Tough Tests in Cuba and Haiti for Biden’s Foreign Policy
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This week, protests erupted in cities and towns across Cuba as people responded to food and medicine shortages, and to a gutted economy made even worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, Haiti is facing widespread instability after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. President Biden's foreign policy thus far has focused on the threats posed by Russia and China, but now Biden finds himself confronting immediate challenges only ninety miles south of the U.S. border. Jon Lee Anderson joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Cuba, Haiti, and the past and future of American foreign policy in the region.
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| 1:25.3 | Last week, towns and cities across Cuba erupted in street demonstrations. |
| 1:33.3 | Cubans have been facing critical shortages of food and medical supplies, and its already unstable economy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 |
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| 2:05.4 | Just to the east, Haiti is also experiencing a political crisis, following the assassination |
| 2:11.1 | of its president, Javena Mouyze. |
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