Cuba mocks CIA's public informant recruitment as 'toothpaste advertising'

Cuba's deputy foreign minister mocked a US initiative publicly recruiting Cuban citizens as CIA informants, comparing the campaign to advertising toothpaste, amid rising Washington-Havana tensions. Carlos Fernández de Cossío said on X that the US resorting to public recruitment ads suggests desperation or financial strain within the CIA, questioning the effectiveness of its methods. The sarcastic remarks add a new point of friction to strained bilateral relations, as Washington increases pressure on Cuba's communist government.