Gil Duran
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first heard Jul 2026
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But to lay at the feet of the Cuban government in the vague way that that passage you read does, something like a contemporary racial justice movement, it's atrocious.
It denies that there was anything animating the George Floyd protests that would be organic or real.
Even if you assume that Cuban agents somehow infiltrated in these groups, which the report doesn't provide proof of that at all.
you still can't deny that the circumstances that prompted that protest were not created in a lab somewhere underground in Havana.
This is a great example of the way in which Revolutionary Cuba would seize on discontents in the United States as a way to cultivate support for what they were doing as a different kind of model.
Revolutionary Cuban officials, Cuban state media in the 1960s, they covered closely the civil rights struggle.
There's a famous
film done in Cuba in the mid-60s that uses the famous track called Now by Lena Horne, the civil rights anthem of its era, and uses that as the soundtrack to a montage of civil rights protests as a way to show its own citizens that the United States is a place of oppression.
And its own citizens, by the way, who significant numbers of them are Black.
Cuba also, out of that, establishes ties to certain Black radical groups.
Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, these are things that are mentioned in the report.
There are campaigns in Cuba to support Angela Davis when she's in jail.
There are Black radicals who go into exile in Revolutionary Cuba.
That part is true.
What I think the report is partial in describing is many of those actors' own later complicated relationships to Revolutionary Cuba.
A great example is the case of Robert Williams.
Robert Williams is cited in the report.
One of the people who's associated with creating the idea of Black nationalism,
in the 1960s, goes into exile in Havana in the early to mid 60s.
And from Havana, the Cuban government helps him broadcast what was called Radio Free Dixie into the Jim Crow South.
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