Second US official flight to island in 10 years comes after communist nation runs out of diesel amid four-month blockade

President Donald Trump floated a “friendly takeover” of the island nation earlier this year shortly after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a military…

Ratcliffe met with Raulito Rodriguez Castro, Minister of Interior Lazaro Alvarez Casas and the head of the Cuban intelligence service.

The meeting comes as tensions worsen over a U.S. fuel blockade that has starved the island of fuel and power generation.

Visit comes after US-Cuba relations deteriorated significantly, with Washington imposing a fuel blockade on the island in January

The island's energy crisis has deepened since the US fuel blockade began, with only one Russian oil tanker making it through since then.

CIA director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials, including Raul Castro's grandson, during a high-level visit to the island Thursday, Cuban and U.S. officials said.

The meeting came as Cuba is contending with a massive power failure to its national energy grid amid U.S. sanctions that have caused an oil and gas shortage crisis.

The Central Intelligence Agency, at the heart of the decades-long struggle between the United States and Cuba, confirmed a Cuban government statement about Director John…

The surprise Cuban trip by CIA chief John Ratcliffe comes as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure on Cuba’s communist government.

La visite à La Havane de John Ratcliffe, ce jeudi, en pleine panne énergétique, visait à «contribuer au dialogue politique» entre les deux adversaires idéologiques, selon les…

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…

Second US official flight to island in 10 years comes after communist nation runs out of diesel amid four-month blockade

The U.S. has been restricting oil shipments to Cuba since January, plunging the country into blackouts lasting days at a time.

Trump has repeatedly signaled that he wants to topple the communist government in Cuba.

CIA chief John Ratcliffe met Cuban officials in Havana on Thursday in a bid to improve dialogue between Washington and the communist-run island, the Cuban government said. The…

CIA Director John Ratcliffe led a US delegation to Havana to meet with Cuban government officials on Thursday as the island grapples with a collapse of its energy sector amid…

Soumise à un blocus pétrolier de Washington, Cuba fait face à une très grave crise économique et énergétique.

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal called for an immediate end to the US blockade, warning that "we are contributing to immense suffering in Cuba and a worsening humanitarian crisis."

The United States is offering to turn Cuba’s lights back on—for a price.

The visit of CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Havana opened a new political chapter inside and outside Cuba, with the U.S. issuing a set of demands.