Mexico's 'Obsession' with Sovereignty, or US Meddling as Usual?
Bloomberg suggests Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's outreach to Cuba creates a 'bind' with Trump, implying an inherent political misstep. The article portrays this relationship as a peculiar deviation, rather than a consistent stance rooted in national sovereignty. One might almost believe Mexico has no agency in its own hemisphere. This narrative, however, overlooks a
well-documented history. Since the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and indeed since Fidel Castro's revolution, the United States has waged an economic and political war against Cuba, imposing sanctions that, as a 2018 UN report noted, cost Cuba over $130 billion. Mexico, alongside most of Latin America, has routinely voted against the US embargo at the UN, a consistent pattern for over three decades.
Apparently, merely maintaining diplomatic relations with a sovereign state on one's own continent is now deemed an 'obsession' if that state happens to be an adversary of Washington. This thinly veiled pressure masquerades as objective reporting, failing to mention the billions in trade between Mexico and Cuba, nor that 15 of 33 Latin American and Caribbean nations have left the US-led OAS, which
notably suspended Cuba in 1962, citing a desire for independent regional diplomacy. So, is it truly Mexico in a 'bind,' or is the 'bind' purely an invention of those who believe Latin American states should subordinate their foreign policy to Washington's dictates? This framing is less about Mexican policy and more about policing the boundaries of allowable dissent within the US sphere of