00:03Mexico's Navy has launched a search-and-rescue operation in the Caribbean for two aid sailboats
00:09bound for Cuba after they failed to arrive in Havana.
00:12The vessels left Mexico's Isla Mujeres on March 20 with nine crew members of various
00:18nationalities.
00:19They were expected to arrive on Tuesday or Wednesday.
00:21Authorities said there had been no communication or confirmation of their arrival.
00:30The missing boats were part of a grassroots aid convoy delivering supplies to crisis-hit
00:34Cuba, where power outages and economic hardship persist, with another vessel already in Havana
00:40on Tuesday.
00:42Volunteers in Mexico had loaded the boats with food, medicine, and essential items.
00:47Authorities have contacted maritime rescue centers in Poland, France, Cuba, and the United
00:52States, as well as diplomats from the crew members' home countries.
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