Cuba open to talks with US ‘without pressure’ after months of Trump threats

Miguel DiazCanel says Cuba is willing to engage Washington amid the island's deepening economic crisis

After months of threats from Donald Trump, the president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has said that his government is willing to talk to the United States, just so long as it is without pressure".

Standing in front of a life-sized photograph of Fidel Castro carrying a rifle during the 1959 revolution, Diaz-Canel, the 65-year-old president, said on Thursday that his island nation had been subject to an intense media campaigns of slander, hatred and psychological warfare".