Cuba says it will do everything to find aid boats missing on way from Mexico

Two vessels were part of convoy that organisers say was bringing food and medicine to island in face of ‘criminal US blockade’

Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has said his country will do everything it can to save the people on two missing sailing boats that disappeared while transporting humanitarian aid from Mexico to the Caribbean island.

The boats, which set sail from the Mexican state of Quintana Roo last Friday as part of an international aid mission, had been expected to arrive in Havana by Tuesday or Wednesday, the Mexican secretariat of the navy said in a statement.