Cuba says island is no 'black hole' on drug trafficking route to US

5/12/2025 6:30

Top law enforcement officials in Cuba said on Thursday the island was prioritizing the fight against narcotics trafficking in the Caribbean and continued to provide information to the U.S. Coast Guard amid escalating tensions and surging U.S. military presence in the region.



Cuba and the United States in 2017 agreed to cooperate in the fight against drug trafficking, but Colonel Ybey Carballo, chief of Cuba's Border Guard, told reporters in Havana formal engagement between the two long-time rival nations had ended under the second administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Carballo said Cuba nonetheless routinely provides the U.S. Coast Guard with intelligence, locations, routes and characteristics of boats suspected of trafficking drugs near its waters.