Firmness and dignity in the face of abuse
Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On January 31, 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he had informed the U.S. Congress of the revocation of the suspension of the possibility of filing lawsuits in U.S. courts, pursuant to Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.
Cuban Deputy Minister of culture, Mrs. Lizette Martínez Luzardo, begins an official visit to Seychelles.
Victoria, January 31st, 2025. The Deputy Minister of Culture, Lizette Martínez Luzardo, arrived this morning in Victoria, Republic of Seychelles, to begin an official working visit at the invitation of the National Institute of Culture, Heritage and the Arts of the Republic of Seychelles. The Deputy Minister is accompanied by Mrs. Dinorah Aimee Prieto Hechavarria, professor of arts education.
Cuba rejects Trump's order to open center at Guantanamo Naval Base to detain illegal migrants in the U.S.
The government of Cuba rejected the announcement by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to incarcerate migrants expelled from U.S. territory in the prisons of the illegal Guantanamo Naval Base, which the United States (U.S.) has occupied since 1903 in the east of the island.
The following is the text of the Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Cuba rejects U.S. decision to incarcerate migrants in the Guantanamo Naval Base
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Cubans pay tribute to their National Hero Jose Marti
Cuban students will reenact the traditional March of the Torches on Monday to pay tribute to National Hero Jose Marti on his 170th birthday, on January 28.
Members of the capital’s youth and student organizations will gather at the steps of the University of Havana to march to the Fragua Martiana (Museum of Marti’s Forge), where teenage Marti was imprisoned for his pro-independence ideas.
The night torches parade, usually attended by the nation’s highest authorities, will welcome January 28, the birthday, in 1853, of the man considered the Apostle of Cuban independence.
Cuban Government: Trump’s measures seek to undermine our sovereignty
The Cuban Government on Tuesday denounced President Donald Trump’s latest attacks on the island as lacking any grounds and demonstrating the US imperialism’s aggressiveness against the people’s sovereignty.
“The decision to reestablish the iron-clad economic war measures against Cuba, which his predecessor eliminated only days before, is a demonstration of the aggressiveness of US imperialism against the sovereignty, peace and well-being of the Cuban population,” stressed a statement from the island’s government.