The Cuban government is willing to negotiate with the U.S. as it prepares for acute fuel shortages due to increased pressure from Washington, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said during a rare news conference.
“Cuba is ready to have talks with the United States over any issue it wants to debate,” Diaz-Canel told reporters Thursday in Havana. “But it has to happen without preconditions, and from a position of equals and with respect.”
The U.S. is using its economic and military might to try to strangle the communist regime just 90 miles (144 kilometers) south of Florida, Diaz-Canel added.
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