This was kind of an eye-opening headline a friend sent the other day.
Spain pays for the “digital transformation” of the Cuban regime with 2.3 million euros
Um, wow – how nice of them. Her objection was based on Spanish not being able to withdraw their own funds from banks, yet they had all this money to help Cubans access theirs?
That was, as I found, in regard to new Spanish bank withdrawal laws tied to attempts to (supposedly) combat money laundering. In the digital age being forced on European residents, as of this past spring, Spanish citizens now have to provide banks with at least 24 hours’ notice to withdraw over €3,000.
Or, boy, is it a hefty wallop of a fine.
According to InfoVeritas, it is not true that the Treasury fines individuals for withdrawing €3,000 from the bank. What actually happens is that financial institutions are required to report cash withdrawals exceeding that amount to the relevant authorities, as outlined in Article 4 of Order EHA/98/2010 of January 25.
That said, most bank ATMs have daily withdrawal limits well below €3,000, which vary by institution. For instance, Ibercaja sets a daily ATM withdrawal limit of €1,000, while Banco Santander‘s limit is €600.
As a result, anyone wishing to withdraw €3,000 or more must do so directly at their bank branch.
In a move to strengthen its campaign against tax fraud, money laundering and the financing of terrorism, Spain has introduced new measures requiring individuals to notify the national tax authority before making large cash withdrawals from banks.
According to EuroWeekly, any person intending to withdraw €3,000 or more from a Spanish bank must now file a prior notification with the Agencia Tributaria, Spain’s tax agency.
For withdrawals of €100,000 or more, a minimum of 72 hours’ advance notice is required, while amounts exceeding €3,000 but below €100,000 must be declared at least 24 hours before the transaction.
For a country run by socialists, it’s also a pretty nifty way to know who has money, who’s moving it, how much, and to be able to deny them access to their funds should they ever irritate the ruling junta enough to make harsh corrective measures necessary.
Not that ‘Socialists’ have ever taken things that far, right?
So, sure. Why wouldn’t the Spanish practitioners of a perpetually failing ideology want to help out another little flower of socialism, the original seed, as it were, still struggling along in the Caribbean, to keep better tabs on its blissfully happy prisoners?
I meant, well, inhabitants.
But when I went digging into what the Spanish were giving the Cubans, I got really torqued.
The interesting thing about the Spanish largesse is that it’s not actually all Spain’s idea. The program that it’s helping fund is a European Union program called The Cuban Digital Project.
Isn’t that neat?
Our erstwhile allies in both democracy, freedom, and defense are financing the digital upgrade of the United States’ mortal enemy, an authoritarian, COMMUNIST dictatorship 90 miles off our coast.
I was under the impression the EU types were none-too-fond of Communists themselves. I appear to have been mistaken.
The government of Spain will allocate 2.3 million euros for the “digital transformation” of the Cuban regime.
This is the Cuba Digital project, currently in the bidding phase, funded by the European Union and managed through the Internationalization of Public Administrations (FIAP), according to documents accessed by OK Diario.
Cuba Digital consists of “the supply, delivery, and installation of servers and networking equipment to strengthen the technological infrastructure of the Electronic Government Platform led by the Cuban Public Administration.”
It also aims to “support the Cuban state in the development of capacities and infrastructures for digital governance.”
Among the fundamental components of the project is the “development of a robust electronic governance platform, for which the establishment of a new state-of-the-art Data Center in the country is essential.”
This data center will focus on “digitizing government procedures and providing online services to citizens and institutions.”
‘Providing online service to citizens’? REALLY?!
To do what?
Check up on a relative in prison?
I’d like to ask the EU who these citizens are who are using or need ‘digital services’ when the only ones who seem to have any power on the island to run so much as a lightbulb, let alone own a computer or have functioning innerwebs are…the ruling Communists.
I mean, they – meaning Cuban citizens – have pretty much spent 2025 in the dark, without a functioning electrical grid, period.
Actually, without much of anything functioning to include an economy.
Cuba bids farewell to 2025 almost in the dark. After a year of blackouts and crisis, the country reaches the year’s end with hope running low. The government’s promises fade away as millions of Cubans face the festivities without electricity, insufficient food, and an increasingly uncertain future.
The year 2025 will be remembered as one of the darkest years of the last decade. Blackouts spread across almost the entire country, with outages lasting over 20 hours a day and a generation deficit exceeding 2,000 megawatts. Even Havana was not spared: there were days with more than 12 hours without electricity.
The government blamed the old thermoelectric plants and the lack of fuel, but Cubans know that the problem runs much deeper. The Minister of Energy, Vicente de la O Levy, admitted that it was a “very difficult and tense” year and warned that the impacts will continue in 2026.
The electrical crisis was accompanied by an economic collapse. The dollar closed the year at around 435 pesos, the euro exceeded 480, and the MLC hovered around 410 in the informal market. Inflation skyrocketed the prices of basic foodstuffs, leaving families on the brink of hunger. In Holguín, a sack of coal reached a price of 1,400 pesos amid the wave of power outages.
While salaries remain frozen, remittances and bartering are the only lifeline. Every rise in the dollar or euro not only reflects the real value of the currency but also the despair of a country lacking an economic direction.
But, gosh, EU – thanks for thinking of providing bigger, better, and faster innerwebs for the fascist overlords who do this to the Cuban people.
And it’s not the mean old US who turned off the lights on the Cuban people, or the ‘blockade’ that starves them and makes them barter for eggs.
What the EU and Communist apologists never tell you is that the Cubans have free trade arrangements with 27 other countries. They could bring in – and do – anything they want if only the regime would let the people have it. The United States doesn’t stop any of it, just US products and funds.
In fact, the Brussels Brahmins and Cubans are SO cozy, they even hold an ‘EU Day’ in Cuba, and brag about how the EU is the little island’s largest trading partner. They had a trade show, for crying out loud.
Cuba and the EU reaffirm their expanding trade and collaboration ties
The willingness of Cuba and the European Union (EU) to continue expanding trade ties and deepening cooperation was evident in Havana, during the celebration of EU Day at the 41st Havana International Fair (FIHAV 2025).
Jens Urban, EU Ambassador to Cuba, highlighted the relationship between the bloc and the island, demonstrated by the participation of 12 member states in the Caribbean nation’s largest trade showcase.
He expressed the will of the so-called old continent to continue working together to consolidate and deepen ties, with the additional challenge of expanding business opportunities to other countries in the region and promoting a greater presence of European businesses on the island.
On the Cuban side, Eduardo Rodriguez Davila, Minister of Transport, acknowledged the excellent current state of relations as traditional trading partners, which consolidates the EU’s position as the archipelago’s largest trading partner.
Why are we subsidizing Europe again?
One Spanish member of the EU parliament ripped into the Brussels hypocrites over their support for the oppressive Cuban communists last May.
Está claro que la UE controlada por populares, socialistas y verdes quiere seguir financiando a la dictadura criminal de Cuba y se atreve la vicepresidente de la Comisión Europea a decir que ve muchos avances positivos en la isla. Una catarata de mentiras para mantener la… pic.twitter.com/jHngnOwTKq
— Hermann Tertsch (@hermanntertsch) May 6, 2025
It is clear that the EU, controlled by the Popular Party, socialists, and greens, wants to continue financing the criminal dictatorship of Cuba, and the Vice President of the European Commission dares to say that she sees many positive advances on the island. A cataract of lies to maintain the despicable line of Borrell’s support for the communist mafia of the island that poisons the entire continent. I have told them so.
No one should be surprised that Von der Leyen and Co. identify with the remnants of the Castro regime, as they have their own dystopian fantasies in full bloom in Europe.
And now their ‘Cuba Digital Project’ promises to pay for advances that the regime and it’s Soviet overlords need to keep tabs on their nearest neighbor.
With friends like the EU, who needs enemies?
We really ought to be looking at sorting them out.
