Mexican fuel cargo for Cuba is sovereign decision, president says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's president on Tuesday asserted his country's right to send fuel to Cuba and said U.S. sanctions on the island were "inhumane," after a diesel cargo shipped by Mexico's state-run oil company Petroleos Mexicanos arrived in Cuba's Havana port.
Lopez Obrador said two shipments of humanitarian aid including medical supplies such as oxygen would soon depart the port of Veracruz destined for Cuba.
"We are an independent nation," Lopez Obrador said at a news conference in response to a question about whether fuel deliveries risked contravening the U.S. embargo on the Communist-run island.
Lopez Obrador criticized policies he said made it difficult for ships that delivered goods to Cuba to then dock in U.S. ports, which constitutes one of the main aspects of the embargo.
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