The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, assured this Thursday that he will not resign from his position during an interview with the NBC television network.
“Resigning is not part of our vocabulary,” responded the Cuban leader when the journalist from NBC He questioned whether he had considered resigning to “save his country.”
“In Cuba, those who occupy leadership positions are not elected by the US government nor do they have a mandate from said government,” added Diaz-Canel, during the interview, the first he has given to a US network.
“We have a free and sovereign State (…) we enjoy self-determination and independence, and we are not subject to the designs of the United States,” he concluded his response.
Díaz-Canel’s pronouncement occurs in the middle of a increased pressure from the Donald Trump Administration on his country in search of a regime change.
Trump has referred to Cuba as “a failed nation” and since the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Caracas he blocked oil shipments that Venezuela destined for the island.
The Cuban president seemed upset when the interviewer asked him if he was considering resigning and replied if he could ask Trump the same question or if the questioning was an order from the State Department.
“We can negotiate but on the table without pressure or attempts at US intervention,” Díaz-Canel added.
Last month, The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, assured that Cuba’s economic system is weakened and suggested the possibility of a change of Government.
This Thursday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov visited Havana to announce a second shipment of oil from Moscow to the island in search of breaking the siege imposed by the Trump Administration.
