Chief of
USAID Doesn't K**w Who
Created 'Cuban Twitter'
The
Chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said he's unsure who had the idea to create a
Twitter-like social network in Cuba, a project his own agency funded.
In a heated exchange, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) pressed Rajiv Shah, the administrator of USAID, to tell him who was behind USAID's effort to fund and create
ZunZuneo, a stripped-down social network marketed to Cubans that had the ultimate goal of stirring unrest in the Island
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The Internet in Cuba: 5 Things You Need to K**w
Leahy called the project a "cockamamie idea" and repeatedly asked Shah to explain whose idea it was to launch the project.
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