Toronto, August 21st, 2017. The 22nd edition of the Toronto-Cuba Friendship Day was held at Nathan Philips Square of Toronto´s City Hall. The event was organized by the Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association in Toronto (CCFA-Toronto), the Association of Cuban Residents in Toronto "Juan Gualberto Gomez" and the Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network.
Montreal, July 7th,- The Cuban Youth National Baseball Team was received last week in the City Hall of the district of LaSalle, a borough of the city of Montreal, Quebec. Local authorities, Canadian Baseball executives, as well as the Ambassador of Cuba to Canada, Julio Garmendia, attended the welcoming ceremony.
Havana, June 17 (ACN) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, who is in Austria for a work visit, will hold a press conference in Vienna on Monday, June 19, 2017, at 16: 00 hours from Austria (10:00 hours from Cuba). The Cuban Foreign Minister will address issues of high importance and current relevance to Cuban foreign policy, according to the statement published on the Cubaminrex website. The press conference of the Cuban Foreign Minister will be broadcast live on Cuban television and radio.
Ottawa, June 14th .- A delegation chaired by the Minister of Industry of Cuba, Salvador Pardo Cruz, is visiting Canada from June 11 to 16 to participate in the International Economic Forum of the Americas, known as the Montreal Conference and in the Global Petroleum Show in Calgary.
New York, 9 June 2017. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Treasury Department levied a new fine upon American Honda Finance Corporation (AHFC), which amounts to $87,255 for violating the regulations of the U.S. blockade against Cuba.
Toronto, June 5th, 2017.- Last weekend took place a verysuccessful 8th Biennial Convention in Toronto. The delegates and alternate delegates from solidarity organizations across Canada were joined by observers and invited guests including Luis Morlote Rivas, Vice-president of UNEAC and a member Cuban National Assembly and Sandra Ramírez, Director of North America of Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
Ottawa, June 4 .- During the 1st and 2nd of June, the Second Round of Migration Talks between Cuba and Canada took place in a friendly atmosphere of mutual respect, in accordance with the good state of bilateral relations.
CUBA, May 29, 2017.- On June 1 and 2, 2017, the Second Round of Migration Talks between Cuba and Canada will take place in Ottawa. On the Cuban side, the talks will be chaired by Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Director of Consular Affairs and Foreign Residents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while the Canadian delegation will be headed by Mr. Jacques Cloutier, Vice-President of the Canada Border Services Agency.
Ottawa May 26, 2017. About one hundred people gathered this afternoon at the Cuban Embassy in Canada to attend the opening of the photographic exhibition "Comandante", composed of 31 snapshots of the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, taken by legendary photojournalists Alberto Díaz (Korda) and Liborio Noval, already dead, along with renowned photographer and documentary filmmaker Roberto Chile, present in Ottawa for the occasion.
Indonesia, May 23, 2017. A delegation from the Parliamentary Friendship Group Indonesia-Cuba led by the Group's Coordinator, Daryatmo Mardiyanto, will visit Havana from May 22 to 26, during which they will exchange with his counterparts from the National Assembly of People's Power and officials of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, among other institutions. The delegation will also visit centers of interest.
