Just this Friday, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero also recognized that Cuba is in a “war economy.”
LIMA, Peru – The prime minister of the Cuban regime, Manuel Marrero Cruz, sent a message of challenge to the United States Government through your account on X (formerly Twitter) within the framework of the official National Defense Day.
“Yankee threats do not surprise us or intimidate us. Mambisa and rebellious blood runs through our veins,” Marrero wrote.
The irreverent rhetoric of Castroism has been ignited in the last week after the US operation in Venezuela culminated in the arrest of dictator Nicolás Maduro, the main ally of the Havana dictatorship and who is currently imprisoned in a federal prison in New York.
“For Cuba, Homeland or Death is not a slogan, it is conviction; and victory is not an alternative, it is the only way,” added the prime minister.
Just this Friday, Marrero recognized that Cuba is in a “war economy” during an extraordinary session of the Provincial Council of Havana.
At the meeting, the Castro official maintained that the problems could be “solved” if the collective intelligence on the Island was mobilized, science was applied and its own resources were used, a task vaunted endlessly in official discourse, but never successfully implemented.
“We must put an end to inertia, slowness and bureaucracy,” admitted Marrero in another publication on social networks.
The prime minister defended the implementation of the regime’s latest experiment, the Government Program to correct distortions and re-boost the economy, highlighting that what the country can produce, distribute and sustain in 2026 would depend on the efforts of Cubans.
From the White House, the position towards the island’s dictatorship has been clear in the first stages of the year, especially after the coup against Chavismo from last January 3.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, affirmed this Thursday that the Cuban government “is hanging by a thread” and that it is going through “big problems,” while maintaining that the pressure on Havana is already maximum “unless the hell that is the place is entered and bombed,” in an interview with journalist and host Hugh Hewitt.
Trump made those comments when Hewitt asked him if it was time to “increase the pressure” on “that police dictatorship” and even raised the possibility of “quarantining” it as Washington had done with Venezuela. The president responded that he saw no room to tighten the policy much more without escalating to direct military action: “I don’t think there can be much more pressure than going in and bombing the hell that is the place,” he said.
In his response, Trump linked the internal situation of the Cuban regime with the deterioration of its relationship with Venezuela and assured that the Island depended on that support. “Their lifeblood, their entire life, was Venezuela. They got their oil. They got their money from Venezuela,” he said.
