Cuban president vows defense of island if US invades
Government
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday said, "We don't want that [confrontation] but it is our duty to be ready to avoid it… and if it were unavoidable, to win it." Diaz-Canel made the remarks in Cuba 's capital Havana during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the US 's failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion — a CIA-backed operation launched after US-owned properties and businesses on the island were nationalized by Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries. Diaz-Canel told thousands
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