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Cuban President receives rapturous reception in Portugal following European Parliament attack
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his wife Lis Cuesta Peraza pose with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (centre), during a welcome ceremony outside the 16th century Jeronimos Monastery in Lisbon, July 14, 2023

CUBAN President Miguel Diaz-Canel was greeted by over a thousand Cuba solidarity campaigners in Lisbon on Saturday.

The socialist island’s leader is in Europe for an EU-Celac (Community of Latin American and Caribbean states) summit beginning on Monday.

His rapturous reception in Portugal comes after the European Parliament provoked strong criticism from Latin American countries with a resolution calling for sanctions on Mr Diaz-Canel and saying that “autocratic regimes” should not be allowed to participate in summits with the EU.

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