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\n Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum said today that her country is becoming an \u201cimportant supplier\u201d of oil to Cuba amid the current tension between Venezuela and the United States.\n <\/p>\n
\n During her morning news conference, Sheinbaum denied that Mexico is sending more oil to Cuba \u201cthan has historically been sent; there is no special shipment. For many years, oil has been sent to Cuba.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Despite this regularity in shipments \u2014 which are made based on contracts or for humanitarian aid, Sheinbaum said \u2014 she also emphasized that now this oil is more important for the island.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s a historic shipment (of oil) that has been sent to the island and the Cuban people. And now (the shipment) is part of both the contract and humanitarian aid. \u2026 Of course, with Venezuela\u2019s current situation, Mexico obviously becomes an important supplier; before, it was Venezuela,\u201d Sheinbaum explained.\n <\/p>\n
\n Key context: Cuba depends on Venezuela\u2019s assistance to meet even half of its energy needs. Due to Cuba\u2019s outdated infrastructure and lack of maintenance, the island desperately needs the nearly 30,000 barrels of oil per day that Venezuela sent on average during 2025, according to Reuters.\n <\/p>\n
\n However, US pressure following its attack on Venezuela on Saturday has put special focus on Caracas\u2019 oil, resulting in instability for its main crude recipients, including Cuba.\n <\/p>\n
\n Venezuela is not the only country that sends oil to Cuba, but it is by far the most important.\n <\/p>\n
\n Jorge Pi\u00f1\u00f3n, director of the Latin America and Caribbean Energy Program at the University of Texas, told CNN that Mexico, up until the first months of 2025, was sending Venezuela about 20,000 barrels per day of \u201clight, good quality\u201d oil \u2014 but in recent months, the average dropped to about 7,000.\n <\/p>\n
\n CNN\u2019s Gonzalo Zegarra contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum said today that her country is becoming an \u201cimportant supplier\u201d of oil to Cuba…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,165702,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-394240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-intl","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}