The Secretary of State Marco Rubio will preside over an international ministerial conference this Thursday, called by the Department of State to address what the Trump administration defines as the resurgence of extreme left political terrorism, according to the official announcement released this Wednesday.
The event, titled “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism”, will bring together representatives from over 70 countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia, aimed at strengthening international coordination, intelligence sharing, and law enforcement mechanisms in response to this threat.
The State Department warned that extreme left terrorism "is not isolated incidents," but rather "a deliberate, ideologically motivated strategy to destabilize free societies through violent attacks against our political and economic systems," including aggression against citizens, officials, law enforcement, businesses, and critical infrastructure.
The conference is the culmination of a counterterrorism strategy that the administration of President Donald Trump began to articulate in November 2025, when he designated four European groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations: Antifa Ost (Germany), the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (Italy), Armed Proletarian Justice (Greece), and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense (Greece).
Along with those designations, Washington offered rewards of up to 10 million dollars for information that could disrupt the financial mechanisms of those four groups.
In May, Trump signed a counterterrorism strategy aimed at neutralizing organizations with ideologies deemed "anti-American, radically transgender, or anarchist."
That same month, the first Workshop on the Application of the Anti-Terrorism Law was held, bringing together 14 countries for two days to exchange practices against extreme left terrorism, a direct precursor to Thursday's ministerial meeting.
The spokesperson for the State Department, Tommy Pigott, described it as "an old threat resurging with strong transnational links and new convergences."
Cuba occupies a central place in Rubio's discourse on this matter. On June 4th, the Secretary of State stated that "Cuba has been for decades the world capital of radical leftist terrorism" and sanctioned five Cuban entities, including the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR), the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), and the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
Two days prior, in a testimony before the Senate, Rubio stated that Cuba "has sponsored and supported virtually all violent leftist terrorist groups," explicitly mentioning the ELN, the FARC, and their dissidents.
The Cuban regime rejected the ministerial statement, labeling it as "McCarthyite," and denounced that it is based on "false arguments to justify actions against progressive forces, leftist organizations, and social movements."
The chancellor Bruno Rodríguez responded to Rubio by recommending he "read history".
This Tuesday, the news site Breitbart News announced that the State Department will publish a report documenting the alleged links between the Cuban regime and radical left organizations operating in the United States, marking another step by the Trump administration to expose and curb Havana's influence in the country.
The invitation to the international ministerial meeting against left-wing terrorism has also generated tensions with some European allies. According to The Washington Post, several of them expressed displeasure because the invitation arrived just a week before the event, with a response deadline set for the Friday prior, and some ministers indicated that their attendance was unlikely.
Within the U.S. government itself, officials from the Department of Justice and the White House Counsel's Office have expressed concern about the possibility that counterterrorism tools may end up being applied against leftist activists within the country, according to the same newspaper.
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