“This was a scandal during the Obama USAID era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at the time… I’m simply showing the American people where your tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the White House,” Benz explained.
He detailed how the U.S. pumped $1.2 billion into activist training groups posing as civil society organizations. These groups were allegedly taught how to master social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, create viral hashtags, and coordinate mass protests. The intent? To create the illusion of spontaneous pro-democracy uprisings while Washington quietly pulled the strings.
But the rabbit hole goes even deeper.
According to Benz, Obama’s USAID secretly built a Cuban knockoff of Twitter—named “Zunzuneo,” the local slang for hummingbird. The app mimicked Twitter’s user interface but was designed specifically for propaganda. The strategy: build trust with Cubans by first delivering content on sports, music, and local news. Once the user base grew, political messages would be introduced, and agitation against the Cuban government would begin—courtesy of bots and targeted content.
“So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter… But the whole trick about it was you have to make it look like it’s coming from the Cubans if you’re going to do this operation,” Benz said.
In a shocking twist, Benz claimed the funding for this scheme was disguised as aid for Pakistan. But the money never went to Islamabad—it was quietly funneled through offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands to bankroll the operation.
“You’re using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You’re saying it’s, you’re earmarking it for Pakistani aid,” he revealed.
And that’s not all. The data harvested from these fake social media operations was allegedly used for microtargeting both pro- and anti-government voices. Once the networks reached “critical mass,” bots and provocateurs would start fueling dissent, with the goal of igniting full-blown street riots.
The takeaway? USAID—under Obama’s leadership—wasn’t just delivering food or clean water. It was funding digital coups and manipulating foreign populations under the guise of promoting democracy.
Benz’s revelations come at a time when President Trump’s administration has already taken steps to defund and dismantle parts of USAID, a move that has infuriated the political left. Now it’s clear why.
For years, Democrats appear to have treated USAID like a global slush fund, weaponizing humanitarian aid to destabilize governments they didn’t like—all while fleecing the American taxpayer.
What was sold to the public as compassion was, according to Benz, a high-tech, government-funded scheme of international subversion.
And it all leads back to Barack Obama.
If what Benz is saying is even half true, this could be one of the most egregious abuses of power and misuse of public funds in modern American history. No wonder they’re desperate to silence anyone who dares pull back the curtain.
Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands
He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments
