Cuba’s leader says US aggression would meet ‘impregnable resistance’
Cuba’s leader says US aggression would meet ‘impregnable resistance’
Concern, anger and hope simmer in Cuba after Trump calls for 'imminent action' against government
Cuba’s president has lashed out after the latest threat from the Trump administration after President Donald Trump said he can do “whatever he wants” with the island.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44687804
March 18, 2026
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has lashed out after U.S. President Donald Trump said that he can do “whatever he wants” with the Caribbean island and that Washington could take “imminent action” against it.
Díaz-Canel said on X late Tuesday that the Trump administration “publicly threatens” Cuba’s government almost daily with overthrowing it, and any act of aggression “will clash with an impregnable resistance.”
The comments came after the new threats by Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said that the Cuban government’s socialist economic model needs to “change dramatically.”
While the Cuban government places heavy restrictions on the country’s private sector, decades of U.S. sanctions have crippled Cuba’s economy.