The president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador He said this Monday that he will continue to help the people of Cuba in everything he can "including oil."
In his morning conference this MondayWhen asked if oil shipments to Cuba had been suspended due to the conflict that this could bring with the Biden Administration, AMLO said that everything was an invention and that the Americans are respectful of not discussing these issues.
“They are a people that is suffering from an inhuman, unjust blockade, and we cannot turn our backs on them,” said the president.
“We do not have to ask permission from any foreign government because we are a free, independent and sovereign country,” he added.
If they don't say, sell us oil because we don't have anywhere to buy it, of course we do, said the leader, who thus responded to the information that claimed that The US Export-Import Bank canceled a loan to Pemex for its shipments to Cuba.
"We are supporters of universal brotherhood (...), we are in solidarity with all peoples," he concluded.
Following these statements, Professor Jorge Piñón, from the Energy Institute of the University of Texas, he told the independent media 14 and a half that Mexico is close to overtaking Venezuela as the first oil supplier to the Cuban regime.
According to Piñon, Since last March, Mexico has shipped 3,510,000 barrels, worth nearly $259 million.
Cuba passes through another deep crisis due to lack of fuel, which causes more frequent and prolonged blackouts, because the country's energy matrix depends 95% on fossil fuels.
At the beginning of October, the Cuban government announced drastic measures to alleviate the energy crisis, based on the reduction of electricity consumption and the “rational use of energy carriers.”
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