Marco Rubio urges Cubans to contact the CIA as former intelligence officials examine the strategy behind the appeal and Washington's pressure on Cuba.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54847277

[weekly newsletter about Cuba from the Belly Of The Beast news collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]
November 2, 2026

Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently urged Cubans in a post on X to form a “discrete [sic] partnership with the CIA."

That same day, the CIA posted a video in Spanish providing step-by-step instructions on how Cubans could contact the agency.

This week, Belly of the Beast journalist Blake Burdge speaks with a former CIA analyst and Cuba experts about Rubio’s not-so-discreet recruitment pitch to prospective coup plotters and the decades-old U.S. strategy behind it.