# Cuban official decries possible US military action as ‘atrocious’ crime

https://mins.news/en/item/76304

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-27 20:34 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/27/atrocious-crime-cuban-official-decries-possibility-of-us-military-action?traffic_source=rss

> Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio warns that any US military action against the island would be a serious international crime and rejects Donald Trump’s claim that Cuba is a failed state. He says US sanctions and blockade, which disrupt trade and restrict food, healthcare and fuel, are “equivalent to a genocide.”

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