‘McCarthyite’ Rubio Report Ripped as Attempt to Justify Trump Invasion of Cuba

While some Republicans in Congress cheered the US Department of State’s Monday report titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” American and Cuban critics blasted it as part of both President Donald Trump’s push to invade the island and his authoritarian crackdown on domestic dissent. “For nearly seven decades, the Cuban regime has waged a sustained campaign of subversion against the United States,” the report begins, “that has infiltrated the highest reaches of the US government, recruited and cultivated generations of American activists, backed an unprecedented wave of left-wing terrorism on American soil, and carried out one of the…