Sheinbaum fuel collection for Cuba amid Pemex shipment halt, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico): Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has joined a collection by the Antifascist Cultural League (LCA) that aims to send 40,000 liters of gasoline to Cuba, while fuel supplies from the Mexican state oil company Pemex to the island remain suspended.
The group announced the donation on November 3 on Facebook and published a photograph of the president holding a stamp from the campaign. Writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II, director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), also appears alongside her.
The post does not specify the amount Sheinbaum contributed.
The stamps are sold at FCE bookstores in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. Each costs 25 Mexican pesos and, according to the organizers, equals one liter of gasoline for Cuba.
The Cuban Embassy in Mexico reposted the announcement on X.
Among the LCA’s organizers are Taibo II, filmmaker Sergio Arau, actors Damián Alcázar and Jesús Ochoa, and writer Elena Poniatowska.
The organization attributed the island’s situation to what it called the “criminal energy and economic blockade imposed by the United States,” which, it said, “seeks to suffocate a dignified people.” The message does not detail how the fuel would be transported, which entity would receive it, or what services it would be used for.
The announcement follows remarks by Cuba’s ambassador to Mexico, Eugenio Martínez Enríquez, who acknowledged that Mexican shipments had stopped and that efforts were underway to resume them. He said the supply was governed by a commercial agreement and that the Cuban government had been paying regularly.
Diario de Cuba reported that Pemex recorded no exports to the island between April and June 2026. In the first quarter, it had dispatched an average of 900 barrels per day, compared with about 15,000 in 2025.
The suspension occurred in the context of a January 29 executive order by Donald Trump that threatened tariffs on countries supplying oil to Havana.
However, the electricity crisis did not begin with that measure. In March, specialist Jorge Piñón told Diario de Cuba that the system’s interconnection problems were the cause of the total blackouts.
In addition, an analysis by the same outlet based on official figures showed that between 2014 and 2024, the Cuban state allocated each year between two and five times more resources to tourism-related activities than to the supply of electricity, gas and water.
