Cuba rejects Trump's threats and reaffirms its political and commercial sovereignty

Published at: 11/01/2026 12:27 PM

The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, responded to the recent statements of Donald Trump, who urged Havana to “sit down and negotiate before it's too late” and assured that the island “will no longer receive oil or money from Venezuela.”

The Cuban leader affirmed that those who attack his country “have no morals to point to Cuba at anything, absolutely nothing,” and maintained that these sectors “turn everything into business, even human lives.”

Díaz-Canel stressed that the reactions against the island come from actors “sick of anger at the sovereign decision of this people to choose their political model.”

He also rejected attempts to attribute responsibility for internal economic difficulties to the Revolution, recalling that “they are the result of the draconian measures of extreme suffocation that the United States applied to us six decades ago and threatens to overcome now.” He stressed that Cuba is “a free, independent and sovereign nation”, that does not accept external impositions and that it is preparing to defend its national project “to the last drop of blood”.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, also responded to the threats and denied that Cuba receives monetary or material compensation for the security services it provides abroad. He stated that, unlike the United States, the island does not practice “mercenarism, blackmail or military coercion” against other States. He emphasized that Cuba has every right to import fuel from markets willing to trade it without being subject to unilateral coercive measures and that these operations are carried out in accordance with international law.

Rodríguez affirmed that “law and justice are on the side of Cuba” and accused Washington of acting as “an uncontrolled hegemon” that endangers regional and global stability. The statements of the President and the Minister of Foreign Affairs are part of a context of new bilateral tensions, characterized by sanctions, trade restrictions and pressures aimed at limiting the island's economic sovereignty and conditioning its international alliances.

Mazo News Team