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UN Vote on US Embargo (2025)
Results of the UN resolution demanding an end to the US embargo on Cuba.
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Cuba's president says they don't want US aggression but ready to fight
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Thursday that while Cuba does not want military aggression from the United States, his country is prepared to fight should it happen. Díaz-Canel spoke during a rally that drew hundreds of people to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the declaration of the Cuban Revolution’s socialist essence. “The moment is extremely challenging and calls upon us once again, as on April 16, 1961, to be ready to confront serious threats, including military aggression. We do not want it, but it is our duty to prepare to avoid it and, if it becomes inevitable, to defeat it,” Díaz-Canel said. He spoke as tensions remain high between the two countries, with Cuba’s crises deepening as a result of a U.S. energy blockade. Earlier this week, Trump said his administration could focus on Cuba after the war in Iran ends. “We may stop by Cuba after we finish with this,” he said. He described it as a “failing nation” and asserted that it’s “been a terribly run country for a long time.” People attend a celebration marking the 65th anniversary of the proclamation declaring the Cuban Revolution socialist, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) 1 of 5People attend a celebration marking the 65th anniversary of the proclamation declaring the Cuban Revolution socialist, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Expand Trump previously has threated to intervene in Cuba, like he did in early January when the U.S. military attacked Venezuela and halted key oil shipments from the South American country. Weeks later, Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. Both Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio — whose parents emigrated from Cuba in the 1950s before the revolution — described the island’s government as ineffective and abusive. Díaz-Canel accused them of trying to construct a “narrative” that has no justification. “Cuba is not a failed state. Cuba is a besieged state. Cuba is a state facing multidimensional aggression: economic warfare, an intensified blockade and an energy blockade,” said Díaz-Canel, the main speaker at Thursday’s rally. “Cuba is a threatened state that does not surrender. And despite everything. And thanks to socialism. Cuba is a state that resists, creates, and make no mistake, a state that will prevail,” Díaz-Canel added. Both Cuba and the U.S. have acknowledged talks to resolve the tension, but no det...
Cuba 'ready' for possible US attack: president
"We don't want that (confrontation) but it is our duty to be ready to avoid it, and if it were unavoidable, to win it," Diaz-Canel told thousands of people attending a rally in Havana to mark the 65th anniversary of the failed US invasion of the island at the Bay of Pigs.Cuba has been bracing for a possible attack following repeated warnings from Trump that Cuba is "next" after he toppled Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro and went to war against Iran.Washington and Havana have held talks on de-escalating tensions but the discussions between the arch-foes have failed to make significant headway, according to US media reports.Mariela Castro, daughter of late president Raul Castro, said Cubans "want dialogue" with Washington but "without putting our political system up for debate."She said her 94-year-old father -- who oversaw a historic 2015 rapprochement with the United States under Barack Obama that Trump later reversed -- was indirectly involved in the talks.Raul's grandson Raul Rodriguez Castro, a colonel, is reportedly among the negotiators.Diaz-Canel admitted that the current moment was "very grave" but stressed Cuba's "socialist" nature, as proclaimed by Fidel Castro on April 16, 1961.The 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion was launched two years after Castro's revolutionaries took control of the island and began nationalizing US-owned properties and businesses.Between April 15 and 19, around 1,400 anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami, trained and financed by the CIA, landed at the Bay of Pigs, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Havana.Cuban forces repelled the invaders, inflicting a humiliating defeat on the Americans.Six decades later, Washington now has Cuba again in its sights.After Maduro's capture in Caracas Trump imposed an oil blockade of Cuba, aggravating the impoverished island's worst economic and energy crisis in decades.Diaz-Canel rejected what he referred to as a US portrayal of Cuba as a "failed state."Havana largely blames its woes on a US trade embargo imposed shortly after Castro's arrival to power, still in place today, and the more recent oil blockade."Cuba is not a failed state, it's a besieged state," he said.Maria Reguiero, an 82-year-old attending the rally, said that like in 1961, Cubans were "ready to defend their sovereignty, whatever the price." © 2026 AFP
Cuba's President Warns US Against Attacking Island or Trying to Depose Him
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the U.S. has no valid reason to carry out a military attack against the island or to attempt to depose him.
Cuba's president says island does not wish for US aggression but ready ...
HAVANA -- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Thursday that while Cuba does not want military aggression from the United States, his country is prepared to fight should it happen. Díaz-Canel spoke during a rally that drew hundreds of people to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the declaration of the Cuban Revolution's socialist essence.
