Cuba's Leader Says U.s. Aggression Would Meet 'impregnable Resistance'

HAVANA — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has lashed retired aft President Trump suggested he tin do “whatever he wants” pinch nan land and that nan U.S. could return “imminent action” against it.

Writing connected nan societal level X precocious Tuesday, Díaz-Canel said nan Trump management “publicly threatens” Cuba’s authorities almost regular pinch overthrowing it, and immoderate enactment of aggression “will conflict pinch an impregnable resistance.”

The comments travel aft nan caller threats by Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said nan Cuban government’s socialist economical exemplary needs to “change dramatically.”

While nan Cuban authorities places dense restrictions connected nan country’s backstage sector, decades of U.S. sanctions person crippled Cuba’s economy.

The Trump management is looking for Díaz-Canel to time off arsenic nan U.S. continues negotiating pinch nan Cuban government, according to a U.S. charismatic and a root pinch knowledge of talks betwixt Washington and Havana. They said connected information of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk delicate talks.

No specifications person been offered astir who nan management mightiness for illustration to spot successful power.

Trump’s comments connected Cuba travel aft his administration’s subject ambush that captured then-President Nicolás Maduro successful Venezuela, and nan motorboat of U.S. subject strikes against Iran.

The management has efficaciously halted captious lipid exports to Cuba, pushing nan Caribbean federation to nan brink.

The Cuban group Trump and Rubio opportunity they want to thief person been near reeling.

Overnight, activistic groups from various countries delivered 5 tons of aesculapian instrumentality and different aid, according to Cuban authorities television, while crippling blackouts plague nan island.

Durán writes for nan Associated Press. AP writers Seung Min Kim, Aamer Madhani and Will Weissert successful Washington contributed to this report.