"In the leadership of our Party, State, Government, and its military institutions, no one has any assets or property to protect under U.S. jurisdiction." This was affirmed, from his Twitter account, by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
The statement comes in response to the new measures against high-ranking Cuban officials, military leaders, and institutions, announced Monday by the U.S. Treasury Department as part of its maximum pressure campaign against the island.
"The U.S. government knows this perfectly well, so much so that there isn't even any evidence to present. The hateful anti-Cuban rhetoric tries to make people believe they exist in order to justify escalating its total economic war," the president added.
"That is why we will continue to denounce, in the firmest and most forceful manner, the genocidal siege that seeks to strangle our people," he emphasized.
The Head of State described as immoral, illegal, and criminal the executive order that persecutes and threatens third parties who want to sell fuel to Cuba and the one that extraterritorializes the blockade to unprecedented levels, penalizing companies that want to invest in Cuba or simply provide us with basic goods such as food, medicine, hygiene products, and others.
"The collective punishment to which the Cuban people are being subjected is an act of genocide that must be condemned by international organizations, and its promoters must be prosecuted," he declared.
CUBA DOES NOT REPRESENT A THREAT, BUT HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF
"The threats of military aggression against Cuba by the world’s greatest power are well known. The threat itself constitutes an international crime. If it materializes, it will provoke a bloodbath with incalculable consequences, in addition to the destructive impact on regional peace and stability."
These were the words of Díaz-Canel, speaking this Monday morning from X, as he reaffirmed that "Cuba does not represent a threat, nor does it have any aggressive plans or intentions against any country."
The Cuban president pointed out that the island “has no such intentions against the U.S., nor has it ever had them, a fact well known to the U.S. government, especially its defense and national security agencies.”
He also recalled that "Cuba, which already suffers multidimensional aggression from the United States, does have the absolute and legitimate right to defend itself against a military onslaught, which cannot be logically or honestly used as an excuse to impose a war against the noble Cuban people."
This statement by the President comes amid an unprecedented escalation of coercive measures by the United States government against Cuba, which intensified on January 29, when the U.S. government declared a "national emergency" in response to the alleged "unusual and extraordinary threat" that, according to Washington, Cuba poses to U.S. and regional security.
Subsequently, on May 1st, 2026, a new order was issued, which the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs described as an act of ruthless economic aggression, as it expands the extraterritorial reach of the blockade by authorizing secondary sanctions against non-U.S. individuals and entities—including foreign banks—operating in key sectors of the Cuban economy such as energy, defense, mining, financial services, and security.
