Legislators from the main political parties make up the group, whose constitution was attended by the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Sebastian Valdomir, and former President Ana Olivera.

Juan Canessa, nominated as the new Uruguayan ambassador to Cuba, was also present in the ceremony, together with Antonio Pardo, Cuba’s Charge d’Affaires in Montevideo, and the president of Parlatino, Rolando Gonzalez, who chairs the Cuba-Uruguay friendship group of his country’s National Assembly of People’s Power.

The Vice President of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Varela, urged strengthening relations between Cuba and Uruguay as heirs to the legacy left by Jose Marti as the South American country’s consul in New York.

Sebastian Valdomir proposed two topics of interest for the bilateral agenda: political coordination within the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), whose pro tempore presidency Uruguay will assume in 2026.

The other topic points at US relations following its threats against several Latin American and Caribbean countries and the strengthening of the blockade against Cuba.

In this regard, the president of Parlatino denounced Washington’s decision to include Cuba on the unilateral list of countries that sponsor terrorism as a pretext to carry out “a horrific financial suffocation.”

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