Diaz-Canel rejects Trump’s threats, emphasising Cuba’s independence and dedication to defending its sovereignty.
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has stated that there are not any present talks between Havana and the USA, as US President Donald Trump ratchets up threats against Cuba following his assault on Venezuela.
Diaz-Canel said in a social media submit on Monday that routine coordination on immigration continues between Cuba and the US, however that no bigger talks are presently happening.
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“We now have at all times been keen to keep up severe and accountable dialogue with the varied US administrations, together with the present one, on the idea of sovereign equality, mutual respect and the ideas of worldwide legislation,” Diaz-Canel stated.
He added that relations between the US and Cuba needs to be primarily based on worldwide legislation moderately than “hostility, threats, and financial coercion”.
Trump has stated that the US may ramp up strain on Cuba after the US abduction of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in a January 3 assault that killed no less than 100 individuals, together with 32 members of the Cuban safety forces within the nation for safety cooperation.
The US president said on Sunday that Venezuelan oil provides to Cuba could be reduce off and that the federal government in Havana ought to “make a deal” with the US earlier than it’s “too late”. Trump additionally advised reporters that the US was “speaking to Cuba” with out providing additional particulars.
Diaz-Canel responded to Trump’s feedback on Sunday by saying that Cuba was a “free, impartial, and sovereign” nation and would defend itself “to the final drop of blood”.
Venezuelan oil was an essential financial lifeline to Cuba, remoted and underneath heavy US sanctions, offering 35,000 barrels of oil per day earlier than the US assault, in line with estimates from Jorge Pinon of the Power Institute on the College of Texas at Austin.
Pinon, who tracks the shipments, additionally estimates that Mexico provides Cuba with roughly 5,500 barrels of oil per day, whereas Russia provides 7,500.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has beforehand stated that the US assault on Venezuela has elevated the relative significance of Mexican oil to Cuba, however that Mexico has not elevated oil gross sales to Havana.
Sheinbaum, who has responded to latest threats from Trump of doable army strikes in opposition to legal teams on Mexican soil with a agency insistence on the nation’s sovereignty, stated that she spoke with Trump on Monday to debate cooperation on points equivalent to commerce, safety, and drug trafficking.
“We had an excellent dialog with US President Donald Trump,” Sheinbaum stated in a social media submit, including that the talks included a dialogue of safety “with respect to our sovereignties”.
“Collaboration and cooperation inside a framework of mutual respect at all times yield outcomes,” she stated.
