
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel told NBC News' Kristen Welker he would not step down during his country's worst energy crisis in decades, then turned the question back on her with a challenge that cut straight to the heart of US-Cuba geopolitics.
In what NBC News described as his first interview with a US broadcast network, Diaz-Canel sat down with 'Meet the Press' moderator Kristen Welker in Havana on 9 April 2026.