The president of the United States, Donald Trump, stated this Tuesday that a failed Cuba is seeking help to get out of its situation and to He guessed that he would respond with dialogue, which for now seems to be stuck in the middle of the president's threats to take control of the island.

“No Republican has ever spoken to me about Cuba, which is a failed country and is only going in one direction: down! Cuba is asking for help and let's talk!,” the American wrote on his Social Truth network.

Trump who today is planned to travel to Beijing for a postponed meeting with his Chinese counterpart and Havana ally, Xi Jinping, concluded his message: “In the meantime, I'm going to China!”

The U.S. president has recently increased pressure on Cuba, which he has hit with an extension of sanctions that encompasses almost anyone person a non-US company that has commercial relations with the island, especially in the energy, defense, security and finance sectors.

The most recent punitive actions include sanctions against the Cuban military conglomerate Gaesa, its executives and a shared risk mining company with it. a Canadian Sherritt, one of the largest foreign companies present on the island, which shortly before announced the immediate suspension of its activity in Cuba.

This adds to the oil blockade on the island imposed in last January by Trump, who has said that he will take control”of Cuba “almost immediately” and could move the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to Caribbean waters.

Both Governments are in negotiations and the only known physical meeting between both parties took place last April, without progress. For now, the talks seem stalled amid increased antagonistic rhetoric between the two countries.

US media have leaked an alleged list of Washington's demands, with the economy and political prisoners as priorities, which Havana denies.

The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, advanced last week that they are going to take “more measures” against Cuba, as he said in a visit to the Vatican, where the issue of US pressure on the island was on the table.

For his part, the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has affirmed that Trump “raises his threats of military aggression against Cuba to a dangerous and unprecedented scale ntes” and that, consequently, “the international community must take note and, together with the people of the U.S., determine whether such a drastic criminal act will be permitted.”