Is Mexico about to send lots of free oil to Cuba? Sure looks like it

From our Bureau of Parasitic Dictatorships and Their Hosts with some assistance from our Latrine Is As Latrine Does Bureau.

Yeah, Presidente Sheinbaum says she’s “evaluating the possibility” of supplying Castro, Inc. with oil for its moribund power plants. She’s a chip off the old AMLO block, more interested in keeping Havana’s communists in power than in helping her own people. Of course, this plan is still “tentative”, or so she says. Naturally, this is being considered as a “humanitarian” gesture, to alleviate the suffering of the Cuban people who are living without electricity, not as a support for one of the most brutal regimes in Latrine America. .

Loosely translated from Cuba Net

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed this Wednesday at her usual morning press conference that her government is evaluating the possibility of sending fuel to Cuba, in response to the serious energy crisis facing the island.

“We are looking at it, Cuba was helped at one point and we are looking at whether fuel aid is also necessary, as humanitarian aid and it is help for the Cuban people,” Sheinbaum said.

The president also clarified that, so far, Mexico’s aid has consisted mainly of “technical support” from the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). “We are always going to support, so CFE is in contact through the Foreign Ministry with whatever the Cuban people require, in order to support them, it is essentially technical help,” added the Mexican president.

In 2023, Mexico sent at least $200 million in oil to Cuba, according to calculations by the University of Texas Energy Institute cited by the EFE news agency. However, at the time, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) denied that it was a donation, and now Sheinbaum emphasizes that the current assistance has been of a technical nature.

The president also reiterated Mexico’s historic position against the United States embargo on the Havana regime. “We are against the blockade of Cuba, it is the sovereignty of the people, that is what our foreign policy says, it is the Cuban people who must decide how to organize themselves and their form of government, there is no reason for there to be intervention and, furthermore, the blockade affects the people,” said Sheinbaum.

Last Monday it was revealed that the Mexican government is helping the island’s regime given its situation of “energy emergency.” The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that its embassy in Havana had expressed “in a timely manner its willingness to provide support to the Cuban people, given the difficult situation they face.”

The situation in Cuba, which was already critical, worsened last Friday, October 18, due to the total disconnection of the National Electricity System (SEN) and a consequent national blackout that caused the massive closure of schools, the collapse of hospitals and forced many citizens to cook in the streets. In addition, at least 28 protests have been recorded in seven provinces of the country.

Last Monday, the Mexican Foreign Ministry reported that its head, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, was “in permanent contact with his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla” and that the Mexican embassy in Cuba was doing “the same with the competent authorities to have updated information on the situation.”

For his part, Rodríguez Parrilla thanked the help offered by Mexico and other countries through his social networks: “We appreciate the efforts and immediate support offered by the governments of Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Russia and Barbados to deal with the current situation of the national electric energy system. Cuba is in talks to finalize receipt of this aid.”

Although the Cuban regime continues to blame the US embargo for the nationwide blackout, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero acknowledged that “the state of the infrastructure, the lack of fuel and the increase in demand” are determining factors in the current situation.