Overview
- Díaz-Canel, in an NBC Meet the Press interview Sunday, said he will not resign and warned any U.S. attack would be met with armed resistance even at the cost of lives.
- Pressed on U.S. "key demands," he declined to commit to releasing political prisoners and rejected that label, including in the case of jailed rapper Maykel Osorbo.
- A White House official said the administration is talking to Havana and claimed Cuban leaders want a deal that President Trump believes would be easy to reach.
- Cuba’s fuel shortfall has driven rolling blackouts after U.S. actions choked off Venezuelan oil and threatened tariffs on suppliers, while a Russian tanker delivered crude in March with another shipment pledged.
- Díaz-Canel invited U.S. energy investment even though American law bars such deals without a Treasury license, a constraint that could shape any path to easing Cuba’s power crisis.