The Mexican government's support for organized crime dictatorships cannot continue with impunity.

By: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín - 19/10/2025

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The Mexican government has shifted from an ideological narrative to a humanitarian one in an attempt to justify its sustained support, cover-up, and defense of criminal organizations under Havana's command, which subjugate the peoples of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia with state terrorism. From conducting its foreign policy and rescuing fugitives with diplomatic cover, to hiring slave labor and delivering oil, the Mexican government's support and complicity with the Cuban dictatorship and its proxies are violations of domestic and international law that cannot continue unpunished.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AMLO, has transformed Mexico into a “paradictatorial” government—a “democratically elected government that serves organized crime dictatorships, sustains them, seeks to legitimize them, and fails to comply with international obligations, betraying and harming its national interests.”

Sheinbaum's presidency is merely a continuation of this subjugation, because paradictatorial governments emerge when 21st-century socialism—the political acronym for the Cuban dictatorship and its expansion—promotes, finances, and brings to power those who, once in power, place the country at the service of their commanders.

Mexico's iter criminis under the AMLO and Sheinbaum governments to sustain organized crime in the Americas is notorious and notable. Unconditional and sustained support for the Cuban dictatorship, with the hiring of slave doctors, the purchase of stones, the shipment of oil, and humanitarian rhetoric, all serve to cover up the sustenance of a criminal group that has starved and tortured its people for more than 66 years. This isn't support; it's servitude, a disgrace for a country like Mexico, which had a foreign policy proclaiming respect for non-intervention and human rights.

In 2025, the Mexican Center against Corruption and Impunity documented "55 shipments of crude oil and derivatives to the Cuban dictatorship between May and August," and the "shipments have been valued at three billion dollars" despite the gasoline shortage in Mexico itself. How is this amount recorded in the Mexican state's management? At the very least, it is misappropriation of public resources, embezzlement, or a chain of falsifications that disguise the sustenance of organized crime with the so-called "Well-Being Gasoline," something that Mexican democracy has the need and obligation to clarify.

In Mexico, as of 2024, 678 Cuban doctors were reportedly hired for the public sector, and the director of the Mexican Social Security Institute, after meeting with Cuban dictator Díaz-Canel, hired 1,200 more slave doctors. Slavery consists of paying the Cuban regime for the work of people whose families are held hostage, as reported by the United Nations report and precedents in Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and dozens of other countries.

Support for the Cuban dictatorship supports the oldest organized crime group in the Americas, the region's first narco-state, the most important center of human rights violations through state terrorism, and the center of conspiracy and destabilization that consistently attacks democracies. This is demonstrated by Mexico's servility in supporting the criminal group that subjugates the Venezuelan people when AMLO received Nicolás Maduro with presidential honors and ignored the international order of $25 million—which today is $50 million—for his capture. This is confirmed by the decision to support the usurpation of popular sovereignty by falsifying the results of the 2024 elections and the current support for the Cartel of the Suns.

The Mexican government has become a puppet operator for the Cuban dictatorship, extracting Evo Morales from Bolivia in 2019 when he resigned for fraud and crimes in flagrante delicto, freeing him from prosecution, with equal protection for members of his criminal group in their embassy in La Paz. It repeated the maneuver in Ecuador by protecting the convicted Jorge Glas, instigating the diplomatic incident that led the Ecuadorian government to withdraw the fugitive from the Mexican embassy. It attempted to shelter coup leader Pedro Castillo from Peru and provides his wife, Lilia Paredes, with "$10,000 a month, bodyguards, and private drivers," as Infobae reported on May 2, 2024.

The open participation in "forced migration" against the United States and "cocaine and fentanyl trafficking" is not a minor issue, when, citing sovereignty issues, Mexican territory was used as a platform for aggression against the free trade agreement partner that has given it growth and legal development. The Mexican government has allowed and tolerated the existence of narco-states in its states, which it has strengthened through the election of judges.

This concise summary proves that the Mexican government violates the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Convention), the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Canada, the American Convention on Human Rights (the Pact of San José), the OAS Charter, the Inter-American Democratic Charter, and more.

*The author of this article is a lawyer, political scientist, and Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

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