Madrid/The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, met this Thursday with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment of Cuba, Óscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, to address with him the “critical situation” that the Island is currently going through, according to his Ministry.
Pérez-Oliva, great-nephew of Fidel and Raúl Castro, is the second senior official of the Cuban regime to meet with Albares in Madrid since the chancellor, Bruno Rodríguez, did so. in the middle of last Februaryand his visit comes amid speculation about a possible United States military intervention on the Island, emulating the one carried out in Venezuela against Nicolás Maduro.
Then, as on this occasion, Foreign Affairs has highlighted that the meeting took place “at the request” of the Cuban side and not at the express wish of Albares.
“The meeting addressed the critical situation in Cuba and the serious consequences for the citizens and the economy of the Island,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs limited themselves to specifying in a brief note that they accompanied with an image of the meeting, without further details about the nature of the conversation held.
The Cuban deputy prime minister has arrived in Madrid from Paris, where he met this Tuesday with the Secretary of State in charge of Foreign Trade
And this, despite the fact that the sanctions imposed by the United States against the Cuban regime have forced several Spanish companies such as Meliá or Iberostar to having to stop operating the hotels they managed on the island.
Albares has recently expressed his rejection of a military intervention in Cuba to remove the president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, from power, while at the same time he has been defending that it must be the Cubans who decide their future.
Likewise, he has not hesitated to describe as “unacceptable” the humanitarian situation that the island is going through and to criticize the embargo imposed by the United States, which Spain has been repeatedly condemning for years with its support for the resolutions approved by the UN General Assembly.
The Cuban deputy prime minister has arrived in Madrid from Paris, where he met this Tuesday with the Secretary of State in charge of Foreign Trade at the Quai d’Orsay, Nicolas Forissier.
