The U.S. President, Donald Trump, speculated about an alleged contact with Cuban authorities, without confirmation from Havana, shortly after the island's government gave a strong response to his threats of possible aggression.
"One of the groups I want to take care of are the people who had to leave Cuba," the American president remarked, amid his administration’s implementation of a mass deportation of migrants, including Cuban citizens.
.@POTUS on Cuba: "We're talking to Cuba, and you'll find out pretty soon... One of the groups I want taken care are the people that came from Cuba that were forced out or left under duress — and they're great citizens of the United States right now." pic.twitter.com/1iBU2XcthN
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 12, 2026
The White House chief commented that the alleged contacts began after U.S. forces invaded Venezuela on January 3, when they kidnapped that country’s president, Nicolás Maduro Moros, and his wife, the first lady Cilia Flores.
They have no moral right to accuse Cuba of anything, absolutely nothing, those who turn everything into business, even human lives.
Those who today hysterically attack our nation do so sick with rage over this people’s sovereign decision to choose their political model.
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) January 11, 2026
U.S. has no moral right to talk about Cuba
Commenting on Trump’s claims that there was all kinds of pressure on the island and that the only option left was to go in and destroy it, the Caribbean country’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, stated that Cuba is a free, independent, and sovereign nation.
Those who blame the Revolution for the severe economic hardships we suffer should shut up out of shame. Because they know and acknowledge that these are the result of the draconian measures of extreme suffocation that the U.S. has applied to us for six decades and now threatens to surpass.
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) January 11, 2026
Furthermore, the Cuban leader emphasized that the United States had no moral ground to point fingers at his country.
“They have no moral right to accuse Cuba of anything, absolutely nothing, those who turn everything into business, even human lives,” highlighted Cuba's head of state on his X social network account, referring to the controversial Cuban Adjustment Act.
“They know, and they acknowledge, that these [hardships] are the result of the draconian measures of extreme strangulation that the United States has applied to us for six decades and now threatens to worsen,” Díaz-Canel said.
(Information from Alma Plus TV)
