Cuban President Miguel Daz-Canel Bermdez vowed that his regime would defend the island to the last drop of blood after President Donald Trump publicly pressed Havana to reach an agreement with Washington.
The sharp exchange unfolded Sunday as Daz-Canel used social media to blame the United States for Cubas deepening economic misery, even as President Trump urged that they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. According to Fox News, the clash underscored the widening gulf between a communist government clinging to power and a U.S. administration signaling that the days of easy lifelines from socialist allies are over.
Daz-Canel, posting in Spanish on X, lashed out at critics of the regime who point to chronic shortages and economic collapse. Those who blame the Revolution for the severe economic shortages we suffer should hold their tongues out of shame. Because they know it and acknowledge it: they are the fruit of the draconian measures of extreme strangulation that the U.S. has been applying to us for six decades and now threatens to surpass, he wrote, according to a translation.
He doubled down in a subsequent message, insisting that Cuba would not bow to outside pressure and casting the United States as the aggressor. #Cuba is a free, independent, and sovereign nation. No one dictates what we do. Cuba does not aggress; it is aggressed upon by the United States for 66 years, and it does not threaten; it prepares, ready to defend the Homeland to the last drop of blood, Daz-Canel added, again according to the translation.
Cuban-born U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., answered the communist leader with a blistering rebuke that reflected the anger of many exiles who fled the regime. You dictators, henchmen, and executioners of the Cuban nation think you own the island. You don't have much time left, he declared in Spanish, according to the translation of his post.
President Trump, for his part, framed Cubas predicament as the collapse of a corrupt arrangement with Venezuela that long propped up Havanas rulers. 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 doesnt need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years, he wrote on Truth Social.
He then made clear that, under his leadership, the United States would stand with Venezuela against regional authoritarianism while cutting off the Cuban regime from its traditional sources of support. 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, President Trump warned.
Gimenez publicly thanked President Trump, linking his own story as a refugee from communism to the broader conservative vision of a Western Hemisphere free from socialist dictatorships. I was born in Cuba & forced from home shortly after the Communist takeover. Today, I represent my community in Congress. Thank you, President Trump, first Venezuela & next is Cuba. We will be forever grateful. Our hemisphere must be the hemisphere of liberty, the congressman wrote on X.
This echoes a long-standing Republican conviction that American strength and resolve are essential to ending the grip of Marxist regimes in the Americas.
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