The 48-hour agreements

A diplomatic recomposition on this scale — fourteen posts closed, a break with Havana — was covered by only six countries, all Latin American. No major capital outside the subcontinent covered the decision, even though it redraws the map of regional alignments those same capitals rely on for their own channels.

A divergence score of 28 across just six countries: those that cover it do not tell the same story, and Israel's principal diplomatic backers do not mention it. Yet the event takes place on the territory whose status underpins the withdrawal deal announced four days later.

Deploying the army on internal security duty in a major Andean country crossed the attention barrier only in Spain and France, through linguistic and historical ties. The capitals that routinely comment on the domestic use of armies elsewhere did not cover this one.