The meeting and signing have already taken place between Putin and the new president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel. The Castros are out of power. Russia intends to rebuild Cuba and supply it oil. There will be nuclear power plants and new military armaments. Basically, Cuba will be little Russia in the Western Hemisphere.
November 2, 2018
Moscow (Sputnik) - Russia intends (click here) to sign an agreement in mid-November on giving Cuba a loan worth 38 million euros ($43.25 million) as part of the two countries' defense cooperation agenda, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergey Storchak told reporters on Friday....
It looks like the microwave transmission into the US Embassy staff worked, huh? And where is Trump and Pompeo? Still trying to carry out a war with Iran with a pivotal Saudi Arabia?
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel exchange documents following their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on November 2.
The presidents of Russia and Cuba (click here) have vowed to strengthen political, economic, and military ties and denounced what they called U.S. "interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign nations."
In a joint statement following talks in Moscow on November 2, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Russia's Vladimir Putin also called for closer integration between Moscow and Latin American nations.
The visit comes at a time of heightened tensions for both nations with the United States.
U.S. officials continue to assail Havana for its alleged human rights violations, while Moscow and Washington have several contentious issues between them -- including accusations, denied by Moscow, of Russian interference in U.S. elections, Moscow's aggressive actions in Ukraine, and its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Diaz-Canel invited Putin to visit Cuba in 2019. He has twice traveled there, in 2000 and 2014, as part of efforts to revive relations with the communist island nation....
It will be a short war unless the USA military has missiles aimed at Russia to intimidate any Cuban launches.
President Obama was ridiculed by Congress for meeting with countries in the Carribean Sea and nearshore countries. Now that the USA is compromised politically, Russia is more than happy to increase it's presence there.
Russia's listening station at Lourdes is seen on a photograph taken December 13, 2000
Moscow and Havana (click here) have agreed to reopen a Cold War-era signals intelligence (SIGINT) base in Lourdes, Cuba.
An agreement was reached during Putin's visit to Cuba last week to reopen the base, Russia business daily Kommersant reported last week. That was confirmed by a Russian security source who told Reuters: "A framework agreement has been agreed....
