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Mexico's Navy said connected Thursday (March 26, 2026) it had activated a search-and-rescue cognition successful the Caribbean to find 2 sailboats carrying humanitarian assistance to Cuba aft the vessels failed to get successful Havana arsenic scheduled.
In a statement, the Navy said the 2 boats near Isla Mujeres, successful the Mexican Caribbean authorities of Quintana Roo, connected March 20 bound for Havana with 9 unit members of antithetic nationalities connected board.
The vessels had been expected to get betwixt March 24 and 25, but there had been no connection from them and nary confirmation of their arrival, the Navy said.
The 2 missing boats are portion of a broader grassroots assistance effort for energy-strapped Cuba, which has been suffering prolonged powerfulness outages and a deepening economical crisis. A abstracted vas from the convoy arrived successful Havana connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026).
Volunteers successful Mexico past week loaded boats with rice, babe wipes, beans, babe formula, medicine and different supplies arsenic portion of the "Nuestra America Convoy," a non-government inaugural seeking to present food, medicines and energy-related goods to the island.
Representatives for the convoy did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Mexico besides established contact with maritime rescue coordination centres successful Poland, France, Cuba and the United States, arsenic good arsenic diplomatic representatives of the countries of root of those connected board, the Navy said.
