Cuba denounces Trump's statements as slander

Havana on Tuesday described as “slander” and “lies” the statements of American President Donald Trump, who affirmed before the UN General Assembly that the government of the communist island would “fall”, without saying how. “The communist regime is under strong pressure, the strongest it has ever known (...). It will fall,” said Donald Trump, adding that Washington was holding negotiations with Havana and predicting: “Freedom will come to Cuba.”

Havana's reaction was not long in coming. “The United States government is incapable of accepting that Cuba is, and has the right to be, a fully independent and sovereign country,” denounced on X the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez, who heads the Cuban delegation in New York. “None of the false statements made by the President of the United States at the UN and no slander can or will be able to deny this fact,” added the head of diplomacy.

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Shortly before, members of the Cuban delegation had left the General Assembly hall during Trump's intervention. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel also castigated the “lie” of the tenant of the White House. “Incapable of justifying the punishment inflicted on the people of Cuba and its genocidal economic war, the President of the United States repeats at the UN that Cuba represents a threat,” he lamented on X.

Since the Republican billionaire's return to power, relations between Havana and Washington have become considerably strained. The US president says Cuba, located 150 kilometers from the coast of Florida, represents “an extraordinary threat” to US national security and has repeatedly threatened to “take control” of the island.