U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration this week yanked the legal of a Cuban national and his family for allegedly “working as a foreign subversive” for Cuba’s communist regime.
The move comes after the State Department last month sanctioned several Cuban entities it says have taken part in Communist Cuba’s “decades-long campaign of political, ideological, and institutional warfare against,” including the group Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), which was founded by Fidel Castro.
This week, federal officials apprehended Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez, along with his wife and son. According to the department, Dominguez worked for ICAP for a decade, and “continued to maintain ties to the transnational communist subversion network” while living in the U.S.
For decades, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People – or “ICAP” – has been a vehicle for radical left-wing extremism and subversive foreign influence in the United States and across our hemisphere. ICAP is the Cuban regime’s premier influence and intelligence front…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) July 1, 2026
ICAP was also involved in left-wing activist Hasan Piker’s trip to Cuba earlier this year that led to a federal subpoena.
The State Department’s announcement said ICAP’s current president, Fernando González Llort, spent 15 years in U.S. prison for his role spying as part of the Wasp Network in the 1990s.
“Working in close coordination with the Cuban communist regime, ICAP maintains an outsized footprint across the United States, trafficking in vile anti-American propaganda, cultivating pro-Havana regime activists and politicians, and lobbying federal, state and local politicians on behalf of the Cuban dictatorship,” State Department Spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement. “The organization facilitates close working relationships between Havana and radical U.S. groups, using America’s far left milieu as a vehicle to export Cuba’s Communist revolution to the United States.”
The statement noted that the sanctions against ICAP block the organization’s property and interests, as well as transactions.
“And any foreign aliens involved in ICAP’s anti-American subversion operations should expect to soon find themselves on an ICE deportation flight,” Pigott added.
