Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel responded to US leader Donald Trump's statement regarding a possible takeover of Cuba, DPA reports, quoted by BTA.
On Monday, Trump said that he believes he will have the "honor to take over Cuba".
"I believe I will have the honor to take over Cuba. That would be good. "It's a great honor," he said while signing an executive order at the White House. In response, Diaz-Canel warned that the United States would face "unyielding resistance" if it tried to take over the country. On the social network X, he pointed out that the United States publicly threatens Cuba - almost daily - to overthrow the constitutional order by force. "This is the only way to explain the fierce economic war waged as collective punishment against the entire people," Diaz-Canel stressed. For weeks, Trump has been repeating that Cuba is on the verge of collapse. During his administration, Washington increased economic pressure on the Caribbean island, aiming to cut off the flow of foreign currency and oil to it.
The pressure intensified after US authorities carried out an operation in January in which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was arrested in the capital Caracas and taken to the United States.
The move deprived Havana of one of its most important allies, who had long supported the island, especially through oil supplies, amid a decade-long US trade embargo on Cuba.
The country is currently in one of its worst economic crises since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio today denied an article in the "New York Times" that alleged that US officials were calling on Cuba to overthrow its President Miguel Diaz-Canel, France reported. press.
In a message on the social network "Ex", Rubio described the article as false.
The daily reported on Monday that representatives of the administration of US President Donald Trump had demanded the overthrow of the Cuban head of state, perceived as an obstacle to change in Cuba, without completely overthrowing the communist government of the island country.
Rubio did not specify whether he was challenging the credibility of the entire article or only some of its parts.
Marco Rubio, who is of Cuban origin, is a staunch opponent of the communist authorities in Cuba.