The Government of Claudia Sheinbaum continues to underpin Havana.
CDMX, Mexico. – Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) raised by 6% the value of its hydrocarbons exports to Cuba in the first semester of 2025, with an average of 17,900 barrels per day (BD) of crude oil sent in that period, according to its quarterly report presented to the United States Stock Exchange and Securities Commission (SEC), quoted by Industry & Energy Magazine.
In parallel, Azteca TV He informed – with the base in the Ministry of Energy (Sener) – that this flow reached a value of 289 million dollars and confirmed the growth of 6%.
According to Pemex’s report before the SEC, the increase in value is explained by a advance of 2.8% in the total volume dispatched to the island, which went from 17,400 BD in the first half of 2024 to 17,900 BD in the same period of 2025. Most corresponded to crude oil, while the derivatives (gasoline and diesel) were reduced from 1,800 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 to 1,700 interannuals in the reference period.
Pemex explained that these operations are channeled through their subsidiary Gasolinas Welfare, SA de CV, through contracts called pesos and “at current market rates”, and pointed out that it has procedures to ensure that the transactions are carried out in accordance with the applicable legislation, in accordance with the report presented to the SEC.
The report also limits the weight of Cuba in the Pemex foreign trade set: shipments to the island represented 3.3% of the total oil exports of the oil company and 1.8% of its exports of oil products in the semester.
For its part, Azteca TV —It’s information from Sener – placed the value of exports by 289 million dollars and stressed that the increase “reflects a greater demand.” Together, public data coincide in the operating pattern of the semester: more raw, less derivatives, and a net balance of greater billing towards Cuba, with well -being gasoline as a Pemex operational vehicle.
Last August It transcended that Pemex had registered Customs 39 Hydrocarbons shipments to Cuba for more than 850 million dollars, according to an investigation of Mexicans against corruption and impunity (MCCI). The value of these shipments is equivalent to almost everything exported in the previous two years.
As an importer in Cuba, the state Coreydan SA appears, domiciled at Calle Amivo, No. 552, Centro Habana, where it also is based Cuba Petróleos (CUPET).
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”, and recalls that the current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, warned in October 2023 that Mexico could face measures if he eludes the sanctions policy using the US financial system: “Obrador should think twice before using banks and financial institutions Americans to facilitate their sales and fuel shipments. ”
