Cuba says no negotiations with US despite ‘genocidal’ blockade

Cuba reports record losses from the US embargo as foreign minister describes months of punishing blackouts.

Pushing a bicycle taxi in the Cuban capital Havana, September 7, 2026 [Yamil Lage/AFP]

Cuba says it is not currently negotiating with the United States, as the Trump administration continues its campaign of economic pressure on the island.

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said on Monday that Havana and Washington are not negotiating, and that there is no agenda for future talks.

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His comments came during a media conference, as he laid out Cuba’s latest estimate of the damage caused by the decades-old US embargo, imposed since former leader Fidel Castro ‘s communist revolution in 1959.

The Cuban government says the US embargo cost its economy $8bn between March 2025 and February 2026, the highest figure yet recorded and seven percent more than in the previous reporting period.

The total does not include some of Washington’s more recent sanctions, including restrictions on the island’s energy supply imposed in January and secondary sanctions imposed in May, said Rodriguez.

In a post on X, Rodríguez called the policy one of “economic asphyxiation” and described the blockade, which Havana has long blamed for shortages and economic hardships, as “genocidal”.

“These are long months of living with only two or three hours of electricity per day or less,” Rodríguez wrote, painting a bleak picture of what the country’s worsening energy crisis looks like for Cubans.

He described food spoiling without refrigeration, parents fanning their babies through the heat, children trying to do their schoolwork in the dark and young people going without internet access.

“All family life [is] damaged,” he said, adding that Cuba is not a threat but the blockade is.

Rodríguez called the situation “collective punishment”, blaming what he described as a US “energy siege”, an “extreme tightening of the blockade” and secondary sanctions.

Tensions between Washington and Havana have intensified under US President Donald Trump, even after officials held talks earlier this year. Those contacts have since stopped.

The diplomatic fight will soon move back to the United Nations.

Rodríguez said the General Assembly will take up its annual resolution calling for an end to the US embargo on October 27 and 28.

He accused Washington of putting “extraordinary pressure and intimidation” on other UN member states ahead of the vote, but said Cuba still expects “overwhelming support” for ending the embargo.

古巴报告称，由于美国的禁运，该国遭受了创纪录的损失，外交部长描述了数月来严厉的停电情况。

2026年9月7日，在古巴首都哈瓦那，有人推着一辆自行车出租车。[Yamil Lage/AFP]

古巴表示，目前没有与美国进行谈判，因为特朗普政府继续对古巴施加经济压力。

外交部长布鲁诺·罗德里格斯周一表示，哈瓦那和华盛顿之间没有进行谈判，也没有未来会谈的议程。

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他在一次媒体发布会上发表了上述评论，当时他公布了古巴对美国长达数十年的禁运所造成的损害的最新估计，该禁运自前领导人菲德尔·卡斯特罗 1959 年领导共产主义革命以来一直实施。

古巴政府表示，美国对古巴的禁运在 2025 年 3 月至 2026 年 2 月期间给古巴经济造成了 80 亿美元的损失，这是迄今为止记录的最高数字，比上一个报告期增加了 7%。

罗德里格斯表示，总额还不包括华盛顿最近的一些制裁措施，包括1月份对该岛能源供应实施的限制以及5月份实施的二级制裁。

罗德里格斯在 X 网站上发表的一篇文章中称该政策是“经济窒息”，并将哈瓦那长期以来指责造成物资短缺和经济困难的封锁描述为“种族灭绝”。

“接下来的几个月，人们每天只能用两三个小时甚至更少的电，”罗德里格斯写道，描绘了古巴日益恶化的能源危机给古巴人民带来的黯淡景象。

他描述了食物在没有冰箱的情况下变质、父母在炎热的天气里给婴儿扇风、孩子们在黑暗中做作业以及年轻人无法上网等情况。

他说：“所有家庭生活都受到了破坏”，并补充说，古巴本身不是威胁，但封锁才是。

罗德里格斯称这种情况为“集体惩罚”，并将此归咎于他所描述的美国“能源围困”、“封锁的极端收紧”和次级制裁。

尽管今年早些时候双方官员曾举行会谈，但华盛顿和哈瓦那之间的紧张关系在特朗普总统任内进一步加剧。此后，这些接触已经停止。

外交斗争很快将重返联合国。

罗德里格斯表示，联合国大会将于10月27日和28日审议其年度决议，呼吁结束美国对联合国的禁运。

他指责华盛顿在投票前对其他联合国成员国施加了“非同寻常的压力和恐吓”，但表示古巴仍然期待结束禁运能获得“压倒性的支持”。