TOI Correspondent from Washington: More than six decades after the CIA orchestrated the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro, the United States appears close to engineering a bloodless, warless transition in communist Cuba through economic strangulation and political pressure.
In an extraordinary development, CIA Director John Ratcliffe openly travelled to Havana on Thursday for high-level talks with Cuban intelligence and political officials as the island reels under catastrophic fuel shortages, 20-hour blackouts, and mounting public unrest.
