ES / EN
- July 10, 2025 -
No Result
View All Result
OnCubaNews
  • World
  • Cuba
  • Cuba-USA
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Infographic
  • Culture
    • Billboard
  • Sports
  • Styles / Trends
  • Media
  • Special
  • Cuban Flavors
  • World
  • Cuba
  • Cuba-USA
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Infographic
  • Culture
    • Billboard
  • Sports
  • Styles / Trends
  • Media
  • Special
  • Cuban Flavors
OnCubaNews
ES / EN
Home World

Russia closes ranks with Cuba and Venezuela against U.S. “impositions”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, visiting the Island, met with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez, and former President Raúl Castro, and attended the reopening of the Statue of the Republic, in Havana’s Capitol building.

by
  • OnCuba Staff
    OnCuba Staff,
  • OnCuba editorial staff
July 25, 2019
in World
0
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Victorovich Lavrov (l), along with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla (r), this Wednesday at the headquarters of the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana. Photo: Yander Zamora / EFE.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Victorovich Lavrov (l), along with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla (r), this Wednesday at the headquarters of the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana. Photo: Yander Zamora / EFE.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov closed ranks in Havana this Wednesday with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez, and promised to strengthen Moscow’s alliance with Cuba and Venezuela against what he considered U.S. “impositions” and “neo-colonial methods.”

Lavrov, who is visiting the island to strengthen political dialogue, address various aspects of bilateral cooperation and evaluate the progress of the agreements signed in November last year between presidents Vladimir Putin and Miguel Díaz-Canel, reiterated twice that “We will continue to support the Cuban people.”

The Russian foreign minister also confirmed the next visit to Cuba by Dmitri Medvedev, prime minister and Putin’s right-hand man, who plans to travel to Havana in October on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the city, to be celebrated in November.

Regarding relations with Cuba, he highlighted the “extensive dialogue in trade and investment” that both countries maintain, which is reflected in projects such as the renewal of the Cuban rail network until 2030 with Russian investment, whose cost is estimated at up to one billion euros (equivalent to about 1.123 million dollars).

https://twitter.com/mae_rusia/status/1154032084723257344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1154032084723257344&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fmundo%2Frusia-cierra-filas-con-cuba-y-venezuela-frente-a-imposiciones-de-eeuu%2F

Lavrov also outlined Russia’s strategy of “developing ties with Latin America and the Caribbean” and rejected the “impositions of values,” the “appropriation of financial resources” and the “persistent neo-colonial methods” he attributed to the government of U.S. President Donald Trump in his strategies towards the countries of the region.

Related Posts

People hold signs during a demonstration in support of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network following the recent ICE raids in The Home Depot parking lot in East Windsor, New Jersey. Photo: EFE/Ángel Colmenares.

Life on the razor’s edge: the case of Willliam and Viviana

July 8, 2025
Photo: ABC.

All the president’s refugees

June 13, 2025
View of Pope Francis’s tomb in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Photo: EFE/Vatican Press/Francesco Sforza.

Aurelio Alonso on the Pope: “Francis as a name meant a lot from the beginning”

May 4, 2025
April 23, 2025, photo of U.S. President Donald Trump signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House. Photo: EFE/EPA/Samuel Corum/Pool.

The ups and downs of the humanitarian parole

April 30, 2025

In addition, he urged European countries and other U.S. allies to curb Trump’s aggressive policies and convince him to recover the spirit of multilateral understanding sown in the middle of last century with the creation of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods agreements.

As expected, Lavrov also condemned the economic and commercial embargo that Washington has imposed on Cuba for more than six decades, recently strengthened by the Trump administration with new sanctions.

As for Venezuela, he reiterated Russia’s position of seeking a solution to the political crisis that the country is experiencing “through peaceful methods, such as the use of diplomacy and the provisions of the UN, without interference from third countries or the use of force.”

In this regard, he pointed out that contacts between the government of Nicolás Maduro and the opposition, led by Juan Guaidó, “must generate dialogue, without imposing conditions” so that “the Venezuelan people can decide their own future.”

For his part, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez thanked Moscow’s support for Cuba and the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro against U.S. sanctions and affirmed that Russia holds “leadership in the defense and preservation of peace” in the world.

This Wednesday’s meeting in Havana is the second this year between Lavrov and Rodríguez, who last May in Moscow expressed their unity against the “unilateral coercive measures” of the United States against the two countries, especially the strengthening of the U.S. embargo against Cuba.

Also this Wednesday, the Russian foreign minister met with former president and leader of the Communist Party of Cuba Raúl Castro and participated alongside him in the reopening of the Statue of the Republic, in Havana’s Capitol building, seat of the Cuban parliament, in whose restoration Russia has been involved.

El General de Ejército @RaulCastroR, primer secretario del @PartidoPCC, acompañó este martes al ministro de @mfa_russia, Serguéi #Lavrov, en el acto de inauguración de la obra de restauración de la Estatua de la República en el Capitolio Nacional. | #Cuba #Rusia pic.twitter.com/q95WvkW7jp

— Cancillería de Cuba (@CubaMINREX) July 24, 2019

After his visit to Havana, Lavrov will travel to Brazil on Thursday, where he will participate the following day in the meeting of foreign ministers of the BRICS group, formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In the South American country, he is also scheduled to meet with his Brazilian counterpart Ernesto Araújo.

EFE / OnCuba

  • OnCuba Staff
    OnCuba Staff,
  • OnCuba editorial staff
Tags: Cuba and RussiaCuba and VenezuelaCuba Foreign Affairs Ministry
Previous Post

Cuba refutes study alleging loss of white matter in U.S. diplomats

Next Post

Before and after of the Statue of the Republic in Cuba’s Capitol building

OnCuba Staff

OnCuba Staff

OnCuba Staff

OnCuba Staff

Next Post
The before and after of the statue of the Republic, newly restored in Cuba’s Capitol building. Photos: Facebook Katherine Hechavarría.

Before and after of the Statue of the Republic in Cuba’s Capitol building

Cubans queue up in front of the Panamanian embassy in Havana to request the "shopping tourism card." Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez / Archive.

Panama temporarily suspends issuance of tourism cards to Cubans

Photo: Milena Recio.

Despite Trump, Cubans have lost political influence in the United States

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

The conversation here is moderated according to OnCuba News discussion guidelines. Please read the Comment Policy before joining the discussion.

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Most Read

  • Flags of Cuba and the United States, seen in perspective in Havana. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.

    Trump reinstates hard-line Cuba embargo as Havana condemns US measure as “criminal”

    29 shares
    Share 12 Tweet 7
  • Lester Lescay: “I left Cuba because I didn’t want to spend my youth there.”

    16 shares
    Share 6 Tweet 4
  • San Juan Hill: heritage in the attic?

    12 shares
    Share 5 Tweet 3
  • Los Palacios, land of Cuban rice harvested by Vietnamese

    11 shares
    Share 4 Tweet 3
  • A sanctuary for jazz in Cuba: César López’s dream

    15 shares
    Share 6 Tweet 4

Most Commented

  • Photo: Kaloian.

    Private sector and tourism in Cuba. Why not?

    12 shares
    Share 5 Tweet 3
  • About us
  • Work with OnCuba
  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Moderation policy for comments
  • Contact us
  • Advertisement offers

OnCuba and the OnCuba logo are registered® trademarks of Fuego Enterprises, Inc., its subsidiaries or divisions.
OnCuba © by Fuego Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • World
  • Cuba
  • Cuba-USA
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Infographic
  • Culture
    • Billboard
  • Sports
  • Styles / Trends
  • Media
  • Special
  • Cuban Flavors

OnCuba and the OnCuba logo are registered® trademarks of Fuego Enterprises, Inc., its subsidiaries or divisions.
OnCuba © by Fuego Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}