For decades after the Cuban Revolution’s victory in 1959, influential anticommunist circles in the United States claimed that Cuba’s communist government sowed social division and allied with left-wing groups to help defeat Washington during the Cold War.
This right-wing rhetoric has been revived in the Trump State Department’s July 20, 2026, report, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.” In it, the administration seizes on the history of a movement called the Tricontinental – an alliance of liberation movements from around the world founded in 1966 – to make the unsubstantiated claim that the U.S. left is currently engaged in a Cuban conspiracy to destroy the U.S.
