Mexico says it will continue to support the people of Cuba as the island nation faces an energy crisis after a prolonged oil blockade from the United States.
In a post on social media, Mexico’s former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked his followers to lend humanitarian aid to Cuba.
Estoy en retiro, pero me hiere que busquen exterminar, por sus ideales de libertad y defensa de la soberanía, al hermano pueblo de Cuba.
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) March 15, 2026
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The plea comes after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. The island has been suffering chronic energy blackouts in the midst of a prolonged oil blockade from the United States.
Mexico has continued to send shipments of humanitarian aid to the country. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in a speech in the Mexican state of Nayarit on Sunday that her country will keep supporting the people of Cuba.
“There are those who say ‘I don’t agree with the Cuban government’” Sheinbaum said. “That’s OK, but it’s no reason to make the people suffer.”
To paraphrase @SecRubio, the best way to help the Cuban people is to empower them, not the regime that has oppressed them for decades.
— Embajador Ronald Johnson (@USAmbMex) March 16, 2026
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson, said on social media that the best way to help the people of Cuba was to empower them, rather than empowering the regime.
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