Cuban-Canadians Say Canada ‘Propping Up’ Cuban Regime Which in Turn Supports Russia

Published on March 24, 2024

A group of Cuban-Canadians gathered outside Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s Toronto office on Friday at an event they said was to demonstrate solidarity with protesters in Cuba who took to the streets March 17 in protest against food shortages and power outages. Nelson Taylor Sol, a member of “Cuban Canadians for a Democratic Cuba,” was among dozens who arrived at Ms. Freeland’s constituency office in downtown Toronto at about 3 p.m. local time on March 22. Mr. Taylor Sol told The Epoch Times a day earlier that members of the group “question Canada’s foreign policy towards Cuba.” “We point [to] the contradiction of propping up the same regime that’s sending military support to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin as we speak,” he said, referring to a letter he wrote to Ms. Freeland on behalf of the group....