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Mexico has sent 2 ships with humanitarian assistance to Cuba, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday (February 8, 2026), arsenic the communist-ruled federation endures aggravated U.S. unit pursuing the capture of Venezuelan person Nicolas Maduro.
The shipment of 814 tons of assistance comes arsenic Mexico is mulling however to nonstop lipid to Cuba without being punished by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has vowed tariff punishment for immoderate state that ships petroleum to Cuba.
The Foreign Ministry said the 2 navy ships taking supplies to Cuba near Sunday (February 8, 2026) and are expected to get successful 4 days.
They are carrying caller and powdered milk, meat, beans, atom and idiosyncratic hygiene items, and different 1,500 tons of nutrient assistance are waiting to beryllium shipped, it added.
Cuba’s already embattled system is suffering adjacent much due to the fact that lipid supplies from its accepted leftist state Venezuela person stopped aft the January 3 U.S. onslaught successful which Mr. Maduro and his woman Cilia Flores were captured successful Caracas and taken to the United States for proceedings connected cause trafficking charges.
U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed a willingness to enactment with interim person Delcy Rodriguez — Mr. Maduro’s erstwhile Vice President — and her team, provided she toes Washington’s line, peculiarly by granting entree to Venezuela’s immense lipid resources, which she truthful acold has done.
Last year, Mexico shipped astir $500 cardinal worthy of lipid and petroleum derivatives to Cuba, the state-run institution Pemex said past week — little than 1% of its full production.
