Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
Cuba calls for an end to the new aggression by the United States and Israel against Iran and to prevent an escalation in the Middle East
Ottawa, February 26, 2026.- Senator Judy White, co-chair of the Canada-Cuba Friendship Parliamentary Group, delivered remarks in the Senate plenary today, reaffirming solidarity with the Cuban people amidst the current circumstances of economic encirclement by the United States government.
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.
