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Cuba says it will ‘never again’ become a colony after Trump map

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Cuba would never again become a colony and would defend its independence and sovereignty.
  • Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez mocked Donald Trump’s map, saying it could leave U.S. citizens geographically disoriented.
  • The statements came amid heightened tensions, U.S. pressure and a deep economic and energy crisis in Cuba.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the island “will never again” become a colony of any empire after Donald Trump posted a map whose U.S. flag colors covered Mexico, the Caribbean and Canada, as well as Greenland and Iceland.

Cuba is clear that it will never again become a colony of any empire.

· Miguel Díaz-CanelThe Cuban president defended the island’s independence after Trump posted the map.

Díaz-Canel did not explicitly mention Trump’s post, but said Cuba understood the meaning of having been a colony and a neocolony of two empires. He said the blood shed for the country’s independence, sovereignty and self-determination would not have been in vain, and vowed to defend those principles “to the ultimate consequences”.

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez directly referred to Trump’s publication and responded with irony. “The U.S. government will leave its citizens geographically disoriented,” he wrote on social media. He added that Americans would soon not know which gulf, lake, building, country, continent or planet they were in.

The blood that independence, sovereignty and self-determination have cost will not have been in vain, and we will defend them to the ultimate consequences.

· Miguel Díaz-CanelDíaz-Canel said Cuba would continue defending its sovereignty.

The Cuban government made the statements as relations between Havana and Washington faced their sharpest tensions in decades. The article links that tension to Cuba’s severe internal crisis and Washington’s policy of “maximum pressure” since early 2026, including an oil blockade and secondary sanctions introduced in May that have deterred foreign companies.

The U.S. government will leave its citizens geographically disoriented.

· Bruno RodríguezThe Cuban foreign minister mocked Trump’s map in a social media post.

Rodríguez said the U.S. economic embargo cost Cuba $8.0833 billion between March 1, 2025, and February 28, 2026, the highest figure recorded and 7% more than in the previous period. He called recent measures by the Trump administration “cruel collective punishment”. Cuba’s economy has been almost completely paralysed by an energy crisis after contracting 15% between 2020 and 2025. Independent forecasts cited by the article suggest it could shrink by as much as 10.3% this year.

Cruel collective punishment.

· Bruno RodríguezHe used the phrase to describe recent U.S. measures against Cuba.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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