The head of the CIA visited Cuba on Thursday, an extraordinary step up in contact between Washington and Havana as the communist-run island reels from U.S. pressure, declaring that it is out of oil.
The Central Intelligence Agency, at the heart of the decades-long struggle between the U.S. and Cuba, confirmed a Cuban government statement about Director John Ratcliffe’s visit.
The meeting with Ratcliffe took place “in a context marked by the complexity of bilateral relations, with the aim of contributing to the political dialogue between both nations,” a government statement read.
Cuba “has never supported any hostile activity against the U.S., nor will it permit actions against any other nation to be carried out from Cuba,” it emphasized, referring to allegations of a Chinese presence.
