Despite US’ embargo, Cuba remains on the way to the international integration. The photo features FIHAV 2013, Cuba’s biggest annual trade fair that took place last week (Photo: AFP/VNA)

(VOVworld) – A document relating to the U.S. Agency for International Development’s program to promote democracy in Cuba worth 6 million USD has been disseminated after it was handed over to the US National Benefit Center in La Habana, SINA. The document hasn’t yet been unencrypted.

The El Nuevo Herald on Monday reported that USAID has prepared a 200-page document which contained detailed information about 20 non-governmental organizations’ asking for funding to do training for those who disagreed with the Cuban ruling party in the next three years.

The material also mentioned financing proposals, methods to analyze the implementation progress and experiences to run pro-democracy programs that have been applied under the shade of the 1996 Helms-Burton law. The program aims to create favorable conditions for the Cuban opposition to conduct fact-finding tours abroad and improve their knowledge and skills in the fields relating to the building of democracies and civil society.

USAID sent the document to SINA in July but by August, the non-governmental organizations were informed that they were no longer being financed because the USAID didn’t have a safe unencrypted line. USAID recommended these organizations abandon any plans to engage in politically-dangerous activities if they felt at risk. However, in official reply letters to these organizations, USAID only said that the reason for the initiatives being abandoned was that they were unpersuasive and inefficient.