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🗓️ 22 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Since 1959, the island nation of Cuba has been giving the middle finger to the United States. Cuba has been in the control of a Castro through thirteen separate presidential administrations and they’ve made it in the most unlikely of ways under the most improbable circumstances. This is episode of UNFTR begins with a slightly different perspective on the 1959 Revolution that has evaded most retellings in U.S. history books and follows the twisted journey of Fidel Castro and his brother Raul through the heights of the Cold War, the despair of their “Special Period” and quasi-resurgence as the beating heart of the socialist movement in Latin America.
Pod Love
Blowback Season 2- The Cuban Revolution: https://blowback.show/
Book Love
Samuel Farber- Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment: https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781608461394
Jorge G. Castañeda- Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara: https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9780679759409
Richard A. Dello Buono + José Bell Lara- Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and Social Struggles in Latin America: https://bookshop.org/a/23377/9781608460403
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0:00.0 | Top of whatever the fuck you're listening to this, unfuckers and sub-fuckers? |
0:03.9 | Lots of great feedback still coming in from the Assange episode. |
0:07.1 | Don't have to like him to free him. |
0:08.5 | Reagan destroyed the middle class. |
0:09.9 | Obama was an assassin. |
0:11.2 | AOC is a goddess and fuck Milton Friedman. |
0:14.5 | There, you're all caught up. |
0:16.3 | I hope you enjoyed our Republican rehab quickie last week. |
0:18.7 | We're in a pretty good rhythm right now, so we're going to keep the hits right on coming. This episode is actually one of the first ones that I had |
0:24.9 | on the board when I started formulating unfucking the republic. I had a chance to visit Cuba |
0:29.5 | with my partner in crime right as Trump was coming into office, and the time we spent there |
0:33.2 | stuck with me more than literally any other place that I've traveled. And what's fun about telling |
0:38.1 | Americans that you visited Cuba is they're like, whoa, man, what's it like you just got back from |
0:43.0 | the fucking moon? And Canadians are like, oh yeah, isn't it great? Me and the wife love getting |
0:48.0 | out and about in the classic cars, eh? What I can tell you up top before we spiral into the Cuban |
0:52.5 | abyss is that it took me a few days to wrap my head around this Little Island Nation. |
0:56.8 | It was like every preconceived notion I had about it was just fucking wrong. |
1:01.0 | There was a healthy mix of controlled government narrative bullshit that they jammed down our throats as clear tourists, |
1:05.7 | which only served to counteract the bullshit narrative that the U.S. had been shoveling down our throats since for, I don't know, fucking ever. The genuine experiences we had mixing with the Cuban people, |
1:14.8 | in full disclosure, we only spent time in Havana, and Cuba is so much more than Havana. |
1:19.3 | They were delightful. Everything was eye-opening, and the people were just chill as fuck. |
1:24.4 | Our biggest takeaway was the fucking music. We fell in love for life with the music and it |
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