Abstract

CORDOVI NUNEZ, Yoel. Reporting from Mexico: Narratives from Cuba in the First Central American Games. Secuencia [online]. 2014, n.90, pp.149-163. ISSN 2395-8464.

The article analyzes coverage of the First Central American Games, hosted in Mexico City in 1926, in both the press and the reports submitted by the Cuban diplomatic representative in Mexico. The main intention is to reveal the "uses" of sport in narrative strategies, which legitimize the powers of the nation, in a context marked by the crisis of the neocolonial model that rules the island. From this perspective, the news on this sporting contest is presented as expressing the symbolical confrontations between the prowess of the two leading nations in regional sports: Mexico and Cuba.

Keywords : Sport; games; diplomacy; the press; nation.