MEXICO CITY: Two Mexican ships carrying food, fuel and medical supplies were sailing to Cuba on Tuesday and a third was getting ready to head there Wednesday.
The first ship left late Monday loaded with 100,000 barrels of diesel fuel that the Mexican government said would be used to provide power for Cuban hospitals.
A second ship operated by the Mexican navy left Tuesday, and the third ship will leave Wednesday. The Foreign Relations Department said those two ships are carrying oxygen tanks, needles and syringes as well as basic food items like powdered milk, cooking oil and beans.
The department described the shipments as humanitarian assistance to help Cuba weather the coronavirus pandemic.
Last week, President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador called Cuba an example of resistance and proposed that the entire country be declared a World Heritage site.
While much of Cuba seems stuck technologically in the middle of the last century, Lpez Obrador did not appear to be speaking ironically when he proposed the world heritage designation, which is usually used by the United Nations to honor historical sites.
Lpez Obrador praised Cubas ability to stand up to U.S. hostility since 1959, but did not mention recent street protests that were violently repressed by the Cuban government.
Lpez Obrador has in the past stated his opposition to U.S. sanctions that limit commerce with the island, and said they should be ended.
On Thursday, the U.S. government tightened the sanctions on some Cuban officials over the suppression of the rare street protests earlier this month. The new sanctions target a Cuban official and a government special brigade that the United States says was involved in human rights abuses during the government crackdown.
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