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Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel (C) takes part in the "Anti-Imperialist" protest in front of the US Embassy against the US incursion in Venezuela, where 32 Cuban soldiers lost their lives, in Havana on January 16, 2026.
(Photo by Yamil Lage/ POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
'No Aggressor, No Matter How Powerful, Will Find Surrender in Cuba,' President Warns Trump
After the US president again threatened invasion, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said he would only "find a people determined to defend sovereignty and independence in every inch of the national territory."
May 02, 2026
President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez of Cuba on Saturday responded with stark and defiant words to the latest attacks coming from US President Donald Trump, who on Friday signed a new executive order authorizing even more aggressive sanctions against the island nation and later threatened to invade the country.
"The President of the United States escalates his threats of military aggression against Cuba to a dangerous and unprecedented scale," said Díaz-Canel in a statement. "The international community must take note and, together with the people of the United States, determine whether such a drastic criminal act will be allowed to satisfy the interests of a small but wealthy and influential group, driven by desires for revenge and domination."
"No aggressor, no matter how powerful, will find surrender in Cuba," he added. If Trump were to attack the country, the Cuban president said, "he will find a people determined to defend sovereignty and independence in every inch of the national territory."
"What does 'No Kings' mean when one man can snap his fingers and kill innocent Cubans on a whim?"
In addition "to blocking the US assets of foreign individuals and entities operating in Cuba's energy, defense, financial services, metals, mining, and security sectors, as well as anyone acting on behalf of the Cuban government," as Drop Site News notes, Friday's executive order also "authorizes sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct significant transactions with designated Cuban entities, potentially cutting them off from US correspondent banking."
As such, the outlet continued, the new sanctions "could further isolate Cuba from the international financial system, limit foreign investment, and exacerbate the island's already severely restricted access to medicine, food imports, and basic goods."
In addition to the signed executive order, Trump said during a Friday campaign-style event in Florida that the US "will be taking [Cuba] over almost immediately."
Upon their return from Iran, where Trump has waged a deeply unpopular war, the US president told the crowd, "We’ll have maybe the USS Lincoln [aircraft carrier] come in offshore, and they’ll give up."
In a floor speech earlier this week, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) rebuked the Trump administration for the humanitarian disaster it has unleashed in Cuba, which follows what he described as a "failed" policy towards the island country over decades.
As Trump ramps up his threats of war against Cuba, we must understand what led us to this point: 65 years of a bankrupt Cuba policy.
If we want to avoid war with Cuba, we must rein in this lawless President & learn from the failed, bipartisan policies that led us to this point. pic.twitter.com/H9MqviSe6d
— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) April 30, 2026
"If we want to avoid war with Cuba," said Van Hollen, "we must rein in this lawless president and learn from the failed, bipartisan policies that led us to this point."
David Adler, the co-general coordinator of Progressive International, condemned the relative silence of US opponents to the Trump administration, who have not done, in his mind, nearly enough to challenge the blockade or condemn the administration's repeated and ongoing threats to invade the island nation or overthrow its government.
" Donald Trump has given [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio the green light to annihilate a peaceful nation and its people—and the ‘resistance’ is silent," said Adler. "What does 'No Kings' mean when one man can snap his fingers and kill innocent Cubans on a whim?"
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President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez of Cuba on Saturday responded with stark and defiant words to the latest attacks coming from US President Donald Trump, who on Friday signed a new executive order authorizing even more aggressive sanctions against the island nation and later threatened to invade the country.
"The President of the United States escalates his threats of military aggression against Cuba to a dangerous and unprecedented scale," said Díaz-Canel in a statement. "The international community must take note and, together with the people of the United States, determine whether such a drastic criminal act will be allowed to satisfy the interests of a small but wealthy and influential group, driven by desires for revenge and domination."
"No aggressor, no matter how powerful, will find surrender in Cuba," he added. If Trump were to attack the country, the Cuban president said, "he will find a people determined to defend sovereignty and independence in every inch of the national territory."
"What does 'No Kings' mean when one man can snap his fingers and kill innocent Cubans on a whim?"
In addition "to blocking the US assets of foreign individuals and entities operating in Cuba's energy, defense, financial services, metals, mining, and security sectors, as well as anyone acting on behalf of the Cuban government," as Drop Site News notes, Friday's executive order also "authorizes sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct significant transactions with designated Cuban entities, potentially cutting them off from US correspondent banking."
As such, the outlet continued, the new sanctions "could further isolate Cuba from the international financial system, limit foreign investment, and exacerbate the island's already severely restricted access to medicine, food imports, and basic goods."
In addition to the signed executive order, Trump said during a Friday campaign-style event in Florida that the US "will be taking [Cuba] over almost immediately."
Upon their return from Iran, where Trump has waged a deeply unpopular war, the US president told the crowd, "We’ll have maybe the USS Lincoln [aircraft carrier] come in offshore, and they’ll give up."
In a floor speech earlier this week, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) rebuked the Trump administration for the humanitarian disaster it has unleashed in Cuba, which follows what he described as a "failed" policy towards the island country over decades.
As Trump ramps up his threats of war against Cuba, we must understand what led us to this point: 65 years of a bankrupt Cuba policy.
If we want to avoid war with Cuba, we must rein in this lawless President & learn from the failed, bipartisan policies that led us to this point. pic.twitter.com/H9MqviSe6d
— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) April 30, 2026
"If we want to avoid war with Cuba," said Van Hollen, "we must rein in this lawless president and learn from the failed, bipartisan policies that led us to this point."
David Adler, the co-general coordinator of Progressive International, condemned the relative silence of US opponents to the Trump administration, who have not done, in his mind, nearly enough to challenge the blockade or condemn the administration's repeated and ongoing threats to invade the island nation or overthrow its government.
" Donald Trump has given [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio the green light to annihilate a peaceful nation and its people—and the ‘resistance’ is silent," said Adler. "What does 'No Kings' mean when one man can snap his fingers and kill innocent Cubans on a whim?"
President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez of Cuba on Saturday responded with stark and defiant words to the latest attacks coming from US President Donald Trump, who on Friday signed a new executive order authorizing even more aggressive sanctions against the island nation and later threatened to invade the country.
"The President of the United States escalates his threats of military aggression against Cuba to a dangerous and unprecedented scale," said Díaz-Canel in a statement. "The international community must take note and, together with the people of the United States, determine whether such a drastic criminal act will be allowed to satisfy the interests of a small but wealthy and influential group, driven by desires for revenge and domination."
"No aggressor, no matter how powerful, will find surrender in Cuba," he added. If Trump were to attack the country, the Cuban president said, "he will find a people determined to defend sovereignty and independence in every inch of the national territory."
"What does 'No Kings' mean when one man can snap his fingers and kill innocent Cubans on a whim?"
In addition "to blocking the US assets of foreign individuals and entities operating in Cuba's energy, defense, financial services, metals, mining, and security sectors, as well as anyone acting on behalf of the Cuban government," as Drop Site News notes, Friday's executive order also "authorizes sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct significant transactions with designated Cuban entities, potentially cutting them off from US correspondent banking."
As such, the outlet continued, the new sanctions "could further isolate Cuba from the international financial system, limit foreign investment, and exacerbate the island's already severely restricted access to medicine, food imports, and basic goods."
In addition to the signed executive order, Trump said during a Friday campaign-style event in Florida that the US "will be taking [Cuba] over almost immediately."
Upon their return from Iran, where Trump has waged a deeply unpopular war, the US president told the crowd, "We’ll have maybe the USS Lincoln [aircraft carrier] come in offshore, and they’ll give up."
In a floor speech earlier this week, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) rebuked the Trump administration for the humanitarian disaster it has unleashed in Cuba, which follows what he described as a "failed" policy towards the island country over decades.
As Trump ramps up his threats of war against Cuba, we must understand what led us to this point: 65 years of a bankrupt Cuba policy.
If we want to avoid war with Cuba, we must rein in this lawless President & learn from the failed, bipartisan policies that led us to this point. pic.twitter.com/H9MqviSe6d
— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) April 30, 2026
"If we want to avoid war with Cuba," said Van Hollen, "we must rein in this lawless president and learn from the failed, bipartisan policies that led us to this point."
David Adler, the co-general coordinator of Progressive International, condemned the relative silence of US opponents to the Trump administration, who have not done, in his mind, nearly enough to challenge the blockade or condemn the administration's repeated and ongoing threats to invade the island nation or overthrow its government.
" Donald Trump has given [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio the green light to annihilate a peaceful nation and its people—and the ‘resistance’ is silent," said Adler. "What does 'No Kings' mean when one man can snap his fingers and kill innocent Cubans on a whim?"
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