Miguel Díaz-Canel took advantage of the closure of the VII Ordinary Session of the X Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power this Thursday to launch a fierce attack against Washington with his most passionate rhetoric of the month, labeling the U.S. government a "neofascist regime" and accusing it of using lies as a tool of domination.
The leader described the period since the parliamentary session in December 2025 as "an extremely complex and threatening scenario, akin to a besieged fortress," and listed what he called characteristics of the alleged neofascism of Washington: xenophobia, nationalist exceptionalism, a cult of personality, the outlawing of opposing ideologies, and territorial conquest.
"The neofascist regime currently in place in the United States is reintroducing attempts at some of the horrors unleashed by German fascism in its quest for expansion during the first half of the 20th century," he stated before the lawmakers.
The speech on July 30 is the final link in a rhetorical escalation that Díaz-Canel has maintained throughout July 2026 against the Trump administration.
On July 7, while expressing gratitude for the support of 136 nations at the UN for a debate on the embargo, he denounced the "blatant lies of the U.S. delegate" to sabotage the session.
On July 21, in response to a U.S. government report describing Cuba as a threat to national security, he accused Washington of resorting "to lies to create pretexts for sustaining aggressions against Cuba" and described that narrative as "very slanderous, very false."
Four days later, on July 26, during the event for the 73rd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada, he described U.S. policy as a "coldly calculated genocide" and "political genocide."
In his speech on Thursday, Díaz-Canel also mentioned the capture of Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, as an event that, he said, "is completely erasing" the concept of a world based on laws.
He also dedicated a section to Gaza, citing estimates from UN agencies that place the number of deaths in the Strip between 75,000 and 90,000, with 60% being women and children, and more than 10,000 missing under the rubble.
"It is essential and urgent to become aware of the gravity of the situation. Any of our nations could be Gaza again," he warned.
The speech began with a tribute to the Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, who passed away on June 21, 2026, at the age of 94, having served as a deputy in all legislatures since the founding of the Cuban Parliament in 1976.
The leader presented him as a paradigm of the "centennial generation" alongside Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, and Che Guevara, and quoted a warning he attributed to Valdés himself: "One cannot trust imperialism, not at all, not even a little bit."
The parliamentary session that concluded this Thursday also approved on Wednesday a statement warning that any military action by the U.S. against Cuba will encounter a "strong and unwavering resistance," in a context where Executive Order 14380, signed on January 29, 2026, established secondary tariffs for countries supplying oil to the island, worsening the already critical energy situation in the country.
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