The Castro dictatorship has a long history of training and exporting Marxist revolutionaries around the world to sow violent upheaval and division in free societies. It is clear now America has not been spared. Mary Anastasia O’Grady explains how Cuba is fueling the violent anti-Israel protests on college campuses across the U.S.
How Cuba Fuels the Campus Protests
There’s a dogs-bites-man quality to the news reports that recent campus chaos in support of Hamas is the work of well-funded revolutionary groups out to destabilize the U.S. Even less surprising is the charge that “outside agitators,” as New York Mayor Eric Adams has termed these groups, share an ideology with the Cuban military dictatorship—and in some cases have attained practical support from Havana.
On the other hand, the American public needs to be reminded that the Cuban regime has for 65 years nursed bitter opposition to the U.S. Constitution and American freedom. And that for decades it has spent enormous resources burrowing into America’s educational, diplomatic and political circles in an effort to topple our democratic republic.
This truth was obscured during the Obama administration, when Ben Rhodes—struggling creative writer turned national-security guru—shaped U.S. policy to profess that Cuba is no longer a threat. Who can forget the photograph—iconic for the American left—of Raúl Castro raising the arm of a limp-wristed President Obama in 2016?Cuba is still run by angry, envious tyrants who excel at only one thing: destruction. Having achieved that goal at home and made themselves rich in the process, they toil endlessly to expand their reach. Columbia University is merely one more destination on their revolutionary map.
As Mr. Adams explained on “CBS Mornings” on May 1, “It was clear we had to take appropriate actions when our intelligence division identified those who were professionals, well-trained.” The mayor probably knows a lot more about those professionals and their training than he’s letting on. None of it is good.
A vocal advocate of the recent hate-ins in New York is Manolo De Los Santos. The New York Post describes the 35-year-old as “the leader and de facto mouthpiece for The People’s Forum, a radical anti-Israel group that encouraged the takeover of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.”
Born in the Dominican Republic, Mr. De Los Santos moved to the U.S. at 5 but seems to have spent time in Cuba beginning in 2006. In May 2023, Mr. De Los Santos tweeted a photo of himself with Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz Canel on the island. He wrote that he was “leaving Cuba after 10 days learning with its people” and with Mr. Diaz-Canel. “Young people in the U.S. have great tasks ahead of them,” he explained. In September 2023, Mr. De Los Santos was photographed with the Cuban dictator in New York during the week of the U.N. General Assembly meeting. “Welcome dear comrade!” Mr. De Los Santos tweeted.
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But of course. Another of our “Latin brothers” at work. Well, at least he’s more up front than the Rocha SOB.
Again, do NOT call me or classify me as “Latin” or any of its more ridiculous woke variants. I utterly reject such a label and find it insulting, offensive and demeaning. Let “Latins” carry their own baggage.