With the US blocking Venezuelan crude, Cuba has become another flashpoint in Mexican-US relations. Sheinbaum appeared to bow to US pressure and cancelled a shipment to Cuba this month, leaving Havana with enough oil to last just 15 to 20 days at current levels of demand and production, data company Kpler said on Thursday.

“By banning it, you’re handing the market to non-state groups” in a country with high levels of corruption and violence tied to the cartels, said Zara Snapp, director of the Mexico-based Ría Institute, which studies drug policy in Latin America.

Mexican Security Minister Omar García Harfuch wrote in a social media post on X that the people transferred were "high impact criminals."

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum pushed back during a press conference Thursday on suggestions that law enforcement in the country worked closely with the FBI to apprehend former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that her government sent 37 cartel members to the United States at the request of the U.S. Justice Department

A group of lawyers and family members of cartel members accused Mexico’s government on Monday of breaking the law by sending nearly a hundred Mexican citizens to the United States without an extradition order.

Some political analysts say Sheinbaum, despite her talk of defending Mexico's sovereignty, has actually acquiesced to Trump many times, particularly on security.

The noticeable drop in Canadian visitors stings most in Gulf states.