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Mexico Condemns US Sanctions and Vows to Continue Aid to Cuba

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated that the country will use all diplomatic means to counter what she calls unjust US sanctions against countries supplying oil to Cuba. She emphasized that support for the Cuban people should not depend on political disagreements and promised to increase humanitarian aid.


Mexico Condemns US Sanctions and Vows to Continue Aid to Cuba

The president stated: 'We have always helped peoples in need, and now we are sending mainly food, and more will be sent.' One may agree or not with the Cuban government regime, but the people should never be affected. We will take all necessary diplomatic actions to resume the sending of oil, a people cannot be choked like that. The sanction imposed on the countries we sell oil to Cuba is unjust. Mexico is in solidarity, we cannot ignore the situation the Cuban people is going through due to the sanctions being imposed on any country that sends oil by the US, in a very unjust way.' The US published a decree that would impose tariffs on those who send oil to Cuba, so we are taking all diplomatic actions to avoid these tariffs,' she added. Amid complex negotiations towards the review of the USMCA, the head of state assured that her insistence on supporting Cuba does not affect the trade treaty. Despite the threat from the Donald Trump government to impose tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, President Claudia Sheinbaum assured that the sanction is unjust and they are accelerating all diplomatic actions to continue with the sending of crude. While the tension with the United States over the sending of barrels continues, Sheinbaum Pardo confirmed that for now aid is being sent in kind. 'We are reviewing this report, to be able to speak with the government of the United States, how is it possible that military weapons are entering Mexico,' she concluded. She asked that the attacks against Cuba be stopped. A call for there not to be these actions. In the sense of the trilateral trade treaty, she emphasized the trafficking of weapons from the United States to Mexico, after The New York Times had access to information about Mexican cartels obtaining weapons from a military plant near Kansas City. 'Yes, there will be more support.' 'No, it does not affect.'