Mexico to Continue its Cuba Oil Aid Despite Trump’s Vow (1)

Mexico will continue sending aid shipments of crude oil to Cuba, in a potential clash with Donald Trump’s pledge to deprive the impoverished island of such energy assistance.

President Claudia Sheinbaum, who described the shipments as humanitarian in nature, told reporters the oil exports to communist-run Cuba and other unspecified countries would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Claudia Sheinbaum

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“The humanitarian aid will continue, as it does to other countries,” she said. “We have to determine it based on the requests,” Sheinbaum added.

Though the White House has yet to respond publicly to Sheinbaum’s latest comments, US Rep. ...