Cuban foreign minister warns US on 'dangerous path' that could lead to 'bloodbath in Cuba'

Source: ABC News

May 7, 2026, 8:10 PM


Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez warned that the United States is on a "dangerous path" that could lead to a "bloodbath in Cuba" in response to President Donald Trump's continued rhetoric about taking over the country, and said there has been "no progress" in talks between the two countries.

In a sit-down interview with ABC News' Whit Johnson in Havana on Thursday, Rodriguez said he takes Trump's threats "very seriously," and that Cuba will "exercise its right for its legitimate defense" if attacked militarily. "It seems that the U.S. government has chosen a dangerous path, a path that could lead to unimaginable consequences, to humanitarian catastrophe, to a genocide, to the loss of Cuban and young American lives, it could also lead to a bloodbath in Cuba," Rodriguez told ABC News in Spanish.

In recent weeks, Trump has said that Cuba's political system needs to change "dramatically" and has repeatedly declared that the U.S. will be "doing something with Cuba very soon.". Most recently, while speaking in Florida last week, Trump said that after the operation in Iran, "Cuba is going to be next," and that the U.S. will be "taking over Cuba almost immediately."

He also suggested that he could send the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier to Cuba and stop about 100 yards offshore, before expressing his belief that Cuba would say, "thank you very much. We give up.". So far, the administration has relied on economic tactics to pressure Cuba, including a blockade earlier this year cutting off Havana's access to foreign oil shipments, including those from Venezuela.

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