Harare, August 28, 2025 – The Cuban Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Her Excellency Susellys Pérez Mesa, held a pleasant meeting today with the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Janusz Stanisław Urbańczyk.
During the exchange, as part of the courtesy meetings between the Head of the Diplomatic Mission, Pérez Mesa and Urbańczyk talked about the history and bilateral relations between the antillean nation and the Holy See.
They also referred to the visits of the Supreme Pontiffs to the caribbean country.
Release of Otto René Rodriguez Llerena
Press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba informs that Salvadoran national Otto René Rodríguez Llerena, who had been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his involvement in the terrorist bombing of a hotel in Cuba in 1997, has served his sentence and, in accordance to the national legislation, has been released.
Cuba rejects US Presidential Memorandum which tightens the economic blockade
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The anti-Cuban document released by the U.S. government on June 30, 2025, consists of a reissue and amendment of the National Security Presidential Memorandum No. 5 that the US government itself had issued on June 16, 2017, at the beginning of Donald Trump's first term.
Cuba categorically denounces and rejects both versions of the infamous document.