Cuba's Justice Minister Rosabel Gamon Verde (C) speaks flanked by Colonel Juan Carlos Poey (L) and First Colonel Ruben Daniel Carballo Perez (R), during a press conference in Havana. AFP
Trump has accused the communist government in Cuba of enabling drug trafficking through its support of Venezuela. US commandos ousted and captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on January 3 and Trump is now trying to starve Cuba of oil as it ups pressure on Havana.
"We insist that Cuba is not a threat to the United States," said Colonel Juan Carlos Poey, head of the anti-narcotics department at the Interior Ministry.
He said the US energy blockade -- Trump has halted Venezuelan shipments of oil to Cuba and threatened sanctions against any country that makes such deliveries -- is hurting Cuba's efforts to fight regional drug trafficking.
Poey described Cuba as a "containing wall in the sea" to counter shipments of cocaine from South America to the United States.
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