Thanks to a Miami Herald story, the public has learned the Congressional Progressive Caucus led a delegation to the island nation in mid-February. The secretive trip included about a dozen people, including Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of the socialist Congressional Progressive Caucus.
After the trip, a statement from the group said they “met with people from across Cuban civil society and government officials to discuss human rights and the U.S.-Cuba bilateral relationship.”
Cuba expert Humberto Fontova, who fled the island as a child in 1961, tells AFN nobody should trust the radical Democrats who visited there.
“They sympathize with the regime,” Fontova says of the visiting Democrats. “I'm guessing they were probably acting as envoys for the Biden administration, feeling around to see what we can do to remove them from the terrorist-sponsoring list and maybe to lift some of the sanctions.”
Fontova adds he has no proof that was the objective behind the trip but, if true, it mirrors decades of Democrats fawning over Cuba’s communist system and visiting with Fidel Castro, the ruthless dictator who ruled the country until his death in 2016.
Fontova's skepticism mirrored the views of Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill after they learned about the trip.
"No surprise that the Hamas Caucus made a pilgrimage to Cuba last week to get a refresher course on communism to bring back to DC," Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) posted on X.
In a related X post, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) said the caucus should change its name to the "more accurate" name "Congressional Communist Sympathizing Caucus."
