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The Left’s Long Game in Latin America
The American Mind ^ | 2/12/26 | Benjamin Braddock

Posted on 02/12/2026 2:43:01 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970

Their revolution could soon be coming to an end.

January 3, 2026. Caracas. 2:47 AM.

The helicopters had come in low over the Caribbean, running dark. The Delta Force operators on board were well-rehearsed. By 3:29 AM, it was over. Thirty-two Cuban bodyguards lay dead in the compound. Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were in flex cuffs, hustled onto a transport aircraft bound for New York. At Mar-a-Lago, President Trump watched the operation unfold in real time with his national security team. It was January 3—exactly 36 years to the day since American forces had extracted military dictator Manuel Noriega from Panama City.

To the general public, the operation in Caracas may have seemed to come out of the blue. But in fact it was only the latest episode—the most dramatic one yet—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.

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A long article, but a good one for those interested in the leftist threat across Latin America - and how it may be crumbling.
1 posted on 02/12/2026 2:43:01 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Unification of Zone #10. Club of Rome

Western Hemisphere including Greenland.


2 posted on 02/12/2026 2:45:14 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Varsity Flight

https://youtu.be/obadpBREseo?si=eTFahqCbKts50d4D


3 posted on 02/12/2026 2:47:20 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Varsity Flight

14:00 mark and following


4 posted on 02/12/2026 2:49:21 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Bkmrk


5 posted on 02/12/2026 3:12:05 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: EnderWiggin1970

But the Maduro regime is still intact, right?


6 posted on 02/12/2026 3:30:28 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Bkmk


7 posted on 02/12/2026 3:48:20 PM PST by sauropod
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Just so we can understand how accurate the thread article truly is, lets take a look at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

As a younger woman back in the 1960s or so she was a member of Castro’s Venceremos brigades , a network of communist groups , the New York City Chapter. She is still a commie and look at the damage she has done to L A, the fire department there and the police department.She has also refused building permits to those thousands whose homes burned in the Palisades fire. She has opened her city to thousands of illegal aliens and given them services they should not have. She is a pro Castro commie, not an American.I bet she still stays in touch with her commie brothers and sisters in Cuba.Bass wants a revolution in America.

It would be interesting to see what damage her Venceremos Brigade colleagues are doing these days. They should be barred from electoral office.

Veneceremos is a commie rallying cry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccKrpnZdSTc

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See: “Karen Bass’s Ties to Cuban Intelligence: What You Need to Know “

https://digitalchew.com/2025/06/15/karen-basss-ties-to-cuban-intelligence-what-you-need-to-know/

Key Takeaways:

Karen Bass, now Los Angeles mayor, was once a leader of the Venceremos Brigade, linked to Cuban intelligence.
The group aimed to recruit future U.S. officials for espionage.
Bass maintained ties with Cuban figures, including spies, long after her involvement.

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8 posted on 02/12/2026 4:16:47 PM PST by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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South Americans need Trump accounts. Deposit them in US banks where they’ll be safe. Pretty good idea wouldn’t you say?


9 posted on 02/12/2026 4:19:07 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Notice how much more low key Delta is, this is sure different from the Bin Laden raid, although this was such a major operation.


10 posted on 02/12/2026 4:41:32 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Varsity Flight

Did you see the trailer? Also good.
https://getalifemedia.com/video/TrumpParadoxTrailer.mp4


11 posted on 02/12/2026 4:54:11 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I can hear the suck of mucho dinero coming in.


12 posted on 02/12/2026 4:59:25 PM PST by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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To: Sam Gamgee

The Maduro regime is intact...but has released its political prisoners, closed down its torture prison in Caracas, has voted to privatize the oil industry once again, has promised to buy lots of specific things from the US instead of China, has made agreements over oil with Trump, and is currently working with the CIA. And we’re just getting started in our transformation of Venezuela. So long as the regime keeps doing what our government tells it to do and no major violence or civil war breaks out, what’s the problem?


13 posted on 02/12/2026 5:34:37 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt (Democrats support criminals and treason)
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To: Candor7

She has visited her Cuban buddies in recent times, it wasn’t just college tomfoolery.


14 posted on 02/12/2026 5:39:16 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

The article goes into detail about Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum . As a second generation Communist the article leaves that thread hanging. With a Communist mayor running L.A. and now New York City the Left still has plenty of fight remaining.


15 posted on 02/12/2026 7:17:58 PM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970; Fedora

Ping
Tons of detail our press didn’t cover in this article.


16 posted on 02/12/2026 7:27:18 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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“Three hours earlier, however, at a nondescript office in Midtown Manhattan, a Cuban regime operative had briefed the core organizers on the same tactics Cuban intelligence had been teaching Latin American insurgents for decades. Months later, Cuba’s foreign minister took a victory lap at the heart of America’s largest city, addressing supporters of the protest at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.”

This is a few blocks from Riverside Church, a long-time center of Communist Party activity where Castro spoke in 2000:

https://nypost.com/2000/09/09/fidel-pontificates-for-hours-in-city-church/


17 posted on 02/12/2026 9:10:46 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Good info toward the end of that piece on Claudia Sheinbaum:

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The grandfather of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Chone Sheinbaum, was born in 1906 in Lithuania under the Russian Empire. By 1920, Chone had joined the Communist Party of Lithuania. When the party was outlawed after the Lithuanian-Soviet War, he was imprisoned for three years.

Released in the early 1920s, Chone and his brother Solomon left Europe for good. They headed for the United States, but the Immigration Act of 1924 had slammed that door shut. In 1925, the Sheinbaum brothers washed up in Cuba, where they joined the newborn Communist Party of Cuba. In 1928, both brothers were detained as “undesirable foreigners” and deported to Mexico, where they promptly joined the Mexican Communist Party (PCM).

In December 1930, both brothers were arrested at a labor action. Solomon was deported—this time to the Soviet Union, where he joined the All-Union Communist Party and eventually worked in the Latin American section of the Comintern’s Executive Committee. Chone managed to avoid deportation, and rose through the PCM’s ranks during the leftist presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas. By the late 1930s, he had been elected to the national Central Committee three times and served as secretary of the Central Committee and member of the party politburo. He married Emma Yoselevitz, a fellow Lithuanian Communist. Their son Carlos (Claudia Sheinbaum’s father) was born in 1933.

Carlos Sheinbaum became the organizational secretary for the Communist Youth when he was 19. He and his wife Annie Pardo spent the 1960s deeply involved in Mexican leftist circles. They protested in defense of Cuba. They joined labor movements. They participated in the student uprisings of 1968. On weekends, they took their children to visit political prisoners at Lecumberri prison.

In 1981, the Mexican Communist Party was dissolved, its remnants eventually integrated into the Party of the Democratic Revolution. Claudia, then a student activist at UNAM, was married to one of the PRD’s founders. Three generations of revolutionary lineage—from the Communist Party of Lithuania to the Communist Party of Cuba to the Mexican Communist Party to the PRD to Morena—had culminated in a family whose youngest politically active member would one day become president.

“We are the children and grandchildren of 1968,” Sheinbaum declared at a presidential debate. She was being modest. She is the child and grandchild of the Comintern.


18 posted on 02/12/2026 9:22:48 PM PST by Fedora
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To: piasa
She has visited her Cuban buddies in recent times, it wasn’t just college tomfoolery. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Here is a photo that proves it.A less wrinkled Bass decades ago, her colleagues wearing masks just like ANTIFA does today:


Communist Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass visited Cuba 15 times since 1973 many with the Cuban “Venceremos Brigade” )

19 posted on 02/13/2026 2:48:40 AM PST by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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This is a stunning article: historically comprehensive, detailed in how the leftists work a sobering……..we are at war.

And most of our leaders, other than Trump, dither.


20 posted on 02/13/2026 4:49:44 AM PST by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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