Limassol, Cyprus, June 7, 2026 – The Cuban ambassador to Cyprus, Rubén Pino Martínez, reiterated this Sunday the condemnation of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. on the Caribbean island for more than six decades, a stance shared with Cubans residing in Cyprus and local friends and from other multiple nations present at the international event “Musical Footprints, a City for Everyone” in Limassol.
Considered the second largest city and the main tourist and commercial centre of the Mediterranean island, Limassol hosted last weekend hundreds of representatives from various communities and cultures living in different Cypriot cities, as an example of coexistence, respect, and solidarity among nations.
From there, the Cuban diplomat and the participating Antillean delegation infinitely thanked that space as a demonstration of solidarity with Cuba; they reminded that today more than ever Cuba needs the voice of friendly peoples, and they made an open and forceful denunciation of the policy of threats and energy blockade by the imperialist power against the Caribbean island, a message that received spontaneous expressions of support and accompaniment from many of the attendees toward the participating Cuban delegation.
A festival of peoples and cultures, customs, traditions, and gastronomic stamps, which each year transform that central Anagennisisi Square in Limassol into a spell of voices, songs, and sounds; becoming examples of the necessary solidarity, coexistence, tolerance, and respect among communities and nations, and which even today—as this event proposes—aim to ensure the survival of this world in which we live.
Cyprus, China, Vietnam, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Cuba, among many others, sang and shared for the reunion, for culture, for the decency of many men, for common values and human dignity.
Embassy of Cuba in Cyprus.