Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has warned that any US military action against his country would lead to a 'bloodbath' with unpredictable consequences for regional peace and stability.
'Cuba is not a threat,' Díaz-Canel wrote on social media platform X.
The statement came after Axios published a report on Sunday, citing secret intelligence sources, claiming that Cuba had purchased more than 300 military drones and discussed plans to use them to attack the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, American warships, and Key West, Florida.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, in a separate post, asserted that Cuba, 'like all countries in the world,' has the legitimate right to self-defense against external aggression under the UN Charter and international law. He added that those seeking to attack Cuba are using fabricated justifications.
Cuba, Washington's longtime communist adversary, has been under growing pressure since the US cut off its energy supply after arresting the president of its former ally Venezuela in January. In recent weeks, fuel has run out, and electricity is typically available only for one or two hours a day.
Tensions between the two countries have risen sharply in recent days. On Friday, it was reported that US prosecutors plan to indict former Cuban leader Raúl Castro in connection with the 1996 shootdown of two aircraft operated by the humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue.
Indicting Castro, 94, would mark a major escalation in the Trump administration's pressure on Cuba, which it has described as corrupt and incompetent as it pushes for change on the island.
