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.

As the father came close to paying off his debt, the landowner was allowed to trade with their workers, establishing the slave market in Cuba.

A colonel in the Mexican army who reached the stars of Major General in the Ten Years' War, José Inclán Riasco, a native of Mexico City, was shot in Port-au-Prince in 1872.

[7] The Yucatecans, the largest Mexican community on Cuban soil, are distributed in Havana, Pinar del Río, and Matanzas.

A notable amount of modern day Cubans have traceable ancestry from the Yucatan Peninsula as the result of Mayan importation to the island.