“Throughout 12 presidential administrations, it has been Washington that has systematically attacked the island’s government, not only through direct military aggression and the trade embargo, but also with active support for terrorist groups and destabilizing factions,” it pointed out.

President Claudia Sheinbaum affirmed that Mexico will continue seeking, through diplomatic channels, the shipment of crude oil to the island for humanitarian reasons, and refuted the Republican, who said that he (Trump) asked her to stop sending oil to the Caribbean nation and that she agreed.

In an editorial titled “Cuba and Trump’s Lies,” La Jornada pointed out that, in an effort to justify the intensification of the criminal blockade against the island, the US president “has lied to try to ensnare the Mexican head of state in a game of denials.”

It emphasized that, since the early 1960s, the issue of Cuba has been a clear point of contention between Mexico and the United States, but “never, until now, has it implied a conflict in bilateral relations.”

According to the editorial, “now, in what appears to be a new ‘flight forward,’ perhaps advised by his Secretary of State, the anti-Cuban Marco Rubio, with this new wave of hostility against the island, it seems that Trump is seeking to divert attention from his overwhelming domestic situation.”

The newspaper referred to the “growing resistance to his fascist-like policies against migrant communities and his detractors in general” and “the flood of revelations from the documents of (the deceased sex trafficker) Jeffrey Epstein.”

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