Cuba’s President Díaz-Canel on Media Blitz

Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel has recently given multiple interviews to foreign media outlets, and has delivered the same message: Cuba is willing to engage in dialogue with the United States.

Díaz-Canel was interviewed last week by Newsweek’s Tom O’Connor and he spoke yesterday with Kristen Welker, from NBC’s Meet the Press.

“There are many common areas in which we can work, and not only could we work, but we could reach agreements beneficial to both peoples and both nations,” he told O’Connor, mentioning “investments from U.S. firms” as one example, as well as “migration, security, the environment, science and innovation, trade, education, culture and sports.”

Cuba was already cooperating with the United States in these areas during the Obama-era opening before the Trump administration rolled back normalization and reimposed a hard-line policy of hostility.