Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has lashed out after U.S. President Donald Trump said that he can do “whatever he wants” with Cuba and that Washington could take “imminent motion” against it.
Díaz-Canel said on X late Tuesday that the Trump administration “publicly threatens” Cuba’s government almost every day with overthrowing it, and any act of aggression “will clash with an impregnable resistance.”
The comments got here after the brand new threats by Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said that the Cuban government’s socialist economic model must “change dramatically.”
While the Cuban government places heavy restrictions on the country’s private sector, a long time of U.S. sanctions have crippled Cuba’s economy.
The Trump administration is on the lookout for Díaz-Canel to depart because the U.S. continues negotiating with the Cuban government, in keeping with a U.S. official and a source with knowledge of talks between Washington and Havana. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to debate sensitive talks.
No details have been offered about who the administration might prefer to see in power.
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Trump’s comments on Cuba got here greater than two months after his administration’s military raid that captured then Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, and a number of weeks after the launch of joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes against Iran on Feb. 28.
The administration has effectively halted vital oil exports to Cuba, pushing the Caribbean nation to the brink.
The Cuban those that Trump and Rubio say they need to help have been left reeling.
Overnight, activist groups from various countries delivered five tons of medical equipment, solar panels and other aid, in keeping with Cuban state television, while crippling blackouts plague the island.
Rigoberto Zarza, European director for the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, said that the help, especially solar panels, shall be crucial to help health institutions.
“The support provided by this aid is of great importance, not just for what it represents materially and from a medical standpoint,” he said.
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