Cuba’s communist leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, vowed to resist U.S. pressure on the country, declaring that it will be met with “impregnable resistance” if it tries to threaten Cuba.
“The US publicly threatens #Cuba, almost daily, with overthrowing the constitutional order by force. And it uses an outrageous pretext: the harsh limitations of the weakened economy that they have attacked and sought to isolate for more than six decades,” he wrote on X. “They intend and announce plans to seize the country, its resources, its properties, and even the very economy they seek to strangle to make us surrender.”
“Only in this way can the fierce economic war be explained, which is applied as collective punishment against the entire people. In the face of the worst scenario, #Cuba is accompanied by a certainty: any external aggressor will clash with an impregnable resistance.”
The comment follows President Trump telling reporters this week that Cuba is a “failed nation.”
“They have no money, they have no oil, they have no nothing. They have nice land. They have nice landscape. You know, it’s a beautiful island,” he told reporters, as per ABC News. “All my life I’ve been hearing about the United States and Cuba. You know, when will the United States do it? I do believe I’ll [have the] honor of taking Cuba. That’d be good. That’s a big honor.”
Díaz-Canel publicly acknowledged last week that the country is in talks with the United States. These conversations have been aimed at seeking solutions, through dialogue, to bilateral differences that exist between the two nations,” he said. “There are international factors that have facilitated these exchanges.”
