After Trump's statement about "ships".. Cuba: "Our beaches have rocks as sharp as razors"

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Barrilla said on Friday that Havana rejects any threats related to American ambitions towards his country, warning that “any hostile actions will be met with resistance.” He wrote on the “X” platform (formerly Twitter): “Our coasts are full of beautiful beaches, but they also contain razor-sharp rock formations, which is an inhospitable environment for those who arrive on our shores with hostile intentions and a desire for dominance.”

It was not clear specifically what he was responding to, but his statements came in the wake of US President Donald Trump's revival of the idea of ​​regime change in Cuba, as he warned, on Friday, that US warships might stop off the Cuban coast while returning from Iran. At a midterm campaign rally in South Florida, Trump said Friday, repeating a claim he has made several times: “We're going to take over Cuba on our way back from Iran;

Trump said in May that he could do “anything” he wanted toward that poor country, and that he might have “the honor of controlling Cuba.” On Friday, he also referred to the military operation that took place in January with the aim of arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, an operation that he had previously described as an “ideal scenario.”

The electoral rally was held on Friday in the city of Fort Myers in southwest Florida, an area that includes a large number of Americans of Cuban and Latino origins. These are categories that may be decisive for the Republican Party’s hopes in the midterm elections, whether in this state or nationwide. Opinion polls indicate that many Cuban Americans support US military action against the island.

Latinos have emerged in recent years as one of the largest "swing" nonpartisan electoral groups in the United States. If next month's results match opinion polls - which indicate a noticeable shift in the attitudes of Latino voters, numbering 36 million, towards the Democratic Party - these voters may be the ones who give Democrats control of Congress during the last two years of Trump's presidential term.