Kammala wannan magana: Duk ta hanyar tafiya tsakanin tsibiran, da kuma ta hanyar shahararren reggae, Rastafari ya yadu a gabashin Caribbean a cikin 1970s. A nan, ra'ayoyinta sun dace da ra'ayoyin anti-colonial da Afrocentric da ke da yawa a kasashe kamar Trinidad, Grenada, Dominica, da St Vincent. A cikin waɗannan ƙasashe, Rastas na farko galibi suna cikin ƙungiyoyin al'adu da siyasa fiye da takwarorinsu na Jamaica. Rastas daban-daban sun shiga cikin Grenada na 1979 New Jewel Movement kuma an ba su mukamai a cikin gwamnatin Grenadine har sai da aka hambarar da shi kuma aka maye gurbinsa bayan juyin juya halin.
Harin da Amurka ta yi a 1983. Kodayake gwamnatin Marxist-Leninist ta Fidel Castro gabaɗaya ta hana tasirin ƙasashen waje, an gabatar da Rastafari zuwa Cuba tare da reggae a cikin 1970s. 'Yan Rasta na ƙasashen waje da ke karatu a Cuba a cikin shekarun 1990 sun haɗu da yanayin reggae kuma sun taimaka wajen kara inganta shi a cikin imanin Rasta. A Cuba, yawancin Rastas sun kasance maza kuma daga yawan jama'ar Afro-Cuban.