Enemies Domestic: Inside the Pro-Cuba Coalition's Blueprint to Make War "Costly"
A network of U.S.-based activist groups is pre-building the machinery to mobilize an army protesters within 24 hours of any U.S. military action, on a coordinated national timeline.
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NOTE: Cuba has long been an intelligence and sometimes military outpost for America’s enemies. With a population of just under 11 million, nearly 3 million Cubans live in the United States.
It should not shock you that some of them are Communist Party assets, intelligence operatives, and worse.
A key pillar of the Trump foreign policy is and has been to secure the approaches to North America. Cuba has no navy worth mentioning, but China does, and Cuba can at least theoretically control access to the Gulf of America and a large percentage of our nation’s commerce. That stark reality is a large part of why the President moved expeditiously at the beginning of his second term to secure Panama, and then later to take control of Venezuela. The Caribbean must not be allowed to become a Chinese lake, a Western Hemisphere equivalent to the First Island Chain.
Now, with the communist regime cut off from its benefactors, Cuba teeters on the brink of freedom. Will Trump push the communists off the cliff? Or will he wait for the island to “drop into our hands like ripe fruit”? Time will tell. But Cuba’s U.S.-based operatives are preparing to create as much disruption here as possible.
Given the domestic terror aspects of many leftwing “protests”, this is a threat to be taken very seriously. — RDM
by Ashe Short
July 15, 2026
Organizations tied to Cuba have openly built a rapid-response protest apparatus attached to a possible U.S.-Cuba military conflict, at the same moment the U.S. government is formally treating that coalition’s Cuban state partner as a hostile influence operation.
The National Network on Cuba (NNOC) has been distributing a document since at least June 2026 urging organizers across the U.S. to prepare to coordinated protests in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices, military bases, recruiting centers, and other federal institutions should the U.S. get involved in military action in Cuba. The document, first reported by ADN Cuba’s Gelet Martinez Fragela, provides a coordinated strategy for activists to organize protests within 24 hours should the U.S. military attack Cuba.
ADN Cuba describes itself as an independent digital media outlet and news magazine dedicated to covering Cuba and the Cuban diaspora. Founded in 2017, the platform focuses on human rights, LGBTQ+ issues, racial integration and investigative journalism, often publishing content critical of the Cuban government.
“To support the organization of coordinated nationwide actions within 24 hours of a U.S. military attack on Cuba (or imminent threat), while simultaneously building long-term capacity for a massive anti-war movement,” the document says. “The goal is to make it politically and materially costly for the U.S. government to wage war on Cuba.”
The planning document provides a uniform national timeline for protests: if military action occurs before 3 p.m. local time, then protests would begin at 6 p.m., if the action occurs after 3 p.m., the protests would begin the next day at 6 p.m.
The document also lists targeted federal institutions (including federal buildings, courthouses, and post offices) and ICE field offices and detention centers as places to protest, to connect “Cuba solidarity to anti-ICE/immigrant defense work happening nationwide.” Sports arenas are listed as an “optional target.”
The plan has already resulted in smaller-scale protests. On June 7, around 150 people gathered outside Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium — holding as many as 70,240 fans to watch the match between Morocco and Norway. They protested against ICE, according to Mark Friedman, a union activist and teacher who reports on “environmental, labor and education through the perspective of an active socialist” and is a co-coordinator of the Los Angeles US Hands off Cuba Committee. The event was organized by the Boycott Home Depot coalition and purportedly focused on countering ICE.
A few days later, Radio Habana Cuba (RHC), the Cuban government’s international broadcaster, picked up Friedman’s article. RHC copied Friedman’s article nearly verbatim, but added that LA Hands-Off Cuba Committee members were present outside the first World Cup game on June 12, distributing flyers calling for the removal of Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list and to lift travel bans and sanctions.
By June 13, Prensa Latina, Cuba’s official state news agency, was claiming that “expressions of solidarity with Cuba were abundant in Los Angeles” prior to the first World Cup game.
As ADN Cuba pointed out, Cuba-friendly organizations have attached themselves to other progressive campaigns as well, including the “No Kings” protests, which were listed in the Seattle Cuba Friendship Committee’s 2026 activity calendar. The Friendship Committee is part of the more than 60 groups connected to the NNOC coalition.
The coalition, in turn, has documented ties to the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), a Cuban state body that was sanctioned by the U.S. in June. Earlier in March, ICAP expressed “solidarity with Iran and condemns the United States and Israel’s attack on that country.” On July 1, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he had terminated the legal status of three Cuban nationals, including longtime ICAP operative Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez.
Rubio described Dominguez as a man who “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.” Rubio also warned those connected to ICAP’s anti-American operations would be deported. Fox News reported that Dominguez and his family are in federal custody after Rubio revoked their legal status. ICAP did not respond to a Just the News inquiry prior to press time.
The protest planning document published by ADN Cuba is also part of a broader No War on Cuba campaign, author Martinez Fragela told Just the News. Records show that during the George W. Bush administration, pro-Cuba organizations launched a similar campaign, which received a letter of thanks from ICAP.
“Under the present conditions, when the Bush Administration insists on creating and maintaining a war environment, your organization — very properly named NO WAR ON CUBA — becomes a strong weapon to oppose the madness of the Empire and bring the light of PEACE to the world,” ICAP wrote at the time. “We’re greatly grateful for all your efforts in organizing the counterdemonstration in Washington, D.C. last May. Also, we want to thank you for your support to oppose all forms of aggression against our people, and in favor of lifting the unjust blockade, as well as for your campaign to free our five heroes imprisoned in U.S. jails.”
Those “heroes” were five Cuban intelligence officers who were arrested in 1998, convicted in 2001 of espionage and acting as unregistered foreign agents, and had their convictions upheld during the Bush administration. In 2014, the Obama administration released three of the five officers in exchange for America USAID contractor Alan Gross.
The protest strategy was created with news of a potential escalation of aggression between the U.S. and Cuba. In December 2025, the U.S. entered Venezuela and removed its dictator, Nicolás Maduro. Following that apprehension, Cuba’s oil supply was largely cut off when President Donald Trump signed an executive order to impose tariffs on any goods from countries that supply oil to Cuba.
The U.S. began blocking oil tankers heading to the island nation in February 2026 as part of Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign. Since May, the administration has been sanctioning Cuba’s military regime, elites, its state-owned oil and gas company, and Cubans distributing anti-American materials.
— This analysis is published in cooperation with Just The News.
A tremendous and informative article by Ashe Short! Thank you to Dr. Martin for republishing it! Most Americans probably have no idea this is going on! Organizations tied to Cuba have built rapid response networks to organize protests and put pressure on the U.S. government to pull back in the event of a military conflict between the United States and Cuba. The National Network on Cuba is the most dangerous organization in the country that no one has ever heard of! Since at least June 2026, they have been sending out documents to organizers across the country urging them to prepare to coordinate protests outside ICE offices, military bases, recruiting centers, and other federal institutions should the U.S. get involved in military action in Cuba. The National Network for Cuba knows these progressive and leftist activists are useful idiots for them who will defend any authoritarian regime against the United States in the name of “anti-imperialism.” They are therefore, perfect dupes for them. What these activists don’t realize is, is that the NNOC is doing the bidding of Havana. The tremendous watchdog organization ADN Cuba is doing invaluable work by tracking their activities. The goal of what the NNOC is doing is to make the political climate too materialistically and politically costly for the U.S. government to wage war in Cuba. But they’re not alone, numerous Cuban friendly organizations have organized protests in solidarity with the Communist regime in Cuba. The regime in Havana is slowly crumbling and Miguel Diaz-Canel’s hold on power is slipping as Cubans are increasingly more and more protesting the dire situation in their country. So they fund these organizations to keep the United States from helping the Cuban people and help keep them propped up. I’m glad the Trump administration has been so aggressive in sanctioning the Cuban regime and its confederates.
For all these left-wing apologists for Cuba like the protesters the NNOC is trying to organize, let’s get something straight here. The Communist regime in Cuba is evil and its leaders past and present who you do admire and wear t-shirts of were evil. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were romantic revolutionary icons nor were they dashing sex symbols. They were monsters who you should be ashamed to be glorifying. Let’s talk about Fidel Castro for a minute. Young Fidel Castro was a great admirer of Nazi pageantry and was often seen around campus when he was at university, carrying a copy of Mein Kampf along with a pistol. The title he gave himself as dictator of Cuba “Lider Maximo” perfectly mimics the German title of Fuhrer. He patterned his infamous “History Will Absolve Me” speech after Hitler’s 1924 trial speech after the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. Hitler said “You may pronounce me guilty, but the eternal court of history will absolve me.” Castro by the same token, said in 1953 during his trial for the Moncada putsch, “Condemn me, it doesn't matter, history will absolve me." Let’s talk about what Cuba was like before Castro came to power. Cuban exile, author and conservative activist Humberto Fontova in an article he wrote for NewsMax provides with a portrait of how Cuba thrived before Castro’s rise to power, “For the record: In 1958, that "impoverished Caribbean island" had a higher standard of living than Ireland and Austria, almost double Spain and Japan's per capita income, more doctors and dentists per capita than Britain, and lower infant mortality than France and Germany – the 13th-lowest in the world, in fact. Today, Cuba's infant-mortality rate – despite the hemisphere's highest abortion rate, which skews this figure downward – is 24th from the top.” He continues, “a nation with a formerly massive influx of European immigrants needs machine guns, water cannons and tiger sharks to keep its people from fleeing, while half-starved Haitians a short 60 miles away turn up their noses at any thought of emigrating to Cuba.”
Castro is often credited with making the Cuban population literate but as Mr. Fontova points out, “In 1958, 80 percent of Cubans were literate, and Cuba spent the most per capita on public education of any nation in Latin America. During its war of independence near the turn of the 20th century, Cuba was utterly devastated, having lost a quarter of its population. So, Cuba's achievements in national prosperity, health, and education came practically from scratch and in only slightly more time than Castro's stint in power. Can any sane person claim that given that record – and given Cuba's expenditures on public education – literacy would not have been eradicated in a few short years?”
Castro executed about 14,000 people by firing squad according to the “Black Book of Communism” written by French scholars and published in English by the Harvard University Press. The Castro regime’s murder was quadruple that of General Augusto Pinochet’s in China who executed only 3,000. Castro makes Pinochet look like a Christian choir boy by comparison! The Cuba Archive Project headed by scholars Maria Werleu and Armando Lago found an even higher death toll if one factors in all those who died at sea and in the desperate anti-Communist insurgency of the early 1960s. Adding in all the causalities from both, Castro’s death toll is closer to about 102,000. Fidel Castro was also a vicious racist who overthrew a black Cuban head of state and replaced his government with one that was only nine percent of the ruling Stalinist party was black and where the prison population is eighty to ninety percent black. This would include Eusebio Penalver, the longest suffering black political prisoner in history, who spent more time locked up in Castro’s gulag than Nelson Mandela did in prison in South Africa. He also sentenced two black men Dr. Elias Biscet and Jorge Antunez to 20 years in prison, for the crime of quoting Dr. Martin Luther King in a public square. He drove a higher percentage of Jews out of Cuba than Tsar Nicholas II did out of Russia or Hafez Al-Assad did out of Syria. His firing squads gunned down pregnant women, his coast guard machine-gunned mothers with their children who attempted to escape to freedom in the United States on rafts and hid regime made Cuban women the most suicidal in the world, tripling the pre-revolutionary suicide rate. This is the man you folks admire and want to keep the regime he created and that Raul Castro and Miguel Diaz-Canel who followed in Fidel’s footsteps and have perpetuated, in power?! Just because you hate America so much?! You also seem to have an affinity for Castro’s hangman Che Guevara.
Well let me you about who the REAL Che Guevara was divorced from all the romantic propaganda. Che Guevara was a sadistic killer who said hate was a good emotion to feel. He hated blacks, Mexicans and gay people, was a hardcore Stalinist, dreamed of firing nuclear missiles at New York City and murdering millions of Americans, lived like a dandy while claiming to be a man of the people, was a bad soldier, and was a coward who when cornered and caught by the Bolivian Army shouted “Don’t shoot! I’m Che! I’m worth more alive to you than dead!” Che also once declared, “judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. We execute from Revolutionary Conviction.” Once Castro took power, Che Guevara held a public book burning of 3,000 books whose content the regime didn’t approve of and signed the death warrants of several authors. It’s ironic that progressives and leftists admire a man who persecuted hippies, gay people, free-thinkers, and poets and who employed constant surveillance, control, and repression. I’d like to share this passage from Guevara’s famous Motorcycle Diaries, “"My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood.” He also wrote in a letter to his father no less, “I'd like to confess, Papa, at that moment I discovered that I really like killing." I also find it ironic he was so gung-ho about anti-imperialism as he was pretty imperialistically I might add, trying to impose his ideals as an Argentinian onto Cubans. Upon the victory of the Communist revolution in 1958, “Che commandeered for himself one of the most luxurious mansions in Havana—complete with a yacht harbor, monster swimming pool, seven bathrooms, sauna and massage salon, and five television sets.” There’s your “man of the people!” Che publicly applauded the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and the brutal crackdown on the Hungarian Uprising, and denounced the students protesters who were battling Soviet tanks in Budapest as “fascists.”
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