Cuba's president says no current talks with the U.S. following Trump's threats

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Monday that his medication is not successful talks with the U.S. government, a time aft President Donald Trump threatened the Caribbean land successful the aftermath of the U.S. onslaught connected Venezuela.

Díaz-Canel posted a flurry of little statements connected X aft Trump suggested that Cuba "make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE." He did not accidental what benignant of deal.

Díaz-Canel wrote that for "relations betwixt the U.S. and Cuba to progress, they indispensable beryllium based connected planetary instrumentality alternatively than hostility, threats, and economical coercion."

He added: "We person ever been consenting to clasp a superior and liable dialog with the assorted US governments, including the existent one, connected the ground of sovereign equality, communal respect, principles of International Law, and communal payment without interference successful interior affairs and with afloat respect for our independence."

His statements were reposted by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez connected X.

On Sunday, Trump wrote that Cuba would nary longer unrecorded disconnected lipid and wealth from Venezuela, which the U.S. attacked connected Jan. 3 successful a stunning cognition that killed 32 Cuban officers and led to the apprehension of President Nicolás Maduro.

Cuba was receiving an estimated 35,000 barrels a time from Venezuela earlier the U.S. attacked, on with immoderate 5,500 barrels regular from Mexico and astir 7,500 from Russia, according to Jorge Piñón of the Energy Institute astatine the University of Texas astatine Austin, who tracks the shipments.

Even with lipid shipments from Venezuela, wide blackouts person persisted crossed Cuba fixed substance shortages and a crumbling electrical grid. Experts interest a deficiency of petroleum would lone deepen the island's aggregate crises.

The concern betwixt the U.S. and Cuba is "very bittersweet and concerning," said Andy S. Gómez, retired dean of the School of International Studies and elder chap successful Cuban Studies astatine the University of Miami.

He said helium sees Díaz-Canel's latest comments "as a mode to effort and bargain a small spot of clip for the interior ellipse to determine what steps it's going to take."

Gómez said helium doesn't visualize Cuba reaching retired to U.S. officials close now.

"They had each accidental erstwhile President (Barack) Obama opened up U.S. diplomatic relations, and yet they didn't adjacent bring Cuban java to the table," Gómez said. "Of course, these are hopeless times for Cuba."

Michael Galant, elder probe and outreach subordinate astatine the Center for Economic and Policy Research successful Washington, D.C., said helium believes Cuba mightiness beryllium consenting to negotiate.

"Cuba has been funny successful uncovering ways to easiness sanctions," helium said. "It's not that Cuba is uncooperative."

Galant said topics for treatment could see migration and security, adding that helium believes Trump is not successful a hurry.

"Trump is hoping to deepen the economical situation connected the island, and determination are fewer costs to Trump to effort and hold that out," helium said. "I don't deliberation it's apt that determination volition beryllium immoderate melodramatic enactment successful the coming days due to the fact that determination is nary unreserved to travel to the table."

Cuba's president stressed connected X that "there are nary talks with the U.S. government, but for method contacts successful the country of ​​migration."

The island's communist authorities has said U.S. sanctions outgo the state much than $7.5 cardinal betwixt March 2024 and February 2025.