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In a shocking development that has leftist activists clutching their Che Guevara T-shirts, the Department of State announced on Wednesday that three Cuban nationals were taken into federal custody after Secretary Marco Rubio had the audacity to terminate their legal status in the US. One of those arrested was a man the department said has "spent more than a decade working as a foreign subversive for the Communist Cuban regime’s premier influence and intelligence front group in the United States."
Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez, along with his wife and son, was taken into custody by federal agents. Lloga Dominguez was employed by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP) for over a decade, the department said, and has continued to maintain ties to the network during his time in the US.
Rubio designated ICAP for sanctions in early June. The group "is the central node in a sprawling Cuban intelligence and influence operation, claiming to span more than 2,000 organizations across more than 150 countries," the department said. The current head of ICAP, Fernando González Llort, previously served 15 years in US prison for his role in the Wasp Network, a Cuban spy ring discovered in Florida in the late 90s.
The department said, "Working in close coordination with the Cuban communist regime, ICAP maintains an outsized footprint across the United States, trafficking in vile anti-American propaganda, cultivating pro-Havana regime activists and politicians, and lobbying federal, state and local politicians on behalf of the Cuban dictatorship. The organization facilitates close working relationships between Havana and radical U.S. groups, using America’s far left milieu as a vehicle to export Cuba’s Communist revolution to the United States."
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How dare they. Everyone knows the real threat to democracy is mean tweets and insufficient pronoun usage, not actual foreign agents embedded in America's compassion industrial complex.
An investigation by Fox News Digital found that ICAP officials have been closely coordinating with American nonprofits over the last decade to support Cuba’s Communist Party. The nonprofits include People’s Forum, Breakthrough News, Tricontinental, CodePink, the ANSWER Coalition, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, many of which are funded by far-left businessman Neville Roy Singham. Because nothing says "organic grassroots movement" like a trust fund socialist wiring cash from overseas.
In May, the Trump administration's Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control subpoenaed socialist political YouTuber Hasan Piker, as well as CodePink’s Susan Medea Benjamin, over a trip taken to Cuba. One such trip took place in March, with activists being seen partying while much of the island faced a blackout. ICAP worked with US nonprofits to organize this trip. Nothing builds solidarity with the starving proletariat quite like doing the Macarena while grandma sits in the dark.
The March trip was under the banner of the "Nuestra America Convoy," with organizers claiming the trip aimed to deliver humanitarian aid and protest US sanctions. They also painted murals. Of course they did. Revolutionary change begins with tasteful public art.
The federal inquiry is over whether activists who went on the March trip violated US sanctions laws through the financing, coordination or delivery of goods to Cuba, including potential contacts with Cuban government personnel or entities on the island.
Amid news of the subpoena, it was revealed that Piker had admitted in 2025 that the Cuban government had reached out to a contact of his in an attempt to get him to come to the country. "The Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy and told them that if the only thing stopping Hasan from coming to Cuba was the consistent internet access, we can make it happen," he said.
Truly, the Cuban regime's willingness to provide reliable Wi-Fi for content creators is the kind of humanitarian outreach that makes America look bad. Thank goodness patriotic federal agents are finally treating these brave truth-tellers like the foreign influence agents they keep proving themselves to be. The revolution will not be subsidized.
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