Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Tuesday condemned U.S. sanctions on the nation as “immoral, unlawful, and legal,” lashing out at extended financial stress on the communist-run island as tensions escalate.
In a social media submit on X, Díaz-Canel stated the fuel-starved nation would “proceed to denounce, within the firmest and most energetic method potential, the genocidal siege that seeks to strangle our individuals.”
Cuba’s president singled out President Donald Trump’s government order that threatens third events from promoting oil to Havana with tariffs, in addition to U.S. measures that search to penalize corporations which will need to spend money on the nation or present it with primary items.
His feedback come after a recent wave of U.S. sanctions and amid mounting hypothesis that the U.S. may perform army strikes in opposition to Cuba.
The U.S. authorities on Monday imposed sanctions on 11 Cuban officers and its principal intelligence company.
The transfer kinds a part of a broader stress marketing campaign that has included efforts to implement an oil blockade on the island since January, shortly after its ally and a key supplier of oil, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, was seized in an audacious army operation.
An Axios report on Sunday, citing categorized intelligence, stated Cuba had acquired greater than 300 army drones from Russia and Iran and had lately started discussing plans to make use of them to assault U.S. targets.
These targets reportedly included the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. army vessels and doubtlessly Key West, roughly 90 miles north of Cuba.
Cuba’s Díaz-Canel stated in a separate social media submit on Monday that U.S. threats of army aggression in opposition to Havana had been well-known, including that in the event that they had been to materialize, “it will set off a massacre with incalculable penalties.”
A White Home spokesperson was not instantly accessible to remark when contacted by CNBC on Tuesday.
Trump has beforehand talked up the prospect of a “pleasant takeover” of Havana and stated the White Home may flip its sights on Cuba after the Iran warfare. The U.S. president has additionally stated he may do something he wished with the nation, including that he thinks he may have the “honor” of “taking Cuba.”
A person sporting shorts bearing a US flag walks alongside a avenue in Havana on Could 18, 2026.
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Cuba’s Overseas Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, in the meantime, stated that the nation neither threatens nor needs warfare.
“With none authentic excuse in any way, the #US authorities builds, day after day, a fraudulent case to justify the ruthless financial warfare in opposition to the Cuban individuals and the eventual army aggression,” Parrilla stated by way of X on Monday.
