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US created 'Cuban Twitter'

ZunZuneo was popular here in Cuba. The service provided news - on sport and culture in particular - straight to subscribers用戶' mobile telephones. But users had no idea they were signing up to a programme created in the United States. 

Funded by the US government development agency USAID, ZunZuneo targeted young Cubans in particular. Ultimately最終的, the goal was to send political messages via the network, aimed at provoking鼓舞 a 'Cuban Spring'. 

But users told the BBC that the service ended abruptly突然地 over a year ago, before they received any kind of political content內容. Confirming that the project did indeed exist, the White House called ZunZuneo a 'development' programme, intended to help the 'free flow' of information. 

But the US has a long history of trying to provoke regime change改朝換代 in Havana: starting with assassination暗殺 plots against Fidel Castro - then a trade embargo禁運 - and more recently, high-tech projects like this one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/04/140404_witn_cuba.shtml

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