MIAMI — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is offering to help Cubans with $100 million in direct humanitarian assistance and free and fast satellite internet.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the U.S. State Department accused the regime of refusing to accept the aid to distributed in coordination with the Catholic Church and other independent organizations.
“The United States continues to seek meaningful reforms to Cuba’s communist system, which has only served to enrich the elites and condemn the Cuban people to poverty,” a State Department spokesperson wrote in the statement.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel also released a statement on Wednesday about the failures of Cuba’s National Electric Energy System, or SEN.
“For today’s operations, a deficit of more than 2,000 MW is forecast during the peak nighttime demand period,” Díaz-Canel wrote. “This dramatic worsening has a single cause: the genocidal energy blockade to which the United States subjects our country.”
Díaz-Canel denounced President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs against any nation that supplies Cuba with fuel and blamed “a small group of ultrarightists who have hijacked policy toward Cuba.”
Also on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez used X to raise awareness about a group of Cuban protesters at San Miguel del Padrón, a municipality in Havana.
Giménez also shared a report about Carlos MacDonald, a political prisoner whose family fears he isn’t getting proper treatment after an alleged cancer diagnosis.
“From the United States Congress, we demand the immediate release of all political prisoners inside Cuba,” Giménez wrote on X.
Giménez also blamed the crisis on the island on corruption.
“The dictatorship in Havana denies the people the opportunity to receive more than $100 million in food directly distributed by the USA,” Giménez wrote on X. “The regime only wants to keep doing what it always does: steal the aid and profit by reselling it to the people.”
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The State Department is publicly restating the United States' generous offer to provide additional direct humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people.
— Department of State (@StateDept) May 13, 2026
The Cuban regime must decide whether to accept our offer or deny life-saving help for the Cuban people, who desperately need it.
#AHORA Cacerolazos en La Habana a pocas cuadras de la “Plaza de la Revolución”. Sin miedo.#Cuba pic.twitter.com/TB0QSG1aq3
— Cristian Crespo F. 🇨🇺 (@cristiancrespoj) May 13, 2026
⚠️⚠️#Urgente. Continúan llegando imágenes de las afueras del gobierno municipal de San Miguel del Padrón.
— Mag Jorge Castro🇨🇺 (@MagJorgeCastro) May 13, 2026
Protesta masiva de cubanos tocando cacerolas. pic.twitter.com/FUErLVA2L7
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