Cuba will be “prepared” for a possible US attack amid Trump's threats, the president said

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said on Thursday that his country would be “prepared” for a possible attack from the United States under President Trump. life speech against Cuba continues to escalate.

Earlier this week, Mr. Trump said his administration could focus on Cuba after the Iran war ends.

As the situation in Cuba worsens due to the blockade of electricity in the US, Díaz-Canel said that he does not want the violence of the US military to come to Cuba. He said the country will be ready to fight if it happens.

“This time is very challenging and calls for us and, as on April 16, 1961, we are ready to face serious threats, including military violence. We don't want to, but it is our job to prepare to avoid it and, if it becomes unavoidable, to overcome it,” said Díaz-Canel.

He spoke as the situation is tense between the two countries, at a gathering to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the historic speech of the late leader, Fidel Castro when there were problems with the United States.

Threats against Cuba continue

Mr. Trump said earlier this week, “We may go through Cuba after we're done with this,” he said. He described the island as a “failing nation” and asserted that it “has been a country that has been mismanaged for a long time.”

Earlier, the president threatened to intervene in Cuba. At a news conference about the abduction of US soldiers Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January, Mr. Trump warned that Cuba should be “worried.” His speech escalated following the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in US strikes on Iran.

He told reporters in March at the White House that he believed he would “have the right to take Cuba” one way or another.

Mr. Trump also threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sells or supplies oil to Cuba.

Both Mr. Trump and the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio – whose parents emigrated from Cuba in the 1950s before the revolution – described the island's government as inefficient and abusive.

Díaz-Canel accused them of trying to create a “story” without reason.

“Cuba is not a failed country. Cuba is a country under siege. Cuba is a country facing various forms of violence: economic war, a strong embargo and an embargo,” said Díaz-Canel, the main speaker at Thursday's rally.

“Cuba is a threatened country that does not surrender. And despite everything. And because of socialism. Cuba is a country that resists, creates, and does not make mistakes, a country that will succeed,” said Díaz-Canel.

A potential personality disorder

Cuba and the US have agreed to talks to resolve the dispute, but no details have been disclosed.

The Cuban president recalled the success made possible by the revolution and its social system, which allows free education that has trained thousands of professionals, most of whom have been forced to emigrate because of the crisis.

The oil embargo imposed by Trump has worsened the already difficult conditions brought on by the five-year economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the tightening of US sanctions aimed at forcing a change in the island's political model.

Experts have warned of a humanitarian crisis.

Measures to prevent the island from receiving oil from its Venezuelan, Mexican and Russian suppliers exacerbate the already poor living conditions of the people, including for a long time. power outage and fuel shortages.

This meeting was celebrating the 65th anniversary of the historic speech of the late leader, Fidel Castro, during the crisis with the United States. That moment marked the ideological course the Caribbean nation would take and its opposition to Washington's continental hegemony.