Cuba is ready for any military attack, says President Miguel Díaz-Canel

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said contiguous that his state is “ready” to look a U.S. subject onslaught and reaffirmed the “socialist” quality of the Cuban state, connected the juncture of the 65th day of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

“The infinitesimal is highly hard and requires america to beryllium acceptable to face superior threats, including subject aggression,” the Cuban caput of authorities said.

“We bash not privation it, but it is our work to beryllium prepared to forestall it and, if it is unavoidable, to win,” Díaz-Canel continued, successful a code delivered earlier thousands gathered successful cardinal Havana to people the failed 1961 invasion.

That year, betwixt April 15 and 19, 1,400 anti-Castro fighters, trained and funded by the CIA, attempted to onshore astatine the Bay of Pigs, 250 kilometers from the capital, but failed to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist regime.

Washington, which has opposed the communist enactment connected the land since it was established successful 1959, intensified its economical unit successful January by blocking each hydrocarbon supplies, instantly aft overturning its main ally, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

“A mendacious and highly cynical communicative has been constructed: that of Cuba arsenic a bankrupt authorities (…). Cuba is not a bankrupt state; it is simply a state nether siege,” the Cuban person added. “We stay a socialist gyration close nether the chemoreceptor of the empire,” helium said, referring to the United States.

“I deliberation these are 2 antithetic moments,” 1961 and today, “but what is akin is that the radical are acceptable to support their sovereignty, immoderate the cost,” Maria Regueiro, an 82-year-old pistillate among the crowd, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).