S8 Ep890: Alejandro Peña Esclusa and Ernesto Araújo discuss Raul Castro's potential indictment and regional shifts toward the right. They highlight the extradition of Alex Saab as a significant blow to Maduro. (9/16)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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JANUARY 1959 ENTERING HAVANA
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| 0:59.0 | For full terms, visit the QVC website. I'm John Bachelor, the New World Report with Alejandro Pina Excluza, a member of the opposition in Venezuela. |
| 1:25.5 | He is traveling overseas and Ernesto Aroroosha, former foreign minister to the Republic of Venezuela. He is traveling overseas, and Ernesto Arrugia, former foreign minister |
| 1:29.1 | to the Republic of Brazil, he is also traveling. I begin with the news from Cuba, not only the visit |
| 1:37.4 | by the director of Central Intelligence to confer with Cuba on what lies ahead for that profoundly |
| 1:43.9 | troubled state in the hands of men who are indifferent |
| 1:47.2 | to the fate of its people. But also, the surprising news that Raul Castro, the Cuban leader, |
| 1:54.6 | 94 years old brother of Castro, Fidel Castro, could be indicted by the United States in connection with Cuba's 1996 shootdown |
| 2:04.3 | of planes operated by the humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue. |
| 2:09.5 | Alejandro, I begin with you. |
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