Senior US and Cuban military officers have met at Guantanamo Bay, the US base on the Caribbean country, as relations between the two countries plunge amid growing US pressure.
US General Francis Donovan met with Cuban General Roberto Legra Sotolongo on Friday “for a brief exchange on operational security matters,” US Southern Command said in a statement along a photograph of the meeting.
Reports last week suggested that Havana was considering drone strikes on the base in the event of an American attack.
Donovan led a perimetre security assessment of the US facility and discussed safety of service members and operational readiness, the statement said.
Guantanamo Bay, 700 kilometres southeast of Miami, on the southeastern coast of Cuba, is notorious as the site of abuse against those detained after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
