Rubio Sanctions 5 Cuban Entities, Warning Singham-Linked U.S. Networks Over ICAP Ties
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 5
Rubio Sanctions 5 Cuban Entities, Warning Singham-Linked U.S. Networks Over ICAP Ties
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 5
Summary
Five Cuban entities, including the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, were added to a U.S. sanctions blacklist, barring Americans from doing business with them and exposing service providers to secondary sanctions.
Rubio said the move targets the network that enables Cuba's “subversive and radical operations,” with ICAP identified as a long-running influence arm that cultivated U.S. activist ties since Fidel Castro founded it in 1960.
The action reaches groups linked to billionaire Neville Roy Singham, whose funding has sent $285 million since 2017 to nonprofits such as CodePink, the People's Forum, BreakThrough News and Tricontinental that worked with ICAP.
Federal scrutiny has already intensified after a March Cuba convoy organized with ICAP drew U.S. nonprofits and streamer Hasan Piker; investigators are reportedly examining 145 groups with about $1 billion in combined revenue.
Cuba's President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned the sanctions as illegitimate escalation, while U.S. officials cast them as part of a broader effort to disrupt foreign influence channels tied to Havana.