This was excellent.
Third Worldism was not just a formal pillar of Cuban State ideology; it was a deliberate foreign policy strategy. Cuban operatives sought to aggressively recruit American minority groups as internal revolutionary agents. Former senior Cuban Intelligence officers later testified that one of their directives was to exacerbate "the racial problem in the United States," exploiting racial conflict to recruit American sympathizers and weaken the Yankee imperialists. In a July 1980 meeting with Central American revolutionaries, one Senate testimonial later recounted, Castro himself reportedly "boasted that his agents in the United States were so industrious and well placed that they had the capacity to create race riots at a moment of his choosing--race riots on a scale that he said would make the Miami troubles look like a sun shower." There was reason to believe it wasn't all bluster: Two years later, Florida law enforcement testified to catching Cuban intelligence affiliates teaching black youth in Miami to firebomb schools.
Easy to sell Third Worldism. Romanticize it. Have restaurants with male servers wearing guayaberas, or Panama fedoras, a cigar rising from a shirt pocket, a watch, a ring, and voila, you've just sold third-worldism to middle-class Americans.
