Bruno Rodríguez responds to Donald Trump: "We have never charged for security services in any country."

The Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla reacted this Sunday to the message published by U.S. President Donald Trump on Truth Social, in which he accused the Havana regime of having received for years oil and money from Venezuela in exchange for "security services" to protect the dictators Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.

“#Cuba has never received, nor will it ever receive, monetary or material compensation for the security services it has provided to any country,” Rodríguez wrote on his account on X. “Unlike #USA, we do not have a government that engages in mercenarism, extortion, or military coercion against other states.” 

The response from the Minister of Foreign Affairs sought to refute Trump’s claims, who in his statement asserted that “most of those Cubans are dead” following the U.S. attack in Caracas and that “there will be no more oil or money for Cuba: zero.”

Rodríguez Parrilla defended the island's right to maintain its trade relations with other countries “without interference or subordination to the unilateral coercive measures of the United States,” emphasizing that “law and justice are on Cuba's side.”

The chancellor also accused Washington of "behaving like a criminal and uncontrolled hegemon that threatens peace and security, not only in Cuba and this hemisphere but throughout the entire world."

The exchange occurs amid a region filled with tension following the U.S. military operation that captured Maduro in Caracas.

Diplomatic sources have confirmed that Washington is keeping Cuba under "close observation" for its possible involvement in Venezuelan security networks and is not ruling out additional sanctions.

In Havana, the totalitarian regime tries to project an image of resistance, with military drills and messages of "unity and firmness," but warnings from Washington and the loss of its main political and economic ally place the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel in an unprecedented scenario of vulnerability.

Rodríguez Parrilla's response, while defiant, reveals an attempt to mitigate the political impact of Trump's statements and to reaffirm the official narrative: Cuba endures, but feels the blow.