The President of Cuba criticized the so-called "Summit of the Americas" as "new colonialism".

Cuban President Diaz-Canel said on the 7th that the so-called "Shield of the Americas" summit held by US President Trump in Florida that day was a meeting with "neo-colonialist characteristics." Diaz-Canel said on social media that the purpose of the US holding this meeting is to make some regional governments accept US military intervention in their internal affairs. This undermines the vision of the "Declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace" and regional integration. According to media reports, Trump at the meeting called on Latin American countries to take tough measures against organized crime, saying the US could provide support. Trump also said that Cuba is "in its final moments of life."