US State Department Names 7 Activists and Groups Cuba Fronts in 100-Page Report
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Updated · The Guardian · Jul 20
US State Department Names 7 Activists and Groups Cuba Fronts in 100-Page Report
2 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jul 20
Summary
A 100-page State Department report released Monday labels several U.S. activists and organizations as Cuba “front groups and fellow travelers,” including Hasan Piker, Chris Smalls, the Democratic Socialists of America and Amy Goodman.
The report casts Cuba as the “capital of 21st-century communism” and says Havana cultivated American activist networks to oppose U.S. policy, echoing earlier allegations about anti-intervention protest planning.
Marco Rubio’s department issued the report days after new sanctions hit Cuba’s tourism ministry and state companies, part of what the Trump administration calls a comprehensive campaign against the island’s “malign activities.”
The move extends Trump’s broader crackdown on left-leaning groups while intensifying a Cuba pressure strategy that already includes a decades-old embargo and recent oil restrictions.
Cuba, which has faced three nationwide blackouts in six months, says U.S. sanctions are crippling its economy; human rights groups and other critics have also argued the measures hurt ordinary Cubans.