S8 Ep704: 8. The Collapse of Cuban Influence in South America Guest: Ernesto Araújo and Alejandro Peña Esclusa Summary: Experts analyze the fragility of the Cuban regime and its diminishing impact on Venezuela and Brazil. They note improvements in Venezuela's econo
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
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8. The Collapse of Cuban Influence in South America Guest: Ernesto Araújo and Alejandro Peña Esclusa Summary: Experts analyze the fragility of the Cuban regime and its diminishing impact on Venezuela and Brazil. They note improvements in Venezuela's economy as leadership distances itself from Havana’s influence and follows cues from Washingtoninstead.,, (8)
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| 0:13.0 | Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. I'm John Batchel with my good colleagues, Ernesto Arruzo, former foreign minister to the Republic of Brazil. |
| 0:36.3 | He's traveling in Africa and traveling in Europe, |
| 0:39.1 | Alejandro Pina Exclusa of the opposition, waiting for its time to return all of Venezuela to a transparent |
| 0:48.5 | democracy and an extremely well-to-do state once upon a time. and it's imminent. And I mentioned Cuba, gentlemen, |
| 0:56.4 | only because Cuba seems to be the center of disruption in the whole continent for the last 50 or 60 |
| 1:04.2 | years. Maybe it's coming to an end, maybe not. Russia's now talking about sending a second oil |
| 1:10.4 | tanker to Cuba. It's just enough to |
| 1:13.5 | sustain the regime, not enough to reawaken the Cuban people. So the question is, how does the |
| 1:20.3 | Cuban negotiation, if that's what it is with Washington, and the Cuban fragility, how does it |
| 1:27.2 | affect other capitals where there are doubts? |
| 1:31.0 | And Alejandro, I come to you because it's not about Havana, but about Caracas. |
| 1:35.9 | Right now, Havana is fragile and broken and doesn't have an easy future. |
| 1:41.7 | Is that influence Caracas? |
| 1:50.4 | Is Caracas, is Delci Rodriguez looking to Cuba for sustenance, or is she cut herself off from that influence? |
| 1:53.0 | Well, she did have to cut off that influence. |
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