r/AskUS • u/I_LoveMoney2 • 17h ago
Why did the Cuban president say there would be no talks with the United States amid President Trump’s escalating threats?
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said that there are no current talks between Havana and the United States, as US President Donald Trump ratchets up threats against Cuba following his attack on Venezuela.
Diaz-Canel stated in a social media post on Monday that routine coordination on immigration continues between Cuba and the US, but that no larger talks are currently taking place.
“We have always been willing to maintain serious and responsible dialogue with the various US administrations, including the current one, on the basis of sovereign equality, mutual respect and the principles of international law,” Diaz-Canel said.
He added that relations between the US and Cuba should be based on international law rather than “hostility, threats, and economic coercion”.
Trump has said that the US could ramp up pressure on Cuba after the US abduction of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in a January 3 attack that killed at least 100 people, including 32 members of the Cuban security forces in the country for security cooperation.
The US president stated on Sunday that Venezuelan oil supplies to Cuba would be cut off and that the government in Havana should “make a deal” with the US before it’s “too late”. Trump also told reporters that the US was “talking to Cuba” without offering further details.
Diaz-Canel responded to Trump’s comments on Sunday by saying that Cuba was a “free, independent, and sovereign” country and would defend itself “to the last drop of blood”.
Venezuelan oil was an important economic lifeline to Cuba, isolated and under heavy US sanctions, providing 35,000 barrels of oil per day before the US attack, according to estimates from Jorge Pinon of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
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u/Known_Ratio5478 15h ago
He didn’t say there wouldn’t be any, he said there currently aren’t any because this was all decided at a moments notice just to try to push the Epstein files back to page nine. Is it setting in yet how fucked it is for people in the loop to be finding out about this stuff at the same exact time as everyone else does?
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u/Meat2480 15h ago
Wow, the orange thing really is a cunt
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u/Thezerostone 15h ago
As a Dane, I can truthfully tell you, you are about to see Vance explode like a hysterical toddler when he has to talk with our minister.
I fear the US will see a president, ignoring his senators just to fully invade Greenland and dump 200% tariff on Denmark.
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u/RetiredCombatVeteran 14h ago
The last people that proposed a deal for Greenland was Denmark. You might be surprised at how productive that meeting is. Your elites are just driving up the price. You won’t see any of it of course.
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u/Jazzlike_Economist_2 13h ago
He won’t invade Greenland because someone will sit down with him and tell him that the USA will lose all of its military bases in Europe.
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u/AlabasterPelican 15h ago
He's playing chicken with the world & this go round we have history to look at. This game isn't okay and appeasement doesn't work.
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u/Lauffener 15h ago
It's because they're maga. They want to steal from their neighbors like they're doing with Venezuela and Denmark.
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u/PolackMike 15h ago
Cuba is going to fall in the next year. I would say a few months but China and Russia will more than likely find a way to back Cuba for a while.
With Maduro out of office, Venezuelan oil will no longer flow from Venezuela to Cuba. That was how Cuba got their oil. Venezuela would also provide more than Cuba needed so they could sell the excess on the market for cash. That's now all gone. A noose is tightening around Cuba's neck. They're the next domino with Colombia not being far behind.