{"id":2745463,"date":"2026-01-16T05:53:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2745463\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:53:54","slug":"mexico-denies-boosting-oil-shipments-to-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2745463\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico denies boosting oil shipments to Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that the country has not increased oil shipments to Cuba, even as Mexico has become a key supplier following recent disruptions in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not sending more oil than we have sent historically,&#8221; Sheinbaum said during her daily morning press conference. &#8220;Of course, with the current situation in Venezuela, Mexico has obviously become an important supplier. Before, this was Venezuela.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sheinbaum was responding to reporters&#8217; questions about whether Mexico had become Cuba&#8217;s main source of crude since the US tightened sanctions on Venezuelan exports in mid-December and detained Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro on 3 January.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico has supplied crude to Cuba for decades under commercial agreements and humanitarian aid programs, Sheinbaum said. Current deliveries remain within those frameworks. &#8220;It is part of the contract and also part of the aid that has been provided historically,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The president highlighted Mexico&#8217;s longstanding energy ties with Cuba, including a $350mn investment in the Cienfuegos refinery in 1994 and technical cooperation agreements signed by state-owned Pemex in 2012. Mexico also forgave about 70pc of Cuba&#8217;s debt with Bancomext in 2013, much of it linked to hydrocarbons trade.<\/p>\n<p>Sheinbaum earlier framed the shipments as consistent with Mexico&#8217;s foreign policy and humanitarian commitments, while acknowledging the geopolitical sensitivity given Cuba&#8217;s strained relations with the US, Mexico&#8217;s top trading partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bylines\">By Cas Biekmann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that the country has not increased oil shipments to Cuba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2671308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[785159],"tags":[163941,54525],"class_list":{"0":"post-2745463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mexico","8":"tag-mexico","9":"tag-54525"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2671308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}