According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the provided food and medicine will be distributed by the Catholic Church or a trusted charity organization.
In recent weeks, the administration of US President Donald Trump has increased pressure on the Caribbean island country, labeling it an enemy state that will not tolerate it in the neighborhood. There were also speculations about a possible American invasion or intervention.
“The probability of concluding a peace agreement with Cuba is not high at this moment. However, the United States will always prefer to settle disputes by agreement, which we also prefer in the case of Cuba,” said Rubio, according to Reuters.
Trump, who is trying to end the communist regime in Cuba, increased the pressure on Havana on Thursday when he had long-time Cuban leader Raúl Castro charged with the murder of four soldiers in the shooting down of American planes in 1996.
Eighty-eight-year-old Castro is still one of the most powerful people in the country, although he no longer holds any political office.
During his first term in the White House between 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump interrupted the warming of relations with Cuba. There is an energy crisis on the island, because suppliers of energy raw materials have cut off supplies, otherwise the US would impose sanctions on them, the Euronews portal recalled.
