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The current mayor of LA, Karen Bass. From the article in post below: “the Communist Daily Worldnewspaper described her as the “leader of the Venceremos Brigade in southern California,” while a 1996 academic dissertation depicted Bass in the 1970s like so: “As a ‘brigadista’ and then organizer for the Venceremos Brigades, Karen visited Cuba every 6 months.” A 1975 LA Police Department intelligence report described the then-22-year-old Bass as a “leader” in the VB, which was alleged to “train revolutionary-prone Americans in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare while claiming to harvest sugar cane.” “It is tempting to dismiss Bass’s work for Havana as a youthful indiscretion, something long in the past, as forgettable as a bad 1970s haircut. However, when Fidel Castro died in 2016, Bass placed a formal message on her congressional website mourning “the passing of the Comandante en Jefe” as “a great loss to the people of Cuba.”