“Don’t end up like Venezuela”: US military heads to Cuba for summit meeting | TF1 Info

• Senior US and Cuban military officials met at Guantanamo on Friday May 29.
• Relations are still poor between the two countries, worsened by Trump’s threats to take control of the island.
• But “it might not end up like in Venezuela”, estimates Xavier de Giacomoni, LCI international editorialist.

It was one of the territories threatened by Donald Trump. Maduro’s Venezuela, Greenland then, before the United States attacked Iran, Cuba. Relations between the two countries are execrable, and the recurring provocations of the Republican president have made them even worse.

On Friday, May 29, senior U.S. and Cuban military officials met to “a brief discussion on operational security issues”according to the US military command for Latin America and the Caribbean (Southcom). “The two delegations judged this meeting to be positive” and agreed to “maintain communication”rejoiced the Cuban Ministry of the Armed Forces.

“We can think that the Americans also have business to do with them and that it might not end up like in Venezuela”analyse Xavier de Giacomoni, éditorialiste international LCI. “There could be a ‘smooth’ transition between business people.”

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