EFE/14ymedio.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel began a tour of three Caribbean countries this Saturday in the context of the VIII Summit of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), scheduled for December 6 in Barbados.
The president informed through social networks that Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the first stop on a tour that will also take him to Barbados and Grenada. “Sister nations to which we are united by close ties of friendship and a history of support in the most difficult times,” he wrote.
Díaz-Canel added that in Barbados he will also commemorate the support of Mexico, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago, which established diplomatic ties with Cuba 50 years ago, despite the regional isolation to which Havana was subjected.
“Do you remember when the US and the OAS forced all of Latin America to break with Cuba and we were left with only Mexico? 50 years ago, four newly independent Caribbean nations changed that history,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, expressed on Twitter that the tour of the Caribbean is an “opportunity to continue deepening relations of friendship, cooperation and solidarity that unite us.”
Every December 8, Caricom-Cuba Day is celebrated in commemoration of the decision of four Caribbean countries to establish diplomatic relations with Havana in 1972.
Just a week ago, the Cuban president and six of his key ministers returned from a tour of Algeria, Turkey, Russia and China.
Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago established diplomatic ties with Cuba 49 years ago, a decision that, according to the Cuban government, broke the regional isolation imposed by the United States.
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. .
the official journal cubadebate He pointed out that Díaz-Canel met this Saturday night with the members of the medical brigade in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. According to the outlet, in this country there are 77 Public Health workers and four construction workers sent by Havana.
Just a week ago, the Cuban president and six of his key ministers returned from a tour of Algeria, Turkey, Russia and China, whose main objective was to get help to get fuel and face a deep crisis in electricity generation that translates into endless blackouts. all over the island.
Algeria canceled the outstanding interest on Cuba’s debt and postponed the repayment of the capital until further notice. While China, the island’s second most important trading partner, announced a donation of 100 million dollars.
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