Is Cuba waging a secret campaign against the US? | The Global Story

“Cuba's assault on the United States was never, at root, a quarrel over economic policy or sovereignty or even ownership of a particular territory,” reads the US Department of State's new report on the communist state 90 miles from the Florida coast.

“It was a revolution against Western civilization itself”.

Over the course of 100 pages, Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism draws lines between Cuba and the Black Panthers, the Pan-African movement, radical feminism, Antifa and more.

It concluded that international sympathy for the island's dire humanitarian crisis overlooks a sinister reality; that, “its power was always ideological, subversive, and parasitic.”

The Cuban government has dismissed the report as, “a mediocre propaganda pamphlet.”

How much validity is there to its arguments, and why release it now?

Michael Bustamante, a professor of history at the University of Miami, joins Asma Khalid from The Global Story podcast to discuss.

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Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:49 What does the report on Cuba say? 04:52 What's the significance of the Cuban revolution? 08:40 Did Cuba help left-wing movements in the United States? 14:33 Why is Hasan Piker mentioned? 17:45 How much of a threat is Cuba to the US at this moment? 21:46 What is the US government trying to achieve by releasing this report?