New: Pro-Castro Groups Launch Fundraising Effort Minutes After Raúl Castro Indictment

Well, that certainly didn't take long. Within minutes of U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche's announcement of murder charges against Cuban leader Raúl Castro, leftist groups immediately leaped to the withered old commie's defense, and within nine minutes, according to one account, started fundraising. This, again, just goes to show that there is no communist dictator so vile that the American and international left won't support him.

On Saturday, Fox News released the first in a multi-part investigation into these groups and what they are doing.

Just nine minutes after U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced murder charges against Cuban leader Raúl Castro for the 1996 shootdown of two civilian aircraft flown by exile group Brothers to the Rescue, a coordinated rapid response network was already mobilizing across the U.S. to defend Castro and the Communist Party of Cuba.
At 1:54 p.m. on Wednesday, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist political organization deeply embedded in a "Hands Off Cuba" campaign, published six pre-produced graphics denouncing the indictment as a "BASELESS INDICTMENT OF RAUL CASTRO" and "A PRETEXT FOR ANOTHER WAR."

Another war? With what? Cuba couldn't fend off a troop of Cub Scouts wielding Swiss Army knives at the moment. But that's the hysterical left for you; for all that the left claims to be anti-war, they sure seem to bring up war with breathless anticipation every time some desiccated old commie thug is taken out of play.

But wait! There's more!

Hours later, at 3:18 a.m. early Thursday morning, Vijay Prashad, executive director at Tricontinental, a Marxist think tank, wrote on X, "Cuba is not a menace to the world. The United States is a menace to the world. The world stands with Raúl Castro, hero of the Cuban Revolution. The world turns its back on Donald Trump, clown of human destruction." Manolo De Los Santos, executive director of the People's Forum, a New York-based nonprofit, shared the message without a word, as did leaders from CodePink, another leftist organization.
Then, 24 hours after Blanche's announcement, at 1:46 p.m. on Thursday, BreakThrough News, a media platform aligned with the same activist ecosystem, published a video featuring defiant Cubans, with one man declaring, "We won't hand over Raúl."

The only reason Cuba isn't a menace to the world is that decades of communist lunacy have reduced that once-prosperous island nation to a poverty-riddled hellhole. Oh, it's a near-certainty that Cuba's commie leadership all have golden parachutes, in the form of bank accounts in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands. But the people of Cuba? They'll be better off when the Cuban commies have been defenestrated.

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According to the Fox report, the Justice and Treasury departments are already looking into the various American (I use the term "American" here in the broadest possible sense) groups that are fundraising and lobbying on behalf of the commie Castro and his fellow travelers. The Fox investigation has already identified 145 "nonprofits, labor groups, advocacy organizations and activist collectives" that are raising funds and otherwise gathering support to prop up Cuba's commies. And, Fox isn't shy about naming names:

Making the alleged influence campaign even more complicated, the ANSWER Coalition, Party for Socialism and Liberation, BreakThrough News, CodePink, People's Forum and Tricontinental are all part of a network funded by American expatriate tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai, supporting the Chinese Communist Party and its global agenda, including its defense of the communist regime in Cuba.

China. You don't say.

Here's my question: These groups are already deep into fundraising. Where will these funds go? To Raúl Castro's legal defense, should he be somehow dragged in front of an American court? Not likely. Will any of these funds be spent in some way to help the regular people of Cuba, who have suffered under these commie croakers for decades? Not likely. But will any of these funds end up in the tight fists of the Chinese Communist Party?

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