The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, has already arrived at the Viana Palace, headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he is scheduled to meet with his Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Albares, this Monday afternoon. The meeting “will be focused on the situation in Cuba and the next Ibero-American Summit,” which will be held in Madrid on November 4 and 5, Foreign Affairs sources point out.
At the doors of the ministerial headquarters, a dozen people awaited the arrival of the Cuban politician at five in the afternoon, to whom they have directed insults. Some of the few protesters have asked for the intervention of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, whose Administration has cut off fuel supplies to the island and has warned that it will impose tariffs on countries that dare to send crude oil to Cuba.
Rodríguez Parrilla’s arrival in Madrid occurs precisely when his country is suffering the consequences of the oil asphyxiation imposed by the president of the United States, which has been the latest blow in a systemic crisis that is added to the restrictions on tourism during the pandemic and the economic embargo of more than 60 years. The lack of fuel – the supply of more than 27,000 barrels of oil per day that Cuba received from the Chavista regime in Venezuela has been cut off – has paralyzed much of an island that depends on imports for energy. As a result, flights have been suspended and hotels closed and consequently tourism, one of the main sources of income, has suffered seriously.
The meeting is the third that both ministers have held, after those held in November 2021 at the Ibero-American Summit in the Dominican Republic and in September 2025 on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly. Rodríguez Parrilla’s last visit to Spain was in April 2017.
