Yankee Imperialism Creates a Task Force to Overthrow the Cuban Government

Featured image: CIA Director John Ratcliffe visits Cuba in May of this year. Source: CNBC.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has created a task force with the goal of pressuring the Cuban government, to make it capitulate, and to make “economic, political and leadership changes”, A Nova Democracia (AND) reports. The task force has been created following direct orders of US President Donald Trump.

Yankee imperialism has started the recruitment of agents, among them specialists who conduct cyber operations and agents who specialize in covert “influence” operations. The group would have the priority to create “breaches among the Cuban leaders.” AND reports that the idea would be to change the leaders that are considered “hard-liners” and “anti-imperialists” into “more practical more amenable leaders to Trumps demands” (Which AND defines as a fifth column).

AND explains that, so far, Yankee imperialism has been unable to raise the masses against the government, and therefore now there is a change of strategy to overthrow the current government. According to bourgeois press cited by AND: “The creation of the task force shows the extent to which the agency is preparing for what may be a protracted covert campaign against what has long been one of its hardest targets.” In 1960 there was a task force with a 13 billion USD funding that trained and armed 1,297 Cuban reactionaries and mercenaries in order to invade Cuba. The invasion was thwarted in the battle known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Cuba was recently placed as “Priority 1” in the “National Intelligence Priorities Framework” of Yankee imperialism, along with Chinese social-imperialism, Russian imperialism and Iran.

The so-called influence operations are not new for the CIA and are not limited to low level agents. The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, made a covert travel to Havana and met with Raúl G. Rodríguez Castro, grandson of Raúl Castro, in order to find an alternative leadership, which would be more receptive to the Yankee interests. Ratcliffe also renewed the threats against Cuba, stating that the island “can no longer be a safe haven for adversaries of the US” while demanding “fundamental changes,” and warning that Cuba could experience the same as Venezuela, in reference to the criminal military aggression that took place in January of this year.