Cuba accused the United States of "creating situations of destabilization," a day after Washington admitted that sent young Latin Americans to the island to promote democracy under the guise of civic and health programs.
"These facts confirm that the Government of the United States has not withdrawn its hostile plans against
Cuba and interventionist who aim to create situations of destabilization to cause changes in our political system and which spends millions of dollars each year," said Foreign Ministry Cuban in a statement.
"Once again the repeated complaints of the Cuban government on the subversive plans of the Government of the United States continues to hold against Cuba are confirmed," the statement signed by Josefina Vidal, Director General for the United States to the foreign ministry.
The existence of the American program to promote the organization of groups opposed to the communist government in Havana, was recognized Monday by the State Department after it was revealed by an American news agency.
The program, developed by the USAID, the American government agency for international assistance, promoted cultural activities, community cleanups and tree planting, and a workshop on the prevention of AIDS.
According to the report, since 2009 and at least two years, USAID sent a dozen young people from Venezuela, Costa Rica and Peru to Cuban universities to recruit potential leaders of movements against the Cuban government.
The text highlighted that young people sent lacked adequate training in covert operations and a safety plan while performing activities that are illegal in Cuba.
The program continued even after arrest Havana in 2009 to the American contractor Alan Gross, who was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for smuggling communications equipment to the island on behalf of a company contracted by USAID.
"The Government of the United States should cease once all its subversive, illegal and covert actions against Cuba," Cuban Foreign Ministry demanded.
Meanwhile, the official Cuban media today branded "monster" and "scandalous maneuver" EU program that sent young Latin Americans to the island on alleged health aid missions and development, and that background seeking political change in the Caribbean country.
The official newspaper Granma, spokesman of the ruling Communist Party of Cuba, said today that the project was "another freak of USAID (Agency for International Development) to try to manipulate the Cuban youth" and promote "subversion".
Meanwhile, Juventud Rebelde, the newspaper of the Communist Youth, described as "scandalous" the "new maneuver against the USAID Cuba" and warned that the "re-expose the downright subversive" American agency that .
Juventud Rebelde today highlighted the "obsession" USAID "to overthrow the 'regime' of the island and, not least, their total lack of scruples about the human person", referring to how young inexperienced caught the region to "do activism" against Cuba.
The official site Cubasí said today, in turn, that the EU State Department acknowledged "with unbridled cynicism" their participation in the project.
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