Following the request submitted by the U.S. government to receive a delegation led by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in Havana, the Cuban leadership approved the visit and the meeting between Ratcliffe and his counterpart from the Ministry of Interior.
Durante el encuentro, el Embajador de Cuba en la República de Corea, Claudio Monzón Baeza, destacó el recrudecimiento el bloqueo económico contra Cuba por el gobierno de los Estados Unidos.