US sends foreign aid to third countries to promote change in Cuba

“While Cuban leader Fidel Castros health crisis has sparked new debate over federal funding of U.S. groups pushing for change on the communist island, the United States has for years quietly funneled millions of dollars to groups working in Europe to also promote Cuban democracy.

Through the National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit foundation created by the Reagan administration in 1983, more than $200,000 has gone to the Czech group People in Need, which nurtures independent Cuban journalists.
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