Mexico Keeps Up Oil and Fuel Shipments to Crisis-Stricken Cuba

Mexico’s state-owned oil company is throwing Cuba a much-needed lifeline as the Caribbean island struggles to keep its power grid operational amid its worst economic crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Petroleos Mexicanos sold 3.1 billion pesos ($166 million) of crude and fuel to the communist-run nation in the first quarter of this year through its subsidiary Gasolinas Bienestar, according to a company filing.