How hardship and hopelessness have been exploited by the US. And it is acknowledged by the liberal the Guardian.
“Cuba launched mobile internet late, in 2018, but more than 4 million people now access the web via their phones.
The internet – and particularly social media – has altered the power balance between citizens and state. After hundreds of people came out in the western town of San Antonio de los Baños on Sunday morning, videos were viewed by people in Havana within minutes.
The approximately $20m a year of US federal funds spent on “democracy promotion” factors into the way Cubans experience the internet.
Anti-Castro news websites funded by US tax dollars advertise heavily on Facebook and YouTube . VPNs are needed to make purchases with credit cards in Cuba, and to download many apps. When using the popular VPN Psiphon, for example, adverts for Cubanet, ADN Cuba and Diario de Cuba – all financed by the state department – pop up as paid content.
Articles from these outlets are overwhelmingly negative, adding to the sense of doom, gloom and hopelessness which formed the backdrop to Sunday’s protests.”
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