US-funded cultural counter-revolution in Cuba: How CIA cutouts use musicians to stir unrest
Moderate Rebels
English - August 06, 2021 19:49 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 626 ratingsNews journalism middleeast foreignpolicy politics war Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss how the US government laid the groundwork for unrest in Cuba, the Biden administration's escalation of the economic war, and how CIA cutouts like USAID and the NED have cultivated a counter-revolutionary cultural network of rappers, artists, and social media influencers to push propaganda.
We had planned on speaking with Havana-based journalist Cristina Escobar, but at the last minute when we started recording she unfortunately was unable to join us.
Read Max's report "Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: US gov’t-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’" here: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/07/25/cubas-cultural-counter-revolution-us-govt-rappers-artists-catalyst