Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Costa Rican Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar Rivera on Friday of subordination to United States policy over his claim that diplomatic relations between the two countries have been broken.
In a statement, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said it learned the day before through press reports of Tovar’s remark to the Miami Herald that “a rupture of diplomatic relations has occurred” with Cuba, which “has never been formally notified by the authorities of that country to the Government” of the island.
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“The fact that the current Costa Rican foreign minister has chosen to share with a news outlet in southern Florida information about an alleged rupture of which the Government of Cuba is totally unaware suggests that we are in the presence of another act of subordination by the Costa Rican Government to United States policy against Cuba,” the statement says.
📌🇨🇺 Comunicado del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la República de Cuba
Cuba rechaza nuevo acto de subordinación del gobierno costarricense a la política de los Estados Unidos contra Cuba.
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— Cancillería de Cuba (@CubaMINREX) September 18, 2026
The ministry recalled that on March 17, 2026, Costa Rica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed through a diplomatic note — without offering any argument — of the unilateral decision to close its Embassy in Havana, and asked Cuba, without justification and invoking an alleged and unfounded reciprocity, to withdraw diplomatic personnel from its Embassy in San José and keep only consular and administrative personnel.
It added that then Costa Rican Foreign Minister Arnoldo André Tinoco communicated to Havana on that occasion that those decisions “did not mean a rupture of diplomatic relations.” Institutional Communication 076-2026, published by the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry itself on March 18, 2026, under the title “Closure of the Embassy of Costa Rica in Cuba and withdrawal of Cuban diplomatic personnel in Costa Rica,” also made no mention of any formal separation between the two States, according to the statement.
The Cuban Executive, the ministry said, has repeatedly reiterated its denunciations of the pressure and coercion exercised by Washington against third countries, aimed at hindering diplomatic relations, commercial exchange and access to basic supplies by the Caribbean nation.
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