Democracy Dies in Darkness

Useful idiots visit Cuba, right on time

Communism has impoverished the island. American leftists only care now because they can blame Trump.

Participants in the Nuestra America convoy off the coast of Cuba on Monday. (Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images)

Leftists from around the world descended on Cuba over the weekend for a “humanitarian” trip aimed at protesting the United States’ oil blockade, and they played the role of useful idiots perfectly. Nothing says solidarity like going to an impoverished country and staying at a five-star hotel.