develop strategies for the "youth organizations" associated with that Institute in Cuba, so that they are better understood, have greater representation and receive more support from the population, with the aim of strengthening their credibility and capacity as civil society organizations ”.
As part of these subversive projects, an attempt was made to introduce cutting-edge equipment into the country, to be used by networks trained by them.
The use of the new information and communication technologies (ICT) constitutes a priority of the enemy in its work of internal subversion, especially in the plans conceived against the youth.
They are in a hurry because, as they themselves admit, the Revolution also considers ICT knowledge as a fundamental element for development and national defense.