State Department links Cuba’s push for ‘guerilla warfare’ to American leftist movement
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. “It has been linked to the formation of some of the most infamous far-left terrorist movements in U.S. history.”Advertisement 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 charity was the fiscal sponsor for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation between 2016 and 2020, the State Department noted.
- ▪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” s
- ▪“It has been linked to the formation of some of the most infamous far-left terrorist movements in U.S. history.”Advertisement The Monday report, citing mostly public information, calls out American leftists’ affinity for hostile Cuba as a n
- ▪The charity was the fiscal sponsor for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation between 2016 and 2020, the State Department noted.
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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.
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