Cuban president responds to Trump warnings over island
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... Cuban President Miguel Daz-Canel has responded harshly to public warnings issued by U.S. President Donald Trump as tensions between Havana and Washington escalated. ...

Daz-Canel replied on X. In a series of posts Sunday, the Cuban leader rejected the U.S. warnings and defended the country's sovereignty.

"Cuba is a free, independent and sovereign nation. No one dictates what we do," he wrote.

With that message, Daz-Canel made clear the Cuban government will not accept external pressure or ultimatums to define its political or economic direction.

He also said the United States "has no moral authority to lecture Cuba about anything" and accused Washington of turning even human lives into a business and acting out of "rage" toward the political system chosen by the Cuban people.

Daz-Canel said the island's severe economic hardships are the result of "draconian measures of extreme suffocation" imposed by the United States for more than six decades and now being intensified.

He added that Cuba "does not attack anyone, it is attacked by the United States," and said the Cuban people are prepared to defend the country "to the last drop of blood." ...