A senior US delegation met with Cuban government officials in Cuba as the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to pressure Havana into a deal as it continues to exert its economic chokehold on the island. This was the one of the highest-level visits of US officials in roughly a decade and comes as Donald Trump continues to raise the specter of potential military action.

In Cuba, the CIA-planned 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco is commemorated every year on 19 April