U.S. Pressures Mexico Over Fuel Supply to Crisis-Hit Cuba

U.S. Pressures Mexico Over Fuel Supply to Crisis-Hit Cuba

The U.S. blockade of Venezuela to prevent sanctioned tankers from shipping oil to and from the South American country is not the only geopolitical game involving the United States in its backyard in the Western Hemisphere.  U.S. lawmakers are not happy with Mexico sending fuel shipments to Cuba. Power outages and massive blackouts have become more frequent on the Communist-run island since shipments from sanctioned Venezuela dwindled and left Cu…

80,000 barrels of Mexican oil sent to Cuba: Havana drawn into the US–Mexico clash

While Mexico was calling for a peaceful solution to the crisis between the United States and Venezuela at the United Nations, two oil tankers flying the Liberian flag were sailing near Cuba. Both vessels had departed from the port of Coatzacoalcos in the Mexican state of Veracruz, specifically from the Pajaritos terminal owned by the Mexican state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), which is tasked with delivering barrels of oil to the isla…