July 17, 2021 HAVANA: Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Friday the United States “has failed in its efforts to destroy Cuba,” after Joe Biden called the island nation “a failed state.” “The United States has failed in its efforts to destroy Cuba, despite spending billions of dollars to do so,” the Communist leader tweeted, five days after historic anti-government protests saw one death, dozens of injuries and more than 100 arrests. “A failed state is a state which, in order to please and blackmail a reactionary minority, is capable of multiplying the damage to 11 million human beings, ignoring the will of the majority of Cubans, Americans and the international community,” Diaz-Canel continued, referring to the US trade embargo in place since 1962 and reinforced under former president Donald Trump.