Mexico’s Oil Shipments to Cuba Will Continue After Maduro (1)

Mexico will continue supplying Cuba with crude oil after the US seized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro last weekend, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced, describing Mexican shipments in part as humanitarian aid.

Sheinbaum added that she sees Mexican oil as especially critical to the impoverished communist-run Cuba following Maduro’s capture.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum

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“With the current situation in Venezuela, Mexico has become an important supplier,” she told reporters at her daily morning press conference on Wednesday. “Previously it was Venezuela, but it’s part of what has historically been sent.”

Mexico’s state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos has for decades sent oil to Cuba, and in 2024 ...