The Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel posted a message this Friday in which he compared Washington's policies to McCarthyism, Nazism, and Operation Condor.
In the first text of the thread on X, Díaz-Canel stated that "a new and more dangerous version of McCarthyism is back in the United States."
He then raised his tone and pointed out that the policies of the Trump administration arrive "with a threatening transnational projection" and "promote far-right alliances reminiscent of Hitlerian fascism or the sinister Operation Condor, aimed at attacking a supposed 'global radical left'."
The Cuban leader also posed a rhetorical question: "Are excuses being sought as justification for new abuses and greater aggression?"
Díaz-Canel accused what he calls "imperial right" of being responsible for a long list of crimes: genocide in Gaza, extrajudicial killings, "the hunting, torture, and murder of migrants," the bombing of a girls' school in Iran, and the "genocidal blockade against the Cuban people."
The thread concluded with a statement: "The true danger to humanity is the philosophy of dispossession that dictates the waging of war by transnational far-right forces."
Díaz-Canel reacts to Rubio's measures against left-wing extremism
During the Ministerial Conference on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, held in Washington with representatives from over 70 countries on July 16, Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused the Cuban regime of having built a wide-ranging network of intelligence and ideological influence over several decades.
Rubio stated that this network contributed to the development of far-left movements in the United States and the Western Hemisphere.
He stated that this structure remains linked to radical organizations both within and outside of the West and recalled Havana's historical support for armed groups such as the FARC, ELN, Tupamaros, Montoneros, the Italian Red Brigades, and the German Red Army Faction.
In that same context, the State Department announced a new immigration policy that will prevent the entry into the United States of foreign nationals who finance, recruit, collaborate with, or provide support to extreme left terrorist organizations.
The measure will be applied under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and, according to Washington, does not include exemptions.
The new policy is part of the antiterrorism strategy promoted by President Donald Trump’s administration, which seeks to broaden the traditional focus on jihadist terrorism to include extreme left political violence.
Rubio also announced that the United States will continue to promote new designations of terrorist organizations and will strengthen international cooperation in this area through future meetings with allied countries.
Cuba and the U.S. Sanctions
The statements come four days after the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Department of the Treasury sanctioned ten Cuban entities, including the Ministry of Tourism, the Rapid Response Brigades, the Territorial Troops Militia, and several companies linked to the military conglomerate GAESA.
The Trump administration has imposed more than 240 restrictive sanctions against Cuba since the beginning of its term. In June, the OFAC had directly sanctioned Díaz-Canel himself, his wife Lis Cuesta, Alejandro Castro Espín, and the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
The speech of the Cuban leader follows a sustained rhetorical escalation throughout 2026. In January, he described the U.S. operation in Venezuela as "neo-fascism" and "state terrorism." In March, in an interview with La Jornada, he spoke of a "resurgence of fascism"; and in May he directly labeled the Trump administration as a "fascist government".
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