{"id":451043,"date":"2026-02-05T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451043\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:15:07","slug":"cuba-open-to-talks-with-us-without-pressure-after-months-of-trump-threats-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451043\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba open to talks with US \u2018without pressure\u2019 after months of Trump threats | Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of threats from Donald Trump<\/a>, the president of Cuba<\/a>, Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, has said that his government is willing to talk to the United States, just so long as it is \u201cwithout pressure\u201d.<\/p>\n

Standing in front of a life-sized photograph of Fidel Castro carrying a rifle during the 1959 revolution, D\u00edaz-Canel, the 65-year-old president, said on Thursday that his island nation had been subject to an \u201cintense media campaigns of slander, hatred and psychological warfare\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, he said, the country was \u201cwilling to engage in dialogue with the United States, a dialogue on any topic, but without pressure or preconditions\u201d.<\/p>\n

The speech was broadcast on television, radio and YouTube. The Cuban government has found itself facing mounting threats of regime change from US officials, particularly since the 3 January US military capture of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>, the president of Venezuela and the island\u2019s traditional ally.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Trump suggested that talks were already under way, telling reportings: \u201cCuba is a failing nation. It has been for a long time but now it doesn\u2019t have Venezuela<\/a> to prop it up. So we\u2019re talking to the people from Cuba, the highest people in Cuba, to see what happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re going to make a deal with Cuba<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, Trump signed an executive order threatening to impose additional tariffs<\/a> on countries that sell oil to Cuba, and he later claimed that Mexico had agreed to halt shipments of oil at his request \u2013 a claim the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum<\/a>, has rejected.<\/p>\n

On Thursday Reuters reported that an oil tanker that has previously transported Venezuelan fuel to Cuba had finished loading a 150,000-barrel cargo of gasoline, in a possible sign that the South American country could be preparing to send supplies to the island.<\/p>\n

But Cuba\u2019s government is preparing the population for hardships beyond those already apparent. The island is already amid an economic slump that has seen people begging on the streets and rooting through bins for food. In recent years, hyper-inflation has slashed state salaries and pensions. Widespread power outages continued on Thursday, with reports that the whole east region of the island was offline.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz-Canel said he had received messages from the presidents of China and Russia<\/a>, along with many others from all over the world. \u201cThey expressed their support, commitment and determination to continue collaboration and cooperation with Cuba and Venezuela,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

However, a Havana-based businessman who has worked with the Cuban government for more than 25 years, said: \u201cThey are out of options. There are strong rumours of talks already under way in Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his speech, D\u00edaz-Canel said: \u201cThe energy persecution, the financial persecution, the intensification of the blockade with these coercive measures is such that we know we have to do a very strong, very creative, very intelligent job to overcome all these obstacles.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe are going to take measures that, while not permanent, will require effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

And in interviews preceding the statement, other government ministers made it clear what that meant.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not easy,\u201d the deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo, told the news agency Efe. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult for the government and very difficult for the population as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of threats from Donald Trump, the president of Cuba, Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, has said that his government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-451043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}