HAVANA, March 13 (Reuters) – Cuban officials have held talks with the U.S. government to seek solutions to the blockade imposed on the Caribbean nation, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said in a video broadcast early Friday on national television.
“These talks have been aimed at finding solutions through dialogue to the bilateral differences we have between the two nations,” Diaz-Canel said in the video, which aired shortly before he was scheduled to address Cuban media in a rare appearance that comes amid a severe economic crisis and as the Communist government has come under increasing pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump.
The address was billed as a continuation of a February 5 event when Diaz-Canel warned that Cuba was approaching a situation that would require “extreme measures” given the economic crisis, frequent power blackouts and fuel shortages exacerbated by Trump’s imposition of an oil blockade on the Caribbean island.
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta and Dave Sherwood in Havana; Editing by Lincoln Feast.and Chizu Nomiyama )
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