U.S. intelligence services operate against Cuba’s finances (archived)
A second stage includes the use of platforms financed by the northern administration, such as El Toque, to stimulate inflation. Similar procedures were employed by the US government in Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, Argentina (blue dollar via Telegram) and Venezuela (dollar today via web)
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Revelan operación de servicios de inteligencia de EE.UU. contra finanzas de Cuba
We began in 2014 as a project of the Latin American department of the Dutch non-governmental organization RNW Media (formerly Radio Nederland Wereldomroep). In 2017, after that organization changed its work strategy and ended its presence in Latin America, a team of young Cuban journalists and bloggers who had been managing elTOQUE since 2016 accepted the challenge of keeping the project alive, but only in our hands. To this end, we created the Colectivo Más Voces Foundation, legally registered in Poland due to the impossibility of obtaining legal status either as a media outlet or as an organization in Cuba.
The Colectivo Mas Voces Foundation finances elTOQUE and its allied projects from grants and International Cooperation projects (for example, Fondo Velocidad, MEEDAN y la International Fact-checking Network), collaboration agreements with other international media, and income from professional services rendered by the CATAO agency, its commercial arm.
Ten Latin American News Startups Get Grants and Consulting to Help Boost Their Bottom Line
Velocidad, an accelerator designed to help independent news media in Latin America become sustainable, has selected 10 digital startups to receive investments and specialized consulting services. Velocidad was established with funding from Luminate [Omidyar Network-Pierre Omidyar] and designed by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and SembraMedia to support the important work of independent media outlets.
El Toque: a Social Innovation Project for a Transnational Cuba
El Toque, Colectivo +Voces and CATAO: the newspaper, NGO and company
First there was the publication, eltoque.com, the digital online and offline publication which needed a legal structure to continue to exist, because it was no longer part of the Dutch NGO that created it (RNW Media, formerly Radio Nederland, in Holland).
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After taking this path, the “Vatican route” was consolidated, as some Dutch colleagues jokingly called our solution. The connection established by Polish Catholic youth on a mission in Cuba with young Cuban Catholics, who became members of the El Toque team in the longer term, opened the door for us to acquire a legal personality in that country.
This was how the Colectivo Mas Voces Foundation (Fundacja Wspólnota Wielu Glosow, in Polish) was born which has been the kingpin of our project, since April 2017.
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Last but not least, CATAO was born. As a result of support received from the Velocidad project, of Siembramedia, the International Center for Journalism and Luminate; we have received mentoring services and resources between 2020 and 2021, so we can create a communications services agency, which sounds extremely pompous, but is nothing more than transforming our editorial branches into a company. Our designers, our programmers, our photographers and videomakers, illustrators, the proofreader… are joining a group of professionals with the skill-set needed to create products that can be sold, and this income then contributes to how editorial projects work.
24 grassroots projects awarded through the Check Global COVID-19 Fund
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