Havana Syndrome: How the Biden Administration Is Driving Cubans Into Misery

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Chanting “power and food,” demonstrators have filled Cuba’s streets in recent days. This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim delves into the complexities of Cuba’s current economic crisis with Andrés Pertierra, a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. They discuss the various factors deepening the crisis and driving people to the streets, from the half-century-long U.S. embargo on the island, its own economic policies, pandemic-related destabilization, and sanctions the Trump administration imposed and the Biden administration kept in place. Pertierra is in the fifth year of his Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and hosts “Orígenes: A Cuban History Podcast.”

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0:42.6	One that's always going to make it on there comes from the 18th
0:45.7	Brumair of Napoleon Bonaparte when he said,
0:48.1	men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.
0:52.3	They do not make it under self-selected circumstances,
0:55.2	but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
1:00.3	The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
1:06.0	It's an important concept to remember and one that Kamla Harris riffed on recently when she mused,
1:11.0	you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
1:14.2	You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
1:19.0	Now, Kamo's father was a Marxist professor from Jamaica, so perhaps he passed down to her his spin on that old idea
1:25.0	but either way it's a concept I've been reflecting on as I think about the crisis in Cuba today
1:30.4	protests have broken out recently as an economic catastrophe has gripped the island,
1:35.0	with the Cuban people being slapped around by the dead hand of the Cold War.
1:39.0	On today's show, to walk us through how we got to this point and who today is doing the slapping.
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