The History of US Sanctions on Cuba w/ Helen Yaffe
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this excellent episode, we have a discussion with Professor Helen Yaffe on the history and the impacts of sanctions on Cuba, absolutely something that all anti-imperialists need to be fully aware of and engage with to act in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. Help us spread the word by sharing with comrades, it will be of benefit to the show and to the left movement generally. Be sure to also stay turned for more installments of our Sanctions As War series!
Helen Yaffe is a lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, specialising in Cuban and Latin American development. She is the author of We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World (Yale University Press, 2020) and Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She can be found on Twitter @HelenYaffe
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| 0:00.0 | You remember Den Van Boo? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello and welcome to Gorilla History, the podcast that acts is a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. |
| 1:11.5 | I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki, joined, unfortunately, only by one of my co-host today. We have Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, with us. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing? Oh, I'm great. Henry, it's great to be with you. absolutely unfortunately we're not being joined by our other usual co-host, Brett O'Shea, who of course is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast, as he had something come up at the last minute, which is a shame for all of us because I know he was really looking forward to this conversation and we always like to sit down with Brett. So Brett, we'll see you next time for the next episode of this series. And listeners, this is going to be another edition |
| 1:18.4 | of our ongoing Sanctions as War series. So just to remind listeners what that is, we have this book |
| 1:25.5 | Sanctions as War, which is edited by our friend Stuart Davis and |
| 1:28.8 | Emmanuel Ness. |
| 1:29.9 | And we're going through sections of this book, particularly the case studies, to understand |
| 1:34.4 | deeply how sanctions regimes work in the real world and the impact that they've had on |
| 1:39.2 | various countries around the world. |
| 1:41.4 | For this episode, we have the inimitable professor Helen Yaffi. Hello, Helen. It's |
| 1:47.2 | nice to see you on the show. Wow, what an intro. Thank you very much. And thanks for the invitation. |
| 1:52.9 | Absolutely. This is a great idea to turn the chapters from the book into a podcast. |
| 1:58.4 | Sure. So, Professor, you wrote the chapter of your book, of the book, Sanctions |
| 2:03.6 | is word titled, U.S. Sanctions, Cuba to bring about hunger, desperation, and the overthrow of |
| 2:08.4 | the government. Now, before we get into talking about this chapter, can you just talk a little bit |
| 2:13.1 | about yourself, let the listeners know who you are, and perhaps your other books, because |
| 2:16.7 | two of the books that you have are very, very closely related to this and are definitely going to be |
| 2:21.4 | of interest to the listeners. Okay, so I'm currently a senior lecturer in economic and social |
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