CDMX, Mexico-. The Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez arrived in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines today as part of a tour of the Caribbean, announced the official press. In addition, the president will participate together with some of his ministers in the VIII CARICOM-Cuba Summit, whose headquarters are in Barbados.
The Cuban dictator, accompanied by his wife Lis Cuesta, will also make official visits to the Grenadines, Barbados and Grenada. Countries that he described as “sister nations to which we are united by close ties of friendship and a history of support in the most difficult times.”
“This visit will result in consolidating excellent political ties and further advancing our cooperative relations. You are the closest brothers we have; and we are the closest brothers that you have”, said Díaz-Canel to the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves.
Díaz-Canel, beyond this statement, did not specify what the cooperation plans to implement would be. The country is currently suffering from an unprecedented crisis that has fueled street protests. To try to oxygenate the battered Cuban economy, the dictator returned a week ago from another international tour, where he reached important agreements.
After passing through Algeria, Turkey, Russia and China, the Cuban delegation negotiated that once they restructure the Cuban debt, a donation from China of 100 million dollars and energy agreements.
The Cuban delegation on the current tour is made up of: Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla; the ministers Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, José Ángel Portal Miranda, Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya and the President of Biocubafarma, Eduardo Martínez Díaz, among other officials.
CARICOM-Cuba Summit
The island’s president will travel to Barbados to participate in the CARICOM-Cuba Summit. Every December 8, the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the other four islands of the region is celebrated. That link was established in 1972 when the Cuban government was punished with a policy of regional isolation.
Created in 1973, CARICOM is currently made up of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. .
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