Cuban President Says U.S. Military Action Would Create Bloodbath

U.S. military action against Cuba would lead to a "bloodbath" with incalculable consequences for regional peace and stability. "Cuba does not represent a threat," Diaz-Canel said in a post on X. U.S. military vessels, and Key West, Florida.

N. Charter and international law. He also said those seeking to attack Cuba use false pretexts to justify it. Cuba has come under increasing strain since the United States cut off its energy supplies after arresting the president of its then-ally Venezuela in January. In recent weeks, fuel has run out, and electricity is often available for only an hour or two a day.

Tensions between the two countries have risen sharply in recent days. U.S. Department of Justice sources, that prosecutors planned to indict former Cuban leader Raúl Castro over Cuba's 1996 shooting down of two planes operated by the humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue.

Such an indictment of Castro, 94, would mark a major escalation in pressure on Cuba by the Trump administration, which has described the island's government as corrupt and incompetent as it pushes for change.