SPAIN PERSPECTIVE

Madrid, June 7. The Spanish press is the only Western coverage that treats Cuba as an almost domestic question. El País Internacional opens Sunday with an analysis of Trump "cornering" Cuba's political leadership to "force regime change" — dry vocabulary, the method described in steps: energy embargo in January, Raúl Castro indictment on May 20, sanctions on Diaz-Canel, ultimatum to foreign companies. ElDiario.es publishes an exclusive interview with Miguel Diaz-Canel — a rare editorial event. The headline is unequivocal: "Trump seeks to asphyxiate Cuba so there is a social uprising and he has the pretext to intervene." The Cuban president compares the situation to the 1962 missile crisis. He warns that "invading Cuba would cost hundreds of thousands of Cuban lives, but also great human losses for the invader." ElDiario.es doubles the economic angle with a reportage: "This is war medicine," it titles, on Cuban hospitals and schools hit by Trump's blockade — a rare field investigation, heavy and detailed, that speaks of water and power cuts, no traffic lights, kitchens fired by charcoal. Expansión, the business paper, keeps the cold counter: 15 Meliá hotels closed, 12 Iberostar, Visa-Mastercard suspended from Saturday June 7. Spain does not defend the Cuban regime — it observes that it is one of the Western states most caught in the jaws. The government and the European Union remain "vigilant," while ElDiario.es gives the floor to a 95-year-old Castro in olive-green uniform and to Bruno Rodríguez calling the sanction "vile inclusion." Madrid documents the economic war without taking part, but it cannot let it pass.