Mexico overtook Venezuela to become Cuba’s top oil supplier in 2025, according to industry data, helping support the communist island as US President Donald Trump renewed his vow to strike Mexican cartels after capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Since ousting Maduro on Saturday, Trump has insisted he will “have to do something” about Mexican drug flows to the US and said the Cuban regime was “ready to fall” as “they got all of their income from the Venezuelan oil”.
But rising exports from Mexico’s leftwing government significantly boosted oil flows to Cuba last year, helping the island weather a sharp drop in Venezuelan crude shipments, according to the data from industry body Kpler.
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