Cuba and Canada: 80 years of diplomatic relations

When the United States pressured all the countries of the Americas into breaking off diplomatic relations with Cuba in the early 1960s, Canada and Mexico were honourable exceptions.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, pictured. Cuba's Ambassador to Canada Rodrigo Malmeirca Díaz says first deputy minister of Cuban Foreign Affairs Gerardo Peñalver Portal will visit Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY RODRIGO MALMIERCA DíAZ

March 21, 2025

In the margins of the end of the Second World War, in which they participated in the allied bloc against Nazi-fascism, Cuba and Canada established diplomatic relations on March 16, 1945.

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