Two Cuba-bound aid ships missing after leaving Mexico

Mexico's navy launches a rescue mission for ships delivering aid to Cuba, strained by food and fuel shortages amid a US embargo.

Mexico's Navy is conducting a search for two sailboats carrying nine people and humanitarian aid to Cuba, which lost contact after departing Isla Mujeres on March 20, 2026.

The Mexican Navy has initiated a search and rescue operation for two sailboats with nine crew members that departed Isla Mujeres on March 20 to deliver humanitarian aid to Cuba, but have lost communication.

Activists from the Nuestra América convoy, whose two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba are missing in the Caribbean, estimate that the vessels should arrive in Havana by April 1, 2026, but have initiated a search led by the Mexican Navy.