Kubansk Twitter & USAID
2025-02-09
How did it grow so fast? The people behind it mysteriously acquired a database of 500,000 Cuban cell numbers—likely from the black market—allowing them to push the app directly to users via SMS, bypassing government restrictions. For a while, it seemed like a huge success. Then, just as suddenly as it appeared, ZunZuneo vanished. No warning. No explanation. It simply went offline.
Years later, an AP investigation revealed the truth: ZunZuneo wasn’t a homegrown Cuban startup but a covert project run by USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development. That’s right, the U.S. government—through an agency supposedly focused on “humanitarian aid”—had secretly created a Cuban Twitter without telling anyone in either country. When the story broke, the White House insisted USAID was just “helping” Cubans communicate. Because, as we all know, the government never lies.
But this was never just about “helping” Cubans. According to the AP, USAID laundered money through front companies in Spain and the Cayman Islands to hide the real goal: regime change. The plan was to grow ZunZuneo until it reached critical mass, allowing Cuban dissidents to organize protests and destabilize the government—a taxpayer-funded coup attempt. And the best part? The $1.6 million for the project was originally earmarked for an “unspecified project in Pakistan.” But did anyone face consequences? Of course not. A few Democrats feigned outrage, and then USAID carried on, business as usual—just one more expensive, failed scheme in its long history of burning taxpayer dollars on reckless, covert projects.
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