According to a news report from the Huffington Post, years ago the United States took part in a failed attempt to spark anti-government sentiment towards the Cuban government by secretly infiltrating the country’s Hip Hop scene.
The Huffington Post reports that the goal of the operation was “to use Cuban musicians ‘to break the information blockade’ and build a network of young people seeking ‘social change.’” The publication also described the operation as being “amateurish and profoundly unsuccessful.”
The United States did so by hiring contractors from the Washington D.C.-based Creative Associates International to work for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
In addition to jeopardizing Cubans unknowingly involved in the operation, the operation is also said to have compromised Cuba’s Hip Hop culture.
One noted Cuban Hip Hop group, named Los Aldeanos, unaware of their involvement in the United States’ operation, was reportedly forced to move to South Florida after being unable to work in their country following Cuba’s discovery of the operation.
Among the tactics used in the operation were ones involving the creation of a “Cuban Twitter” social network, the use of artists (including Los Aldeanos) to reach out to Cuban youth, and the infiltration of independent music festivals.
“Any assertions that our work is secret or covert are simply false,” USAID said in a statement made on Wednesday (December 10).
The full report can be read at HuffingtonPost.com.
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So now let me ask you… what makes you think they haven’t infiltrated the Hip Hop Industry in America?
Where do you think all these wack imbeciles come from? Iggy, Nicki, Chief Keef, Lil Wayne, young thug, Rick Ross etc.
Do they have any positive message in any of their songs??? Nope
Of course they have. We all get lists of talking points from them government niggas every week. We do what they tell us or it’s butt ramming in jail. It’s part of the deal we all made: each one of us caught a case as a youung nigga, but some guy in a suit offered to throw it out PLUS a bankrolled start in music in return for following their directions. I happen to like butt ramming but that’s another story.
they ain’t gonna read that article. they’ll just keep living life thinking it’s all rainbows & unicorns, and Iggy “put in work” to be where she’s at. Us who see realize the game is rigged say stay on your toes and always remember that the majority of the people are not smart, they are followers
Fucking Yankees
it’s old news that the rise of gangsta rap in the USA was orchestrated along with crack in the ghetto by the government to funnel people into prisons for the modern slavery program (working hours making things for 25 cents.) MORE BLACK MEN ARE DOING SLAVE LABOR IN PRISON THAN WERE ENSLAVED 200 YEARS AGO. google gary webb. DON’T be fooled by artists that say music doesnt influence people to do bad things or that it’s the parents job. they’re getting rich while selling out their people and their own CHILDREN to go to prison and have broken relationships and families. STOP ADMIRING ARTISTS THAT ENCOURAGE NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR. THEY ARE USEFUL IDIOTS AT BEST.
p.s. DON’T forget that whatever program they want to install to destroy us is TESTED ON BLACK PEOPLE BEFORE THEY DO IT TO WHITES. White people are finally catching up to the degeneracy blacks were in 30 years ago. google Tuskegee
Probably has ties to Rozay