Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the departure on Monday of another ship carrying aid to Cuba, amid the strengthening of the United States’ economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the island nation.
“We will continue sending humanitarian aid. In fact, a ship carrying humanitarian aid is leaving for Cuba today. Mexico will always be fraternal and in solidarity with all nations of the world, and particularly with Cuba,” stated the head of the Executive branch.
In response to a question on the matter, the president noted during her regular press conference that her country believes in the self-determination of peoples, which is enshrined in Mexico’s Constitution.
“We have never agreed—from the very beginning, in 1962, when the blockade was first proposed—with the blockade of Cuba. Therefore, we will continue sending humanitarian aid to a people who need it,” the dignitary stated.
For more than six decades, the United States has imposed an economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the island, which was tightened last January through an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump, resulting in an energy embargo.
In response to this situation, initiatives arose in Mexico to support Cuba, both from the government—which sent shipments of aid—and from the legislature, local administrations, social movements and organizations, unions, and political parties.
On May 1, the Republican announced further coercive measures against the island, declaring his intention to take control of the Caribbean nation “almost immediately” and saying that, following the war in Iran, he might send the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to within 100 yards (91.44 meters) of the coast.
Trump’s threats sparked widespread condemnation and rejection from popular sectors, governments, and politicians around the world.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
