By Laura Sharman and Michael Rios, CNN
Photo: MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP
Cuba's leader has pushed back on Donald Trump's demand that the Caribbean nation "make a deal" with Washington, as the US president warned that Havana would be cut off from the Venezuelan oil and money that it's relied on for decades.
"No-one dictates what we do," Cuban President Miguel DΓaz-Canel said on X, responding to Trump's insistence that the communist nation do a deal "before it's too late".
Cuba has long received massive aid packages from oil-rich Venezuela, but the capture of Venezuelan leader NicolΓ‘s Maduro during a US
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