Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Monday that his country had a “legitimate” right to defend itself against a potential U.S. attacks after U.S. media reports alleged the island was considering mounting drone attacks on American targets.
U.S. news site Axios on Sunday quoted U.S. intelligence sources as claiming that Cuba had obtained more than 300 military drones with a view to possibly attacking the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels and possibly even Florida.
Axios quoted unnamed U.S. officials as saying that Cuba's acquisition of attack drones from Russia and Iran was proof of the "growing threat" that the Caribbean island nation poses to the United States.
Writing on X, Diaz-Canel did not directly address the accusation in the Axios report. But he said Cuba had "the absolute and legitimate right to defend itself against a military onslaught."
"Yet that cannot be wielded, logically or honestly, as an excuse for imposing war on the noble Cuban people," he wrote.
