AMLO: “It hurts me that they seek to exterminate our fraternal people of Cuba”; Former President Calls for Donation to Buy Aid & Oil

ByMexico Solidarity

This article originally appeared in the March 14, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. Amid the economic crisis facing Cuba due to the tightening of the US economic blockade, which includes restrictions on the acquisition of hydrocarbons, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came out of retirement from public life and social media to request extraordinary support for the Cuban people in this difficult situation.

Therefore, he called on citizens to participate in a collection in favor of the people of Cuba, through deposits to the same bank account that this newspaper had already made public in recent days, which belongs to the civil association Humanity with Latin America, promoted by the workers and collaborators of La Jornada.

In a message posted today on his social media account, the former president emphasized: “I am retired, but it hurts me that they seek to exterminate the brotherly people of Cuba for their ideals of freedom and defense of sovereignty.”

Similarly, he pointed out that “to those who think this is someone else’s problem, I remind them of what General Cárdenas said during the Bay of Pigs invasion (in 1961): ‘It is not right to advocate indifference to their heroic struggle, because their fate is our fate’.”

Therefore, the Tabasco native called on everyone to “deposit into Banorte account 1358451779, belonging to the civil association Humanity with Latin America, opened by citizens, writers, and journalists to buy food, medicine, oil, and gasoline, and to help the Cuban people. Let everyone contribute what they can!”

During his administration, López Obrador reaffirmed the ties between Mexico and Cuba that had cooled during the PAN and PRI governments, which even involved his visit to Havana in May 2022, where he was recognized by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who conferred upon him the José Martí Order, Cuba’s highest recognition for a foreign figure.