Cuba says no negotiations with US despite ‘genocidal’ blockade
Cuba reports record losses from the US embargo as foreign minister describes months of punishing blackouts.
Cuba says it is not currently negotiating with the United States, as the Trump administration continues its campaign of economic pressure on the island.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said on Monday that Havana and Washington are not negotiating, and that there is no agenda for future talks.
His comments came during a media conference, as he laid out Cuba’s latest estimate of the damage caused by the decades-old US embargo, imposed since former leader Fidel Castro‘s communist revolution in 1959.
“These are long months of living with only two or three hours of electricity per day or less,” Rodríguez wrote, painting a bleak picture of what the country’s worsening energy crisis looks like for Cubans.