Two sailing vessels were part of Our America Convoy bringing food and medicine to island in face of what it called ‘the criminal US blockade’
Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has said his country will do everything it can to save the people on two missing sailing boats that disappeared while transporting humanitarian aid from Mexico to the Caribbean island.
The boats, which set sail from the Mexican state of Quintana Roo last Friday as part of an international aid mission, had been expected to arrive in Havana by Tuesday or Wednesday, the Mexican secretariat of the navy said in a statement.
But there has been no sign of the vessels – which were part of the Our America Convoy – reaching their destination. The Mexican newspaper El Universal said that country’s authorities were in contact with representatives of Poland, France, Cuba and the US, “the home countries of the people on board”.
On Friday, Díaz-Canel voiced “deep concern” over the fate of the people on the boats. “We are doing everything possible to search for and save these brothers in arms,” he wrote on X.
