Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel denounced the US capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro as “state terrorism” on Saturday, warning the loss of Venezuelan oil would hit Cuba’s fragile economy.
-“Cuba condemns and denounces these actions as an act of state terrorism,” Diaz-Canel said.
-“It is a shocking violation of the norms of international law – the military aggression against a peaceful nation that poses no threat to the United States,” he added.
– Secretary of State Marco Rubio hinted that Cuba could be the next target of the Trump administration’s push to restore American dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
– Rubio said he would be a bit concerned if he were a Cuban government official following the overnight US military operation in Venezuela. “If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned at least a little bit,” said Rubio, who has had a long preoccupation with both Venezuela and Cuba.
– In an interview US President Donald Trump gave to the New York Post on Saturday, he said he is not considering additional military action against Cuba.
– “No, Cuba is going to fall of its own volition. Cuba is doing very poorly,” Trump said.
– “Cuba was always very reliant on Venezuela. That’s where they got their money, and they protected Venezuela, but that didn’t work out too well in this case,” the president said.