The US and Cuba intensify negotiations as the island’s collapse deepens
In a solemn-looking meeting room in Havana, the CIA director sat at the same table as the Cuban Interior Minister and the head of Cuban intelligence. An unthinkable image, almost heretical, for so many decades, became a reality this Thursday. The meeting, photos of which were released by the U.S. intelligence agency itself, is so far the biggest milestone in the two months of opaque negotiations underway between Washington and Havana. The symbolic event, where both sides announced their commitment to “seriously address economic and security issues,” comes at a moment of maximum weakness for the Castro regime, suffocated like never before by the energy embargo imposed since the end of January by Donald Trump.
