Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, has rejected the latest United States executive order, signed by President Donald Trump on Friday.

The executive order targets officials in the energy, defence, financial or security sectors of Cuba's economy – as well as those he alleges to have committed "human rights abuses" or corruption.

But the Cuban Foreign Minister condemned the measures as "unilateral and coercive", which violates the United Nations Charter.

Writing on X, Rodriguez said, "Cubans will not be intimidated."

Late on Friday, Trump told an audience in Florida that the US would be "taking over" the Caribbean island, "almost immediately".

Reacting to this, the Cuban Foreign Minister said the "new clear and direct threat of military aggression, issued by the US President after drastically reinforcing the economic blockade, raises the aggression against Cuba to dangerous levels, with no other pretext than the desire to satisfy tiny elites who promised President Trump electoral or financial loyalty."

More than half a million Cubans took part in a May Day march outside the US Embassy in Havana, denouncing a US blockade of oil to Cuba that has caused widespread blackouts and fuel shortages.

Trump continues to tighten US foreign policy towards the island nation and has indicated he wants to change its leadership.