EXCLUSIVE: Cuban Operative Accused Of Aiding Hasan Piker Posed As Tourist Before Overstaying Visa

A Cuban operative accused of assisting far-left activists, including Hasan Piker, posed as a tourist to come to the United States before overstaying his visa by nearly a year, The Daily Wire has learned.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers nabbed Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez in Buffalo, New York, on June 26.

Lloga Dominguez came to the United States in March 2025 on a tourist visa that expired on September 26, 2025, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told The Daily Wire. The Cuban national had previously left the country after entering the United States in October 2003 on a work visa reserved for foreign government officials and diplomats.

Upon his latest visit, Lloga Dominguez “refused to leave … and remained in the United States in violation of our nation’s immigration laws,” the spokesperson said. He will remain in ICE custody pending the outcome of his deportation proceedings.

Federal authorities also arrested Lloga Dominguez’s wife and son.

While in the United States, Lloga Dominguez “spent more than a decade employed by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP),” a communist organization sanctioned by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in June over its ties to the Cuban regime, State Department spokesperson Thomas Pigott said in a recent statement.

“He has continued to maintain ties to the transnational communist subversion network throughout his time residing in our nation,” Pigott said.

ICAP is “the central node in a sprawling Cuban intelligence and influence operation, claiming to span more than 2,000 organizations across more than 150 countries,” and “has a long and intimate relationship” with Cuban intelligence officials, according to the State Department.

Fernando González Llort, ICAP’s current president, served 15 years in an American prison for acting as a Cuban spy, according to the State Department.

The Marxist group, founded by Fidel Castro in 1960, has been complicit in “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,” Pigott said.

The group has sought to use America’s left-wing activists to export Cuba’s communism, Pigott said.

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ICAP organized alongside left-wing nonprofits in the United States, including the People’s Forum, Progressive International, and Code Pink, to orchestrate a convoy that Piker joined in March to deliver supplies to Cuba, Fox News previously reported.

“Under the Trump Administration, America will never become home for Cuban Communist regime thugs who peddle propaganda, run foreign influence operations, or seek to wage revolution against American civilization,” Pigott said.

Federal authorities are investigating advocacy groups in the United States that have been working alongside officials with the Cuban regime, according to Fox News.

The probe has focused on Piker, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, and Code Pink D.C. coordinator Olivia DiNucci.

Piker and Benjamin were the subjects of administrative subpoenas issued by the Treasury Department for records related to their travel to Cuba, communications, and financial activity connected to the convoy, Fox News reported in May.

Piker denied knowing Lloga Dominguez or ICAP in an earlier Twitch stream.

“I don’t understand why they’re covering this as like the organization that sent Hasan Piker to Cuba,” he said.

“Bro, Trump is gonna put me in f*ckin’ prison, I swear to God, what the hell is going on?” Piker said. “We’re about to hit f*ckin’ 1930s Germany if we haven’t already hit it and … these dumb f*cks on the Democratic Party side are still complaining about the people that the Trump admin is actively targeting, and they’re also taking advantage of that active targeting because they also don’t like us, great.”

In a resurfaced clip, Piker claimed a contact was communicating with the Cuban regime on his behalf to plan a trip.

“The Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy and told them that ‘if the only thing stopping Hasan from coming to Cuba was the consistent internet access, we can make it happen,’” Piker said.

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ICAP has denied acting on behalf of the Cuban regime, according to Fox News.

Blake Schaper contributed to this report.