Mexico's president seeks to restart oil shipments to Cuba as island's crises deepen
Sheinbaum said commercial firms could resume deliveries as Cuba faces fuel shortages that have cut work hours and caused power outages, officials said.
- On Monday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Mexico aims to restart oil shipments to Cuba soon, utilizing private and commercial firms rather than state-owned companies.
- Shipments were previously suspended after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any nation supplying oil to the island, following the attack on Venezuela.
- Sheinbaum plans to leverage existing Mexican business owners on the island and recent Cuban free-market reforms, using private companies with permits to transport fuel.
- Mexico will continue providing humanitarian aid as the island faces severe power outages, water shortages, and suspended surgeries from the deepening energy crisis.
- Cuba produces only 40% of its required petroleum; since the attack on Venezuela, the island received one Russian shipment of 730,000 barrels consumed within a month.
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Mexico's president seeks to restart oil shipments to Cuba as island's crises deepen
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country seeks to restart oil shipments to Cuba soon, a move that could provide much needed relief as the island’s crises deepen given a lack of petroleum.
MEXICO CITY – This Monday, during her usual morning press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced that efforts are underway to resume oil trade with Cuba through private companies, thanks to the new package of economic reforms that expand private investment on the island. At the National Palace, Sheinbaum reiterated that humanitarian aid from Mexico to Cuba continues. “It hasn’t exactly restarted,” she said, “but the mech…
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said this Monday that we are working on mechanisms for private companies to transfer fuel to Cuba, besieged by an energy fence of the government of the United States. “We are working on it. Mainly through –it is not that it has been restarted – but the mechanism would be through private companies that have the permission to take the fuel to Cuba,” she said in response to a question about whether the oi…
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