Cuba Signals Openness to US Talks as Fuel Begins to Run Out (1)

The Cuban government is willing to negotiate with the US as it prepares for acute fuel shortages due to increased pressure from Washington, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said during a rare press conference.

“Cuba is ready to have talks with the United States over any issue it wants to debate,” Diaz-Canel told reporters Thursday in Havana. “But it has to happen without preconditions, and from a position of equals and with respect.”

The US is using its economic and military might to try to strangle the communist regime just 90 miles south of Florida, Diaz-Canel added. “I’m not an idealist. I ...