The Cuban dispatch II
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🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
On the show today, we check in with Kimberly to hear more about her adventures in Cuba, a country that’s back in the news thanks to President Donald Trump’s commitment to establish a massive migrant detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. We’ll explain how Trump’s promised crackdown on immigration could affect the Cuban economy. Plus, more on how Cubans have managed to make do under a strict U.S. trade embargo, from dealing with medicine shortages to navigating a pandemic without Zoom.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Trump Says U.S. Will Hold Migrants at Guantánamo Bay” from The New York Times
- “Timeline: U.S.-Cuba Relations” from the Council on Foreign Relations
- “Trump moves to end refugee resettlement and parole for Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelans” from The Miami Herald
Join us tomorrow for “Economics on Tap.” The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, David Brancaccio here. This week on Marketplace Morning Report, I was asked to share a personal |
| 0:06.7 | story. My wife and I worked on a plan to move back to California with two of our offspring living in the |
| 0:13.1 | Golden State. In November, we made that dream a reality when we purchased a cozy bungalow in the city of Altadena. |
| 0:20.5 | Just a few weeks later, our home, along with so many thousands of others, is in ruins, total loss. |
| 0:27.2 | This week, we return to survey what little the wildfire left and to start planning what might be next for us. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm learning a lot, and some of it may be useful to others rebuilding after disaster from |
| 0:38.4 | cleaning up the mess to navigating insurance, mortgages, taxes, to securing contractors and more. |
| 0:45.4 | Listen to Marketplace Morning Report wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:56.4 | If the line is clear, let's go ahead. |
| 0:59.4 | Let's just do it, eh? |
| 1:01.5 | Bus, no bus. |
| 1:03.4 | Cuba, no Cuba, whatever. |
| 1:05.1 | Hey, everybody, I'm Kyle Rizda. |
| 1:06.3 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 1:07.6 | Where we make today makes sense. |
| 1:12.0 | Thursday, 30, January, today we're going back down Cuba Way with Kimberly Adams, who, in case you didn't hear that little pre-roll thing, is on a bus someplace in Cuba. |
| 1:16.9 | Where are you? |
| 1:17.9 | I am still in Havana. We are on what's called the Malacone, which is sort of the main drag along the, |
| 1:24.8 | yeah, it's where everything happens. And so we're just left an art museum we're on |
| 1:29.1 | our way to arts and crafts market i'm gonna let everybody say hello to you again everybody |
| 1:33.8 | say hi kai oh my god oh my kill me just kill me all the way in the back of the bus it's been |
| 1:42.1 | it's been three-ish days since we talked to you. |
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