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Katia Monteagudo

Katia Monteagudo

Is Mexico breaking the ice with Cuba?

The icy Mexican foreign policy toward Cuba over the past two decades could come to an end, after the announcement of the state visit of President Enrique Peña Nieto to Havana, a little over a year after taking the reins of the government. According to the Foreign Ministry of Mexico, the president will meet in Havana with Cuban leader Raul Castro, during the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to be held from January 28 through the 30th. For many, this event could be the coup de grace of diplomatic reconciliation with Cuba, with which paradoxically never severed its business relations nor changed their position rejecting the U.S. blockade against the Caribbean country. According to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Latin America, Vanessa Rubio, this meeting represents a major renewal of the links between the two governments after last October seven treaties were signed to update the legal framework of the bilateral relationship. Since the return to the presidency of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), there have been few approaches between the two states. First, they had the meeting of their presidents in January 2013, during an international meeting in Chile, just a month...