S8 Ep908: PREVIEW for Later Today: Mary Anastasia O'Grady details GAESA, a non-transparent Cuban military conglomerate that controls the island's hard currency. By hoarding foreign investment and leaving citizens with worthless pesos, the organization has become a
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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| 1:04.4 | Mary Anastacio Grady of the Wall Street Journal on Cuba, the Cuban policy of the Trump |
| 1:09.3 | administration, sanctions on an organization, a shadowy |
| 1:12.7 | organization, non-transparency called Gaesa, which is a conglomerate of all the regime's ways to |
| 1:19.3 | gather in euros and dollars. Banks, hotels, drugs, pharmaceuticals, shopping, everything on the island can filter through Gaesa. |
| 1:32.3 | What do we know about how much it takes in and where does the money go? Here Mary explained |
| 1:36.7 | with Marco Rubio on the trail of Gaesa. Not Cuba, Gaesa. |
| 1:46.0 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:47.0 | Well, the only way to sort of think about that is that, as I said, they control all of the aspects of the economy, |
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