Cuban foreign minister warns US on 'dangerous path' that could lead to 'bloodbath in Cuba'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

May 7, 2026, 8:10 PM


Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez warned that the United States is on a "dangerous path" that could lead to a "bloodbath in Cuba" in response to President Donald Trump's continued rhetoric about taking over the country, and said there has been "no progress" in talks between the two countries.

In a sit-down interview with ABC News' Whit Johnson in Havana on Thursday, Rodriguez said he takes Trump's threats "very seriously," and that Cuba will "exercise its right for its legitimate defense" if attacked militarily. "It seems that the U.S. government has chosen a dangerous path, a path that could lead to unimaginable consequences, to humanitarian catastrophe, to a genocide, to the loss of Cuban and young American lives, it could also lead to a bloodbath in Cuba," Rodriguez told ABC News in Spanish.

In recent weeks, Trump has said that Cuba's political system needs to change "dramatically" and has repeatedly declared that the U.S. will be "doing something with Cuba very soon.". Most recently, while speaking in Florida last week, Trump said that after the operation in Iran, "Cuba is going to be next," and that the U.S. will be "taking over Cuba almost immediately."

He also suggested that he could send the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier to Cuba and stop about 100 yards offshore, before expressing his belief that Cuba would say, "thank you very much. We give up.". So far, the administration has relied on economic tactics to pressure Cuba, including a blockade earlier this year cutting off Havana's access to foreign oil shipments, including those from Venezuela.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Cuba's sick of this shit.

Whether it was Spain or the U.S.

Bay of Pigs.

Trump is too obtuse to understand that while recently quiescent, Cuba hasn't given up its revolutionary stance.

[sop]

2. Despite the many economic hardships the Cuban people have suffered as the result of a decades-long embargo,

they passionately want to maintain their independence as a nation. The Cuban people do not want a return to the rampant corruption and economic inequalities of the pre-Castro days, when Cuba was merely a vassal state of the U.S., completely dominated by American corporate interests. They may not have much, but what they have is theirs, and they're a proud people. Like many Cubans like to say, "Nuestro vino es amargo, pero es nuestro vino" (Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine).

The only ones who want a return to "the good old days" are a dwindling number of Cuban-Americans in Miami, people who fled the island decades ago, and still cling to the fantasy they can go back in time, and the many corporate interests who had all their holdings seized in 1960 when Castro nationalized all foreign-owned businesses and properties in Cuba. They don't want freedom and independence for the Cuban people, they see Cuba as an untapped resource and an opportunity for investment.

[travelingthrulife]

3. That's the plan. And then Donnie will end his 6000th war after you are all gone.

[maxsolomon]

4. People are going hungry in Cuba now.

unconscionable.

All so the exiles can regain their properties.

[LudwigPastorius]

5. Bet they're wishing they had some missiles that could reach Mar-a-Lago right about now.

[Bayard]

6. Our own political system needs to change dramatically!

It used to work reasonably well. Now it does not.

So, now every country where trump doesn't like their government is in danger. This little tin pot dictator must be shut down before the U.S. starts getting bombed.

[Bengus81]

7. It will be the next major EPSTEIN FILES distraction,after dozens of small ones

Him and his ilk are fighting for their lives to not be charged and labeled as pedo's, even if you have to commit war crimes to do so.