The State Department published a report this Monday, approximately 100 pages long, presented by Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in which he accuses the Cuban regime of having been, for more than six decades, the principal supporter of radical leftism and third-worldism within the United States.
The document, titled "Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism", was released by the Department of State and represents one of the most comprehensive exposés published by the U.S. government regarding the campaign of subversion, espionage, and ideological influence that Havana has waged against Washington since 1959.
"For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the main sponsor of radical leftism and third-worldism in the United States," Rubio wrote while announcing the report. "The State Department is revealing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country. The American people deserve to know."
The report argues that Cuba developed a unique form of Marxism—different from Soviet communism—shaped around racial, social, and civilizational grievances. This ideology, forged at the Tricontinental Conference in 1966 in Havana, which brought together over 500 delegates from 82 countries, became, according to the document, the ideological engine of the Western radical left, with a direct line to contemporary movements such as Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the anti-ICE networks active on U.S. soil.
The text documents how Cuba financed, trained, and directed terrorist groups such as the Weather Underground and the Puerto Rican FALN. In an 18-month period between 1971 and 1972, the FBI recorded about 2,500 bombings on U.S. soil, at a rate of nearly five per day, linked to that influence.
In terms of espionage, the report details how the Cuban Intelligence Directorate infiltrated the highest levels of the U.S. government for decades. The most emblematic cases include Víctor Manuel Rocha —former ambassador in Bolivia and former director of Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council under Clinton, sentenced in April 2024 to 15 years in prison for acting as a Cuban agent for approximately 50 years— and Ana Belén Montes, who was recruited in 1984 as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins and went on to become the principal analyst on Cuba at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The document also identifies an active network of organizations operating in the U.S. in service of the regime's interests. The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), sanctioned by the State Department in June 2026, is described as the central node of the entire Cuban intelligence and influence network, with nearly 90% of its personnel linked to the island's espionage services.
Another organization that has been identified is the Venceremos Brigade, which since 1969 has brought around 10,000 American activists to Cuba. A 1975 report from the U.S. Senate described it as "one of the most extensive and dangerous infiltration operations ever undertaken by a foreign power against the United States."
The report also warns about the geopolitical dimension of the threat: Cuba currently hosts 18 known signals intelligence facilities, including two Russian ones, which serve as a platform for Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran to project power against the U.S. just 90 miles from Florida.
The document concludes with a direct warning: "Confusing Cuba's poverty with its harmlessness is a complete misunderstanding of the threat. Its material weakness has never been the measure of its danger. Its power has always been ideological, subversive, and parasitic."
The report is published in a context of maximum pressure from the Trump administration on Havana, which includes sanctions against the Cuban Intelligence Directorate and the military conglomerate GAESA. While the regime allocates resources to sustain networks of subversion abroad, the Cuban people endure power outages of up to 20 hours a day and an unprecedented economic crisis.
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