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Zorro

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Wed May 20, 2026, 08:50 PM 14 hrs ago

Cuba Says It's Ready to Negotiate [View all]

Source: New York Times

Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations said in an interview that Havana wanted to talk but the Trump administration was creating pretexts for military action.

Cuba is open to changes to its economy and government, and eager to continue negotiations with the United States, but it does not believe Washington is participating in talks in good faith, Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations told The New York Times.

“Cuba is willing to talk about everything with the United States. There is no taboo subject in our conversations — on the basis of reciprocity and equality,” Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, the Cuban ambassador, said in an interview on Wednesday.

But, he added, “obviously it does not help a climate of dialogue and trust that every other day there are statements like, ‘We are ready to take over Cuba,’” referring to recent comments by President Trump.

“Warmongering rhetoric does not help,” he said. “Building different pretexts for military aggression against Cuba, which is what they are building, does not help.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/world/americas/guzman-cuba-us-negotiations-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.0KNe.SNtyoZ0xUN_h&smid=url-share

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