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The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canelhe stated in an interview with the American network NBC issued this Sunday that the Cubans “would die” to defend the island from a possible invasion of USA.
During this conversation held by the Cuban leader with the program Meet the Pressmaintained that Washington does not have a valid justification to launch a military attack or to attempt a change of government on the island.
He also pointed out that an intervention would have high costs and would affect regional security, since he ensures that Cubans they would not sit idly by.
The Cuban leader was forceful in his idea, rejecting any US intervention and warned that “they are willing to fight“by the Cuban regime.
“If a military invasion happens, there will be fighting, there will be fighting, we will defend ourselves, and if we have to die, we will die, because as our national anthem says: “To die for one’s country is to live“.
NBC He broadcast the full interview this Sunday, the first of the Cuban president with a US network, although last Thursday he already published a preview of the conversation, recorded in Havana through a translator, in which Díaz-Canel ruled out resigning Despite pressure from the Administration of the American leader, Donald Trump.
Furthermore, he conveyed that the United States has “no reason” to initiate an operation against Cuba or against him, with the intention of deposing him, as it did in Venezuela with the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
Energy crisis
The Cuban leader also blamed for the worsening of the energy crisis on the island to the tightening of sanctions and the reduction in oil supply, factors that directly affect the health system, transportation and production.
Currently, the country only generates around 40% of the fuel it consumes and stopped receiving shipments from Venezuela after the United States, in January, intervened in that country and detained the Venezuelan president to transfer him to New Yorkwhere he faces drug trafficking charges.
After the operation carried out in January to capture Maduro in CaracasTrump imposed an energy blockade on Cuba, aggravating the energy and social crisis that the island has been experiencing for years.
Trump himself assured that the Cuban regime “is finished” after the blockade. Although he stopped short of denying the possibility of an initial military incursion, he later admitted that he intended to reach a “friendly solution.”
He rules out resigning
During the interview, Díaz-Canel denied the possibility of him leaving office, paving the way for a regime change in Cuba, where the Communist Party He has governed since the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
NBC’s Kristen Welker: Would you step down if the US demanded it to “save Cuba”?
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel: Is that question from you or the State Department? We are not subjects to the designs of the US.
Western media audacity needs to be studied. Imagine asking Trump… pic.twitter.com/9Ng1M25A2N
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) April 10, 2026
“Giving up is not part of our vocabulary“, declared the Cuban president, who seemed annoyed by the interviewer’s question, Kristen Welkerand asked if he could ask Trump the same question or if this was an order from the State Department.
Regarding a possible US attack, the White House recently dismissed the idea that the island was literally “the next” to be attacked by the US in a context of high tension.
When asked during a conference with journalists in Washington, the press secretary, Caroline Leavitt qualified Trump’s recent comments that “Cuba is next”.
He clarified that the message simply indicates that the island’s government “is destined to fall” without the need for external intervention.
The “country is very weak,” Leavitt declared. “They are in a very fragile position economically and, obviously, financially. The Cuban people he is fed up with his governmentwhich is normal, and is how it should be.”
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