Cuban president defiant despite Trump pressure to resign
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Cuba’s Diaz-Canel vows to resist US pressure to resign as Trump escalates threats, tightens oil blockade on the island.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel says he will not bow to pressure by the United States to resign.
“Stepping down is not part of our vocabulary,” he said in an interview with US broadcaster NBC News on Thursday.
The president described communist-ruled Cuba as a “free sovereign state” with the right to “self-determination,” adding that the island is not “subject to the designs of the United States”.
“In Cuba, the people who are in leadership positions are not elected by the US government,” he said.
The president since 2018 faces increasing pressure and demands for regime change from President Donald Trump’s administration.
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