How Cuba Is Covertly Boosting America’s Radical Left

The Cuban regime is pouring resources into “sustaining and expanding a wide range of ideological and intelligence front groups” that work to train and influence left-wing activists in the U.S., according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.

The Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP), a Cuban intelligence and influence network, maintains social and financial ties with a number of prominent radical left-wing groups in the U.S., from Black Lives Matter to Code Pink, the State Department says in a report released Monday, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.”

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The Cuban regime is pouring resources into “sustaining and expanding a wide range of ideological and intelligence front groups” that work to train and influence left-wing activists in the U.S., according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.

The Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples (ICAP), a Cuban intelligence and influence network, maintains social and financial ties with a number of prominent radical left-wing groups in the U.S., from Black Lives Matter to Code Pink, the State Department says in a report released Monday, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.”