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Hundreds of tone-deaf lefty radicals flocked into Havana this weekend to meet with Communist Party officials — staying in luxury hotels and traveling in air-conditioned buses — as the rest of the island grapples with a worsening economic crisis that’s starved it of electricity, food, water and medicine.
The “Nuestra America Convoy” sent socialists from North America and Europe to Cuba by air, sea, and land, under the guise of handing out 20 tons of humanitarian aid to protest the United States oil blockade on Cuba.
The convoy includes Mayor Zohran Mamdani ally and influential streamer Hasan Piker – who recently went on a Beijing-sponsored propaganda trip – to Havana, from where he broadcast to his 1.6 million Instagram followers Saturday with a somehow spotless internet connection and promised to film “content.”
Isra Hirsi, the 23-year-old unemployed activist daughter of embattled “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn), is also taking part in the voyage — as is a delegation of Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America comrades.
The convoy also includes groups identified by the US State Department as vectors of Chinese influence – like Neville Roy Singham’s People’s Forum and his wife’s, Jodie Evans’ Code Pink. Evans was all smiles as she posed for a picture with Piker Saturday, wearing a pink keffiyeh.
Some delegates were reportedly staying at the 5-star Gran Hotel Bristol Meliá Collection, where a room costs between $130 and $520 a night.
Others posed for pictures riding in comfy air-conditioned buses, and meeting with President Miguel Díaz‑Canel at the Palacio de Convenciones in Havana.
Cuban officials reported an island-wide blackout this week in the embattled communist nation of some 11 million people, after President Trump in January threatened tariffs on any nation selling it oil, effectively choking off its energy supply.
“While nearly the entire country is suffering from power outages lasting over 20 hours, the left is welcomed with air conditioning and wasteful electricity consumption,” slammed Mayra Dominguez, a Cuban living in exile in the US.
“More than 100 homes wouldn’t be without power today if the Castro regime didn’t spend on communist propaganda with the international left,” Dominguez said.
“This is a gigantic mockery of the entire Cuban people. The left visits Cuba as if it were a party at a zoo and they go to admire the misery from a luxury hotel. It is outrageous,” she added.
The stunt was organized by Cuban politician Mariela Castro through a nonprofit called Progressive International. Few details have been released about how the hundreds of boxes and suitcases of aid will be distributed once they arrive on the island, the local press noted.
Castro is the daughter of Raúl Castro, Cuba’s former president who maintains substantial behind-the-scenes influence in the country — and is Fidel Castro’s brother.
One of the organizations involved with the distribution is the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, which has been identified by the CIA as a front for Cuban intelligence services
The convoy has enraged Cuban exiles who are barred by the ruling communist party from ever returning home, and say the government is also to blame for the hardships people have faced for decades.
“After causing more than a million Cubans to leave in just five years and denying many the right to return to their own country, they are now open to a foreign humanitarian expedition,” Cuban artist Salomé García Bacallao, who lives in exile in Miami, blasted on Facebook.
“If they get in, so will we,” she vowed.
After US forces captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in early January, critical oil shipments to Cuba were halted.
Cuba’s president said the island had not received oil shipments in more than three months since.
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