Cuban president promises ‘impregnable resistance’ to any US attempt to control island | CNN

Any attempt by the United States to take control of Cuba would be met with “impregnable resistance,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Tuesday, as power returned to some parts of the island following a nationwide grid collapse. Successive US administrations have sought to isolate Cuba for more than six decades, Díaz-Canel said in a defiant X post, accusing Washington of now using economic weakness as an “outrageous pretext” to seize it. “Only in this way can the fierce economic war be explained, which is applied as collective punishment against the entire people,” he said. “In the face of the worst scenario, Cuba is accompanied by a certainty: any external aggressor will clash with an impregnable resistance.” US President Donald Trump has repeatedly taunted Cuba’s communist leadership with threats of a takeover. After suggesting on Monday that he could do anything he wants with the island, Trump said Tuesday: “We’ll be doing something with Cuba very soon.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio followed up with a blunt assessment from the Oval Office. Cuba needs “new people in charge,” Rubio said Tuesday. “Their economy doesn’t work…They’re in a l