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The Convoy Nuestra América, which arrived in Havana between March 18 and 24, was organized by a network of at least 23 Marxist, socialist, and anti-American organizations with documented foreign links, including connections to the Chinese Communist Party.
The main organizing body was Progressive International, an anti-capitalist organization founded in 2020 whose manifesto states that capitalism is the virus that must be eradicated and warns that "winning elections is not enough."
His advisory council includes British parliamentarian Jeremy Corbyn and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who describes himself as an "erratic Marxist."
Progressive International co-organized the convoy along with the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, described in a CIA study from 1978 as "one of the most useful communist front organizations serving the Soviet Communist Party."
A central node for organization and funding was the People's Forum, a nonprofit organization based in New York whose executive director, Manolo de los Santos, spoke at press conferences in Havana.
The Media and Ways Committee of the House of Representatives determined in September 2025 that the People's Forum received over $20 million from Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans between 2017 and 2022, funneled through shell companies and donor-advised funds, and has acted as a foreign agent of the Chinese Communist Party while maintaining its tax-exempt status.
Neville Roy Singham, a technology mogul born in the United States who sold his company for $785 million in 2017, moved to Shanghai and in July 2023 attended a Communist Party workshop on "promoting the party internationally."
In April 2024, De los Santos urged around 100 activists gathered at the People's Forum offices in Manhattan to recreate the "summer of 2020," referring to the unrest that caused $400 million in damages nationwide, and to "give Joe Biden a hot summer."
Isra Hirsi, daughter of Representative Ilhan Omar, traveled to Cuba as part of a delegation from the People's Forum; she had previously been suspended from Barnard College for participating in pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University.
Code Pink, co-founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, chartered a plane for 100 participants of the convoy, delivered 6,300 pounds of medical supplies valued at $433,000, and charged $1,600 per participant.
Approximately 25% of Code Pink's funding since 2017 comes from groups linked to Singham, who married co-founder Evans in 2019; since then, according to documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee, the two have openly supported China, with Evans publicly describing the Uighurs as "terrorists" and defending their mass detention.
The senator Tom Cotton wrote to Attorney General Bondi requesting that the Department of Justice investigate Code Pink for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and for providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations, citing its ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Samidoun.
The People's Forum also serves as the fiscal sponsor of the Venceremos Brigade, the oldest U.S.-Cuba solidarity organization, founded in 1969 by members of Students for a Democratic Society, the Communist Party USA, and the Black Panther Party.
The FBI investigated the Brigade from its inception, producing at least 23,000 pages of files, and a 1975 Senate report described it as one of the most extensive and dangerous infiltration operations by a foreign power.
Upon returning from Cuba, at least 16 activists from the convoy were detained and interrogated for at least three hours at the Miami International Airport, with electronic devices being confiscated.
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