The Consul General of Cuba in Toronto, Jorge Yanier Castellanos Orta, together with Consul Tania Valenzuela Veiga, offered a virtual conference on the Cuban experience in the course on global sexual and reproductive health rights to fourth year graduate students in health sciences at McMaster University, located in the city of Hamilton.
First meeting of Cuban-Canadian executive woman was inaugurated in the city of Montreal on March 11. More than 60 people, including a delegation of 22 Cuban executive women, attended the event.
The Canadian side was represented by Ruth Vachon, President of the Quebec Association of Women Entrepreneurs; Erandi Motte, Director of International Markets of the Montreal Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Anne Thoussand, Director of Invest in Quebec.
From February 15 to 22, 2025, the president of the Association of Cubans living in Toronto Juan Gualberto Gómez, Julio Fonseca, visited the provinces of Granma and Holguín, together with the director of the “Together for Cuba” project.
Ottawa, February 17, 2025. In an atmosphere of Cuban citizenship and celebration, an emotional ceremony was held for the granting of Cuban citizenship to three young women born in Canada, daughters of Cuban parents.
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On 31 January 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he communicated to the U.S. Congress the revocation of the suspension of the possibility of filing lawsuits in U.S. courts under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.