“The truth is that it is not understood why we are sending fuel to Cuba. (…) Why is there a special debt to the Cuban government?” Asks a Mexican journalist.
CDMX, Mexico. – In just one month – from May 29 to June 27, 2025 – Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), through its subsidiary Gasolinas del Vigoto, registered 39 hydrocarbon shipments to Customs to Cuba for more than 850 million dollars, according to an investigation of Mexicans against corruption and impunity (MCCI) Published last weekend. The value of these shipments is equivalent to almost everything exported in the previous two years.
According to the records of foreign trade platforms such as veritrade cited by McCiin that period 10 million 230 barrels of crude oil and 132.5 million liters of products such as turbosine, diesel and regular gasoline were declared. 38 of the shipments came out of the Customs of Coatzacoalcos (Veracruz) and one from Tampico (Tamaulipas), with 6.8 million liters of diesel.
As an importer in Cuba, the state Coreydan, SA, domiciled in Calle Amivo, No. 552, Centro Habana, where it also is based Cuba Petróleos (CUPET).
Even in an operation of June 19, 2025 (eight million liters of gasoline), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico was registered as an importing part.
In his report before the SEC (December 2024), Pemex recorded: “Since July 2023, Gasolinas Welfare, SA de CV, our subsidiary of absolute property, acquires crude oil and oil products from some of our affiliates for export to the Republic of Cuba.”
In that document he reported exports to Cuba for approximately 400 million dollars from July to December 2023 and for around 600 million dollars in 2024. A new Pemex report before the SEC, cited by The Universalindicates that in the first quarter of 2025 shipments added 3,100 million Mexican pesos.
McCi He adds that, according to an external audit, Pemex subsidizes the fuel sent to Cuba: in 2023, well -being gasolines reported losses and indebtedness for about 324 million dollars “corresponding[n] to fuel that was given to the island. ”
Debate in Mexico: supply, prices and transparency
In Interview with MeganoticsTVPascal Beltrán del Río, director of the newspaper Excélsiorquestioned the impact on the internal market of gasoline shipments from Mexico to Cuba, since the Aztec country “is not self -sufficient in gasoline.” “That gasoline that we sent to Cuba we would necessarily have to buy it elsewhere,” said the analyst.
Beltrán del Río compared retail prices and considered that there are “almost 3 pesos of difference” between the liter equivalent in Cuba and the average in Mexico. He also claimed official clarity to Pemex. “We have no gas to give anyone,” he said.
“The truth is that it is not understood why we are sending fuel to Cuba. (…) Why is there a special debt to the Cuban government? Should we something to Cuba? Cuba did something for Mexico that Mexico did not do for Cuba and you have to repair that debt?” He questioned.
He also raised doubts about the distribution mechanism and payments to private carriers, in contrasting the effectiveness of maritime shipments to Cuba with the shortages in entities such as Mexico City, Nuevo León and Chiapas.
The journalist linked his demand with the “transparency in the use of public resources”, remembering that “as the INAI already disappeared [Instituto Nacional de Transparencia] It is not so easy to ask it ”, so he asked that Pemex and the federal government detail volumes, prices and export charges.
McCi It places these shipments in a scenario in which “the US government headed by Donald Trump has tightened the restrictions imposed on Cuba”, remembering that today Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, warned in October 2023 that Mexico could face measures if the sanctions policy avoids using the US financial system: “Obrador should think twice before using banks and financial institutions Americans to facilitate their sales and fuel shipments. ” Rubio then recalled the use of exim bank credits by Pemex and framed his accusations in the Helms-Burton Law, which provides financial and visa sanctions.
