Ottawa, February 26, 2026—Senators who are members of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Cuba held a meeting today with Cuba's Ambassador, Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, to address the complex situation Cuba is facing after the intensification of the economic and energy blockade established by the United States last January.
Statement by the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Carlos Fernández de Cossío
Yesterday, our authorities reported an attempted infiltration for terrorist purposes involving 10 individuals aboard a vessel registered in the State of Florida, United States.
Port Louis, February 27, 2026 – The President of Mauritius, H.E. Mr. Dharambeer Gokhool, today reaffirmed his support for Cuba in the face of the US blockade upon receiving the Credentials of the Cuban Ambassador, H.E. Ms. Susellys Pérez Mesa.
The leader of this African nation in the Indian Ocean stated that Cuba can count, as it has until now, on Mauritius's support against the sanctions.
Armed attack against a patrol vessel of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior
Note from the Ministry of the Interior
On the morning of February 25, 2026, a violating speedboat was detected within Cuban territorial waters. The vessel, registered in Florida, United States, with registration number FL7726SH, approached up to 1 nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel, in Cayo Falcones, Corralillo municipality, Villa Clara province.
Ottawa, February 24, 2026 – Cuba's Ambassador to Canada, Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, appeared at a public hearing before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Canadian Parliament to present the effects on the Cuban economy of the blockade imposed by the United States for over six decades, recently exacerbated by Executive Order 14380, issued on January 29, 2026, and signed by President Donald Trump.
Madam Vice-President:
A dictatorship has emerged in the globalised world. The order born out of the Second World War to prevent a third is being destroyed, and the philosophy of plunder is proclaimed as the exceptional and supreme right of the United States of America to conquest and the use of force as an immanent, natural, and everyday way of being. Beyond ideologies, all nation-states are in danger regardless of their cultural or political models.
Havana, February 21, 2026 — Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, via his account on X, wrote:
Cuba poses no threat whatsoever to any country. Ours is a peace-loving and fraternal foreign policy committed to peace, friendship and cooperation. It respects International Law and the United Nations Charter.
It does not attack, threatens or interferes in the internal affairs of other States
Harare, February 20, 2026 – The Chairman of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and the Zimbabwe-Cuba Friendship Group, Webster Kotiwani Shamu, reiterated today the nation's long-standing position against the blockade imposed by the United States on the Caribbean island.
In a meeting with Ambassador Susellys Pérez Mesa, Shamu reaffirmed the rejection of all unilateral coercive measures, such as those also faced by Zimbabwe.
