When Antonio Rodiles was invited to last year’s July 4 party at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, he handed out leaflets listing names of more than 1,000 political prisoners incarcerated by the communist regime since antigovernment protests broke out in 2021. “We got to all the European ambassadors, the papal nuncio, everybody,” says the Cuban opposition leader. But when an embassy van took him back home, a government goon squad was waiting for him. “We are at the worst moment since the human rights movement started up in Cuba 30 years ago,” Rodiles told The American Spectator. “Whoever opens his mouth gets whacked.” The beating he received — which landed him in hospital with a broken face and forced him into exile together with thousands of Cuban dissidents increasingly joining the migrant tide moving across the Mexican border —might have been avoided if the U.S. provided free internet service with which regime opponents can communicate among themselves and expose their plight to the the outside world. (READ MORE from Martin Arostegui: The Venezuela Template Against Democracy) With their own internet connection, opposition activists could be warned about the movements of regime security teams and the spontaneous mass protests that began three years ago may have gathered enough strength and coordination by now to topple the family dynasty to which Raul Castro’s son and Fidel’s nephew Alejandro, is now heir apparent following the death of his brother. Even policemen were joining street protests before the regime cut internet services to the general population importing the tactics and monitoring technology used to repress protests in Iran, Russia and China. “You cannot win a battle if the enemy controls your communications,” says Rodiles, “the regime is weak, but it can’t fall on its own”. “Cuba’s internet services are firmly in the hands of the Chinese who support their total control by the government,” Dr. Evan Ellis, Latin America specialist at the U.S. Army War College, said. Chinese companies have built up Cuba’s telecommunications including an undersea cable connecting Cuba with Venezuela laid by Beijing-based ZTE to secure the low of data between China’s main Latin American allies. China has recently expanded its intelligence operations with the construction of an electronic espionage base in Lourdes just outside Havana that was formerly operated by Russia to spy on the U.S. Florida congresswoman Maria Elviria Salazar has proposed floating balloons at 50,000 ft. to beam signals that would open independent internet access for Cubans. The U.S. military has electronic warfare systems that could further boost the signals and jam regime communications. But instead of green lighting such ideas, the Biden administration is appeasing the Castro regime even while risking World War Three to fight its backers in distant battlefields. (READ MORE: To Hell With the Universities) Last week, the State Department removed Cuba from the list of countries that “don’t fully cooperate against terrorism” even as state terrorism continues thriving on the island and the regime actively supports Hamas, whose delegates met with the Cuban ambassador in Beirut soon after the Oct. 7 attacks that killed 1,200 Israelis. Rául Castro has held meetings with Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who visited Havana. Biden’s State Dept. announced the removal of Cuba from list of countries that don’t fully cooperate against terrorism. This is an INSULT to everyone fighting for freedom in Cuba. Floridians deserve to know if Biden’s hand-picked senate candidate, @DebbieForFL, supports this… — Rick Scott (@ScottforFlorida) May 16, 2024 While the U.S. all but abandons Cuba’s anti-government protestors, organizations linked with the Cuban communist party are promoting violent anti-semitic protests on American campuses, according to a recent report in the New York Post. A New York based group called The People’s Forum, which led the occupation of Hamilton Hall in Columbia University last month, has received extensive political indoctrination and training in Cuba. The leader of the group, Manolo Dos Santos, previously involved in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, met personally with Cuban premiere Miguel Díaz-Canel in 2022 to arrange for hundreds of American leftist activists to go to Cuba in April and May 2023, as reported in the Cuban official government newspaper Granma, for “exchanges” with Cuban communist party “grass roots activists” — like those who beat up Rodiles. Cuba has historical ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which participated in the Oct. 7 attacks and whose representative office in Havana has been organizing pro-Palestinian rallies. At a recent event, attended by Díaz-Canel, “solidarity” videos were exchanged with American activists occupying NYU. Cuba’s intelligence services played key roles in forming a nexus between the PFLP, European and Latin American far left terrorist groups in the 1970s and 80s. The DGI also backed U.S. domestic terrorism by groups like the Weather Underground, the Puerto Rican FALN and the Black Liberation Army, whose fugitive leaders continue living in Havana. Cuba has been collaborating closely with Russia in what President Volodymyr Zelensky describes as a “terrorist” war on Ukraine. Hundreds of Cuban mercenaries are fighting on the front lines while high level Cuban defense and intelligence officials, including Raul Castro, have visited Moscow as well as Belorussia “to discuss in detail the current status of military cooperation and ways of developing it” according to an official communiqué released by the Byelorussian defense ministry last year. According to Ukrainian intelligence reports, Cuban special forces known as Avispas Negras (Black Wasps) have been undergoing language training in Byelorussia for possible infiltration missions into Ukraine and other east European countries. (READ MORE from Martin Arostegui: Russia Is Pounding Eastern Ukraine’s Industrial Heartland) In a twisted explanation for sliding Cuba off the terrorism list, the State Department said it was in keeping with a recent decision by Colombia to lift extradition requests for two members of the National Liberation Army who planted a truck bomb in the country’s police academy killing 20 cadets in 2019. In other words, there was no action or concession by Cuba for its delisting. It was a political decision by Colombia’s leftist president Gustavo Petro, himself a one time member of another Cuban backed guerrilla group (M19), to officially ignore Cuba’s non-compliance that opened the way for Biden to move his appeasement policy forward. “The administration is trying to accomodate left of center allies in the region,” says Dr. Ellis. But there may be other reasons involving the interests of important donors to Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign, such as the Hyatt hotel chain owners itching to sign deals with the Castros. They lobbied intensely for the normalization of relations with Cuba under President Barack Obama who appointed a Hyatt family member to a senior position in the commerce department. Cuba has been accused of election interference along with China, Russia, and Iran in a recently released U.S. Intelligence Community Assessment on foreign threats to U.S. elections: “We assess that Cuba attempted to undermine the electoral prospects of specific US congressional and gubernatorial politicians (in 2022). Havana probably intended these efforts to advance its foreign policy goals which include removing sanctions and its State Sponsor of Terrorism designation.” The 1.5-page assessment on Cuba’s election influence is heavily redacted with most lines blacked out, including a long paragraph that starts: “Havana sought to identify and establish relationships with members of the U.S. media.” The Biden administration’s whitewash of Cuba not only endangers dissidents on the island whose ranks are swelling due to growing scarcities in food and energy but America’s national security as well. Many members of the intelligence community were shocked when a court trying Cuban state department mole Manuel Rocha, failed to convict him for espionage in a verdict handed last month, even as the FBI produced recordings in which he confessed to spying willingly for the Castros throughout his diplomatic career. “An espionage conviction might have raised some embarrassing questions,” says Timothy Ashby, an ex-commerce official and onetime business partner of Rocha’s. Members of Congress are also calling for an investigation into the mysterious appearance of Cuban security officials at Miami airport last week to inspect airline screening facilities, just hours after being cleared on terrorism. The post Cuba Is Training Leftist American Anti-Semites. The Biden Administration Is Helping. appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.