Cuba is open to changes to its economy and government, and eager to continue negotiations with the United States, but it does not believe Washington is participating in talks in good faith, Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations told The New York Times.
“Cuba is willing to talk about everything with the United States. There is no taboo subject in our conversations — on the basis of reciprocity and equality,” Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, the Cuban ambassador, said in an interview on Wednesday.
But, he added, “obviously it does not help a climate of dialogue and trust that every other day there are statements like, ‘We are ready to take over Cuba,’” referring to recent comments by President Trump.
“Warmongering rhetoric does not help,” he said. “Building different pretexts for military aggression against Cuba, which is what they are building, does not help.”
The hourlong conversation was the first time in years that a sitting Cuban government official had granted an on-the-record interview to The Times.
Mr. Soberón Guzmán said the government had decided to do so in an effort to tell the American public that Cuba wants peace and cooperation with the United States, despite the Trump administration’s intensifying pressure campaign against the island. » | Jack Nicas | Jack Nicas, a lead correspondent in Latin America, interviewed Cuba’s ambassador to the U.N. in New York. | Thursday, May 21, 2026
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My MESSAGE to Mr Trump and to Trump’s chumps:
For heaven’s sake, leave those poor Cubans alone! Stop harassing and molesting them! Have you NO HEART? Can’t you see how much those poor people have already suffered because of America’s heartless sanctions? How much more suffering must they endure?
You pretend to speak for all American Christians. Which part of Christianity is this duty of cruelty, exactly? I must have missed that part in my readings of the Bible.
America has always been a heartless, cut-throat, economic system, governed by the laws of the jungle, and generally led by heartless leaders. But you, Mr Trump, take the biscuit! To my knowledge, no other American president’s CRUELTY comes even close to YOURS!
My advice to you, Sir, is this: Beseech the Almighty to fill your heart with LOVE, MERCY, and COMPASSION! — © Mark Alexander
