MEXICO PERSPECTIVE

Mexico City, June 7. The Mexican press offers coverage blending political proximity and cultural Latinity. El Financiero publishes two consecutive titles: "Trump aumenta presión a Cuba: EU sanciona al presidente Díaz-Canel" and "Díaz-Canel busca salvar sus hoteles tras sanciones de EU; abre la puerta a inversionistas cubanos." The second is the distinctly Latin American angle: Havana can no longer count on foreign chains, so it proposes to Cuban operators on the island and Cuban expatriates that they take over. It is an improvised economic response that no Anglo-Saxon press headlines. El Siglo de Torreón offers a striking formula: "'No le tememos a la guerra': Cuba lanza advertencia ante tensiones con EU." The verb "lanza" is Mexican and acknowledges a public warning that the American press prefers to soften. La Jornada goes further with historical reading: Tatiana Coll publishes a column on Raúl Castro and the memory of the revolution, while another article documents that "the U.S. amagos against Cuba recall the colonial era," noting that UN experts themselves have made the parallel. Vanguardia MX recalls that Castro celebrated his 95th birthday "amid tensions between Cuba and the U.S.," a neutral framing that places the leader to the side of the conflict and presents him as a tutelary figure. Mexico does not defend the Cuban regime but does not lend itself to the American "regime change" reading. Mexico stays Latin American — it already hosts the Iranian football team in visa exile, and it will probably eventually host Cubans. That is what nobody says explicitly, but what the entire coverage suggests.