In his first television interview with an American broadcaster, Miguel Diaz-Canel says revolutionaries don’t give up and step down
The Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, said he would not resign under US pressure in his first television interview with an American broadcaster, while Russia insisted it would never abandon or betray its ally.
Diaz-Canel told NBC News on Thursday: “We have a free sovereign state, a free state. We have self-determination and independence, and we are not subjected to the designs of the United States.
“The US government that has implemented that hostile policy against Cuba has no moral to demand anything from Cuba,” the 65-year-old said in remarks that were translated to English. “The concept of revolutionaries giving up and stepping down – it’s not part of our vocabulary.”
Washington has waged a pressure campaign on communist-ruled Cuba, imposing a virtual oil blockade on the island by threatening tariffs on any country that attempts to sell oil to the island.
