MIAMI, United States. – This Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the inauguration of President Donald Trump in the United States, the Cuban leader woke up dressed in olive green and surrounded by generals of the regime, during the beginning of the University Student Bastion.
“We woke up with UCI students [Universidad de Ciencias Informáticas] in shooting practice, as part of the Student Bastion”, Díaz-Canel wrote on the social networkwhere he also shared several photos.
Apparently the president not only wanted to report on his participation in the event, but also send a message to the world shortly after Donald Trump’s return to the White House. “Fidel said it: ‘As long as imperialism exists, the Party, the State and the People will pay maximum attention to defense services.’ It is an inviolable principle,” wrote the Cuban leader.
We woke up with UCI students doing shooting practice, as part of the #StudentBastion.
He left it said #Fidel: “As long as imperialism exists, the Party, the State and the People will pay maximum attention to defense services.” It is an inviolable principle. pic.twitter.com/0OdnncCgpM
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) January 21, 2025
Early this Monday night, Díaz-Canel also used your X account to react for the return of Cuba to the list of State sponsors of terrorism. Last week, the Island was excluded by Joe Biden from the group of countries where it was located along with Iran and North Korea and returned this Monday by Trump.
“President Trump, in an act of arrogance and contempt for the truth, has just reinstated the fraudulent designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism,” wrote the Cuban leader.
Díaz-Canel also described this action as part of Washington’s continued “economic siege” against the Island. “It is not surprising. “Its objective is to continue strengthening the cruel economic war against Cuba for the purposes of domination,” he said. Likewise, he related these policies to the increase in the migratory flow of Cubans to the United States.
This Tuesday, the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), the newspaper Granma, echoed of Díaz-Canel’s statements, who also described the measure as “an act of mockery and abuse” that “confirms the discredit of the lists and unilateral coercion mechanisms of the US Government.”
The Cuban leader also insisted, with his usual triumphalist spirit, that “the legitimate and noble cause of our people will prevail, and will once again win.”
The White House order that annuls the certification of Cuba as free of support for international terrorism is part of a series of initial rescissions classified by the current US Administration as “harmful” and “illegal.” In the official text released by the White House, it is noted that the policies of his predecessor, Joe Biden, had “embedded deeply unpopular and radical practices” in federal agencies, and that the new administration will seek to “restore common sense in the Government.” Federal”.
On the same day, suspended Title III of the Cuban Democratic Freedom and Solidarity Act that went into effect in 1996, and which was created to allow Americans, including naturalized Cubans, to sue in US courts companies that are allegedly profiting from properties in Cuba that were theirs 60 years ago, before the Revolution.
Trump’s decision this Monday, his first day in the White House (for the second time), also reinstates the NSPM-5 (list of restricted entities), which had already been in force during the first term of the now re-elected president. With this action, the economic, financial and commercial restrictions against Havana are tightened.
