SECRET CUBAN HIP-HOP PLOT
The Cuban government says rappers and other artists targeted by a clandestine U-S program were “victims.”
Responding to an Associated Press investigation, Havana says the artists were unknowingly swept into an effort to spark an anti-government youth movement.
The U-S Agency for International Development program drew in rappers Los Aldeanos and other Cuban musicians.
The hip-hop operation was conceived by one of the group’s largest contractors, Creative Associates International, using a team of Serbian music promoters.
The collection of USAID missions, which cost millions, ultimately failed miserably.
Cuban Vice-Minister of Culture Fernando Rojas denounced the plot as treachery.
(The Associated Press)
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Alwin Marshall-Squire is the Editor-in-Chief of S-Q Publications Inc., overseeing editorial strategy for GTA Weekly, GTA Today, and Vision Newspaper. He leads the publications’ mission to deliver bold, original journalism focused on the people and communities of the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, and the global Caribbean diaspora.
Also writes for GTA Weekly and GTA Today.
