Cuba's foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla stated that the country neither threatens nor desires war and stands ready to defend itself.
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Political Bureau member and foreign minister, said via social media that the US government is building a fraudulent case day after day to justify economic war against the Cuban people and possible military aggression.
He added that Cuba neither threatens nor desires war and defends peace while prepared to confront external aggression under its right to self-defense recognized by the UN Charter.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernández de Cossío stated that anti-Cuban efforts to justify military aggression are intensifying hourly with increasingly implausible accusations.
Since January 2026, two executive orders declaring Cuba an unusual and extraordinary threat to US national security have tightened the economic blockade in place for over 60 years, along with a recent oil embargo.