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Havana, Cuba – As tensions between the US and Cuba rise to the highest levels since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the mood was grim at a recent staff meeting at the US Embassy in Havana.
“If you don’t have your bag packed yet, then pack your bag,” US Charge d’Affaires Mike Hammer said, according to a person present at the meeting.
“The Cubans have complained for years about ‘the blockade’,” Hammer told the assembled American diplomats and local staff, referring to the Cuban government’s term for the more than six-decade US economic embargo on Cuba.
“But…