Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Sunday reiterated a pledge to fight against a hypothetical U.S. invasion, saying he is prepared to “give my life for the revolution.”

“It is evident that there are threats out there. It is part of the rhetoric of the U.S. government,” Díaz-Canel said in his first-ever interview on American television, on NBC’s Meet the Press. “If that happens, there will be fighting, and there will be a struggle, and we’ll defend ourselves. And if we need to die, we’ll die because, as our national anthem says, ‘Dying for the homeland is to live.’”

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