BREAKING: Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and has begun discussing plans to attack the US base at Guantanamo Bay, US military vessels, and possibly Key West, Florida, per Axios.
Details include:
1. The threat is being described as potential "pretext for US military action"
2. CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Cuba on Thursday and warned officials against engaging in hostilities
3. More US sanctions against Cuba could be announced this week
4. US intelligence says Cuba has been acquiring attack drones of "varying capabilities" from Russia and Iran since 2023
Key West is just 90 miles north of Cuba.
The United States regularly releases millions of flies over Panama’s Darién Gap each week.
The practice is part of a long-running pest control effort targeting the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly whose larvae infest open wounds in animals.
In the 1950s, scientists developed the sterile insect technique, in which male flies are sterilized with radiation and released in large numbers so that wild females produce no offspring. By 1959, this approach had eliminated screwworm from the United States.
Over the following decades, the program expanded through Mexico and Central America. Today, the focus is prevention—stopping the pest from moving north out of South America. To maintain that barrier, Panama and the United States still release millions of sterile flies each week over the Darién Gap.