In a new delirious escalation of his anti-Cuban rhetoric and measures, the US president said on social media that there will be no more oil or money from Venezuela for Cuba, disregarding the sovereign nature of both Latin American nations.
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Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided “Security Services” for the last two Venezuelan dictators. BUT NOT ANYMORE! Most of those Cubans are DEAD from last weeks U.S.A. attack, and Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years. Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the world (by far!), to protect them, and protect them we will. THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.
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Díaz-Canel rejects Trump’s statements and reaffirms Cuba’s sovereignty
January 11, 2026
In response to today’s statements by US President Donald Trump, the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, categorically rejected any accusations against the island and questioned Washington’s moral authority to pass judgment on the Cuban reality.
“Those who turn everything into business, even human lives, have no moral authority to point fingers at Cuba in any way, absolutely none,” said the head of state, referring to what he described as a campaign of hostility and discredit against the Caribbean nation.
Díaz-Canel maintained that those who today “hysterically rail” against Cuba do so, in his opinion, motivated by anger at the sovereign decision of the Cuban people to choose their own political model. In this regard, he rejected attempts to blame the Revolution for the severe economic shortages facing the country.
“Those who blame the Revolution for the economic difficulties we are suffering should be ashamed to speak, because they know—and acknowledge—that they are the result of the draconian measures of extreme suffocation that the United States has been applying to us for six decades and now threatens to intensify,” he stressed.
The president reiterated that Cuba is a free, independent, and sovereign nation that does not accept external impositions. “No one dictates what we do. Cuba does not attack; it has been attacked by the United States for 66 years,” he emphasized, while reaffirming the country’s willingness to defend its sovereignty against any threat.
Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla said on his twitter account “Unlike the US, we do not have a government that lends itself to mercenary activities, blackmail, or military coercion against other states,”
Rodríguez explained that his country “has every right” to import fuel from markets “willing to export it,” in addition to exercising its right to develop its commercial relations “without interference or subordination to unilateral coercive measures by the US.” “Right and justice are on Cuba’s side,” he recalled.
At the same time, the foreign minister accused Washington of behaving like a “criminal and uncontrolled hegemon that threatens peace and security, not only in Cuba and this hemisphere, but throughout the world.”
Rodríguez also responded to Trump’s accusations that Havana was receiving “large quantities” of oil from Venezuela in exchange for providing security services. “Cuba does not receive and has never received monetary or material compensation for the security services it has provided to any country,” he emphasized.
Source: Cubadebate translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English
