Cuba sees decreasing tourism
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Tourism in Cuba has not recovered since the COVID-19 pandemic began; and new conditions on the island are deterring tourists from visiting to soak up its culture, beauty and political history. Also, South Korean authorities were unable to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol following an hours-long stand-off with his security services. And, a hidden crisis unfolds in Japan where over a million people have retreated from society for months or even years, in a phenomenon known as hikikomori. Plus, a self-taught baker brings flavors from her childhood spent in Argentina to a small farm stand in Southern Vermont.
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| 0:00.0 | South Korean officials tried to carry out a warrant to arrest impeached President Yun-Suk-Yol to no avail. |
| 0:11.9 | He is playing hard to get, cat and mouse. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Carol Hills. |
| 0:15.8 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler on today's show that standoff in Seoul and why tourism hasn't bounced back from the |
| 0:23.3 | pandemic in Cuba. Dry January is here and a bartender in London weighs in on the state of the |
| 0:29.7 | booze-free cocktail in 2025. It's pretty scary in a good way how much it's changed. When I started out, |
| 0:37.3 | it would be very common for us not to have a non-alcoholic option. |
| 0:42.5 | Plus the search for Argentine treats in Vermont. Growing up, I would just sneak a whole bag of them sometimes. |
| 0:50.1 | That's all I had today. On the world. |
| 0:56.9 | This is the world. This is The World. I'm Carol Hills. |
| 0:59.5 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for joining us this Friday. |
| 1:03.2 | In the U.S., the Surgeon General has called for labels on alcohol to warn about the cancer risk it poses. |
| 1:10.2 | That's based on a growing body of international research, drawing an ever-clear connection |
| 1:15.0 | between alcohol use and cancer. |
| 1:17.3 | But the science is quite nuanced, as are the takeaways for people thinking about their |
| 1:21.6 | health. |
| 1:22.2 | So we're starting today's show by breaking it all down with Eric Rimm. |
| 1:26.2 | He's a professor and epidemiologist at the Harvard |
| 1:28.8 | T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I don't think it's really anything new that has led to this |
| 1:35.3 | report. I think it's just a summary of the evidence. It's not like the relative risk has changed. |
| 1:42.1 | We kind of knew that alcohol is associated with a modest increase in |
| 1:46.3 | breast cancer. Some of the first reports were in the 1980s. I just think that it's a growing body of |
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