and anti-war activist eugene puryear says cubans are losing trust in n.g.o.s because the u.s. has been using them to undermine the government. ultimately it makes every single person even people who have entirely positive motives entirely outre sic motives it makes it much more difficult for them to do their work from the point of view of you know not only the goodwill of governments but the attitude of peoples i mean i think quite frankly people are very well informed about these sorts of things they know that since nine hundred sixty there have been any number of u.s. efforts to overthrow the cuban government from assassinations to invasions to the promotion of terrorist base out of miami and so you know people who are our tribe are coming in and offering aid so really the people of cuba are open to this woman it relation in any large scale way and perhaps they will also be more wary of those coming and not themselves wanting to be manipulated by a foreign power so it makes it much more difficult for aid providers to provide the aid and it makes it much more difficult diffic

through the prevention programs on college campuses tell me break down the story i'm joined by eugene puryear organizer with the answer coalition thank you so much for coming on your genes both of you so much for having me i'm sure to have you on this is insane breakdown first what exactly what this program consisted of and how widespread it was so what this program consisted of and again run by creative associates was they were recruiting these young college age people from around latin america and finding any number of you know very worthy endeavors whether it's hiv aids prevention and i just other forms of n.g.o.s style work and saying go to cuba and use this as your cover here's a thirty minute orientation about what you should do if they try to catch you essential to use it as a cover to get people to overthrow the government so another in a very long line of you know really drag it back to nine hundred sixty of efforts by the u.s. government to overthrow the cuban regime but it was you know relatively widespread it wasn't huge it didn't have a significant. number of people but it certai