Karen Bass and Cuba's Venceremos Brigade: Controversial history resurfaces amid criticism over L.A. Fire Dept. cuts

ADN America ^ | 10/1/25

[Eleutheria5]

recent overseas trip to Ghana, and budget cuts that hampered the city's fire department from doing its job amid the ongoing citywide blaze. The mayor’s poorly timed foreign travel has raised questions about her priorities and similar past trips.

One of the most interesting chapters of Bass’ political career and international travel involves her past excursions to communist Cuba. The former U.S. congresswoman turned metropolitan mayor played a significant role with the Venceremos Brigade —a group linked to Cuba's communist regime.

History of the Venceremos Brigade The Venceremos Brigade, founded in 1969, is a U.S.-based organization that has facilitated trips for Americans to Cuba in defiance of U.S. travel restrictions. The group was formed by young activists in solidarity with the Marxist-Leninst Cuban Revolution, aiming to challenge U.S. policies toward Cuba, including economic sanctions—referred to as the “blockade” in alignment with Fidel Castro’s rhetoric—and travel bans.

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[Eleutheria5]

This begs the question, were the fires set deliberately as a Venceremos or related terror action? And was she out of the country for plausible deniability?

[Eleutheria5]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oob-204HCJI

[TigerClaws]

Why plant one bomb when you can blow up an entire city?

Or country? (Look what the people using meat puppet Biden are doing this last week of an already dumpster fire of a presidency.)

[PGalt]

Good question. Enemies domestic.

[PGalt]

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/what-is-a-war

[Lizavetta]

It's my opinion that real history isn't being taught in a lot of our schools anymore by which I mean without the oppressor/oppressed America is a bad country lens.

Which means they don't know a thing about Marxism, communism, the effort to destroy the big cop on the beat (the U.S.) that has infiltrated most of our institutions. These terms probably don't register with many of our young people and don't understand what a corrosive philosophy it is.

[Eleutheria5]

It didn’t start infesting the educational system until the 1970s, but there was Marxism in the US starting in the 1930s, what with the Depression and rise of Fascism in Europe alongside Communism in Eastern Europe, Spanish Civil War and all. It was very sheik and magnifique among the ex pat intellectuals.

[Texas_Jarhead]

I posted this short history of Karen Bass and the Venceremos Brigade just recently here.

[Eleutheria5]

There’s also a fiery expose that I got on Whatsapp, from a fellow that Glen Beck quotes, but I can’t find it on You Tube.

[HKMk23]

THAT deserves a thread of its own.