S8 Ep708: PREVIEW FOR LATER (1) HEADLINE: US-Cuba Diplomatic Transition and Democracy GUEST: Mary Kissel SUMMARY: Mary Kissel examines State Department efforts to transition Cuba toward democracy and hemisphere transparency. Success requires defanging current leade
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
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HEADLINE: US-Cuba Diplomatic Transition and Democracy GUEST: Mary Kissel SUMMARY: Mary Kissel examines State Department efforts to transition Cuba toward democracy and hemisphere transparency. Success requires defanging current leadership, releasing prisoners, and ending dependence on foreign oil to empower the Cuban people. (2)
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| 0:15.7 | This is John Batson, a conversation with my good colleague, Mary Kissel, about Cuba. |
| 0:20.1 | A great success on the eve of being even a greater success. |
| 0:25.2 | A dialogue opened up in some fashion between the U.S. State Department, Mr. Rubio leads it, and the leaders in Havana, who are not the Castro family. |
| 0:35.0 | The Castro family, however, looks to be maintaining the rural family position, |
| 0:41.1 | and therefore the State Department is also talking to it for a transition away from dependence on |
| 0:46.8 | the Venezuela oil, the Russian oil, the Chinese investment, and towards the hemisphere's idea of |
| 0:53.4 | transparency and democracy. |
| 0:56.0 | And what is to be done? |
| 0:57.4 | Not the Defense Department. |
| 0:59.1 | The State Department is to be done. |
| 1:00.8 | Here Mary describes what's ahead. |
| 1:02.9 | What will constitute success. |
| 1:05.5 | And the talking is the weapon. |
| 1:09.1 | The talking. |
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