US president wages most stress marketing campaign on Cuba’s already faltering economic system.
Cubans are cooking on charcoal and dealing with worsening energy blackouts after the US reduce the island off of Venezuelan oil exports. US President Donald Trump promised Cuba will “fail” quickly and threatened tariffs on any nations doing enterprise with the island. Can Cuba’s communist authorities survive the most recent US push for regime change?
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This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Melanie Marich with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Chloe Ok. Li, Tuleen Barakat, Maya Hamadeh, and our host, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.
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