Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, p. 3
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reiterated that most of the oil that Mexico sent to Cuba was through “a purchase contract, as with any country in the world, and another part for humanitarian reasons.”
He insisted that his government continues to “make all efforts to be able to send oil again, which is very necessary for the people of Cuba, without having any effects on the people of Mexico.” “As I have said,” he reiterated, “we consider that it is very unfair that tariffs are imposed – as Donald Trump’s government threatened – on those who send oil to Cuba, and we are going to continue supporting them with humanitarian aid of different types.”
Last Sunday, two ships from the Secretariat of the Navy set sail for Cuba with the first shipment of almost 814 tons of food, which includes liquid and powdered milk, meat products, cookies, beans, rice, tuna in water, sardines and vegetable oil, and personal hygiene items.
