Castro: Cuba can work with Trump if sovereignty respected
BAVARO, Dominican Republic — President Raul Castro expressed Cuba’s willingness to continue negotiations with President Donald Trump’s new administration but warned that his country would not concede any of its sovereignty.
Castro made the comments at a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in the Dominican Republic that was dominated by talk of Trump’s immigration and trade policies, and his criticism of the detente between Cuba and the United States that was promoted by Trump’s predecessor in the presidency, Barack Obama.
“Cuba and the United States can co-operate and live together in a civilized manner,” Castro said Wednesday in a speech at the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
He said Cuba was willing to continue normalizing relations with Washington but his country would not “make concessions inherent to its independence and sovereignty” to achieve this.