The opposition figure and analyst Sayde Chaling-Chong, president of the Ibero-American European Alliance Against Communism, asserted that the Cuban regime has already lost and that what we are witnessing at this moment is not negotiations but rather “capitulations,” following the revelation that one of the CIA agents present at the secret meeting on May 14 in Havana was involved in the operation that extracted Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela and executed 32 Cuban agents.
The leak was published by CBS News, which revealed that the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, presented that paramilitary operative —with his face pixelated in the images shared on X by the CIA— to the Cuban officials themselves during the meeting held in the Cuban capital.
"They have known since January 3 that they have lost. And that they are not in negotiations or a dialogue. I said it some time ago, and I will say it again today: they are in a situation of capitulation," declared Chaling-Chong in an interview with journalist Tania Costa.
The analyst explained the term precisely. "Capitulations are the negotiations between two opposing sides. They are the negotiations of the terms imposed by the winning side on the losing side. The losing side is the Communist Party of Cuba. The winning side is the United States and the Cuban people."
Chaling-Chong described the expressions of the Cuban officials photographed at the meeting as faces of "terror" and "fear," and used colloquial language to illustrate the extent of their humiliation. "In street language in Cuba, it is said that the CIA 'made them into jackals'; they are complete losers. They have been 'jackaled' completely. In other words, speaking in Cuban terms, the level of 'jackalism' has been total."
For the analyst, Ratcliffe's gesture was intentional and calculated. "The fact that the CIA director himself went to Havana shows the magnitude of 'we're not playing around,' but for one of those involved in Maduro's extraction to be part of the CIA director's team—that's something else..." He added bluntly, "This is a direct mockery."
Ratcliffe met with the Cuban Minister of the Interior Lázaro Álvarez Casas, the head of intelligence Ramón Romero Curbelo, and according to some reports, with Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro ("El Cangrejo"), grandson of Raúl Castro.
The CIA released official photos of the meeting, an unusual gesture for an intelligence visit of this level, while Reuters captured video of the arrival of the U.S. delegation on an official flight identified as SAM554.
The message that Ratcliffe brought from Trump, according to reports from U.S. media, was that the United States is willing to engage in dialogue about economy and security only if Cuba makes "fundamental changes."
The Cuban regime, for its part, framed the meeting as an attempt to "contribute to the political dialogue."
Chaling-Chong rejected that interpretation and concluded with a reflection on Cuban national identity. "The homeland is not Fidel. The homeland is not Raúl. The homeland is not communism. Our homeland, above all, consists of our wonderful landscapes, our beaches, our people; most importantly, the homeland is the sovereign that is held hostage."
The analyst recalled that he had already predicted this outcome. "I told you that 2026 was the final year of the dictatorship, and I didn't say it because I was manipulated or deceived, but because it was clear in that private conversation we had with Mike Hammer, that 2026 is the end of the dictatorship."
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