Mexican immigration to Cuba

Mexicans in Cuba
Mexicanos en Cuba
Total population
2,752 (2010)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Havana
Languages
Mexican Spanish and Cuban Spanish[2]
Religion
Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
Related ethnic groups
Mexicans of European descent, Indigenous peoples of Mexico, Mestizos in Mexico

Mexican immigration to Cuba comprises people who emigrated from Mexico to Cuba and their descendants. Cuba is home to the most Mexicans living in the Caribbean. The waves of migration from Mexico to Cuba started from the 1970s, attracted by a mild climate.

The resident embassy of Mexico reported 2,752 Mexican citizens in Cuba in 2010, but estimates approximately 4,000 Mexican citizens crossing into the neighboring country for educational, business, commercial, industrial and tourist activities. The Mexican community has been primarily established in the city of Havana.

Many people from Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Jalisco, and Tamaulipas share ties of familiarity with Cubans following the Caste War and industrial trade (Porfiriato) that drove Mexicans to migrate to the island.

  1. ^ Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior 2010 Archived 25 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Mexicanos residentes en CUBA 2020" (PDF) (in Spanish).