Kuba signalisiert Offenheit für US-Gespräche, da der Treibstoff gefährlich knapp wird

*More from Bloomberg News Reporters Jim Wyss and Andreina Itriago*

The Cuban government is willing to negotiate with the US as it prepares for acute fuel shortages due to increased pressure from Washington, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said during a rare press 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 US is using its economic and military might to try to strangle the communist regime just 90 miles south of Florida, Diaz-Canel added. “I’m not an idealist. I know that difficult times are coming,” he said, “but, together, we’re going to overcome them.”

Donald Trump has been turning the screws on Cuba since his first term, but those efforts went into overdrive at the start of January when US forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and then cut off Cuba’s fuel supply from the South American nation.

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Well, I think it was stunning fact that officially (from Cuban side) 40 Cubans died during Maduro arrest. That means that about all his security been Cubans. Without Venezuela’s oil they are in really big trouble.