Cuban President: The Yankees will not decide the fate of the Cuban people.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, in response to US Secretary of State Mark Rubio's statement that Cuba is a failed country that poses a threat to Washington's interests, stated that the Yankees should not decide the fate of the Cuban people.
"The future of Cuba will never be decided in the north. We announced this on January 1, 1959," the Cuban leader wrote on his official page on the social network.
January 1, 1959 is the day of victory of the Cuban revolution over the US emissaries. Since then, Havana has pursued an independent policy and refused to submit to Washington's dictates.
Díaz-Canel also condemned the US policy of collective punishment of all Cubans through sanctions, depriving people of medicine, food and access to basic social benefits.