Bob Menendez & US-Cuba Policy w/ Liz Oliva Fernández from Belly of the Beast

Guerrilla History

Henry

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we are lucky to be joined by a special guest in Cuba as well as a special guest host whom many of you will likely remember from past episodes of the show. Here, we bring on Cuban journalist Liz Oliva Fernández from Belly of the Beast to discuss Bob Menendez (who was just convicted on corruption charges), US-Cuba policy, and how these are related. This episode is being based off of two documentaries that Liz hosted for Belly of the Beast - Hardliner of the Hudson which takes a deep look at Menendez, and Uphill on the Hill which is an examination of recent US-Cuba policy. Watch these, and subscribe to Belly of the Beast on YouTube!

Adnan was not able to join Henry for this one, so we drafted in our friend and former guest Taylor Genovese as a special guest host. Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dutchess Community College, an editor at Iskra Books, and a documentary filmmaker. You may remember Taylor as a guest from two previous episodes - Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and Art and the Working Class. Major thanks to Taylor for coming in on relatively short notice for this one!

Liz Oliva Fernández is a Cuban journalist and the presenter of The War on Cuba, for which she won a Gracie Award. Apart from her journalism and filmmaking, Liz is a dedicated anti-racist and feminist activist. Follow Belly of the Beast on Twitter @bellybeastcuba to keep up with Liz's work.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Bamboo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:28.2	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:38.9	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Hukimaki.
0:41.6	Unfortunately not joined by my usual co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, who of course is a
0:46.4	historian director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada,
0:51.4	as he is at a conference today, a very interesting conference that hopefully
0:55.0	we'll be hearing about soon on the show.
0:57.8	But listeners, you can be sure that Adnan will be back for the next episode that we put
1:02.5	out.
1:03.5	I am fortunate to be joined by a guest host, though, one who many of you listeners will be
1:08.7	familiar with as he has been on the show, I think twice before.
1:12.6	We have Taylor Genevese, who I will have introduced himself, but listeners, you may remember Taylor from our Peasance Revolt episode, as well as our Art and the Working Class episode, which he was the guest on for both.
1:26.3	Today we have him guest hosting, and as we introduced the guest of the episode and the topic
1:31.5	at hand, you will see why I asked Taylor to guest host this episode alongside me.
1:36.0	So Taylor, can you remind the listeners who you are before we introduce our guest today?
1:40.0	Sure.
1:41.0	Hi.
1:42.0	Yeah, I'm Taylor Genovese.
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