Morena and Workers Party Deputies Create Mexico-Cuba Sisterhood Group

ByEnrique Méndez y Fernando Camacho

This article by Enrique Méndez y Fernando Camacho originally appeared in the February 3, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Deputies from Morena and the Labor Party (PT) yesterday formed a Mexico-Cuba brotherhood group, in a decision that, explained legislator María Magdalena Rosales, was made because the coordinator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Rubén Moreira, has refused to establish a friendship entity with that country.

“We have insisted on this a thousand times. The moment is complex for both nations” due to Donald Trump’s policies, the congresswoman declared at the meeting where 26 legislators joined the group.

The deputy coordinator of the parliamentary group, Dolores Padierna Luna, announced that tomorrow, Wednesday, they will hold a dialogue with the new Cuban ambassador to Mexico, Eugenio Martínez Enríquez.

At the meeting, deputies proposed both promoting the removal of Moreira as president of the friendship group, and carrying out parallel work, which includes – as suggested by José Narro – promoting citizen action in favor of humanitarian aid, as well as inviting the diplomat to a solidarity meeting with Cuba.

Padierna Luna explained that the sisterhood group is constituted as “a parliamentary space, which is not only a mechanism for legislative cooperation, but an ethical, historical and political affirmation of Mexico’s commitment to the principles that have guided our foreign policy.”

He recalled that the two countries share a deep relationship, which has withstood adverse circumstances, external pressures and changes in the international order, and that it is not explained only by geographical proximity or formal diplomatic ties, but, above all, “by a community of values ​​and a shared history of dignity and resistance.”

Therefore, he noted that the sisterhood group “aims to strengthen dialogue and contribute to humanitarian cooperation in strategic areas.” He emphasized that “solidarity is not a rhetorical gesture, nor is it about giving what is left over, but about sharing what one has.”

The legislator indicated that, for humanitarian reasons, Mexico must continue and strengthen its actions of cooperation and friendship with Cuba.

“Access to energy is not a luxury: it is a basic condition to guarantee health services, education, water supply, food production and the functioning of daily life.”

“We do not condone unilateral actions by neo-imperialism that seek to punish sovereign countries and turn hunger, energy, and the suffering of people into weapons of pressure,” he elaborated.

Narro reported that a virtual meeting of students who studied medicine in Cuba with the Cuban ambassador is also being prepared, and Padierna proposed a visit to the island between April and May.