U.S. and Cuban Military Officials Hold Joint Security Meeting at Guantánamo Bay Perimeter
U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Francis Donovan held a meeting Friday with senior Cuban military officials at the edge of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. Both sides agreed to maintain communication after discussing perimeter security.
Defense NewsU.S. Marine Corps Gen. S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. The Cuban delegation included Gen.
Roberto Legra Sotolongo, first deputy minister of the chief of the General Staff. Donovan briefly discussed operational security matters with the Cuban officials. He also led a perimeter security assessment of the naval base and discussed force protection, safety of service members and their families, and operational readiness with base officials.
U.S. Southern Command. Cuba’s armed forces said the meeting took place with mutual agreement. “Both delegations evaluate positively the meeting where issues related to security around the dividing perimeter of the military enclave were addressed and agreed to maintain communication between both military commands,” Cuba’s armed forces said in a statement.
The meeting took place weeks after a visit to Havana by CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
On May 5, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Gen. Francis Donovan posed in front of a map of Cuba in a post on X by Donovan’s Southern Command.
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The same facts could be read as a positive de-escalation step in which the U.S. and Cuba are professionally managing security risks around a long-standing flashpoint to prevent accidental conflict.
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