S8 Ep519: Mary O'Grady of the Wall Street Journal editorial page discusses the political crisis in Cuba, analyzing whether an "exit sanctuary" model could work for leader Miguel Díaz-Canel and expressing concern about the lack of a structure to maintain order if th
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Conversation with my colleague Mario Grady from the Wall Street Journal editorial page about what is to be done with Cuba and the boss Diaz Canal and his regime. |
| 0:12.9 | Does the Maduro model work, not the rendition, but before that Madurouro was offered an exit, sanctuary, no prosecution, |
| 0:23.8 | and did not take it. Would that work with Diaz Canal? Mary comments. Much more of this tonight. |
| 0:32.0 | Well, I'm not sure, you know, I'm not privy, I don't have any insight information about what's been offered. |
| 0:38.3 | But you have a fundamental problem I've written about this in several columns over the last year or two. |
| 0:44.0 | If you tip over this regime, say you somehow pull out Diaz Canal like you pulled out Maduro. |
| 0:51.7 | You still have a structure there where all the bad guys are the ones |
| 0:56.2 | with the guns and the access to money and so forth. And all the eight and a half million people |
| 1:02.6 | who live there have nothing and have no way to fight back. So one problem that the U.S. has is |
| 1:10.3 | if they offer Diaz Canal and exit, they have to have a plan in place for some kind of structure that will keep order so you don't just descend in this utter chaos. |
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