Earlier this week, federal authorities arrested a Cuban operative who allegedly assisted far-Left activists, including Hasan Piker. The Trump administration now plans to deport the Cuban national.
The State Department revoked Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez’s immigration status after he “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,” agency spokesperson Thomas Pigott said Wednesday. Federal authorities also nabbed Lloga Dominguez’s wife and son.
The Cuban national “spent more than a decade in the United States working for the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP),” a communist organization that Secretary of State Marco Rubio sanctioned in June over its ties to the Cuban regime, Pigott said.
“He has continued to maintain ties to the transnational communist subversion network throughout his time residing in our nation,” Pigott said.
The State Department describes ICAP as “the central node in a sprawling Cuban intelligence and influence operation, claiming to span more than 2,000 organizations across more than 150 countries,” adding that the group “has a long and intimate relationship” with Cuban intelligence officials.
ICAP’s current president Fernando González Llort served 15 years in an American prison for acting as a Cuban spy, according to the State Department.
Pigott added that the Marxist group has been complicit in “trafficking in vile anti-American propaganda, cultivating pro-Havana regime activists and politicians, and lobbying federal, state and local politicians on behalf of the Cuban dictatorship.” He said the group sought to use America’s Left-wing advocates to export Cuba’s communism.
“Under the Trump Administration, America will never become home for Cuban Communist regime thugs who peddle propaganda, run foreign influence operations, or seek to wage revolution against American civilization,” Pigott said.
ICAP worked with Left-wing nonprofits in the United States, including the People’s Forum, Progressive International, and Code Pink, to organize a convoy to bring supplies to Cuba that Piker joined in March, Fox News previously reported.
Federal investigators began probing advocacy groups in the United States that have been lobbying, messaging, fundraising, and organizing with Cuban government officials, according to Fox News. As part of the investigation, authorities have reportedly been looking into Piker, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, and Code Pink D.C. coordinator Olivia DiNucci.
The Treasury Department issued administrative subpoenas to Piker and Benjamin requesting records related to their travel to Cuba, communications, and financial activity connected to the convoy, Fox News reported in May.
During a Twitch stream, Piker denied knowing Lloga Dominguez or ICAP.
“I don’t understand why they’re covering this as like the organization that sent Hasan Piker to Cuba,” he said.
“Bro, Trump is gonna put me in f*ckin’ prison, I swear to God, what the hell is going on?” Piker said. “We’re about to hit f*ckin’ 1930s Germany if we haven’t already hit it and … these dumb f*cks on the Democratic Party side are still complaining about the people that the Trump admin is actively targeting, and they’re also taking advantage of that active targeting because they also don’t like us, great.”
In a resurfaced clip, Piker said a contact was communicating with the Cuban regime on his behalf to possibly organize a trip.
“The Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy and told them that ‘if the only thing stopping Hasan from coming to Cuba was the consistent internet access, we can make it happen.’” Piker said.
ICAP, which was founded by Fidel Castro in 1960, has denied acting on behalf of the Communist Cuban regime, Fox News reported.
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