John Kerry, Gustavo Machin, Josefina Vidal, Jose Ramon Cabanas
By Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets members of the Cuban delegation inside the newly opened embassy, at the end of a flag raising ceremony, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. Kerry is accompanied by Gustavo Machin, Cuba’s deputy chief of North American affairs, left, Cuba’s Josefina Vidal, director general of the U.S. division at Cuba’s Foreign Ministry, second right, and Jose Ramon Cabanas, chief of the Cuba mission in Washington D.C., right. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate)
Editor’s Note: Cuban’s intelligence services have long perceived the US as a hapless, bumbling giant. Instances like this – Kerry with career Directorate of Intelligence (DI) officers Gustavo Machin and Josefina Vidal – reinforce Havana’s institutionalized contempt. Machin and Vidal were both thrown out of the US for engaging in espionage against the United States.
Cuba Confidential 
You know the way it works…like Boxing…the fighters touch each other gloves before beginning the fight…
Sad days for the exiled Cubans of the early sixties.
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Birds of a feather flock together.
Sad day for senile Fidel Castro who took down the black flags in front of the U.S. Embassy that represented the “victims of CIA aggression.” Very sad day for the families of the 73 Cubans killed in the Cubana airline crash in Barbados that Castro blamed on the CIA. Too bad, so sad.