Got an idea for a Cuba project with a budget between $100,000 and $5 million?

[Mika]

http://cubantriangle.blogspot.com/

USAID ramps up
Got an idea for a Cuba project with a budget between $100,000 and $5 million?

The U.S. Agency for International Development has $20 million to spend and is soliciting proposals, expecting to award about 20 grants to spend that money. The range of program activities is described here, and grants can be made to nonprofits or for-profit companies. The common thread is that they are to build civil society “and thereby hasten a peaceful transition to democracy.”

This request for proposals is the result of Congress appropriating $45 million for Cuba democracy programs in fiscal 2008.

http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=40548


A gravy train. Our money (actually, our debt).



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[roody]

1. How about a biodiesel plant?

[Bacchus39]

2. how about a news/blog site to compete against the Cuban Faux News (prensa latina)

also Cubans can share their thought and opinions and read news that is not filtered by the government. That should fall within the grant range.

[Billy Burnett]

5. Sure. Cubans in Cuba would surely trust yet another US funded "media" operation.

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

3. I think they should send me there to "promote democracy" in Cuba

Maybe I can go to medical school as a cover!

[roody]

6. Apply at Pastors for Peace

www.ifconews.org

How about a solar electric system for every home and a composting waste treatment for every neighborhood? Solar ovens.

[EFerrari]

7. Now, solar ovens sound like a good idea! *I* want one!

Do you have a link, roody?

[roody]

8. I am buying one!! Finally.

http://www.solarovens.org/buy.html

[Judi Lynn]

9. A few years ago I read Cuba was wiring some school houses up in the mountains

for solar energy. It looked as if they were going after this project in a very big, determined way. It was interesting to consider, realizing getting electricity up to those remote areas is probably damned hard for an island with limited resources.

They also installed tv's in all the school rooms all over the island years ago, then started on computers.

They've been very involved in researching and developing alternative energy, haven't they? Also in farming.

Those solar ovens look so interesting. Never have heard of them. How useful, once people know how they work!

[Judi Lynn]

4. I'd like to suggest to them that they use that money to buy themselves some simple human decency

and learn to butt OUT of the lives of people who made up their minds LONG ago, when they threw out the brutal, vicious Cuban oligarchy, so that they could LIVE, themselves, and bring Cuba out of the filthy state most of the people lived in prior to their struggle for freedom.

The scum who were killing them fled the country immediately and started plotting their revenge. Only fools would believe them, and perceive the former victems as criminals. Christ!

What they should STOP doing with the taxpayers' money is plotting to overthrow the hard work the Cuban people have done since 1959, and replace it with the crap we've got in Miami, which has been named both, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the "Poorest City in a Population Over 500,000," and, by the FBI, "America's Terror Capital" in the years Cuban hardliners were slaughtering their political opponents in the city with bombs, guns, you name it.

All those hardline assholes brought with them from their diseased rule of Cuba was their filthy politics, their violence, and their astonishingly racist, homophobic, arrogant, larcenous, social attitudes and sense of high entitlement and "superiority," as hard as that may be to envision.