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Mika

(17,751 posts) Tue Dec 16, 2014, 02:40 PM Dec 2014

USAID Weaponizing Cuban hip hop

Weaponizing Cuban hip hop
AP editor Trish Wilson on USAID's attempt to infiltrate Cuba's hip hop music scene.

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Q/ID/2640079941/

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USAID Weaponizing Cuban hip hop (Original Post) Mika Dec 2014 OP

Wonderful! Thank you, so much, for sharing this here! Judi Lynn Dec 2014 #1

Have finished hearing the segment regarding USAID's masterful entry into Cuban hip hop. Judi Lynn Dec 2014 #2

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)

1. Wonderful! Thank you, so much, for sharing this here!

Reply to Mika (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 07:09 PM

Dec 2014

Just started listening to it, and it had the unmistakable resemblance to things we've heard for ages! A-####ing-mazing!

Wow, wow, wow.

Echoes of Calle Ocho!
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Returning to finish listening a little later. Terrific!

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)

2. Have finished hearing the segment regarding USAID's masterful entry into Cuban hip hop.

Reply to Mika (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 10:31 PM

Dec 2014

As soon as I heard the opening notes of Los Aldeanos, I immediately thought "they have to have a song-writer cranking out their music in Miami!" No doubt Los Dos have already been on the payroll of CANF well before USAID came sneaking along to give their career a boost, in addition to their trips to Europe, along with the other Cuban musicians they could gather, to do their group training for activism in Cuba.

The show host or his second guest made an important point when he said, to the effect, "How would US citizens feel if they learned some musicians like "Public Enemy" in the US were actually being promoted by a group from another country's government?" OMG.

They would go out of business INSTANTLY. [font size=3] INSTANTLY.[/font]

Say no more, right?

Thanks, so much, Mika. This was excellent.

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