White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes is headed to Cuba to finalize an agreement governing joint law enforcement efforts between the U. S. and Castro regime, the Obama administration announced Monday.
Rhodes will meet with Cuban officials on Monday to discuss “the arrangement of a framework for strengthening our partnership on counternarcotics, counterterrorism, legal cooperation, and money laundering, including technical exchanges that contribute to a strong U. S.-Cuba law enforcement relationship,” White House National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
Cuba, though, has a long history of being on the wrong end of the law. The meeting comes less than two years after Cuba was removed from the State Department’s list of “state sponsors of terrorism. ” Around the same time, the Cuban government was caught trafficking illegal weapons on a North Korean vessel. The Obama administration sanctioned two North Korean companies in response while declining to take action against the Castro regime.
