The Government of Mexico reaffirmed his back to Cuba with the shipment of a new shipment of humanitarian aid for alleviate the effects of the severe economic crisis suffered by the island, exacerbated by the United States oil fence.
The Mexican Foreign Ministry advertisement that the new shipment, which left this Tuesday for the island, groups about 1200 tons of food.
“This Tuesday the Logistics Support Vessels set sail from the port of Veracruz Papalopan and Huasteco with a total of 1,193 tons of food destined for the civilian population of the island of Cuba”, reflects the statement, cited by the press.
The Government of Mexico, headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, sent two more ships with more than a thousand tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba this Tuesday.https://t.co/atITF8q2Fs pic.twitter.com/rj8sN8cDIF
— El Universal (@El_Universal_Mx) February 25, 2026
As in the shipments previous, these are foods of first necessity that have already begun to be distributed in Cuba, with emphasis on population mores vulnerablelikechildren, elderly or pregnant womenaccording to what was reported by the island authorities.
The new humanitarian cargo is expected to reach its destination after a transfer that usually takes four days, the information states.
ANDThe Papaloapan ship carries most of the cargo: 1,078 tons of beans and milk powder. The rest travel aboard the Huasteco and is made up of 92 tons of beans and 23 tons of “various foods” .
Citizen solidarity
In his statement heto chancery explains that those 23 tons were contributed by social organizations, with support from the Government of Mexico City, through a collection center installed in the capital’s Historic Center, and correspond to a first delivery.
To this he added that for all the logistics linked to the new shipment dand help were used more than 350 naval elements, in addition to a crane and five forklifts.
The Mexican authorities have framed the shipments of aid to Cuba in a “tradition of solidarity” to different countries, fundamentally of Latin America.
In this sense, it is recalled that in recent months support was provided in the midst of emergency situations by phenomena naturalas the fires in California, the United States and Chile, as well as the floods in Texas.
Help on the rise
Aid deliveries in Cuba humanitarian coming from Mexico have been driven by the president Claudia Sheinbaumwho has reiterated that his government will maintain its solidarity with the people of the island.
Until now, the shipment of fuel has been left out of this support, in order to avoid the imposition of taxes. tariffs with which Donald Trump threatened countries that sent oil to Cuba.
The first shipment of 814 tons—mainly food— traveledor to Cuba on the same ships and He arrived on the island on February 12.
According to the agency EFEfrom data from the Bank of Mexico, that before the executive order signed by Trump, Mexico exported 609 to Cuba 392 million dollars during 2025. This represents an increase of 10.6% compared to the previous yearwhen it recorded revenues of 551,216 million dollars.
Beyond of humanitarian support, Sheinbaum has expressed in multiple occasions that your country this willing to facilitate ways to resolve differences between Cuba and the United States.
The president recently noted that existed conversations for Mexico serves as a bridge in that exchangewhile insisting that his government continueguided by foreign policy principles of respect to the self-determination of peoples and non-intervention.
