{"id":24612,"date":"2014-12-11T20:28:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T04:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=24612"},"modified":"2014-12-11T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T04:28:56","slug":"when-cuban-hip-hop-became-a-us-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/when-cuban-hip-hop-became-a-us-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"When Cuban Hip-Hop Became a US Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does everyone remember when USAID created that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2014\/04\/03\/cuban-twitter-a-usaid-plot-for-regime-change\/\">Cuban Twitter<\/a>&#8221; and paid all those guys to start agitating for regime change on it? What if that wasn&#8217;t even the most ridiculous thing USAID was doing in Cuba at the time? <\/p>\n<p>Good news, it wasn&#8217;t! USAID also <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/senator-usaids-cuba-hip-hop-project-reckless-27542033\">hired a bunch of Serbian music promoters<\/a> and spent millions of dollars trying to create a regime-change themed hip-hop music movement in Cuba. <\/p>\n<p>The scheme wasn&#8217;t totally unrelated to fake Cuban Twitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-co-opted-cubas-hip-hop-scene-spark-050254883.html\">which they used to try <\/a>to promote the <\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for the hip-hoperation to be found out, either, as when they tried to bankroll a music festival put on by a pro-government singer, in the hopes of turning it toward the aim of regime change, Cuba started detaining people involved, and learned of the USAID involvement. <\/p>\n<p>Senators are criticizing USAID once again for wasting a bunch of money on a crazy plot with money that was supposed to be for humanitarian aid. As usual, USAID is defending the program as an attempt to &#8220;increase civil engagement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does everyone remember when USAID created that &#8220;Cuban Twitter&#8221; and paid all those guys to start agitating for regime change on it? What if that wasn&#8217;t even the most ridiculous thing USAID was doing in Cuba at the time? Good news, it wasn&#8217;t! USAID also hired a bunch of Serbian music promoters and spent millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24613,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612\/revisions\/24613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24612"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}