Mexico City, Feb 13 (Prensa Latina) President Claudia Sheinbaum stated today that Mexico could open an air bridge, if Cuba requested it, through which other countries could send support to the Caribbean nation.
“If Cuba requests it, those conditions would be met, of course,” the president asserted in response to a question about that possibility during her usual press conference, in a context marked by the tightening of the United States blockade against the island.
The head of the Executive Branch also stated that flights are not closed.
Aircraft “can come to Mexico (to refuel). In fact, Mexican airline flights to Cuba are not closed, because there is jet fuel here and it is very close,” he pointed out.
Yesterday, the ships Papaloapan and Isla Holbox, of the Mexican Navy, arrived in the largest of the Antilles with some 814 tons of basic food and hygiene items, after departing on Sunday from the port of Veracruz bound for the Caribbean country.
“As soon as the ships return, we will send more support of different kinds,” Sheinbaum said yesterday, who has described the energy blockade imposed by Washington as unfair.
US President Donald Trump signed the executive order on January 29 declaring a supposed national emergency and establishing a process to apply tariffs to goods from countries that supply crude oil to Cuba.
On the other hand, the ruling party National Regeneration Movement, as well as groups such as the Militant Solidarity Collective Goes for Cuba and the Association of Cubans Residing in Mexico, called on the population to support the largest of the Antilles with food supplies.
Organizations have warned that depriving Cuba of access to oil would paralyze the country and constitute collective punishment considered by international law as genocide and the greatest violation of human rights.
Diverse voices in Mexico and the rest of the world, from parliamentarians to political movements and formations, have spoken out in support of the Caribbean nation in the face of the United States’ energy blockade, described as cruel and anachronistic.
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