Mexico is exploring ways to continue supplying oil to energy-starved Cuba while avoiding U.S. tariffs, balancing humanitarian concerns, ideological ties, and the risk of retaliation from Washington.

As the White House ramps up pressure on Havana, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum is weighing how far to bend without triggering retaliation from Washington.

Mexico and Cuba share a history as Spanish colonies, but their relationship with one another has had its ups and downs through the years.

Mexico sold less than 1% of its total 2025 oil production to Cuba and was paid about $496 million, officials with state-owned oil company Pemex said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that would impose a tariff on any goods from countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, a move that could further cripple an island plagued by a deepening energy crisis.

Citing three "senior Mexican government sources," Reuters reported that the Sheinbaum administration is "reviewing whether to keep sending oil to Cuba amid growing fears ... that Mexico could face reprisals from the United States over the policy.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum warned that US President Donald Trump’s move to slap new tariffs on countries supplying oil to Cuba would trigger a humanitarian crisis in the Latin American natio