Posted by: mariana50 | December 8, 2010
El Nuevo Herald, Wikileaks and who finances the counterrevolution in Cuba
› USAID and the lost money of mercenaries The Nuevo Herald publishes today on the front page of its digital page an article titled 'Cuban Connection in the Wikileaks Case' that once again exposes the financing received by Cuban counterrevolutionary groups from abroad, either through European countries such as Sweden or from the United States itself.
According to El Nuevo Herald:
Anna Ardin's links to Cuba were highlighted in several digital portals on Tuesday, after Assange was arrested in London on the basis of a Swedish extradition request to face sexual assault charges brought by Ardin and Sofia Wilén. Ardin visited Cuba around four times between 2002 and 2006 as a representative of the Swedish Social Democrats, stated Manuel Cuesta Morúa, leader of the Cuban dissident group Arco Progresista, with a social democratic inclination.
Subsequently, Cuesta Morúa added, Ardin mistakenly alleged that some European funds for Cuban dissidents had been mishandled. The dissident added that he had heard a version that Ardin was born in Cuba but never confirmed this with her.
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A 2008 cable from the US embassy in Madrid reported that then-Florida Senator Mel Martínez, visiting Madrid, had met with Cuban dissident Héctor Palacios, who was in Spain receiving medical treatment after five years in prison. 'Palacios said that US assistance was not reaching dissidents,' the cable reported. 'He highlighted the irony of being imprisoned as an agent of US imperialism when the actual amount of USG [US government] funds was minimal.'
'He said they had trouble doing simple things like finding the small amount of money needed to take dissidents from one part of the island to another to attend demonstrations,' the dispatch added.'
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Published by M. H. Lagarde in Changes in Cuba
Published in opposition in Cuba, Wikileaks