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Cuban Ambassador Expresses Gratitude for Mexican Solidarity
(mexicosolidarity.com)
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/28616
This article by Arturo Sánchez originally appeared in the February 15, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
The Cuban ambassador to Mexico, Eugenio Martínez Enríquez, expressed his emotion yesterday for the Mexican solidarity with the island and thanked the citizens for their response to the campaign to collect medicines and food organized by the Militant Solidarity Collective Va por Cuba and the José Martí Association of Cubans Residing in Mexico.
“I am deeply moved by the response to the call to help the Cuban people, who do not deserve the injustice and cruelty that the United States inflicts upon Cuba. Thank you is all I can say, for the generosity and humanity of the Mexican and patriotic Cuban people,” the diplomat declared.
“I am deeply moved by the response to the call to help the Cuban people, who do not deserve the injustice and cruelty that the United States inflicts upon Cuba. Thank you is all I can say, for the generosity and humanity of the Mexican and patriotic Cuban people,” the diplomat declared.
From early morning, the flow of people was constant. Young people, families, retirees, workers, office workers, and teachers arrived with bags, boxes, and packages to join the slogan that Cuba is not alone.
The collection center – located almost at the corner of Corregidora and Plaza de la Constitución – will remain open until February 22, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and accepts non-perishable food items, as well as essential medical supplies.
Francisco Rosas López, from the organizing group, described the response as “formidable.” He noted that although they had expected good participation, the volume of donations exceeded their initial projections. As he spoke, vans provided by the city government departed for a storage warehouse loaded with boxes and sacks.
Rosas emphasized that this is a “people-to-people” campaign that will later be supplemented by shipments from the federal government. She added that similar collection centers are being prepared in Puebla, Celaya, and other locations throughout the country, with the goal of expanding the solidarity network in the coming weeks.
Among the donors, anger toward Washington’s policies was a constant theme. Retirees María Paz Arroyo and Patricia Galicia arrived together with 60 kilos of rice, 60 kilos of beans, 20 packages of milk, and two boxes of sardines. “It bothers me that Trump is doing such awful things. We are Latin American countries, and we have to help each other,” said Arroyo.
Galicia, for its part, emphasized that its support is also a form of gratitude towards the Cuban doctors who have worked in remote communities in Mexico.
Additionally, graduate students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) will open an extra collection center to support the island. Donations will be accepted on February 17 and 18 at the Graduate Studies Unit in University City, and on February 19 and 20 at Las Islas in University City, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Without fanfare, but with consistency, the day in the capital’s Zócalo showed an uninterrupted flow of support and a shared conviction: that Cuba, insisted the organizers and donors, is not alone.
Cuban Ambassador Expresses Gratitude for Mexican Solidarity
February 15, 2026February 15, 2026
The Mexico City collection center – located almost at the corner of Corregidora and Plaza de la Constitución – will remain open until February 22.
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Our weekly roundup of stories in the English and Spanish language press on Mexico and Mexican politics. Kurt Hackbarth, Trump Is Using Mexico’s Oil to Put the Squeeze on Cuba Jacobin. The alternative, however, is to let Cuba starve: the process of Gaza-ification brought into this hemisphere. If this were to succeed, and Mexico were…
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A Child with Measles Arrived in Mexico from the US, & Then the Virus Was Everywhere
(mexicosolidarity.com)
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/25692
This article by Obed Rosas originally appeared in the February 5, 2026 edition of Sin Embargo.
Mexico City, On February 20, 2025, the Chihuahua Health Department reported a case of measles in a 9-year-old boy from a Mennonite community in the municipality of Cuauhtémoc who had traveled to Seminole, Texas, a settlement where measles cases had already occurred with one known death at the time of the visit.
The boy’s school in Chihuahua was closed after more cases were detected. A month later, on March 20, the National Institute of Diagnosis and Reference (InDRE) confirmed that the virus isolated in the first patients belonged to the same lineage of measles previously identified in Seminole, Texas.
This is how Irma Leticia de Jesús Ruiz González, from the Chihuahua State Health Department, and Rubén Morales Marín, from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, describe the reintroduction of measles in the state, in an article published last November in the American Journal of Field Epidemiology. The text warns that the outbreak occurred in “a highly susceptible population, such as the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, where there is low adherence to vaccination for religious or cultural reasons, in addition to close interconnection with other unvaccinated populations.”
Mennonites in Mexico
The outbreak occurred within an adverse regional context. In November 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) declared that the Americas had once again lost their measles elimination status. The reintroduction of the virus led Mexico to face its largest outbreak since it interrupted endemic transmission in 1997. Chihuahua became the main epicenter of infections and deaths on the continent, with figures that even surpassed those of the entire United States.
This week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) confirmed that Mexico leads the Americas in COVID-19 infections, with 6,428 cases and 24 deaths. Of that total, Chihuahua accounts for 4,495 cases and 21 deaths; followed by Jalisco, with 1,034 cases and one death; Chiapas, with 432 cases; Michoacán, with 261; and Guerrero, with 257.
Of the total infections, 275 were imported, 4,054 were related to importation, and 2,839 remain with the source of infection under study.
The report in the American Journal of Epidemiology highlights that 10 of the deaths occurred among Indigenous communities in Chihuahua, where 569 cases were recorded. Three deaths were recorded in the rest of the population, in addition to the death of a Wixárika child from Nayarit.
“The Rarámuri indigenous population of Chihuahua had a mortality rate 18 times higher than the rest of the population, and this excess was statistically significant,” the study notes. The age distribution shows especially high rates in children under six months and in infants aged six to 11 months, with levels 41.4 and 82.5 times higher, respectively, than those observed in people aged 50 and over. The second most affected group was the 20-39 age group.
In mid-January, another study conducted by researchers from the University of Guadalajara, with participation from the Tlajomulco de Zúñiga campus and the University Center of Los Altos, identified five key findings. The first: the outbreak was highly concentrated, with 73 percent of the cases in Chihuahua and 76.8 percent in just 45 municipalities.
The second finding was the existence of two independent introductions of the virus: one across the northern border and a separate importation into Oaxaca. Third, the analysis describes a three-stage transmission pattern: introduction through networks of temporary agricultural workers, amplification in under-vaccinated communities, and subsequent spread to marginalized Indigenous populations.
The fourth point highlights that vaccine effectiveness remained high, supporting the theory that the outbreak was due to an accumulation of susceptible individuals rather than vaccination failures. The fifth point identifies age, living conditions in indigenous communities, lack of vaccination, and residence in rural areas as independent risk factors.
The report also documents the concentration of the outbreak in closed communities with persistent immunity gaps, such as the Mennonites of Chihuahua, a pattern similar to that observed in the 2015 outbreak in Texas, which resulted in 762 cases and two deaths. Comparable episodes have been recorded in recent years in Orthodox Jewish communities in New York and Amish communities in Ohio, reinforcing the existence of “hotspots of susceptible individuals” capable of triggering large epidemics even in countries with seemingly high national coverage.
This resurgence is occurring within a complex regional context. In November 2025, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned that the Americas had once again lost their measles elimination status, just one year after regaining it. The combination of ongoing imports and inequalities in access to vaccination threatens to reestablish endemic transmission.
Although the study acknowledges limitations—such as self-reporting of vaccination status and the partial availability of genomic data—it is the most comprehensive epidemiological analysis conducted to date on a measles outbreak in Latin America. It integrates individual surveillance data, genetic information, and social determinants at the municipal level in all 32 states of the country.
The conclusion is stark: measles did not return due to vaccine ineffectiveness, but rather due to the accumulated neglect of entire communities. Without targeted campaigns, strengthened molecular surveillance, and specific strategies for mobile, Indigenous, and rural populations, Mexico will remain vulnerable to new outbreaks. This major setback in nearly three decades offers an uncomfortable lesson: measles elimination is not lost overnight; it erodes slowly.
A Child with Measles Arrived in Mexico from the US, & Then the Virus Was Everywhere
February 6, 2026February 6, 2026
This major setback in nearly three decades offers an uncomfortable lesson: measles elimination is not lost overnight; it erodes slowly.
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The Mexican President spoke at the 109th anniversary of the 1917 Mexican Constitution, which was one of the most advanced social constitutions at its time, & inspired the Soviet constitution.
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Venezuela: Rodríguez Courts European Investment as US Greenlights Diluent Exports
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Solidarity or Submission
(mexicosolidarity.com)
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/25146
A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador on April 16, 2016, shortly before 7 PM local time. I was working for teleSUR English in Quito at the time and was sent that same night as part of the crew to cover the aftermath on the coast, the area of Ecuador most affected by the disaster. Being based in the country meant we were among the first journalists to arrive. We witnessed the Ecuadorian state mobilize to respond, and offers of help from friendly countries poured in.
But it was the Cubans who were among the first to arrive.
While covering the earthquake, I interviewed Col. Lázaro Herrera Hernández of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, who told me a phrase that has become a political maxim of mine: “It is not about providing what is left over, but sharing what we have.”
Conceding to imperialism in the short term puts Mexico at risk over the long term. Trump’s vulgar form of imperialism is going to pick off each country one by one if we do not unite immediately
Cuba, the island country subjected to a brutal decades-long economic blockade, has consistently been among the first to extend its hand in solidarity to peoples of Latin America and the world and to share the little they have. Cuba occupies a special place in the hearts of millions of people across this region not only for their unconditional solidarity but also because of the example its people and their Revolution set for us. Cuba showed us that imperialism was not invincible, that we could stand tall and defeat Washington right here in our own hemisphere.
Latin America would not be the same today were it not for the Cuban people’s determination to defend their revolution and their decision to chart their own way. But today, Cuba is in the White House’s crosshairs.
This could very well be the most decisive moment ever for the Cuban Revolution. After the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, Delcy Rodríguez’ interim government has been forced, at the barrel of a gun, to suspend oil shipments to Cuba. This critical lifeline has been cut off virtually overnight, with the Financial Times reporting that as of late January, Cuba has just 15 to 20 days of oil left.
Meanwhile, Trump has signed an executive order declaring Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” that comes with hardened sanctions, which includes a tariff on countries that sell oil to the island. The US is exerting tremendous pressure on other countries to stop providing oil to Cuba in order to enforce this illegal and criminal blockade. Mexico’s PEMEX, which had over the last few years steadily been increasing its shipments to Cuba, has already suspended a planned shipment. President Claudia Sheinbaum nonetheless assures that humanitarian aid to Cuba will continue.
“We will find ways to maintain solidarity with the Cuban people without putting Mexico at risk,” said Sheinbaum.
The trouble is that conceding to imperialism in the short term puts Mexico at risk over the long term. Trump’s vulgar form of imperialism is going to pick off each country one by one if we do not unite immediately.
Amilcar Cabral & Fidel Castro, Tricontinental Conference, Havana, 1966
Our need for a regional response to US imperialism was the overwhelming message coming out of the Nuestra América Summit held in Bogota Colombia, organized by Progressive International. Kurt Hackbarth and I were there representing the Mexico Solidarity Project. The first thing that Carlos de Céspedes Piedra, the Cuban ambassador to Colombia, expressed to us upon learning we were from Mexico was his appreciation for Mexico’s consistent solidarity with Cuba.
We cannot let Cuba stand alone at this moment.
In his speech at the closing session of the Tricontinental Conference in Havana in 1966, Fidel Castro issued a warning that we would be wise to heed today:
The imperialists’ correlation of forces on this continent, the nearness of their home territory, the zeal with which they will try to defend their dominions in this part of the world require, on this continent more than anywhere else, a common strategy, a joint, simultaneous struggle.
José Luis Granados Ceja is a journalist and political analyst based in Mexico City. He currently covers Latin America for Drop Site News*. He is the co-founder of MSP’s Soberanía podcast and a presenter on the show* Sin Muros on Mexico’s Canal Once*. He focuses on political issues, social movements, elections and human rights. Follow him @GranadosCeja*
Morena’s Magdalena Rosales Says Mexican Oil for Cuba Represents Essential Humanitarian Support
February 4, 2026February 4, 2026
“We Mexicans stand in solidarity with the Cuban people, we stand in solidarity with all the peoples that the empire wants to crush.”
Morena Legislators Defend Gradual 40 Hour Workweek, Lack of Two Days Off
February 4, 2026February 4, 2026
Mexico’s 40 hour workweek will only come into effect in 2030, critics say the legislation opens the door to 12 hour workdays and reduced overtime pay.
Solidarity or Submission
February 4, 2026
The fight to save Cuba is the fight to save us all, writes José Luis Granados Ceja. We cannot let Cuba stand alone at this moment.
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Morena and Workers Party Deputies Create Mexico-Cuba Sisterhood Group
(mexicosolidarity.com)
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/24916
This article by Enrique Méndez y Fernando Camacho originally appeared in the February 3, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
Deputies from Morena and the Labor Party (PT) yesterday formed a Mexico-Cuba brotherhood group, in a decision that, explained legislator María Magdalena Rosales, was made because the coordinator of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Rubén Moreira, has refused to establish a friendship entity with that country.
“We have insisted on this a thousand times. The moment is complex for both nations” due to Donald Trump’s policies, the congresswoman declared at the meeting where 26 legislators joined the group.
The deputy coordinator of the parliamentary group, Dolores Padierna Luna, announced that tomorrow, Wednesday, they will hold a dialogue with the new Cuban ambassador to Mexico, Eugenio Martínez Enríquez.
At the meeting, deputies proposed both promoting the removal of Moreira as president of the friendship group, and carrying out parallel work, which includes – as suggested by José Narro – promoting citizen action in favor of humanitarian aid, as well as inviting the diplomat to a solidarity meeting with Cuba.
Padierna Luna explained that the sisterhood group is constituted as “a parliamentary space, which is not only a mechanism for legislative cooperation, but an ethical, historical and political affirmation of Mexico’s commitment to the principles that have guided our foreign policy.”
He recalled that the two countries share a deep relationship, which has withstood adverse circumstances, external pressures and changes in the international order, and that it is not explained only by geographical proximity or formal diplomatic ties, but, above all, “by a community of values and a shared history of dignity and resistance.”
Therefore, he noted that the sisterhood group “aims to strengthen dialogue and contribute to humanitarian cooperation in strategic areas.” He emphasized that “solidarity is not a rhetorical gesture, nor is it about giving what is left over, but about sharing what one has.”
The legislator indicated that, for humanitarian reasons, Mexico must continue and strengthen its actions of cooperation and friendship with Cuba.
“Access to energy is not a luxury: it is a basic condition to guarantee health services, education, water supply, food production and the functioning of daily life.”
“We do not condone unilateral actions by neo-imperialism that seek to punish sovereign countries and turn hunger, energy, and the suffering of people into weapons of pressure,” he elaborated.
Narro reported that a virtual meeting of students who studied medicine in Cuba with the Cuban ambassador is also being prepared, and Padierna proposed a visit to the island between April and May.
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Morena and Workers Party Deputies Create Mexico-Cuba Sisterhood Group
February 3, 2026February 3, 2026
“Access to energy is not a luxury: it is a basic condition to guarantee health services, education, water supply, food production and the functioning of daily life.”
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February 3, 2026February 3, 2026
Diego Alfredo Torres Rosete lived in the US as an undocumented immigrant for 20 years. Now back in Mexico City, he’s a founder of Frente Amplio de Mexicanos en el Exterior.
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Cuba Condemns Trump Claim That It Poses ‘Extraordinary Threat’ to US
(www.commondreams.org)
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/24638
Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday said the country is open to expanding "bilateral cooperation" with the US, following President Donald Trump's comments that the White House is "going to make a deal with Cuba"—but diplomatic officials emphasized that they vehemently reject Trump's recent accusations that they harbor terrorists and pose an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the US.
"Cuba categorically declares that it does not harbor, support, finance, or permit terrorist or extremist organizations," said the ministry.
The statement was released days after the White House issued an executive order to address what it called threats that Cuba poses to the US, threatening to impose new tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba.
Trump's invasion of Venezuela—which had been the top energy supplier to Cuba—and his push to take control of the South American country's oil has left Cuba's economy struggling with a virtual energy blockade and rolling blackouts. The US has also been pressuring Mexico to stop supplying energy to the island nation, prompting fears of a potential humanitarian crisis.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said last month that the US has the right to take over any country if doing so furthers its interests, and said the Trump administration should "secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere."
In the executive order last week, the president made sweeping accusations against Cuba, claiming that it provides support for countries including Russia and China—though the Trump administration has also sought improved relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping—and offering no evidence for the allegation that it also supports Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Cuban storytelling platform Belly of the Beast called the accusation "laughable, if it weren't so serious," and spoke to some of the hundreds of Palestinian medical students who are studying to be doctors at the Latin American School of Medicine and other institutions.
"The vast majority of Palestinians in Cuba are medical students," said Ihab Masri, who is studying there alongside students from about 100 other countries. "Trump is a person who says he stopped 10 or 12 wars... a person who not only justifies but also denies the genocide in Gaza that they commit and have committed. You can't trust someone like that."
In his attempt to block oil shipments to Cuba, Donald Trump now claims the country is a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah, without presenting any evidence. Cubans say it’s complete nonsense. The real story? Hundreds of Palestinian students training to be doctors in Havana. pic.twitter.com/3X24dhF6mN
— Belly of the Beast (@bellybeastcuba) February 1, 2026Trump's executive order also accused Cuba of spreading "its communist ideas, policies, and practices around the Western Hemisphere, threatening the foreign policy of the United States."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday emphasized that "Cuba does not host foreign military or intelligence bases and rejects the characterization that it is a threat to the security of the United States. Nor has it supported any hostile activity against that country, nor will it allow its territory to be used against another nation."
The US has maintained a trade embargo on Cuba for more than six decades and has had hostile relations with the country since the communist revolution gave rise to the late President Fidel Castro and overthrew authoritarian leader Fulgencio Batista, who was backed by the US.
US Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García (D-Ill.) warned that Trump's "latest economic assault against the island is designed to cause a humanitarian collapse, deepening our collective punishment of the Cuban people and forcing more migration."
"Cuba poses no threat to the United States, but that’s not the point. Trump is manufacturing an excuse for cruelty and regime change," added the congressman, while Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) denounced Trump's executive order as "pure cruelty" that could "kill countless innocent Cubans."
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said last week that Trump's threat against countries that continue to supply energy "reveals the fascist, criminal, and genocidal nature of a clique that has hijacked the interests of the American people for purely personal ends."
On Monday, the global organization Progressive International joined Cuban officials in denouncing Trump's executive order as a "cruel and criminal act of economic warfare that will bring nothing but starvation, deprivation, and despair to [Cuba's] people."
"With this new executive order, the logic of siege has reached its apotheosis: Sanction not only Cuba but every nation that dares show solidarity, effectively demanding that sovereign states choose between the interests of their own people and the dictates of an empire," said the Cabinet of Progressive International.
The group called on the international community to "coordinate diplomatic resistance, demand that governments refuse to enforce secondary tariffs, and amplify Cuban voices against this assault on international law, human dignity, and basic human rights."
"History will judge those who saw this moment and turned away. Cuba stood with oppressed peoples globally—from defeating apartheid in South Africa to sending doctors to the frontlines of epidemics—and now it is our time to act with audacity, moral courage, and collective force," said Progressive International."
"Stand with the Cuban people now," the group added. "Stand against this siege, this economic assault, this unfolding humanitarian disaster; join together in the provision of key supplies to the island, from medicine to food to fuel for its people; and stand for the right of all nations to self-determination and human dignity, or be complicit in its destruction."
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Mexican Anti-imperialist Front in Support of Venezuela Founded in Morelos
(mexicosolidarity.com)
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/24637
This article by Rubicela Morelos Cruz originally appeared in the January 31, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
Cuernavaca, Morelos. This Saturday the Mexican Anti-Imperialist Front for Venezuela and the freedom of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and for the self-determination of peoples was formed, where the ambassador of Venezuela in Mexico, Stella Marina Lugo Betancourt de Montilla, was present.
The person in charge of asking for the vote for the approval of this Anti-Imperialist Front in Morelos was the social activist and husband of the governor Margarita González, Carmelo Enríquez, to the more than 500 members of different social, political, civil, teachers’ and peasant organizations who met this Saturday in the auditorium of the Mexican Union of Electricians (SME), located in the center of Cuernavaca.
Rosa María Hernández Trejo, the organizer of this Front, explained that state committees are being created in each state of the country, as happened today in this state, and that the national constitution of said Mexican Imperialist Front for Venezuela will be on February 14th in Mexico City.
Rosa María Hernández Trejo, the organizer of this Front, explained that state committees are being created in each state of the country. Photo: Rubicela Morelos
Meanwhile, the members of this Front called for a mobilization on February 3rd, a global protest to reject the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, on orders from US President Donald Trump, one month after the United States invaded Venezuela and deprived both Nicolás and Cilia of their freedom.
On February 7th, a national march for Venezuela will be held to demand the release of Maduro and Flores, and marches or rallies will take place in the capitals of each state. “A united front for Venezuela is also a united front for Mexico and for all of Latin America,” emphasized social activist Hernández Trejo.
Petróleo Mexicano para los Cubanos!
February 2, 2026February 2, 2026
Solidarity protestors gathered outside of the former location of the Embassy of the United States on Reforma in Mexico City on Sunday, demanding that Mexico send oil to Cuba and expressing their disavowal of Trump’s recent assault on the island and its people.
Mexican Anti-imperialist Front in Support of Venezuela Founded in Morelos
February 2, 2026February 2, 2026
On February 7th, a national march for Venezuela will be held to demand the release of Maduro and Flores, and marches or rallies will take place in the capitals of each state.
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February 2, 2026February 2, 2026
On the world stage, the reaction to Trump’s imperialist assault remains at the level of statements of rejection: condemnations that sound firm but are ultimately empty, incapable of halting the Trump machine.
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Mexico City Protest Demands Mexico Continue Sending Oil to Cuba
(mexicosolidarity.com)
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/24465
This article by Ivan Evair Saldaña originally appeared in the February 1, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premir left wing daily newspaper. Photos by Jay Watts.
Mexico City. Dozens of protesters, convened by the Mexican Movement of Solidarity with Cuba, gathered this Sunday in front of the former United States embassy in Mexico, on Paseo de la Reforma, to condemn President Donald Trump’s decree imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to the island and to demand that the government of Claudia Sheinbaum maintain crude oil shipments to Cuba.
“Mexican oil for the Cubans!” they chanted.
During the event, from a platform and microphone, a statement from the Movement was read denouncing the US president’s decision as a unilateral and extraterritorial measure that violates international law and prolongs the economic blockade in place for more than 60 years, which it described as a systematic policy of suffocation against the Cuban population.
“We denounce this decision as not an isolated incident, but rather the continuation of an economic war waged for over sixty years through the criminal blockade imposed against Cuba. This blockade has caused enormous economic damage, limited access to food, medicine, technology, and financing, and directly and daily affects the civilian population. Due to its systematic, prolonged, and deliberate nature, this policy can and must be called what it is: an act of genocide against the Cuban people,” they stated.
For its part, the Internationalist Group / LIVI criticized the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo for allegedly yielding to the will of the United States.
“In the recent negotiations, for example, regarding the free trade agreement between Mexico, Canada, and the United States, Claudia Sheinbaum has responded quite capitulatingly to Donald Trump’s policy of cutting off oil supplies. As we know, since Maduro’s oil extraction in Venezuela, Mexico became the number one supplier of oil to Cuba. However, now Pemex has also warned that it will cut off oil supplies,” said Sherezada Leyva, a member of the Group.
Furthermore, she accused the Morena government of maintaining a policy subordinate to the United States by allowing military exercises by the Southern Command in the Yucatan Peninsula, which —he said— are aimed towards Cuba, and of reinforcing a restrictive immigration policy in the north of the country through the National Guard.
At the event, the organizations and the José Martí Association of Cuban Residents in Mexico called for strengthening international solidarity, demanding an end to the blockade, and supporting the Cuban people, reiterating that “Cuba is not alone.”
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February 1, 2026February 1, 2026
The rally condemned US President Trump’s executive order imposing tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba and decried the over 60 year old blockade against the island.
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February 1, 2026February 1, 2026
Public officials who are making strategic decisions for the future of our country today must not forget that in the last elections, 36 million citizens elected them to defend our institutions, to defend a sovereign Mexico, and to decisively prevent intervention. We don’t need lukewarm, confusing positions.
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January 30, 2026
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on reducing violence in Baja California, not sending oil to Cuba, migration, Grupo Salinas tax debt, economic development, and Interoceanic train derailment.
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(México ) Who Will Defend Us?
(mexicosolidarity.com)
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/24407
This editorial by Antonio Gershenson originally appeared in the February 1, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.
Very well, so we are insisting that we must protect our sovereignty. It is unacceptable that, at this point, given the grievances and outbursts of the irresponsible president of the United States, we should stand idly by and decide whether to fully defend or only partially defend our energy sovereignty.
Here we are, and we will not back down. This is not a pamphlet; it is a slogan, but it is also the truth. This man—or rather, this abject president—has trampled, chewed up, and spat out pieces of sovereignty, not only of Mexico but also of our sister nations in Latin America.
Let’s not allow it to continue. How are we going to stop it? We need to devise several plans, one of which is to remain steadfast in defending our natural resources.
Apparently, he is no longer interested in Venezuela’s oil; the issue of his incongruous and aggressive activity against all countries is about power and the fact of saying “I’m in charge here”.
Perhaps President Trump knows his days are numbered, and that’s why he’s tightening the screws, that military clamp that can strangle anyone, even the most prepared, not only from a military point of view, but also economically and politically speaking.
This man—or rather, this abject president—has trampled, chewed up, and spat out pieces of sovereignty, not only of Mexico but also of our sister nations in Latin America.
So, let’s review what we’re doing within the 4T government. How should we behave? We are supposedly following the principles of “don’t steal, don’t lie, and don’t betray the people.” In this sense, Mexican institutions have the responsibility to defend Mexicans and their energy sovereignty and, where appropriate, to denounce attacks against the movement for transformation, or against the democracy we are rebuilding.
If this defense by the Mexican government is not happening in reality, if behind national institutions such as the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Energy, the Federal Electricity Commission, and Petróleos Mexicanos, those enclaves of capitalism, neoliberalism, and the whole host of corrupt individuals who have ruined our country’s economy are still hidden, then let’s ask ourselves, what is happening?
We therefore have the right to know and review the decisions being designed and implemented in offices like Marcelo Ebrard’s, or any other. Let’s remember that government agencies are not entirely free of neoliberal practices and ideology, despite the arrival of the Fourth Transformation (4T). Many decision-makers will continue to bury their heads in the sand, throwing stones and hiding their hands, contrary to the principles of dignity, justice, and Mexican humanism championed by this government.
In this regard, it is imperative to review who holds the strategic decision-making power for the defense of our resources and our country as a whole. There can be no pretense or irresponsible, ignorant, or politically and socially insensitive attitudes, as we have discussed on other occasions in this opinion column.
The public officials who are making strategic decisions for the future of our country today must not forget that in the last elections, 36 million citizens elected them to defend our institutions, to defend a sovereign Mexico, and to decisively prevent intervention. We don’t need lukewarm, confusing positions that fail to provide clarity about what is really happening to our country in the international arena, but we also don’t want unnecessary unilateral grandstanding.
We need certainty regarding the positions and definitions that will be adopted in the upcoming USMCA negotiations, among other future agreements, which must align with the commitments that President Claudia Sheinbaum’s current administration has made to millions of Mexicans. And if the treaty ultimately disappears, it won’t be a tragedy; it would be the beginning of true economic independence, which is what we desperately need.
For Trump we appear irrelevant, but in truth, without Mexico’s support, the United States will have problems.
We insist that we need economic certainty, political certainty, and social stability. Without these components, we cannot speak of a just, productive, and developed society, because we will always be on the defensive against neoliberals.
Who Will Defend Us?
February 1, 2026February 1, 2026
This editorial by Antonio Gershenson originally appeared in the February 1, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. Very well, so we are insisting that we must protect our sovereignty. It is unacceptable that, at this point, given the grievances and outbursts of the irresponsible president of the United States, we…
People’s Mañanera January 30
January 30, 2026
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on reducing violence in Baja California, not sending oil to Cuba, migration, Grupo Salinas tax debt, economic development, and Interoceanic train derailment.
Debt on the Installment Plan: Salinas Pliego Pays $10B MXN; $22B in Installments
January 30, 2026
The ultra-right winger and tax evader fumes, but begins to pay his debt piece-by-piece, but with less punitive measures than his Grupo Elektra receives.
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