Former president AMLO calls on Mexicans to donate money for Cuba in rare public message

Former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador connected Saturday issued a telephone for Mexicans to marque monetary donations to a precocious created non-governmental enactment successful bid to acquisition nutrient and different essentials for the radical of Cuba.

His entreaty came successful a societal media post, marking conscionable the 3rd clip the ex-president has posted to Facebook and X since leaving bureau connected Oct. 1, 2024.

Estoy en retiro, pero maine hiere que busquen exterminar, por sus ideales de libertad y defensa de la soberanía, al hermano pueblo de Cuba.

A quienes piensan que se trata de un pleito ajeno, les recuerdo lo que dijo el wide Cárdenas cuando fue la invasión de playa Girón: «No es…

— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) March 15, 2026

“I’m retired but it pains maine that they’re seeking to exterminate the brotherly radical of Cuba owed to their ideals of state and defence of sovereignty,” wrote AMLO, arsenic López Obrador is wide known.

He was referring to the concern of utmost hardship the radical of Cuba are facing amid a U.S. blockade connected lipid shipments to the Communist-run Caribbean land nation. The Mexican authorities past period shipped much than 2,000 tonnes of humanitarian assistance to Cuba to alleviate shortages of nutrient and different essentials.

AMLO’s station continued: “To those who deliberation it’s idiosyncratic else’s fight, I punctual you what General [Lázaro] Cárdenas said erstwhile the Bay of Pigs Invasion occurred: ‘It is not close to assertion indifference to their heroic struggle, due to the fact that their destiny is ours.’

“Consequently, I invitation everyone to marque a deposit into Banorte relationship 1358451779 of the civilian relation Humanidad con América Latina [Humanity with Latin America], which was opened by citizens, writers and journalists to acquisition food, medicine, lipid and gasoline … to assistance the Cuban people. Everyone should lend what they can!”

As president, López Obrador made repeated calls for the United States to assistance its embargo connected Cuba. He visited Cuba successful 2022 and received the country’s highest authorities grant from Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

In 2021, AMLO declared that Cuba is an “example of resistance” and asserted that the full land federation should consequently beryllium declared a World Heritage site.

Claims of corruption travel AMLO’s post 

López Obrador’s station came 4 days aft the paper La Jornada published an editorial that announced the instauration of the Humanidad con América Latina slope relationship to cod donations to acquisition food, medicine and different essentials for the radical of Cuba.

The March 10 editorial was endorsed by much than 200 people, including writers Elena Poniatowska and Laura Esquivel, manager of La Jornada Carmen Lira Saade, and the illustrator and creator Carlos Pellicer López, nephew of the writer Carlos Pellicer Cámara, a autochthonal of the authorities of Tabasco and a governmental mentor of AMLO, who was besides calved successful Tabasco.

Carlos Pellicer López, on with respective different Morena-affiliated intellectuals, published an editorial promoting the Humanidad con América Latina slope relationship connected Sunday. (Edgar Negrete Lira/Cuartoscuro)

Esquivel and Pellicer López were identified arsenic those “responsible” for the editorial, which said that not supporting the radical of Cuba astatine a clip erstwhile the U.S. authorities is “seeking to vanquish them done hunger and shortages” would beryllium a “crime.”

Pellicer’s idiosyncratic email code is listed arsenic the authoritative interaction for Humanidad con América Latina.

The online absorption to AMLO’s societal media station was mixed, with immoderate radical praising the ex-president for bringing attraction to the plight of the Cuban radical and adjacent sharing details of their deposits to the relationship of the NGO helium promoted. Others questioned wherefore helium didn’t bash much to assistance the radical of Mexico erstwhile helium was president, oregon pointed to the accelerated instauration of Humanidad con América Latina arsenic a motion of corruption.

On X connected Sunday, the writer and lawyer Gildo Garza wrote:

“#Corruption #Mexico In Mexico determination is nary quality powerfulness that tin make a civilian relation and successful a substance of days crook it into an authorized donee. That process usually takes 3 to six months … but present Humanidad con América Latina appears with explicit authorization. … This reeks of simulation and corruption wrong [tax agency] SAT. … While [AMLO] speaks of sovereignty and Cuba, successful Mexico different way remains: ‘civil’ structures that extremity up turning into vehicles of powerfulness and money.”

In different X post, Garza wrote that Carlos Peciller, “nephew of AMLO’s governmental father” and a subordinate of the ex-president’s “own circle,” controls the slope relationship of Humanidad con América Latina.

“That doesn’t look similar assistance [for Cuba]. It reeks of opacity and simulation. They proceed depositing [money to the account] and maintaining corruption,” helium wrote.

The quality outlet La Silla Rota said that Peciller is the “legal representative” of Humanidad con América Latina, which was created earlier this twelvemonth and authorized by SAT to person donations past Monday.

Prominent writer Azucena Uresti, who interviewed Garza connected Monday, wrote connected X that “AMLO has utilized victims for his benefit.”

“Now helium makes a telephone to enactment Cuba,” she wrote, “but aft the 2017 earthquakes helium created the ‘For the others’ trust,” which was expected to cod wealth for earthquake victims, but which allegedly funded the campaigns of Morena enactment candidates astatine the 2018 election. The National Electoral Institute (INE) fined Morena 197 cardinal pesos for the misuse of spot funds, but the Federal Electoral Institute subsequently revoked the punishment.

All slope accounts indispensable travel rules, says Sheinbaum, earlier pledging to marque a idiosyncratic donation to the Cuban people

At her Monday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum acknowledged some the La Jornada editorial and AMLO’s societal media post.

“I judge the president López Obrador has travel retired [to marque nationalist comments] 3 times since his governmental retirement,” said Sheinbaum, who served arsenic a curate successful AMLO’s authorities erstwhile helium was politician of Mexico City.

🔴Tras el mensaje de AMLO sobre Cuba, la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum explicó que la iniciativa fue de ciudadanos y personalidades que firmaron un desplegado público; señaló que la cuenta será fiscalizada como cualquier otra cuenta bancaria.pic.twitter.com/OMGKUYeaXn

— Azucena Uresti (@azucenau) March 16, 2026

She recalled that her ex-boss and governmental mentor made nationalist remarks connected the time of Mexico’s first-ever judicial elections past June, and appeared connected societal media past December to beforehand his caller book.

“And this is the 3rd time,” she said, though AMLO besides commented connected what helium called the “kidnapping” of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro successful January.

Sheinbaum subsequently sought to respond to the questions that person been asked astir the slope relationship created by Humanidad con América Latina, though she didn’t remark connected however it obtained specified punctual authorization from SAT to cod donations.

“All slope accounts are taxable to regulations, this 1 too,” she said.

“In different words, it won’t beryllium excluded from the regularisation for deposits. Everything is ever audited,” Sheinbaum said.

What López Obrador and galore different salient radical did was to contented a “call for solidarity” with the radical of Cuba due to the fact that they are “suffering,” she said.

“And it is suffering that has thing to bash with them, it is suffering that is related to isolation that has been successful spot for decades successful the signifier of a [U.S.] commercialized embargo, and precocious a substance blockade,” Sheinbaum said.

Later successful her property conference, the president said that Mexico has “always” supported the Cuban radical and reiterated that her authorities volition proceed to bash so.

Asked whether she would marque a idiosyncratic donation to the slope relationship acceptable up by Humanidad con América Latina, Sheinbaum responded:

“Yes, I deliberation so. I’m going to bash it, connected a idiosyncratic basis.”

Garza — the writer and lawyer who has emerged arsenic a starring questioner of the circumstances surrounding the authorization by SAT of a slope relationship of an NGO focused connected collecting donations to acquisition essentials for the radical of Cuba — asserted connected X that Sheinbaum “didn’t clarify anything” with her remarks connected Monday morning.

“She hid the bosom of the substance beneath an administrative phrase. Nobody is asking if a slope relationship exists. The question is however a hastily put-together relation recovered a mode to cod nationalist wealth successful grounds time,” helium wrote.

“She didn’t respond [to the questions about] legality. She managed the evasion,” Garza added.

With reports from Infobae, Político MX and La Silla Rota