A State Department report says American leftists are serving Cuba‘s goals for “urban guerilla warfare and terrorism” through a regime-linked activist group.The Venceremos Brigade spent decades building relations with elected Democrats, labor leaders, and activists by giving supporters propagandistic field trips to Cuba and weapons training, the State Department said Monday in a 100-page report on the communist state’s influence. The report traces financial and political ties between the Venceremos Brigade and the Black Lives Matter cause, Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and others, describing how the group “brought some 10,000 American activists to Cuba” since Cuban officials helped form it in 1969.“Since its creation, the Brigade has served as a tool for the Cuban regime to sponsor a wide range of subversive activities against the United States — ranging from influence campaigns to espionage and guerilla violence,” the State Department said. “It has been linked to the formation of some of the most infamous far-left terrorist movements in U.S. history.”
The Monday report, citing mostly public information, calls out American leftists’ affinity for hostile Cuba as a national security concern with an intensity not seen in prior administrations. The Trump administration argued why it thinks Cuba poses a continued threat to the United States after President Donald Trump threatened to overthrow its communist government in recent months.“It has sought to undermine, degrade and destabilize America with spies and soldiers, but also with students and intellectuals; with terroristcells, but also with solidarity committees and nonprofit networks,” the report stated. “With intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover, but also with ostensibly private exchanges, nonprofits, political organizations, and activist networks.”The Venceremos Brigade did not respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.‘Fomenting a revolution within the United States’
