The U.S. Department of State announced this Tuesday the upcoming release of a report documenting the alleged ties between the Cuban regime and radical left organizations operating on U.S. soil, in a new move by the Trump administration to expose and curb Havana's influence in the country.
The revelation was first reported by Breitbart News, which obtained exclusive excerpts from the document provided by the State Department itself.
According to an official from the institution, the report concludes that "for almost seven decades, the Cuban regime has played an indispensable role in virtually all the major insurgencies, revolutions, and extreme left militant movements in the Western Hemisphere and other regions."
One of the chapters focuses on Code Pink, an organization founded in 2002 as an anti-war movement. According to the document, "from its beginnings, Code Pink has taken a position on the left aligned with Cuba," with members regularly traveling to Havana and supporting the international campaign to free the five spies from the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States.
The report recalls that the organization's co-founder, Medea Benjamin, lived in Cuba between 1979 and 1983. However, it asserts that the group took a more radical turn in 2017, when another of its leading figures, Jodie Evans, married billionaire businessman Neville Roy Singham, founder of Thoughtworks and a resident of China.
"In the years following the marriage —and a significant financial injection from Singham— Code Pink quickly transformed from a more conventional leftist pacifist group into a staunch and official defender of the People's Republic of China and other anti-American foreign states," states the document.
According to the State Department, since 2017 approximately 25% of Code Pink's funding has come from organizations linked to Singham. Researcher Peter Schweizer documented in his book Blood Money (2024) that the businessman allocated over 100 million dollars to organizations that promoted protest movements in the United States.
The report also dedicates a section to the People's Forum and its leader, Manolo de los Santos, who, according to the State Department, has been traveling to Cuba since at least 2009 and has appeared frequently in official media of the regime. The document adds that this organization was linked to the assault on Hamilton Hall at Columbia University during the student protests in April 2024.
Part of a broader offensive
The publication of the report comes amid a broader offensive by the Trump administration against the influence of the Cuban regime in the United States.
On July 13th, Washington imposed new sanctions against 10 Cuban entities, including the Rapid Response Brigades and the Territorial Troops Militias, for their role in the repression on the island.
Furthermore, the Department of Justice is investigating 145 pro-Cuba organizations whose combined revenues are around 1 billion dollars annually, for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar supported the initiative and stated that "the influence of the Castro regime has gone far beyond Cuba, and I have been clear about that for years. The American people deserve to know the full extent" of those ties.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has described Cuba as “the world capital of radical left terrorism”. In that context, in early July, U.S. authorities arrested Carlos Antonio Lloga Domínguez, a former official of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), who, according to the government, had been operating in U.S. territory for over a decade and is currently facing deportation proceedings.
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