Friday, March 18, 2011

WHERE THE U.S. TAXPAYERS MONEY GOES

U.S. taxpayers money used to topple constitutional governments

Cubadebate http://www.cubadebate.cu publishes today an article with information taken from http://cubamoneyproject.org. This site is based on data found at USAspending.gov containing interesting details on USAID (see earlier entry on this blog Cuban television airs new episode on cyberwar waged by Washington against Havana on USAID) grant recipients, contracts and money amounts.

 Although the administrators of the page claim that “it is a work in progress and the data on the U.S.-financed Cuba programs are not complete, because its gathering started only on March 17”; it, nevertheless, “gives a glimpse of where that money goes.”

 

Here is that information, which is further prove of the involvement of the United States of America in the dirty war to subvert the government of Cuba. While about 48 million citizens of the U.S., the richest country in the world, do not have access to proper and sustainable health care; thousands of youth have to join the army so that they can afford to pay for their university or college studies, if they are alive, once the tour of duty ends; and still-displaced Katrina victims live in shelters, if they are lucky; the U.S. governments use their taxpayers money to topple a government that does provide first quality health care and education to all its citizens,  and does take care of the vulnerable.





2007 - Total set aside for fiscal 2007: $13.3 million
Amount found so far on USAspending website: $3.3 million
Cuba On Line
Jan. 22 – Signed contract for $400,000. Description: Recipient will produce and send newsletters to Cuba
Plantados until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba
Sept. 13 – Signed contract for $200,000. Description: Program Title: Support to obtain a Peaceful Transition to Democracy in Cuba Program
Pan American Development Foundation
Sept. 25 – Signed contract for $2.3 million. Description: Cooperative Agreement to PADF for the Supporting Civil Society in Cuba Program
Plantados until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba
Nov. 21 – Signed contract for $400,000. Description: Award incremental funding in the amount of $400 000.00
2008 - Total set aside for fiscal 2008: $45.33 million
Amount found on USASpending website so far: $11,215,973
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
Feb. 4 – Signed contract for $745,000. Description: Promoting International Support for Democracy and Civil Society in Cuba is a two-year program to expand and mobilize international support for basic
Loyola University of Chicago
March 14 – Signed contract for $500,000. Description: Loyola University of Chicago will increase development in Cuba through a comprehensive program to raise the performance of civil society s building b
International Republican Institute
Aug. 27 – Signed contract for $2 million. Description: Hastening the Transition to Democracy in Cuba.
Development Research Center
Aug. 27 – Awarded $500,000. Description: To the Development Research Center for program entitled Supporting Civil Society for Democracy in Cuba
Freedom House
Sept. 23 – Signed contract for $477,013. Description: The purpose of this modification to the New Media Initiatives for Cuba (NewMIC) .is to: (a) increase the total estimated cost of the agreement from $
Plantados until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba
Sept. 28 – Signed contract for $100,000. Description: Add Hurricane Activity Funding in the amount of $100 000.00.
Creative Associates International
Sept. 29 – Signed $6.5 million contract from USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives, or OTI. Contract description: SWIFT II Task Order for Cuban Civil Society Support Program. OTI is part of USAID’s Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Bureau.
Plantados until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba
Sept. 30 – Awarded $393,960. Description: Incremental funding action.
2009 - Total set aside for fiscal 2009: $15.62 million
Amount found on USASpending website so far: $7,824,647
Institute for Sustainable Communities
June 10 – Signed contract for $800,000. Description: “To provide support for an eighteen-month program entitled, “Cuba Community Engagement Program”.
ECHOCuba
June 24 – Signed contract for $500,000. Description: $1,033,582.00 to provide support for a three year program entitled, “Empowering Civil Society by Strengthening Economic Independence”.
Pan American Development Foundation
July 21 – Signed contract for $2 million. Description: Purpose of this cooperative agreement is to provide support for a two-year program entitled “Expanding Support for Civil Society in Cuba”.
Loyola University of Chicago
Aug. 10 – Signed contract for $1.5 million. Description: A two-year Cooperative Agreement for $1,500,000 in support of their program entitled, “Yes We Can!”
Pan American Development Foundation
Aug. 11 – Signed contract for $1 million. Description: The purpose of this modification is to provide incremental funding in the amount of $1,000,000 to support program activities.
Creative Associates International
Sept. 25 – Received $670,671, increasing its 2009 contract amount to $7,170,671. Document notes that a Travel Liability clause for Cuba was added to the contract. This evidently came before Cuban authorities detained Alan Gross in Cuba in December 2009.
Total contract value is shown as $15,535,979.
International Republican Institute
Sept. 28, 2009 – Received $500,000. Description: Incremental funding increase of $500,000.
DAI / Nathan Group
Sept. 29 – Signed contract for $853,976. Contract description: “Provide incremental funding in the amount of $853,976.”
2010 - Total set aside for fiscal 2010: $20 million
Amount found on USASpending website so far: $7,251,663
Evangelical Christian Humanitarian Outreach – ECHOCuba
Sept. 1 – Signed contract for $320,000. Description: Obligation Amount.
Creative Associates International
Sept. 3 – Signed contract for $2 million. Contract completion date is shown as Sept. 30, 2011.



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