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Drama mixes with geopolitics in Cuba

Admittedly, it looks a lot like a movie plot. A political thriller where the intelligence director of the chief adversary state comes into the nervous capital city and meets with regime leaders to tell them their days in power are numbered. Unless…

Then, a week later, a US Federal Court in Miami, Florida, indicts a key military leader for the murder of US citizens 30 years earlier in a long-forgotten attack on civilian planes.

CIA Director John Radcliffe recently visited Havana to tell leaders of the communist government that their time was nearly up. During his surprising and stunningly candid visit to the Cuban capital, the US side met with key Cuban officials, including "Raulito" Rodriguez Castro, Minister of Interior Lazaro Alvarez Casas and the head of Cuban intelligence services, to "personally deliver President Trump's message that the United States is prepared to seriously engage on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes".

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