According to a recent item in the Associated Press, the U.S. government secretly created a “Cuban Twitter” to undermine Cuba’s communist government by causing unrest among its citizens. Which, if you ask us, sounds both creepy and kind of absurd.
The project, dubbed “ZunZuneo,” which is slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet, was launched in 2009 and lasted more than two years, attracting more than 40,000 subscribers. The project’s mandate was “to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform… build a Cuban audience, mostly young people…. then to push them toward dissent.”
According to the article, officials eventually pulled the plug on ZunZuneo in September 2012, not for ethical reasons or because it probably broke several international agreements, but because the project’s government grant ended. Wa-waaaaaa.
All of which leaves the comrades at K&K wondering what kind of tweets the U.S. government would send out to cause unrest among Cuban citizens. Here’s a sample:
@CubaLibre69: @Castro thinks he’s all that and a bag of chips. Well he’s not. #justsayin P.S. Where can I buy a bag of chips?
@NoCigarz69: America rox. LOL. Why can’t we b more like them? Comunizm blows
@FidelOnTheRoof69: #FreeHealthCare is OVERRATED. Stop being pussies.
@HavanaKnight69: Are you kidding me @BreakingBad_AMC? #GustavoFring so sexy.
