Lima_ What the program of the V Forum of Youth of the Americas planned for the day of Thursday, April 12, is what any Cuban would describe as a neoliberal injection in blood, the Granma newspaper publishes.
This was more than enough to eliminate the benefit of the doubt at this meeting, if there was still someone in the room where the more than 200 young people from 35 countries met, who still thought like another - let's say more original or attached to the reality of the continent - the nature of this space, designed with special interest to promote private initiative, the expansion of external programs and interventionists focused on young people and the promotion of "agents of change" that through small and large businesses or projects change the reality of their countries.
The first conference of the day was given by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), widely known and de-characterized in Cuba for its interventionist and subversive tactics with a focus on young people.
The theme of the presentation, presented by the official Mark Green, who left as if fleeing the room without giving time for questions, was The Role of International Technical Cooperation in the Promotion of Youth Development.
In Cuba we know well the tactics of "technical cooperation" promoted by the USAID.
In this 2018 that agency, together with the Office of Transmissions to Cuba (OCB), FreedomHouse, among other organizations and "non-governmental" actors, will be the main promoters of a new interventionist project: an Operational Force on the Internet presented as a project for improving the access in Cuba.
The OCB, pointed out one of our specialists, is the umbrella of Radio and TV Martí, "relics of the Cold War designed to issue enemy propaganda and carry out psychological operations against Cuba."
And there is more of the USAID. It was that agency that was behind the recruitment in 2009 of rappers to demonstrate against the revolutionary government, as revealed by the Associated Press (AP).
Its goal was to pierce the movement of hip hop on the island and turn it into a nucleus that would serve to destabilize the country. At that time, "social change" were the key words in the document leaked by the US news agency, which revealed that in its interventionist act the USAID put at risk the boys who fell into their traps.
"The trick was to do it without having them arrested," the AP then published. Then, the USAID would bring to light a statement in which they assumed responsibility for these actions.
Simultaneously to the program with hip hop, the agency launched another: ZunZuneo or the «Cuban twitter», through which hundreds of messages mobilizing against the State were sent to the mobile phones of adolescents and young people in the country. Each strategy was disguised through financial mechanisms that were also revealed.
Likewise, from its facades, the USAID tried to spoil the Concert of Peace without borders, and the Electronic Music Festival of Rotilla, in Mayabeque, although none of those two reached as many headlines as the Traveler Agents Program.
This action was based on the sending of young people from Venezuela, Costa Rica and Peru to Cuba for the purpose of political subversion. They wanted to encourage a rebellion, which is why Latin Americans, recruited to work as their black hand, operated undercover, under the facade of tourists, with the aim of identifying "agents of change".
Young Peruvians were manipulated for this purpose and, even so, in this Youth Forum of the Americas, the USAID was invited to participate. Is it curious? Not that much. In reality, this is a forum designed to promote the bases of capitalism, and to influence the region with right-wing doctrines.
For that reason, more or less of the same nature of the USAID were other panelists invited to expose the market bonanzas to those present at the V Forum of Youth of the Americas, an event sponsored by emporiums such as the World Bank, Pepsico, the Famous Walmart market chain, Facebook, Twitter and, of course, the OAS.
There was even a conference on Women leaders and entrepreneurs in global markets, perhaps designed to support the trip to Lima as part of the official delegation of the United States of Ivanka Trump, daughter and special adviser to President Donald Trump, and which was accredited for the III Business Summit.
The media reports that Ivanka is focused on presenting "a new initiative to boost the economic empowerment of women in the region".
Likewise, a Youth Dialogue with Jorge Familiar, Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World Bank, took place at the youth event; and a meeting with Diego Dzodan, vice president of Facebook and Instagram in this region of the continent.
Luckily, it is not in the conference rooms or with those people with whom the young participants in this Forum reached a consensus on the final Declaration.
Otherwise, there was a risk that the document looked more like a billboard than a position of principle.
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