Nothing can distance the peoples of Cuba and Costa Rica, united by indissoluble bonds of a common history, nurtured by great Cuban independence heroes like Martí and Maceo.
Havana, March 18, 2026
Flags of Cuba and Costa Rica.
Bayano digital reproduces the text of the communique from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which rejects the humiliating and shameful decision by the government of Costa Rica to order the closure of Cuba's diplomatic headquarters in the Costa Rican capital.
Communique from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
Under pressure from the United States, Costa Rica announces the closure of its Embassy in Havana and limits relations with Cuba to the consular level.
On March 17, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Republic of Costa Rica informed our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, via Diplomatic Note and without offering any arguments, of its unilateral decision to close its country's Embassy in Cuba.
Furthermore, without any justification and invoking a supposed and unfounded reciprocity, it requested Cuba to withdraw the diplomatic personnel from its Embassy in San José and to maintain only consular and administrative staff.
It also notified that, as of April 1, the government of Costa Rica will maintain relations with Cuba at the consular level.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba firmly rejects the disrespectful statements made by the president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves Robles, at a press conference on March 18, when, in an attempt to justify this unfriendly act of his government, he crudely manipulated the history and reality of Cuba and scandalously ignored the direct responsibility that the policy of the United States blockade has had in the worsening of the economic situation and the deterioration of the living conditions of the Cuban people, a fact recognized over the years by the Costa Rican government itself.
This is an arbitrary decision, evidently adopted under pressure and without taking into consideration the national interests and those of this brotherly people.
With this step, the Costa Rican government, which exhibits a record of subordination to the policy of the United States against Cuba, once again joins the offensive of the US government in its renewed attempts to isolate our country from the nations of Our America, and becomes a participant in its aggressive escalation against the Cuban Revolution, rejected by the international community.
Just as it did 60 years ago, it will fail in its endeavor.
