According to Along the Malecon, the New American Foundation (NAF) will receive a 3-year, $4.3 million grant from USAID's Cuba democracy programs.
NAF applied for these funds through its Open Technology Institute, which has done great work in promoting Internet connectivity and innovative telecommunication networks for civil society throughout North Africa and the Middle East.
Similar to what American development worker Alan Gross, who has been held hostage by the Castro regime since December 2009, was doing in Cuba.
Yet, hypocritically, NAF also houses the U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative, led by Anya Landau-French, which has called USAID's Cuba democracy program a "regime change mandate".
NAF also hosts The Havana Note blog, whose contributors include the USAID Cuba program's most arduous critics and Castro regime apologists.
Can't wait to hear how they feel about their newly-financed parent organization.
A fascinating hypocrisy.
