S8 Ep827: 12/16: Ernesto Araújo and Alejandro Peña Esclusa highlight Cuba's collapse as Russian and Venezuelan oil supplies vanish. Araújo details Panama's resistance to Chinese influence over its canal ports and subsequent retaliatory trade pressure from Beijing.

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12/16: Ernesto Araújo and Alejandro Peña Esclusa highlight Cuba's collapse as Russian and Venezuelan oil supplies vanish. Araújo details Panama's resistance to Chinese influence over its canal ports and subsequent retaliatory trade pressure from Beijing.
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0:00.0	In Ireland, nothing gets us talking like lions.
0:03.0	Tea?
0:04.0	Small talk.
0:06.0	Well, Jimmy, shock on weather we're having.
0:08.0	Big talk. Even I've got to play county.
0:10.0	Office talk.
0:11.0	I'm MIA and the AM, but I'll circle back on the KPI's.
0:14.0	Real talk.
0:15.0	Milk before tea.
0:16.0	Should be a criminal offence.
0:19.0	You could say we talk too much, but the truth is...
0:23.6	We don't talk nearly enough.
0:25.6	Lions puts the talk into tea. I'm John Batchel with my good colleagues,
0:48.3	Alejandro Pina Exclusa from Venezuela and Ernesto Arrugia from Brazil, two major economies in the 20th century in the
0:56.1	Americas, and will be again in the 21st century once they get through this challenge by those
1:03.5	who are less than keen on democracy.
1:06.9	Alejandro, I begin with you, because this is about Cuba, sustained these many years
1:10.5	by the generosity of the regime to give them oil.
1:14.8	That's no longer happening, I believe.
1:17.2	So what we have is this headline that you can help me interpret.
1:21.2	This is Reuters.
1:22.2	Cuba rejects Trump's new, quote, coercive sanctions.
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