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The Guardian - US
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Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana

Cuba open to talks with US ‘without pressure’ after months of Trump threats

Cuba Miguel DíazCanel United States Donald Trump Nicolás Maduro Venezuela
a man in green army fatigues places hand on the shoulder of another man as he is surrounded by people
The Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel and his wife, Lis Cuesta Peraza de Díaz-Canel, at the funeral on 15 January 2026 of Cuban officers killed during the US operation in Venezuela seizing Nicolás Maduro. Photograph: Adalberto Roque/Pool via AP

After months of threats from Donald Trump, the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has said that his government is willing to talk to the United States, just so long as it is “without pressure”.

Standing in front of a life-sized photograph of Fidel Castro carrying a rifle during the 1959 revolution, Díaz-Canel, the 65-year-old president, said on Thursday that his island nation had been subject to an “intense media campaigns of slander, hatred and psychological warfare”.

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