古巴于周日举行传统集会纪念1953年7月26日蒙卡达兵营起义，但95岁的前总统劳尔·卡斯特罗在至少30年来首次缺席该活动[1]。现任总统迪亚斯-卡内尔代读卡斯特罗的贺信，并在集会上强烈指责美国的经济封锁和"最大压力"政策[1]。卡斯特罗最后一次公开亮相是在6月和5月1日[1]。
迪亚斯-卡内尔在演讲中称"古巴是经过精心计算的种族灭绝的受害者"，指责特朗普政府实施"最大压力"政策和加强"经济绞杀"[1]。古巴当前面临严重困境，每日停电超过20小时，工业生产停止，民众面临水和药物短缺[1]。特朗普表示希望在对委内瑞拉的"1月份攻击"后"接管"古巴岛[1]。
Former Cuban president Raúl Castro, 95 years old, failed to appear at Sunday's traditional gathering marking the July 26, 1953 attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, marking his first absence from the event in at least three decades [1]. Current president Miguel Díaz-Canel read a message of support from Castro at the ceremony held in Pinar del Río, in eastern Cuba [1].
During his address, Díaz-Canel launched a strong rebuke against the United States, characterizing Cuba as "the victim of a carefully calculated genocide" and condemning what he described as the Trump administration's "maximum pressure" policy and intensified "economic strangulation" [1]. The Cuban government faces severe economic hardship, with residents enduring power cuts exceeding 20 hours daily, halted industrial production, and acute shortages of water and medicine [1]. Former U.S. president Donald Trump has previously expressed a desire to "take over" the Cuban island following what he called a "January attack" on Venezuela [1]. Castro's last public appearance occurred in May and June of this year [1].