Minnesota has been the center of the news in recent weeks, and not for good reasons. We have seen massive fraud funding terrorism in Africa, violence against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, two Democratic activists dead, incendiary speeches from the Minneapolis mayor and the state governor.
However, amidst so much darkness, independent journalism is shining. The latest story comes from reporter Cam Higby, who infiltrated left-wing activist groups on Signal in Minneapolis. What did he find? That they function as hubs for revealing the identities of federal agents, the location of operations, and details such as license plates and descriptions of vehicles allegedly used by ICE.
The scandal threatens to grow, as it is believed that high-ranking officials in Governor Tim Walz’s (D) administration may be connected to the chats. In one of the conversations shared by Higby, members of the “Insurrection Signal” group panic, saying (possibly referring to Peggy Flanagan, Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota): “Flan has been exposed,” and “We need to leave the state”; to which one responds: “I have contacts in Cuba.”
Cuba. Again. It’s not surprising that people associated with disrupting law and order in the United States consider the island among their options for fleeing. Why not the closer Canada or Mexico? What kind of “contacts” does the activist have in Cuba?
The truth is that there is a long history of connections between Havana and the training or sheltering of leftists who create chaos in the United States.
A Brief Reminder
As former Chavista general Hugo Carvajal confessed months ago, Havana has been among the operators with spies infiltrated in American institutions, who have laundered money in Miami, New York, and Texas, and who coordinate operations to influence strategic decisions in Washington. One way to do this is to use the freedom of assembly, association, and expression in the United States to inject the socialist poison.
How? Through activists or proxy groups that Cuba trains and provides support to through its diplomats, such as Calla Walsh, co-founder of Unity of Fields, formerly known as Palestine Action US, or the Democratic Socialists of America.
These organizations always find a way to interconnect their agendas and actions, in tributes to Fidel Castro alongside Ernesto Soberon Guzman, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, or representatives of The People’s Forum.
That group, in the weeks leading up to the operation to extract Nicolás Maduro, financed LED billboards against the blockade of the Venezuelan drug trafficker on a New York street corner.
Cuba spent years training the organizers behind the anti-Israel protests on university campuses, including the leader of The People’s Forum, Manolo De Los Santos, who visited the island as early as 2009. De Los Santos does not hide his long-standing connection with Havana. In 2023, he posted on X that he had spent 10 days in Cuba “learning with its people & President Miguel Diaz-Canel.”
Another group connected to Havana is Armed Queers Salt Lake City, a Marxist cell that, according to Mike González, believes in arming and training LGBT people to acquire power. The Iranian transgender-identifying Ermiya Fanaeian, its leader, traveled to the island for training in 2025, where he was told by Cuba’s socialists, “It’s time for you to go home and make your own revolution.”
The truth is that the revolutionary production line never stops on the island: young people constantly travel there from the United States as part of the Venceremos Brigade. One of the greatest successes of this Castro intelligence program has been the figure of Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles, who in the 1970s flew as part of it to the socialist paradise.
A Tradition of Receiving and Protecting Fugitives from American Justice
While there are many cases of left-wing terrorists to whom Havana provides refuge, perhaps the best known is that of Joanne Chesimard, “Assata Shakur” to her revolutionary fans, who died last year in Havana.
The former member of the Black Liberation Army had been living in Cuba since 1984 after escaping from prison, where she was serving a sentence for murdering a police officer in New Jersey. Shakur went from the FBI’s most wanted list to the pages of left-wing American media, which applauded her as a revolutionary example.
Another case that has recently received attention is that of the Fraunces Tavern in New York City, where in 1975 four people died and 50 were injured during a terrorist attack. “The illegitimate Cuban regime continues to harbor William ‘Guillermo’ Morales, the mastermind of this brutal crime,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio recalled a few days ago on the 51st anniversary of the explosion. “The United States will not relent in its pursuit of justice for the victims.”
Morales was part of the left-wing Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), an offshoot of the Castro regime’s General Directorate of Intelligence. Its militants sought to establish a Cuban-style regime in an independent Puerto Rico. They had received training and advice from the Castro regime.
Morales, although prosecuted in the United States and sentenced in 1979 to 89 years in prison in New York and 10 years in federal prison, managed to flee to Mexico, where he murdered a local police officer. Mexico rejected President Reagan’s requests to extradite Morales while he was serving his sentence in a Mexican prison. Subsequently, the authorities of that country allowed him to fly to Cuba in 1983, where he was granted political asylum.
Oscar López Rivera, one of the leaders of the FALN, sentenced to 55 years in prison for violent acts, possession of explosives, and conspiracy to commit attacks, still attends events in Havana as a guest of honor after being released by Barack Obama.
If arming its proxies was once the Castro regime’s favorite pastime, today it is infecting American civil society with resentment and the oppressor-oppressed narrative. From Puerto Rico to Minnesota, from the 20th to the 21st century, it seems that the island of evil is still the favorite refuge of agitators.
