Washington/The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, assured this Thursday that the US president, Donald Trump, told him during their meeting at the White House that he does not plan to invade Cuba.
“If what the translation said is correct, he told me that he does not plan to invade Cuba. I heard that from the interpreter,” Lula explained at a press conference at the Brazilian embassy in Washington after a three-hour meeting with Trump.
During the meeting, Lula told Trump that he is “fully available” if he “needs help” to address the situation in Cuba.
“Cuba wants to dialogue and find a solution to end a blockade that has never allowed Cuba to be a free country since the victory of the revolution,” said the Brazilian leader, who criticized that the Island suffers “the longest blockade in the history of humanity.”
Lula told Trump that he is “fully available” if he “needs help” to address the situation in Cuba
The meeting, the first between Trump and Lula in the White House, has been preceded by Brazil’s criticism of the operation to capture Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, the pressures on Cuba and the war in Iran.
After Maduro’s arrest, the United States imposed an oil blockade on Cuba, which has worsened the island’s economic and social crisis, and Trump recently declared that he will “take control” of that country “almost immediately,” in addition to moving the aircraft carrier to the area. USS Abraham Lincoln.
The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, considered on social networks that Trump “raises his threats of military aggression against Cuba to a dangerous and unprecedented scale” and that, consequently, “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.”
