Cuba hosts CIA chief in Havana as fuel shortages mount under U.S. blockade
TL;DR
Cuba says CIA Director John Ratcliffe met Havana’s interior ministry as the U.S. renews a $100m aid offer amid a severe fuel shortage blamed on the U.S. blockade; Havana says relief would come with lifting sanctions, while protests over blackouts continue and both sides discuss bilateral security cooperation.
- Cuba says CIA chief visited Havana as energy crisis worsens BBC
- Cuba accepts $100 million U.S. aid offer as country says it has run out of oil Miami Herald
- Marco Rubio says Cuba's leaders must go as US offers country €85 million in aid Euronews.com
- Cuba’s Diaz-Canel open to US aid amid worsening fuel crisis, blackouts Al Jazeera
- US renews $100 million aid offer to crisis-hit Cuba while tightening sanctions France 24
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