HAVANA, Cuba.- This Wednesday, Havana criticized that EU threatens “almost daily to overthrow” the Cuban Government and intends “take over the country” while applying harsh sanctions, measures that he called “collective punishment.”
The president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Caneldenounced on social networks that Washington “publicly threatens Cuba almost daily with forcibly overthrowing the constitutional order,” after his American counterpart, Donald Trumpassured himself that it would be “an honor” to take the island.
“They intend and announce plans to take over the country, its resources, properties and even the economy itself that they seek to suffocate in order to surrender us,” said Díaz-Canel.
Miguel Díaz-Canel: “Fierce economic war”
#USA publicly threatens #Cubaalmost daily, with forcibly overthrowing the constitutional order. And they use an outrageous pretext: the harsh limitations of the weakened economy that they have attacked and tried to isolate for more than six decades.
They intend and announce plans…
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) March 18, 2026
The Cuban president affirmed that the United States uses the “outrageous pretext” of his “weakened economy“, when – in his opinion – the island’s crisis is due to the “ffierce economic war” to which Washington has subjected him, which “is applied as collective punishment against all the people.”
“In the worst scenario, Cuba is accompanied by one certainty: any external aggressor will encounter impregnable resistance,” Díaz-Canel concluded.
Along the same lines, the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguezwas convinced that “the collective punishment“of sanctions”will not undermine the full exercise of sovereignty” of the island “nor creativity in the face of the blockade and the energy fence.”
#USA threatens #Cuba with destroying the constitutional order and taking control of the country.
The collective punishment that is applied to us Cubans will not undermine the full exercise of sovereignty or creativity in the face of the blockade and the energy siege.
All imperialist aggression…
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) March 18, 2026
This Monday the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubioreiterated his criticism that the island’s economy “does not work” and demanded “drastic changes” in the “political and governmental system,” adding that he considers it “necessary” for “new people to assume leadership.”
According to the American newspaper The New York Timesthe Trump Administration has conditioned the departure of Díaz-Canel of power to the advancement of bilateral talks, which the Cuban Government finally officially recognized last Friday.
#BreakingMinute 🔴 Marco Rubio presses for a change of Government in Cuba: “It is necessary for new people to assume leadership” https://t.co/qkslk5XRWi
— EL MUNDO (@elmundoes) March 17, 2026
“They have some important decisions to make ahead of them,” Rubio warned before the press in the Oval Office.
Since January, Washington has been pressuring Cuba – the US’s objective after Venezuela and Iran – to apply reforms, primarily economic.
As a pressure measurement The US has imposed an oil blockade to the island, a measure that the UN has called contrary to international law. The measure is rapidly aggravating the precarious situation in which Cuba was already immersed after six years of deep economic crisis.
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