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鈥淐uba鈥檚 assault on the United States was never, at root, a quarrel over economic policy or sovereignty or even ownership of a particular territory,鈥� reads the US Department of State鈥檚 new report on the communist state 90 miles from the Florida coast. 鈥淚t was a revolution against Western civilization itself鈥�.

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, concluding that international sympathy for the island鈥檚 dire humanitarian crisis overlooks a sinister reality; that, 鈥渋ts power was always ideological, subversive, and parasitic.鈥� The Cuban government has dismissed the report as, 鈥渁 mediocre propaganda pamphlet.鈥�

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 to discuss.

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Photo: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, July 23, 2026. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/ Pool via Reuters.