Cuban Vice President to Engage with Colombian Solidarity Groups

Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa will meet today with members of the Cuba Solidarity Movement and with Cubans residing in Colombia. The meetings are scheduled to take place at the Los Trupillos Vacation Resort in this city, where the Vice President arrived yesterday.

Valdés Mesa is leading the delegation from the Caribbean nation to participate in the IV Summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU), which begins tomorrow. Upon his arrival at the Simón Bolívar International Airport, he was received with military honors by Colombia's Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs, Mauricio Jaramillo, and the Cuban Ambassador to Colombia, Javier Caamaño.

The Cuban delegation also includes the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, and the Vice Minister of the same portfolio, Anayansi Rodríguez. According to official sources, the Caribbean nation's delegation "will contribute a constructive spirit and a willingness to contribute to the bi-regional mechanism, based on equality, mutual respect, dialogue, and cooperation, for the benefit of all parties."

Simultaneously, the delegation is expected to denounce the tightening of the U.S. economic blockade and Cuba's unjustified inclusion on the U.S. unilateral list of states allegedly sponsoring terrorism, as pointed out by the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

The IV CELAC-EU Summit, which will host delegations from 62 countries, represents an opportunity to strengthen integration, foster sustainable development, and project a common voice on the global stage. High-level attendees include the President of the European Council, António Costa; the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; the President of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi; and the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez.

The central theme of the summit will be the Triple Transition—energy, digital, and environmental—aimed at generating real solutions to climate change, technological gaps, and production challenges. Key objectives include consolidating multilateralism, promoting effective cooperation, and creating a two-year bi-regional roadmap with concrete projects in areas such as renewable energy, inclusive digitalization, ecosystem protection, health innovation, agroecology, biotechnology, and human mobility.