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MORNING SHOW LOOKS AT HOW USAID USED HIP HOP TO TOPPLE

Monday, December 15, 2014   12:00 AM - 11:30 PM

The Morning Show examines how USAID's secret infiltration of Cuba's underground hip-hop groups scene to spark a youth movement against the government was carried out, and how this is the latest example of a long history of ways the U.S. has tried to topple Castro. WBAI's Christy Thornton speaks to Sujatha Fernandes, Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of a number of books about Cuba and Latin American cultural trends. 

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