The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba begins visits to Caribbean countries.
CUBA, June 11th, 2019. - The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, will begin a tour to Caribbean countries on Tuesday, which will run until June 18th.
The journey includes the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Barbados.
Cuba is not intimidated by measures adopted to reinforce the blockade
Revolutionary Government Declaration
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba repudiates, in the strongest terms, measures announced by the United States government on June 4, 2019, reinforcing the economic blockade imposed on Cuba for more than 60 years, at a cost to the Cuban economy that in 2018 exceeded 134 billion dollars at current prices, or 933 billion dollars, when considering the depreciation of the dollar as compared to the value of gold on the international market. As is known, this new escalation, effective June 5, further strengthens the stringent restrictions U.S. citizens face in order to travel to Cuba, and adds full prohibitions on travel by sea from the United States, of all types, and prohibits cruise ship stops in our country immediately. The objective continues to be pressuring the Cuban nation to make political concessions, by strangling the economy and causing damage at the population’s level. In this particular case, the measures also seek to prevent the people of the United States from learning about Cuba’s reality, and thus undermining the slanderous propaganda campaigns against our country that are fabricated on a daily basis.
These actions are contrary to the majority opinion of U.S. citizens, whose interest in seeing Cuba, and exercising their right to travel, is made clear by the 650,000 who visited us in 2018, along with half a million Cubans resident in the United States.
Guyanese authorities visit Cuba’s showground exhibition site at the Health Expo 2019.
Georgetown, June 5, 2019. The Vice President and Minister of Indigenous Peoples Affairs, Honorable Sydney Allicock, the Minister of Public Health, Honorable Volda Lawrence, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana, Honorable Dr. Karen Cummings and Dr. Shamdeo Persaud , Chief Medical Director of Guyana visited the Cuban showground exhibition site at the Health Expo 2019, where the main outcomes of Cuban medical collaboration in that Caribbean country and in the world are exhibited.
During the visit, the high Guyanese authorities shared with the Ambassador and with members of the medical Collaboration Brigade.
Guyana celebrates the Liberation Day of Africa
Georgetown, May 28, 2019. The Ambassador of Cuba, Narciso Reinaldo Amador Socorro and the official, Mayra Caridad León Pérez, participated in the ceremony for the Day of the Liberation of Africa, invited by the Organization for the Victory of the People (OVP) , Which also dedicated the commemoration to the revolution of Cuba and Venezuela.
This event was chaired by Mr. Gerald Perreira, President of the Organization for the Victory of the People, and Mr. Lincoln Lewis, General Secretary of the Congress of Trade Unions of Guyana (GTUC). Both personalities and those attending the event highlighted the history of the struggle of the peoples of Africa for their liberation and called for solidarity with the Cuban and Venezuelan revolution.
STATEMENT ON THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW MEASURES BY THE US GOVERNMENT AGAINST CUBA
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is concerned by the new measures under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act announced by the Government of the United States of America which would strengthen the US economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba. The Community denounces the application of laws and measures of an extra-territorial nature that are contrary to international law.