Lawfare Daily: Trump's Cuba Problem
7/1/202630 min
Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Professor Javier Corrales, Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science and Department Chair of Political Science at Amherst College, to discuss the Trump administration's efforts to pressure Cuba and support regime change there. They discuss why the Cuban regime stays in power, the effectiveness of different U.S. policy instruments used against Cuba, why Professor Corrales thinks that the Venezuela approach probably would not work in Cuba, and what a post-communist Cuba might look like.
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Javier Corrales· Guest0:44
[upbeat music] Autocracies have figured out ways of surviving even the worst forms of external economic pressures. From Russia to Iran to Venezuela to Cuba, you know, to Nicaragua as well, they manage to stay afloat with economic pressure, and it becomes very difficult to do anything more than just inflict more economic pain.
Daniel Byman· Host1:14
It's the Lawfare Podcast. I'm Daniel Byman, the foreign policy editor of Lawfare, with Javier Corrales, Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.
Javier Corrales· Guest1:25
In many ways, Cuba is the best