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 c**p 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.

[zacca]

Honestly, if I were attending the Habanos Festival this year I’d feel like a real pimp — and I don’t mean that in a good way. 

[TheCigarSoldier]

7 hours ago, NYGuido said:

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.

If the trend continues it's pretty much ball game for us in the States. It's been what feels like the bottom of the 9th for the better part of the last year anyways as Customs has cracked down and most vendors stopped shipping. 

Like Andy from the office said, "“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them." 

[Allroz]

3 hours ago, TheCigarSoldier said:

If the trend continues it's pretty much ball game for us in the States. It's been what feels like the bottom of the 9th for the better part of the last year anyways as Customs has cracked down and most vendors stopped shipping. 

Like Andy from the office said, "“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them."  

I would suspect ball game for everyone, at least for a while. 

[ThePolskiOgorki]

My question is when will the Trump-Vana AI video be posted on Truth Social? 

Its hard to believe that it will get worse for the average citizen there while this all plays out. The scenario of the regime hanging on for an extended period and the people enduring the worst of it during that time seems more likely to me then the one where the people rise up in protest or rebellion. 

[helix]

I suspect that there's not much protest left in the remaining Cuban population of old and starving.

[bmac]

If the Communist Cuban regime would do what’s right for the people of Cuba, we could get on with rebuilding and restore dignity to the storied island.

[zacca]

6 hours ago, bmac said:

If the Communist Cuban regime would do what’s right for the people of Cuba, we could get on with rebuilding and restore dignity to the storied island.

That would presuppose that the regime is interested in anything other than enriching themselves and holding on to power. 

[JohnnyO]

There used to be a joke years ago in Cuba that the poor mans dish was rice and eggs. Now the saying is that rice and eggs are for just rich folks. The power outages get amplified as time passes by. It used to be 4 hours a day, then 4 hours on 4 hours off. The worst is when they hit you 6pm to 2am. Then they shut it off 6am again. Locals have to time their cooking when there is power at home. If you missed that, you have to cook with charcoal or wood. They used to give the locals LP gas through the ration card, that has been mostly eliminated. Very hard to buy it on the streets. In some areas like Centro Havana, 10 de Octubre, Playa there is natural gas piped in most of the time. I see many locals cutting down tree branches or picking up fallen branches to take home. Outside of those areas they have to rely on charcoal, mostly with makeshift barbecues. Prices and exchange rates go up weekly. The lines for gasoline at 33rd Ave and 42nd St (Playa) were 4-5 hours for the rental cars. If you didn't want to be in line, there is a hustler that would cut you in for 5000 cup ($10 USD). There was a lot of "P" plates (Particular) on older Ladas that were in line. Maybe more than half. Gasoline is $1.30/liter. I watched the show from across the street in my hole-in-the-wall restaurant that was serving 80 cent, 1/2 liter Crystals.