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CELAC, President Miguel M. Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

CUBA at CELAC, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on April 9, 2025,

Let us not delay any longer the integration dreamed and fought for, from Bolivar to this day

Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the 9th Summit of Heads of State and Government of CELAC, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on April 9, 2025, “Year 67 of the Revolution”

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

april 10, 2025 07:04:29

Cuba ratifies its willingness to maintain the cooperation agreed with each country that has required it, through legal agreements, under the protection of international norms and practice, said Díaz-Canel. Photo: Estudios Revolución

(Shorthand Versions – Presidency of the Republic)
Dear Xiomara Castro Sarmiento, President of the sister Republic of Honduras;
Dear Heads of State and Government of Latin America and the Caribbean;
Heads of delegations and guests:
I would like to thank the brotherly Honduran people and, in particular, President Xiomara Castro, for your generous hospitality and congratulate you for the work carried out at the head of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, an organization constantly threatened by divisive winds, which we have been able to overcome with united efforts such as the one that brings us here today.
I believe that never before has it been so visible and urgent for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean the need to “walk in a tight frame, like silver in the roots of the Andes”, a warning issued by José Martí, who lived in the monster, knew its entrails and understood, like Bolívar, that only unity could save us.
The actions taken by the current U.S. government defy multilateralism and International Law, by disregarding basic principles such as peaceful coexistence and sovereign equality among States.
As Cuba has been warning with concern in successive meetings, the current U.S. administration is shaping an aggressive agenda, marked by unilateralism on issues of migration, drug trafficking, international trade and climate change, among others; to which is now added the attempt to control our relations with extra-regional partners.
The Government of the United States threatens and seeks to legitimize the imposition of unilateral coercive measures, without respect for the order of other countries.  It seeks to make blackmail, harassment and political manipulation standard practice against our nations.

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Cuban president arrives in Argentina to participate in the Celac summit

Cuban president arrives in Argentina to participate in the Celac summit
The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro, bid farewell to President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to participate in the 7th CELAC Summit, national television reported

Author: Radio Habana Cuba | internet@granma.cu

january 23, 2023 12:01:30


Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and Roberto Morales, Secretary of the Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba, also arrived at the José Martí International Airport in the capital.

Photo: Estudios Revolución

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez arrived in Argentina today to participate in the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).

Díaz-Canel arrived in Buenos Aires at the Ministro Pistarini International Airport, where he was received by Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Pablo Tettamanti.

Cuba has been present at all Celac summits and during its pro-tempore presidency worked to involve the Caribbean more in the organization. From the II Summit in Havana in 2014, the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace was born, an unprecedented emblematic document in the history of the region.

The Cuban president traveled for the first time to Argentina in December 2019 for the inauguration of Alberto Fernández. During that visit, he fulfilled an intense agenda, which included an emotional visit to the former Navy Mechanics School, one of the largest centers of torture and extermination during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983).

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CELAC, European Union

CELAC-European Union Summit rejects blockade of Cuba and its extraterritorial impact

CELAC-EU Summit rejects blockade of Cuba and its extraterritorial impact
The final declaration of the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU), which concluded June 11 in Brussels, rejected the U.S. blockade against Cuba and its extraterritorial impact.

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Author: Granma International news | informacion@granma.cu
june 12, 2015 16:06:42

The final declaration of the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU), which concluded June 11 in Brussels, rejected the U.S. blockade against Cuba and its extraterritorial impact.
The 2nd CELAC-EU Summit was held over two days in the Justus Lipsius building, headquarters of the European Council, and saw the participation of more than 40 heads of state and government and high level delegations from 61 countries throughout the two regions.

The document highlighted that laws contained within the Helms-Burton Act cause human damages to the Cuban people and negatively impact the development of economic relations between the island, the EU and other countries.
The unilateral coercive measures are a violation of international law, the text added.

The document also acknowledged CELAC’s Special Declaration opposing unilateral measures against Venezuela, adopted January 29, and its statement expressing solidarity with the country, approved on March 26.

Likewise, the final declaration of the Summit praised the declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace and the decision to resolve differences through peaceful means.

Furthermore, it welcomed the announcement made on December 17, 2014, by the Presidents of Cuba and the United States, Raúl Castro and Barack Obama, to advance toward re-establishing bilateral relations. The document noted, “In this context we expect all necessary steps to be taken towards an early end to the embargo [blockade].”

Meanwhile, both the Political Declaration and the Brussels Declaration approved by the delegations representing 61 countries: 33 from CELAC and 28 from the EU, proposed to strengthen relations based on historic bi-regional ties.

According to Prensa Latina, Ecuadoran President and CELAC President pro tempore, Rafael Correa, described the meeting as fruitful and one which served to bring the two blocs closer together, during which issues of bi-regional and global interest were addressed.

The problem of climate change was discussed in depth and we agreed that in the Paris meeting in December we must arrive at agreements related to taking care of our planet, he said.

Correa added that the issue of immigration to Europe, given the lack of opportunities for migrants in their countries of origin, was also broached, a question which requires global solutions.

Another issue on the table was the need for a new kind of cooperation between Latin America, the Caribbean and the EU.

In this sense, Correa stated that the region no longer requires support to construct schools, healthcare centers or rural roads, but to develop human talent, science and technology

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Declaration of Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries on the necessity to end the United States economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba

 

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The Heads of State and Government from Latin America and the Caribbean, gathered in Costa Rica, in ocassion of the III CELAC Summit, made an appeal to end the United States blockade against Cuba.

SPECIAL DECLARATION OF THE COMMUNITY OF LATINAMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STATES ON THE NEED TO PUT AN END TO THE ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL BLOCKADE IMPOSED BY THE UNITED STATES AGAINST CUBA

The Heads of State and Government of the Latin America and the Caribbean States gathered in Costa Rica, on the occasion of the III Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), on 28 and 29 January 2015:

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