The United States Government reported this Wednesday the detention of a Cuban citizen, along with his wife and son, also of Cuban nationality, whom it accuses of having collaborated with Cuban Intelligence services on U.S. territory.
The detainee has been identified as Carlos Antonio Lloga Domínguez, who, according to a State Department statement, "worked for more than a decade as a foreign subversive for the main influence and intelligence group of the Cuban communist regime in the United States," in allusion to the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
Authorities have indicated that the three are currently under immigration custody and were arrested "this week" after the revocation of their legal status in the country, awaiting deportation, according to information released by the department headed by Marco Rubio.
The State Department recalled that last month it imposed sanctions on ICAP, which it defined as "the central node of an extensive Cuban intelligence and influence network, which claims to encompass more than 2,000 organizations in more than 150 countries."
In the same statement, it is emphasized that "its current president, Fernando González Llort, is a convicted Cuban spy who served 15 years in prison in the United States for his participation in the infamous Wasp Network, a huge illegal Cuban espionage network dismantled in Florida in the late 1990s."
Washington maintains that ICAP maintains a "disproportionate" presence in the United States, "disseminating anti-American propaganda, cultivating activists and politicians sympathetic to the Havana regime, and exerting political pressure at the federal, state, and local levels in favor of the Cuban dictatorship (...) using the far-left environment as a vehicle to export the Cuban communist revolution" to the North American country.
Marco Rubio, who has disseminated the news of Lloga's detention on his social networks, has warned that anyone linked to ICAP will face sanctions or an expulsion order. "The United States will never become home to foreign communists who spread propaganda, carry out subversive influence operations, or support radical anti-American movements" within U.S. territory, he stated.