Mexico launches search for two missing aid boats bound for Cuba
Mexico’s navy has launched a search operation after two boats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba went missing.
Mexico’s navy has launched a search operation after two boats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba went missing.








Power grid collapses for a third time in March as the Cuban government battles a US-imposed oil blockade.
![Activists, accompanied by members of the media, set sail for Cuba with essential goods as part of the Nuestra America Convoy flotilla from the port of Yucalpeten, in Progreso, Yucatan state, Mexico, March 20, 2026. [Lorenzo Hernandez/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-03-20T213411Z_1465259140_RC2K8KAFCLS4_RTRMADP_3_MEXICO-CUBA-FLOTILLA_cropped-1774063481.jpg?resize=730%2C410&quality=80)
An aid flotilla from Mexico is sailing for Cuba as the country suffers under a tightening US fuel blockade.
Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio says he is open to US trade talks but refused to entertain a leadership shake-up.
The Trump administration says it wants to remove Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel by the end of the year.
Millions have been plunged into darkness in Cuba as the US’s total blockade has meant no fuel shipments in three months.
Power supply slowly resuming in Havana; but the country’s deeper crisis in relations with the US is endemic, long-term.
The national power grid comes back on after Cuba’s 10 million people were plunged into darkness overnight.
![President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office of the White House, on St. Patrick's Day, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in Washington. [Alex Brandon/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AP26076581077037_cropped-1773801695.jpg?resize=730%2C410&quality=80)
While waging war on Iran, the US president and his secretary of state are demanding a leadership change in Cuba.
Washington continues to block fuel to island nation, as Trump floats ‘doing something with Cuba very soon’.
Cuba also says it is removing impediments to US businesses and other foreign investors.