Zunzuneo Shows U.S. Obsession with Cuba: Nicaraguan Legislator

[Disir]

Managua, May 9 (Prensa Latina) ZunZuneo program established by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), shows the U.S. obsession with Cuba, said today the president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Nicaraguan Parliament, Jacinto Suarez.

Cubans Resident in Guatemala Condemn Zunzuneo Project

In an interview with Prensa Latina, Suarez, who is also secretary of the International Relations of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, said that Washington 'keeps persisting on trying to defeat the Cuban Revolution."

For that, they use high-tech resources, as in the case of ZunZuneo, Suarez said, who described that network, which operated from 2010 to 2012 and aimed at destabilizing the nation, as a much more developed form of subversion.

As unveiled by the news agency Associated Press, the U.S. government plan's to create a Twitter-like network called ZunZuneo was conducted in order to gain popularity among young Cubans and then push them towards dissent.

Users never knew that the project implemented by front companies financed from foreign banks, was linked to the State Department, nor U.S. contractors were gathering personal data for political purposes.

Prensa Latina News Agency - Zunzuneo Shows U.S. Obsession with Cuba: Nicaraguan Legislator

 

[Disir]

ZunZuneo violates international telecommunications laws
GENEVA.— On May 8, during a International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council plenary, Cuba warned participants in the UN sponsored body that the undercover ZunZuneo operation, created by the U.S. International Development Agency (USAID) to promote subversion, violates the organization’s constitution.

Anayansi Rodríguez, Cuba’s representative to Geneva based UN organizations, denounced the so-called Cuban Twitter, which functioned in Cuba between 2009 and 2012.
The fundamental purpose of the network was to recruit a large number of users, and later introduce political contact via massive, unsolicited text messages, promoting internal destabilization and ultimately a crisis, Rodríguez said, according to PL.

She emphasized that the operation violated Cuban laws and those of the United States itself, including the CAN-SPAM Act approved by Congress, which prohibits the sending of unsolicited text messages.

Rodríguez pointed out that this type of activity violates the ITU constitution, utilizing social networks for purposes other than the promotion of peace and international cooperation.

The ITU Council took note of Cuba’s contribution and called on all member nations to contribute to the development of a climate of confidence and security in the use of new technology and telecommunications.
http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/ingles/international-i/9mayo-zunzuneo.html