FRANCE PERSPECTIVE

Paris, June 7. Le Monde authors the most substantive analysis: "In Cuba, Washington strangles Gaesa, the economic conglomerate of the army." The article explains precisely what the Anglo-Saxon press does not: GAESA — Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A. — controls between 40 and 70% of the Cuban economy, and its dismantling by secondary sanctions is "the death blow" to an already exhausted economy. Le Monde quotes expert Janette Habel: "This is an unprecedented situation in Latin America." The article enumerates the actors who have severed ties: the Canadian hotel chain Blue Diamond, the Spanish Iberostar and Meliá, the Asian Archipelago International, but also the French shipping company CMA CGM and the German Hapag-Lloyd which suspended their deliveries already in May. Rare detail in the French press: Le Monde notes that this follows the capture in Caracas of Nicolas Maduro, and that the American strategy fits a regional logic. RFI publishes "Foreign companies leave Cuba under American pressure": follow-up reportage on the cascade of departures. BFMTV quotes the Cuban reply verbatim: Diaz-Canel denounces "the aggressiveness and perversity of the Yankee government," formula reported without distanced quotes. L'Express publishes "Cuba: an American obsession doubled with a family affair" — psychological angle on Trump-Cuban Americans fixation that joins El País's analysis. Ouest-France dares the editorial: "Cuba, endgame?" — cautious question mark but heavy. French coverage is analytical, critical of the American process without defending the Cuban regime, and it names the regional dimension (Venezuela, Maduro) that few others do.