Cuba Libre
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🗓️ 1 December 2006
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Cato Daily Podcast. Today is Friday, December 1st. I'm Anastasia Glova, your host. |
| 0:07.0 | Yesterday, the Cato Institute in conjunction with the International Foundation for Liberty and the Atlas Economic |
| 0:12.0 | Research Foundation, held a conference on Latin America |
| 0:15.2 | between populism and modernity. |
| 0:17.2 | Cuban writer Carlos Alberto Motener, who spoke at the conference, joins us in today's |
| 0:21.1 | podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | What's Cuba's role in Latin America today? |
| 0:25.0 | It's a very old leadership just important for very few people's. |
| 0:31.0 | What we call the more radical left like Chavez probably Morales and that's it. I mean he I think |
| 0:38.8 | Castro after close to 50 years in power do not have a strong influence in the political thought of political |
| 0:47.2 | thinking of Latin America. |
| 0:49.6 | It's a complete failure in economic terms and in political terms is a tragedy. |
| 0:55.0 | It's a dictatorship with hundreds of political prisoners. |
| 0:59.0 | No one that believing human rights and freedom could take seriously |
| 1:04.4 | Castro or if you can take seriously but as an enemy of freedom |
| 1:09.5 | and democracy. |
| 1:10.8 | How would you say things have changed on a day-to-day level since Raoul assume the leadership? |
| 1:15.0 | I think not too much. He's just occupying all the institutions with his people and they are preparing for the next Congress, this six Congress, that |
| 1:27.7 | I suppose will be a ratification of the more Stalinist positions like in the first five Congress. |
| 1:37.0 | They are trying to do this before Castro disappeared. |
| 1:40.0 | They are trying to launch this six Congress with Castro alive in order to energize the more |
| 1:47.5 | Stalinist line in the party. |
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