Pemex cancels scheduled oil shipment to Cuba

[El Presidente]

Under mounting US pressure, Pemex cancels scheduled oil shipment to Cuba

 

MND Staff

January 27, 2026

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As the United States appears to actively seek regime change in Cuba, Mexico’s state oil company Pemex canceled plans to send a shipment of crude oil to the communist-run island this month, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

On Tuesday morning, President Claudia Sheinbaum stressed that Mexico makes its own “sovereign” decisions regarding oil shipments to Cuba, but didn’t deny that Pemex halted a planned shipment to the island.

Citing “documents” to which it had access, Bloomberg reported that Pemex was expected to send a shipment of oil to Cuba in January but “removed the cargo from its schedule.”

“… The shipment was set to load in mid-January and would have arrived in Cuba before the end of the month under the original schedule,” the news agency wrote. 

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mounting-us-pressure-pemex-oil-cuba/

[chris12381]

This is the first time since the Soviet collapse that Cuba is out of patrons and very close to out of time.  

[KCCubano]

I wonder where Diaz-Canel and his new plane will fly to when the crap hits the fan. 

[NYGuido]

Oof. I guess this is a "buy 'em while you can" moment for us who love Cuban cigars, which will turn into a "smoke 'em if you got 'em" moment thereafter.