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Cuba, the U.S. embargo and why people are protesting; with Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez

Tangle

Isaac Saul

International News, Politics, Election, Nonpartisan, Us Politics, Local News, News Commentary, Biden, Us Senate, Independent, Us News, Congress, Trump, News, Us House Of Representatives

4.8672 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast, we sit down with Cuba expert Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez to discuss what's happening in Cuba, what the U.S. should do about the embargo and why Cubans are in the streets in the first place.

Felipe-Gonzalez is a history professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio and has recently been published in The Atlantic. You can read his latest article here.

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From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

0:40.7

This is Tangle.

1:03.3

A place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some reasonable debate and independent thinking without the historical nonsense you find everywhere else.

1:11.6

I am your host, Isaac Saul, and today I'm recording from our fresh new office space, which has not really been broken in or set up.

1:16.9

So I'm going to apologize in advance for maybe a little lower sound quality than usual. But I am so excited for our guest, Jorge Felipe Gonzalez, who's here to discuss some of the happenings in Cuba.

1:25.0

Jorge received his BA in history from the University of Havana, Cuba, and a PhD in

1:30.0

history from Michigan State University. He does a lot of research on the island and the history

1:35.1

of Cuba. He's writing a book right now about transatlantic slave trade. And he's also gotten

1:41.8

some attention for a piece he recently published in the Atlantic,

1:45.9

kind of criticizing the Black Live Matter organization response to the situation in Cuba,

1:50.6

which I thought was really interesting and actually shared in the newsletter.

1:54.5

Jorge, thank you so much for being here.

1:57.0

Thank you for hiring me, Isaac.

1:58.7

So I think before we jump in, it'd be really good for our listeners

2:04.3

to just sort of set the table a little bit for this conversation. And you are certainly much

2:09.8

more qualified to do it than I am. Maybe you could give us like a 90 second two minute breakdown

2:16.1

of what's going on in Cuba right now, what's happening

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