Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum affirmed today that her country continues to provide humanitarian aid to Cuba, which has been besieged by Washington’s economic, commercial, and financial blockade for more than six decades.
“Humanitarian aid to Cuba, as to other countries, continues, because it is humanitarian aid, and Mexico has always been in solidarity with the world. And these are sovereign decisions,” the head of the Executive Branch asserted during her regular press conference.
Sheinbaum referred to the two ways in which oil is delivered to Cuba: one is through humanitarian aid, and the other is through contracts established by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) with a Cuban government institution.
“That’s why I say it’s a sovereign decision for Mexico to send humanitarian aid, and with Pemex, according to the contract, it determines when to send it. I never said whether the shipment to the island had been suspended or not,” the president clarified.
And the Mexican president added that “that was a later interpretation based on a newspaper article.”
According to the most recent data, Washington’s embargo against Cuba caused estimated losses of $7.5561 billion between March 2024 and February of this year, a 49 percent increase compared to the previous period.
In the health sector alone, this policy resulted in losses of almost $300 million in one year, while the impact on the energy sector exceeded $496 million due to restrictions on importing fuel and spare parts.
On October 29, Cuba achieved a new victory in the United Nations General Assembly by obtaining 165 votes in favor of the resolution calling for an end to the blockade.
