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“The Red-Green Axis: How the Left and Sharia Supremacists Work Together to Destroy America”
Who Lost South Korea?
- Alarm Bells Ringing about South Korea. Is Anyone Listening?
Does this sound familiar?
WHILE YOU WEREN’T WATCHING – South Korea is shifting toward communism. Among other things, observers cite “the destruction of rights and freedoms, unprecedented oppression and suppression, all sorts of incursions on personal property. You have a rising dictatorship with the collapse of the three branches into a uni-party dictatorship, and you have somebody at the helm of South Korea who is pro-Chinese Communist Party, pro-North Korea, anti-American. And this is the stark reality that is going on in South Korea." "Massive infiltration by Chinese Communist Party and North Korean spies, operatives and agents flooding the country." “Halting government-sponsored broadcasts into North Korea.” “Supporting legislation that allows police to block activists from sending information such as leaflets and digital media into North Korea.” “Restrictions on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and other freedoms…. the measures to suppress freedom are being codified into laws, and now they are even trying to change the constitution.”
One observer describes the array of political powers now in South Korea. “They are pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP), pro-Korean Workers’ Party (in North Korea), anti-ROK, anti-U.S. and anti-Japan. They now control the majority of the levers of power in South Korea.”
“South Korea’s Going Communist: The Persecution of Ambassador Tan.” This is a live stream webinar from The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) moderated by Frank Gaffney on July 24, 2026. Approximately 75 minutes
LATIN AMERICA
SECRETARY RUBIO On X - “The left-wing destroyed Venezuela. The left-wing destroyed Cuba. The left-wing destroyed Nicaragua. The left-wing has basically destroyed every country they've gotten ahold of in the hemisphere.”
Venezuela
U.S. Secretary of State Rubio marked the launch of a three-pronged effort to advance Venezuela toward democracy following at least a decade of crises – both humanitarian and political. The United States has pledged financing for reconstruction following a devasting earthquake in addition to developing a forum for pre-Chavez political figures to begin mapping the country’s transition with U.S. support. The approach includes:
Nicaragua
Dictator-for-Life: Socialist Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega proclaims ‘no more elections’. So much for ‘Democratic Socialism’. Ortega and his ‘co-president’ wife Rosario Murillo have cut off opposition voices to preserve their familial dictatorship. This announcement is the continuation of waves of brutality - imprisonment for dissenters, death to Indigenous leaders, people stripped of citizenship, and shuttering non-governmental organizations, universities, and media outlets.
Nicaragua has banned at least 18 Christian organizations from operating in the country including Lutherans, Baptists, Catholics, and other Protestants. The ban isn’t limited to churches but encompasses food and relief services, schools, charities, and media outlets. Bank accounts are sometimes frozen. Any voice deemed critical of the Ortega-Murillo Regime receives retaliatory treatment. In some cases, this has included not being allowed back into the country and canceling citizenship after traveling abroad.
Nicaragua’s Communist Dictatorship carries on the time-worn tradition of “disappearing” people thought to be a threat to the stranglehold of the government. A UN report says at least 161 people have been disappeared since 2018 and many have died in custody with no information from the government.
ICYMI from 2023 - Persecution of Catholics and Christian Evangelicals has been rampant and escalating despite Religious Freedom declarations in the Nicaraguan Constitution. Imprisonment and intimidation of priests and faithful alike are accomplished by arrest, seizing property, commandeering religious schools, show trials, paramilitary surveillance, and exile. The UN Human Rights Council and other international bodies have denounced the human rights violations of the Ortega-Morillo Regime. Read the extensive details of human rights violations in this U.S. State Department Report.
Meet Nicaragua’s Little Friends
Cuba
This July 2026 State Department report details 60 years of communist Cuban interference in the U. S. – espionage, influence operations, penetration of institutions, cues for the American Left, etc.
Cuba’s military-controlled business conglomerate has more money than the government, flouts U.S. trade sanctions, and channels remittances through its own stores, while the Cuban people suffer
Cuba flirts with opening its economy to private enterprise and policy that encourages foreign investment. The Cuban economy has been flat for 50 years.
Due to desperate economic straits, chronic food shortages, and failed infrastructure, Cuba’s dictatorship announces plans for Cubans living outside the country and their descendants to invest in business and partnerships with U.S. commercial enterprises.
Cuba is the heartbeat of communist influence in the United States. The ‘Cuban ecosystem’ of influencers echo one another inside the United States through nonprofit left-wing organizations, political action groups, and universities. In a Fox News investigative series, seven configurations of influence were identified:
In April 2026, Cuba released 2,000 political prisoners under extreme pressure from the Trump administration. Cubans called it a humanitarian gesture, but the timing suggests that U.S. efforts to defeat narco-terrorism and freeing Venezuela played a role in the releases.
Peru
Conservatism: the true Shining Path to a brighter future. Peru joins five other Latin American countries on the journey to the Right destination. Newly elected President Keiko Fujimori beat her Leftist opponent by a slim margin to continue the conservative legacy of her father. She expresses optimism for economic growth and the restoration of law and order.
ASIA
Laos
Ethnic minorities and Christians continue to be persecuted and repressed, reinforced by a stratified social order that places ethnic and indigenous peoples on the bottom. Despite a national constitution that states otherwise, the Communist government of Laos denies human rights to ethnic minorities such as the Hmong, the original indigenous people. Religious freedom is denied to Protestant Christians, especially in the rural areas where most of the Hmong live. Originating with the Communist military takeover in the 1970’s, Hmong and other ethnic groups have remained targets of removal, by any means necessary.
In addition to this persecution, there is a familiar pattern of copy-cat behavior by the Laotian authorities. Strongly influenced by China’s economic investment in the country, policy and ideological controls are strengthened each time China is active. Infrastructure and development projects are given a wide berth for completion, regardless of displacement of peoples and the repression of opposition voices.
Just a few factors common to persecution and repression in Communist Laos:
Genocide Watch has assessed Laos as exhibiting genocidal activity through persecution. The 2025 country report lists the numerous well-known techniques used by a brutal government to extinguish the unwanted segments of the population including intense military attacks with chemical weapons to facilitate clearing the ethnic peoples from areas of Chinese development.
North Korea
North Korean defector tells her family’s harrowing story of escaping three times, starving and homeless, living in hiding, changing identities. Not every family member survived. She now speaks to young Americans to present the dangers of communism and the realities of socialist outcomes.
Independent film makers encouraged to make documentary films through a new grant that will support defectors from North Korea
- Alarm Bells Ringing about South Korea. Is Anyone Listening?
Does this sound familiar?
- the Left is in power
- policy and law falling into China’s orbit of influence
- increasingly repressive; censorship raises its ugly head
- no more automatic citizenship for North Korean refugees
WHILE YOU WEREN’T WATCHING – South Korea is shifting toward communism. Among other things, observers cite “the destruction of rights and freedoms, unprecedented oppression and suppression, all sorts of incursions on personal property. You have a rising dictatorship with the collapse of the three branches into a uni-party dictatorship, and you have somebody at the helm of South Korea who is pro-Chinese Communist Party, pro-North Korea, anti-American. And this is the stark reality that is going on in South Korea." "Massive infiltration by Chinese Communist Party and North Korean spies, operatives and agents flooding the country." “Halting government-sponsored broadcasts into North Korea.” “Supporting legislation that allows police to block activists from sending information such as leaflets and digital media into North Korea.” “Restrictions on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and other freedoms…. the measures to suppress freedom are being codified into laws, and now they are even trying to change the constitution.”
One observer describes the array of political powers now in South Korea. “They are pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP), pro-Korean Workers’ Party (in North Korea), anti-ROK, anti-U.S. and anti-Japan. They now control the majority of the levers of power in South Korea.”
“South Korea’s Going Communist: The Persecution of Ambassador Tan.” This is a live stream webinar from The Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) moderated by Frank Gaffney on July 24, 2026. Approximately 75 minutes
- In short: the video is an advocacy webinar arguing that Tan is being persecuted as part of a left-leaning, China-friendly turn in Seoul, and that Washington should treat his detention and indictment as a strategic and free-speech crisis.
- The panel treats former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Morse Tan’s legal situation in South Korea as a symptom of a broader political shift. Tan, who served in the first Trump administration, is under an exit ban and has been indicted for defamation over remarks he made in Washington, D.C., criticizing President Lee Jae-myung, alleging election irregularities, and warning about growing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence. The speakers frame this as “lawfare” against a U.S. citizen for speech delivered on U.S. soil.
- Read the letter of petition to President Trump from the Committee on Present Danger: China illuminating the restrictions on former Ambassador Tan as South Korea’s bent toward Communism.
LATIN AMERICA
SECRETARY RUBIO On X - “The left-wing destroyed Venezuela. The left-wing destroyed Cuba. The left-wing destroyed Nicaragua. The left-wing has basically destroyed every country they've gotten ahold of in the hemisphere.”
Venezuela
U.S. Secretary of State Rubio marked the launch of a three-pronged effort to advance Venezuela toward democracy following at least a decade of crises – both humanitarian and political. The United States has pledged financing for reconstruction following a devasting earthquake in addition to developing a forum for pre-Chavez political figures to begin mapping the country’s transition with U.S. support. The approach includes:
- Stabilizing the country after humanitarian crises
- Economic Recovery and Reconstruction
- A full democratic transition culminating in free and fair elections
Nicaragua
Dictator-for-Life: Socialist Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega proclaims ‘no more elections’. So much for ‘Democratic Socialism’. Ortega and his ‘co-president’ wife Rosario Murillo have cut off opposition voices to preserve their familial dictatorship. This announcement is the continuation of waves of brutality - imprisonment for dissenters, death to Indigenous leaders, people stripped of citizenship, and shuttering non-governmental organizations, universities, and media outlets.
Nicaragua has banned at least 18 Christian organizations from operating in the country including Lutherans, Baptists, Catholics, and other Protestants. The ban isn’t limited to churches but encompasses food and relief services, schools, charities, and media outlets. Bank accounts are sometimes frozen. Any voice deemed critical of the Ortega-Murillo Regime receives retaliatory treatment. In some cases, this has included not being allowed back into the country and canceling citizenship after traveling abroad.
Nicaragua’s Communist Dictatorship carries on the time-worn tradition of “disappearing” people thought to be a threat to the stranglehold of the government. A UN report says at least 161 people have been disappeared since 2018 and many have died in custody with no information from the government.
ICYMI from 2023 - Persecution of Catholics and Christian Evangelicals has been rampant and escalating despite Religious Freedom declarations in the Nicaraguan Constitution. Imprisonment and intimidation of priests and faithful alike are accomplished by arrest, seizing property, commandeering religious schools, show trials, paramilitary surveillance, and exile. The UN Human Rights Council and other international bodies have denounced the human rights violations of the Ortega-Morillo Regime. Read the extensive details of human rights violations in this U.S. State Department Report.
Meet Nicaragua’s Little Friends
- China now controls at least 8.5 percent of the country thanks to 15 Chinese-owned gold mining companies that were sanctioned by the U.S. This agreement lasts for decades.
- “The Russian news agency TASS reported that the now-ratified agreement contains provisions that call for the joint training of troops, cooperation between military educational institutions, and the exchange of information towards “countering the ideology of extremism and international terrorism.” 5 Year Agreement
Cuba
This July 2026 State Department report details 60 years of communist Cuban interference in the U. S. – espionage, influence operations, penetration of institutions, cues for the American Left, etc.
Cuba’s military-controlled business conglomerate has more money than the government, flouts U.S. trade sanctions, and channels remittances through its own stores, while the Cuban people suffer
Cuba flirts with opening its economy to private enterprise and policy that encourages foreign investment. The Cuban economy has been flat for 50 years.
Due to desperate economic straits, chronic food shortages, and failed infrastructure, Cuba’s dictatorship announces plans for Cubans living outside the country and their descendants to invest in business and partnerships with U.S. commercial enterprises.
- Socialists always promise more prosperity, but they never deliver. Cuba has tinkered with free market reforms around the edges for years, now. Same old, same old. It’s Lenin’s New Economic Plan all over again, but don’t think for a second the regime has become free market true believers. These are tactical retreats to weather immediate crises, to be jettisoned once conditions improve enough to allow the state to safely re-exert more complete control over the economy.
Cuba is the heartbeat of communist influence in the United States. The ‘Cuban ecosystem’ of influencers echo one another inside the United States through nonprofit left-wing organizations, political action groups, and universities. In a Fox News investigative series, seven configurations of influence were identified:
- The Singham network of news, political groups, think tanks, projects, etc.
- Labor Unions and labor activists
- Cuban travel brigades, convoys, and delegations
- Socialist, Communist, and Marxist organizations
- Media and propaganda ecosystem
- Legal, academic, and institutional networks
- Humanitarian and aid infrastructure
In April 2026, Cuba released 2,000 political prisoners under extreme pressure from the Trump administration. Cubans called it a humanitarian gesture, but the timing suggests that U.S. efforts to defeat narco-terrorism and freeing Venezuela played a role in the releases.
Peru
Conservatism: the true Shining Path to a brighter future. Peru joins five other Latin American countries on the journey to the Right destination. Newly elected President Keiko Fujimori beat her Leftist opponent by a slim margin to continue the conservative legacy of her father. She expresses optimism for economic growth and the restoration of law and order.
ASIA
Laos
Ethnic minorities and Christians continue to be persecuted and repressed, reinforced by a stratified social order that places ethnic and indigenous peoples on the bottom. Despite a national constitution that states otherwise, the Communist government of Laos denies human rights to ethnic minorities such as the Hmong, the original indigenous people. Religious freedom is denied to Protestant Christians, especially in the rural areas where most of the Hmong live. Originating with the Communist military takeover in the 1970’s, Hmong and other ethnic groups have remained targets of removal, by any means necessary.
In addition to this persecution, there is a familiar pattern of copy-cat behavior by the Laotian authorities. Strongly influenced by China’s economic investment in the country, policy and ideological controls are strengthened each time China is active. Infrastructure and development projects are given a wide berth for completion, regardless of displacement of peoples and the repression of opposition voices.
Just a few factors common to persecution and repression in Communist Laos:
- Lack of access to surface water and sanitation for the ethnic minorities
- Displacement for projects backed by the Chinese
- Strict language control; adherence to the use of mainstream language
- Christian identity and practice discouraged, punished; places of worship destroyed
- Trafficking of young women to China
- Forced practice of Buddhist or animist theology
Genocide Watch has assessed Laos as exhibiting genocidal activity through persecution. The 2025 country report lists the numerous well-known techniques used by a brutal government to extinguish the unwanted segments of the population including intense military attacks with chemical weapons to facilitate clearing the ethnic peoples from areas of Chinese development.
North Korea
North Korean defector tells her family’s harrowing story of escaping three times, starving and homeless, living in hiding, changing identities. Not every family member survived. She now speaks to young Americans to present the dangers of communism and the realities of socialist outcomes.
Independent film makers encouraged to make documentary films through a new grant that will support defectors from North Korea
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