Neocon Legislators Say Cuba is “Next”

In the wake of an armed attack by Cuban-born Florida residents and an unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, right-wing U.S. politicians are hyping the prospect of a military intervention in Cuba.

Cheerleading the U.S. bombing of Iran, which has so far killed more than 1,000 including 160 children in a girls’ secondary school, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News on Sunday: “Cuba’s next.” 

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), a Cuban-American hardliner, on Monday echoedhim on X: “What just happened in Iran…is a warning for every dictatorship that believes power lasts forever…CUBA is next.”

Some U.S. media outlets have parroted these calls for U.S. intervention.

The Hill on Tuesday published a column with the headline “Cubans are begging for the U.S. to finish the job.” The entire article was based on an interview with Cuban journalist Camila Acosta. Columnist Daniel Allot presents Acosta as an "independent" journalist. Since 2019, Acosta has worked for CubaNet, a longtime recipient of U.S. government funding.

“The United States government spends at least $50 million dollars a year on covert actions and information operations targeting Cuba, often to superimpose its views onto the Cuban people,” said Fulton Armstrong, a former CIA analyst who also served as the National Intelligence Officer for Latin America. “But we can’t take the voice of influencers that we pay for, most of whom are in Miami and Madrid, as representing the 10 million people on the island.”