Betrayal? Cuba Oil Shipment Apparently Cancelled, Sheinbaum Evasive, Says “Sovereign Decision”

ByJay Watts

After a series of reporting in US corporate outlets suggesting that the Mexican government was considering cutting off oil to Cuba and a pressure campaign from the ultra-right in the US, Mexico’s PEMEX has repotedly cancelled a shipment of oil destined for Cuba at the end of January.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who had spent the past month touting Mexico’s long-standing aid for Cuba through multiple governments and over decades and suggesting the oil shipments would continue as a matter of humanitarian solidarity, this morning in her press conference evaded the question, suggesting the responsibility for the cancelled shipment lay in the hands of the state oil company, PEMEX.

“It is a sovereign decision and Pemex makes its decisions; selling or giving for humanitarian reasons has to do with a sovereign decision of many years, it is not recent.”

“So, is the media lying about the oil shipments being suspended?,” the President was asked.

“It is a sovereign decision and it is made when necessary,” the President said, without elaborating. According to Bloomberg reporting yesterday, Pemex has decided to cancel a shipment of crude oil to Cuba that was scheduled for this month.