Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced US measures, calling for international denunciation and reaffirming dialogue based on equality.

Díaz-Canel said Cuba will pursue a broad international denunciation of what he described as a coercive policy. “We are going to make an international denunciation in all possible spaces of this coercive measure,” he stated, adding that the government is working with allied countries and the wider international community, “the same one that supports Cuba every year when it votes against the blockade.”

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He expressed confidence that Cuba will receive backing abroad. “We are sure that we will not be alone and that there will be understanding and there will be international denunciation, and there will be support for Cuba, because this is a criminal action,” he said.

The president questioned Washington’s authority to impose measures affecting essential resources. “What right does an empire have? What right does the government of a power have to deny what a small country needs in fuel to develop?” Díaz-Canel asked. He emphasized that Cuba poses no threat, describing it as “a small country that fights every day against adversity to achieve its prosperity, the prosperity it deserves for its heroism. A country that is not a threat to National Security.”

Reaffirming Cuba’s official position, Díaz-Canel stressed the country’s commitment to peace and dialogue. “We are a country of peace. We, even in the midst of all this aggression and the blockade of all these years, have said that we have the capacity and the willingness to dialogue with the government of the United States,” he said, while underscoring that “dialogue cannot be under pressure.”

He added that any dialogue must occur “under conditions of equality, of respect, without prior conditions,” and rejected hostility toward US citizens. “We have nothing against the North American people,” he said, pointing to the restrictions imposed by the blockade on “possible cultural, research, scientific, sports and educational relations” between the two peoples.

Díaz-Canel concluded by reaffirming Cuba’s determination to denounce the policy and rely on domestic resilience. “All of that we are going to denounce. Without fear, because we do have the conviction that we have to overcome our problems by ourselves, with our talent and with the courage of Cubans,” he said, vowing to “defend the Homeland, the Revolution and Socialism in the face of imperialist aggression, from the patriotism and anti-imperialism that distinguish and unite our people.”

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