The U.S. Department of State has released a 100-page report accusing Cuba of orchestrating a decades-long campaign of espionage, ideological influence and support for far-left militant organizations in the United States and across the Western Hemisphere.
Titled "Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism", the report argues that Havana has relied on intelligence operations, proxy networks and political organizing rather than conventional military power to challenge U.S. interests.
According to the report, Cuba trained and armed left-wing guerrilla movements throughout Latin America while cultivating relationships with U.S. activist organizations and militant groups beginning in the 1960s.
It also alleges that Havana provided operational support, training or refuge to organizations including the Weather Underground, the Black Panther movement and Puerto Rican militant groups such as the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) and the Macheteros, citing declassified intelligence documents, congressional testimony and historical reporting.
The study also contends that Cuba developed one of the most significant foreign intelligence networks ever uncovered in the United States. It cites past espionage cases involving Cuban agents who infiltrated U.S. government institutions, including the State Department, the Pentagon and the National Security Council, and argues that intelligence gathering became a central pillar of Cuban foreign policy.
A central argument of the document is that Cuba helped reshape the international left by promoting what it describes as a form of Marxism centered on anti-imperialism, decolonization and the Global South, ideentifying the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana as a turning point that brought together hundreds of revolutionary organizations from Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The conference allegedly helped establish Cuba as the ideological hub of what it calls the "New Left" and expanded the country's influence beyond traditional communist movements.
The document concludes that Cuba's influence has outlasted the Cold War through networks of activists, political organizations and international partnerships that it says continue to shape left-wing movements today.
