The Mexican Navy Secretariat has launched a search-and-rescue operation for two sailboats, carrying nine crew members, that departed from Isla Mujeres in Quintana Roo on March 20 to deliver humanitarian aid to Cuba.
The tall ship arrived Sunday morning to cheering crowds waving Mexican flags along the pier in Cozumel, Quintana Roo. Mayor José Luis Chacón Méndez and his wife led the welcoming ceremony for the crew of 167 cadets and three officers who departed from New York's Pier 86 a month ago to resume their training voyage. Before departure, it had successfully completed a series of sea tests.
The dismantling of a fuel smuggling network within the National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM), comprised of sailors, civil servants, and businessmen and active since at least 2024, has dominated the public agenda and called into question the civilian role of the Navy. Led by brothers Manuel Roberto and Fernando Farias Laguna, high-ranking military officers and relatives of Jose Rafael Ojeda Duran,
