As the Trump administration ramps up pressure for political and economic reform in Cuba, the U.S. State Department published a new report Monday on why the communist regime remains a threat.The nearly 100-page report lays out the decades-long tension between the U.S. and Cuba.”For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on X. “The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country.”According to the report, a network of American activist organizations distributed a plan in June to protest at military bases, Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and federal buildings “within 24 hours of U.S. military action (or the imminent threat of it) against Cuba.””What we see today with Donald Trump, strongly inspired by Marco Rubio, who is a Cuban-American, is a stronger pressure,” former UCF professor Luis Martinez Fernandez told WESH 2.Right now, Cuba’s electrical grid is failing, and the U.S. is blocking Venezuelan oil shipments from reaching the island.President Donald Trump has also strengthened the longstanding economic embargo with new sanctions. “I’ve been studying Cuban history for over 40 years, and I’ve never seen a more desperate situation on the island,” said Fernandez, who was born in Cuba.The State Department claims that 67 years after Fidel Castro’s rise to power, the Cuban regime’s goal remains the same: “a hemispheric Marxist revolution that erases the United States from the earth.”Castro’s daughter Alina Fernandez Revuelta escaped Cuba to the U.S. in 1993.NBC News asked her about a recent statement from Rubio that “Cuba’s leaders must simply choose to commit themselves to real reforms, peace and prosperity before it is too late.”“It doesn’t look like, José,” Revuelta told the NBC News anchor. “It’s been the same for the last 67 years, and more and more it seems to be a dynasty.”Florida’s Republican senator, Rick Scott, reacted to the release of the new report on X, saying in part, “America will be a safer place when the regime FALLS.”According to a human rights group called Prisoners Defenders, the Cuban government cracked down on protesters before the fifth anniversary of widespread demonstrations on the island.The group said the communist regime was holding a record of more than 1,300 political prisoners.

As the Trump administration ramps up pressure for political and economic reform in Cuba, the U.S. State Department published a new report Monday on why the communist regime remains a threat.

The nearly 100-page report lays out the decades-long tension between the U.S. and Cuba.

“For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on X. “The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country.”

According to the report, a network of American activist organizations distributed a plan in June to protest at military bases, Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and federal buildings “within 24 hours of U.S. military action (or the imminent threat of it) against Cuba.”

“What we see today with Donald Trump, strongly inspired by Marco Rubio, who is a Cuban-American, is a stronger pressure,” former UCF professor Luis Martinez Fernandez told WESH 2.

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For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States.

The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country.

The American people deserve to know.…

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) July 20, 2026

Right now, Cuba’s electrical grid is failing, and the U.S. is blocking Venezuelan oil shipments from reaching the island.

President Donald Trump has also strengthened the longstanding economic embargo with new sanctions.

“I’ve been studying Cuban history for over 40 years, and I’ve never seen a more desperate situation on the island,” said Fernandez, who was born in Cuba.

The State Department claims that 67 years after Fidel Castro’s rise to power, the Cuban regime’s goal remains the same: “a hemispheric Marxist revolution that erases the United States from the earth.”

Castro’s daughter Alina Fernandez Revuelta escaped Cuba to the U.S. in 1993.

NBC News asked her about a recent statement from Rubio that “Cuba’s leaders must simply choose to commit themselves to real reforms, peace and prosperity before it is too late.”

“It doesn’t look like, José,” Revuelta told the NBC News anchor. “It’s been the same for the last 67 years, and more and more it seems to be a dynasty.”

Florida’s Republican senator, Rick Scott, reacted to the release of the new report on X, saying in part, “America will be a safer place when the regime FALLS.”

According to a human rights group called Prisoners Defenders, the Cuban government cracked down on protesters before the fifth anniversary of widespread demonstrations on the island.

The group said the communist regime was holding a record of more than 1,300 political prisoners.