After a nationwide blackout in Cuba this week, Mexico’s president said Friday she is looking for ways to send fuel there without impacting her own country amid a U.S. oil blockade.
A humanitarian aid convoy, full of food and medical supplies, is setting sail from Mexico to Cuba on Friday after an energy blackout left the island in the dark for more than 24 hours this week.
Cuba’s electrical grid continues to crumble after President Donald Trump in January threatened any country that sends oil to Cuba with tariffs.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters her administration is looking for ways to provide Cuba with fuel without impacting Mexico. Mexico was one of Cuba’s major oil suppliers before the U.S. ban.
“We always defend self-determination,” Sheinbaum said. “It is the Cuban people who must decide how to govern themselves, without foreign intervention.”
Mexico’s Navy delivered more than 800 tons of humanitarian supplies to Cuba last month.
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