‘We are not afraid of war’: Cuba president dismisses Trump’s escalating threats

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel says his country will do its best to defend itself if the United States launches an illegal act of aggression against the Caribbean country.

Speaking to Russia’s RT news agency on Saturday, Diaz-Canel said Cuba is “not a country that is calling for war or promotes it, but we are also not afraid of war if we must wage it to defend our homeland.”

He also noted that the Cuban government has made national defense a “top priority” since the escalation of US President Donald Trump’s threats against the island state.

Trump said earlier this week that “we may stop by Cuba after we’re finished with this,” in reference to the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran.

For more than six decades, Cuba has been subject to inhumane US sanctions in flagrant violation of the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter and international law.

UN sounds alarm over US-generated energy crisis in Cuba

The United Nations has sounded the alarm over the energy crisis in Cuba after it was cut off by the Trump administration from fuel supplied by Venezuela.

The Trump administration has intensified the campaign of pressure against Cuba since January, when the US kidnapped Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro following an illegal military assault.

In February, the US president imposed an oil blockade on Cuba, while also repeatedly hinting at a possible “regime change” operation against the Latin American country.

Diaz-Canel stressed that surrender will never be an option for the Cuban nation despite the suffering caused by unilateral US measures.

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