“The Habanero coastline receives the two vessels from the Secretariat of the Navy with material aid donated by #Mexico to #Cuba. Thank you, Mexico! Very soon in port and to the Cuban population,” said the diplomat in a message through his account on social network X.

Last Sunday, about 814 tons of basic food and personal hygiene items left for the Caribbean country, from the port of Veracruz, on the logistics support ships Papaloapan and Holbox Island, of the Navy.

“Today the ships arrive (to Cuba). As soon as they return, we will send more support of different kinds,” said earlier President Claudia Sheinbaum during her usual meeting with the media.

Groups in society, such as the Colectivo de Solidaridad Militante Va por Cuba and the (Association of Cubans living in Mexico) Asociación de Cubanos Residentes en México, are also organizing themselves to gather food supplies for the Island, amid a strengthening of the blockade imposed by Washington.

On January 29, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a supposed national emergency and establishing a process for imposing tariffs on goods from countries that supply crude oil to the Antille nation.

Organizations and authorities have warned that depriving Cuba of access to oil means paralyzing the country and applying a collective punishment considered by international law as genocide and the greatest violation of human rights.

Many voices in Mexico and the rest of the world, from parliamentarians to social organizations and political parties, have spoken out in support of the Caribbean nation against the US energy siege, described as unfair, cruel and anachronistic.

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