Mexico City Protest Demands Mexico Continue Sending Oil to Cuba
The rally condemned US President Trump’s executive order imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba and decried the over 60 year old blockade against the island.
The rally condemned US President Trump’s executive order imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba and decried the over 60 year old blockade against the island.
Public officials who are making strategic decisions for the future of our country today must not forget that in the last elections, 36 million citizens elected them to defend our institutions, to defend a sovereign Mexico, and to decisively prevent intervention. We don’t need lukewarm, confusing positions.
The sad reality behind President Sheinbaum’s oft-repeated slogan on Mexico-US relations.
The US President wants to destroy Cuba and starve its population and he wants Mexico to help. Or else.
Will the shipment of oil as humanitarian aid continue? “We have to determine that based on the request,” Sheinbaum responded.
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on Interoceanic trail derailment report, collaboration with US, extortion, declining homicides in Veracruz, and Veracruz infrastructure investment.
During a tour of Puebla, Mexico’s President cited these changes as reversing the historical backwardness faced by the popular sectors.
Canada has begun to make moves (such as rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China), but Mexico is clinging to the USMCA: all its eggs in one basket, something that, given the frenzied dynamic imposed by Trump, doesn’t seem to be the wisest course of action.
The vast majority of exports from Mexico are from US corporations, while aluminum, steel, and tomatoes, which have Mexican national ownership, face significant tariffs.
President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated that Mexico’s and her government’s position is enshrined in the Mexican Constitution, which establishes the principle of non-military intervention.