US Edition'Make a Deal Before It's Too Late,' Trump Tells Cuba
Trump accuses Cuba of relying on Venezuelan oil and providing security to leaders, urging a deal to avoid worsening regional instability, with US military involvement noted.
- On Sunday, US President Donald Trump intensified pressure on Cuba, urging it to make a deal before it is too late in a social media post.
- Trump pointed to Cuba's economic ties with Venezuela, saying it relied for years on large amounts of oil and money and alleged it provided security services to Venezuelan leaders.
- Trump escalated the rhetoric, writing a blunt warning: `THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA- ZERO!` and claiming most Cubans alleged to have provided security are dead while Venezuela now has United States military protection.
- Cuba's leader rejected outside dictates and vowed to defend the homeland in a Sunday post, saying Cuba is free, independent and sovereign and nobody dictates its actions.
- Observers say the posts look designed to increase influence over Cuba amid the wider Venezuela context, while the Trump administration emphasizes stability across North and South America and the Western Hemisphere.
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Trump has threatened Cuba to negotiate. If he doesn’t, it can be late later. In his opinion, the U.S. won’t need to intervene militarily because the island’s regime, without Venezuela’s oil, will fall on its own. In Havana, these threats didn’t feel right. President Miguel Díaz-Canel warned that his country is independent and sovereign: no one can force him to do what he doesn’t want; Cuba, unlike the Americans, doesn’t attack anyone. Continue r…
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The Straits TimesEuropean Diplomats Fear Crisis in Cuba as Trump Amps Up Pressure
(Bloomberg) — Cuba faces a possible humanitarian crisis and a chaotic collapse of its government as President Donald Trump threatens to starve the communist-run island of critical fuel and financing.
The U.S. president this Sunday urged Cuba from its Truth Social network to "find an agreement," without further details, a week after military forces captured Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan dictator allied to the Cuban regime.
Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, said Monday that “there are no talks with the U.S. government.” In a long thread on their social networks, he responded to Donald Trump, who on Sunday had urged Havana to reach “an agreement before it is too late.” “As history shows, relations between the U.S. and Cuba, in order for them to advance, must be based on international law rather than on hostility, threat and economic coercion,” the Cuban president…
Donald Trump threatens Cuba with severe economic sanctions, demanding an unspecified "agreement", which provokes a sharp reaction from Miguel Diaz-Canel Donald Trump hardened the tone against Cuba on Sunday
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