USAID and democracy

From R. "The USAID is in Cuba, apparently “developing” democracy. It was not merely a failed, futile, and arrogantly imperialistic project, but they actually left musicians worse off: "Instead of sparking a democratic revolution, it compromised an authentic source of protest that had produced some of the hardest-hitting grassroots criticism since Fidel Castro took power in 1959, an AP investigation found.”