FILE PHOTO: Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel (C) talks to the media, in San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba July 11, 2021. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Friday the United States, not Cuba, was a failed state, reacting to comments made the previous day by U.S. President Joe Biden in the wake of unprecedented protests on the island.
Biden called the Communist-run country a "failed state" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-has-contingency-plans-if-it-faces-mass-migration-by-sea-cuba-official-2021-07-15 that is "repressing their citizens", dashing hopes he could lift crippling sanctions any time soon that have contributed to Cuba's worst econonomic crisis in decades.
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