The Government of Mexico announced this Sunday the shipment of more than 814 tons of food to Cuba as a symbol of “solidarity and humanitarian aid,” amid the country’s efforts to resume oil shipments despite sanctions announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.

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“Through the Mexican Navy, humanitarian aid is being sent to the Republic of Cuba, via the Logistics Support Ships Papaloapan and Isla Holbox. Both ships set sail today from the port of Veracruz with a cargo of more than 814 tons of food,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) said in a statement.

The Mexican Foreign Ministry explained that the ship Papaloapan set sail from the Port of the Mexican state of Veracruz (east) this morning at 8:00 local time (15:00 GMT), and the ship Isla Holbox at 12:00 local time (18:00 GMT), so it is expected to “arrive at its destination in four days.”

The agency detailed that the ship Papaloapan transports “basic necessities,” including “liquid milk, meat products, cookies, beans, rice, tuna in water, sardines and vegetable oil,” as well as personal hygiene items, with a cargo of about 536 tons of those goods.

While in the Ship Isla Holbox, it specified, “a little more than 277 tons of powdered milk were shipped for the same purpose.”

It also clarified that “there are more than 1,500 tons of powdered milk and beans pending shipment.”

It also pointed out that the food, which in its entirety comes from the Central Naval Region, was concentrated on the dock of the National Port System Administration (Asipona) in Veracruz, from where the corresponding shipment was made.

The SRE specified that this support “keeps alive” the country’s tradition of solidarity with the peoples of Latin America and in particular with the people of Cuba, and recalled how in recent months Mexico has sent aid to the United States for the floods in Texas and the fires in California.

This announcement by the SRE comes after the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, gave the instruction for this shipment.

“We are thinking of sending this aid, if not this weekend, then Monday at the latest, and it is mainly food, and some other supplies that they have asked us for,” the president said on Friday during her morning press conference from the state of Michoacán, in western Mexico.

The aid shipment comes days after Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, director of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), assured that the state-owned company sent oil to the island for 496 million dollars in 2025.

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