Cuba open to talks with US, but insists ‘without pressure’ following months of Trump threats

2026-02-05 - 18:35

Miguel Díaz‐Canel says Cuba is willing to engage Washington amid the island’s deepening economic crisis After months of threats from Donald Trump, the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has said that his government is willing to talk to the United States, just so long as it is “without pressure”. Standing in front of a life-sized photograph of Fidel Castro carrying a rifle during the 1959 revolution, Díaz-Canel, the 65-year-old president, said on Thursday that his island nation has been subject to an “intense media campaigns of slander, hatred and psychological warfare”. Continue reading...