The Left's Long Game in Latin America
This lengthy article describes how anti-American leftist Marxism originated in Cuba and spread throughout Central America. The author concludes optimistically that "for the first time since 1959, the end is not merely imaginable. It is underway."
The Left's Long Game in Latin America, by Benjamin Braddock, American Mind, 12 February 2025. A few excerpts follow:
Their revolution could soon be coming to an end...
To the general public, the [January 3, 2026] operation in Caracas may have seemed to come out of the blue. But in fact it was only the latest episode... in a 60-year war that most Americans have never known about. Our adversary in that war has been the Castro regime, which has been pursuing a project far more ambitious than the survival of Cuban socialism. Its goal has always been the revolutionary transformation of the entire Western Hemisphere - including the United States itself...
But Castro also grasped that the most effective way to defeat America was from within - by cultivating a revolutionary fifth column among disaffected Americans themselves...
A 1976 FBI report found that Cuban intelligence agents had "arranged for American youths to be inculcated with revolutionary fervor and, occasionally, to be trained in practical weaponry by Cuban military officers." Among the groups identified in the report was the Weather Underground, the domestic terrorist organization responsible for bombings at the Pentagon, the Capitol, and dozens of other targets throughout the 1970s...
But as Soviet subsidies began drying up under Gorbachev, Fidel Castro fixed his gaze on Caracas. Venezuela's oil would replace Moscow’s patronage...
Once these structural changes were in place, Chávez signed an agreement to supply Cuba with 50,000 barrels of oil per day—later increased to over 90,000...
Venezuelan oil money now flowed to leftist movements across the hemisphere...
The formula was consistent. Communists would run as populists and reformers. Once in office, they would pack the courts, rewrite the constitution, eliminate term limits, loot state enterprises, and funnel the proceeds to allied movements abroad. Then they brought about anarcho-tyranny by allowing violent criminals to victimize society while criminalizing self-defense*...
... the men who inherited Castro’s project are discovering what the Soviets learned in 1989: that an entire world built on a single premise can collapse faster than anyone thought possible.
The revolution has not ended. But its future is no longer in its own hands. And for the first time since 1959, the end is not merely imaginable. It is underway.
* This is strikingly similar to the actions of Soros-funded leftist prosecutors in the United States. See George Soros's Prosecutors Wage War on Law and Order, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, 5 February 2024.