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Cuba denies $100 million U.S. humanitarian aid offer exists

13 May 2026 05:34 (UTC +04:00)

Cuba's foreign minister has denied his government received a $100 million offer in humanitarian aid from the United States, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio publicly claimed Washington tried to send assistance and Cuban authorities refused to distribute it, APA reports.

In a message posted on X, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla described Rubio's version as a "fable" and a "$100 million lie," and questioned who would finance the aid, how it would be distributed and whether it would consist of cash, fuel, food or medicine.

"Someone should ask the U.S. secretary of state about the fable of the alleged offer of $100 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba, which nobody here knows anything about," Rodríguez wrote.

Rodríguez also questioned whether the alleged assistance would be "a donation, a deception or a dirty business to undermine our independence," and argued that "lifting the fuel blockade would be easier."