State Department Makes Case for Repression and Cuba Regime Change

July 20, 2026

The U.S. State Department just released a 100-page report accusing Cuba of influencing virtually every major progressive movement, organization, protest and activist over the last 65 years.

Amidst a hodgepodge of distorted history and sweeping, conspiratorial conclusions, the Trump administration uses the report for two purposes: to justify repression at home and regime change in Cuba.

Watch Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández break down what the report says — and what it means.

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