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Season 1 | Episode 70
The grinding down strategy of the US blockade on oil to Cuba is causing on-going and widespread misery, but does an economic collapse lead to the long-desired aim of regime change?
This week on The LatinNews Podcast we discuss this with Dr Jorge Dominguez, a retired professor at Harvard and renowned expert on Cuba.
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In this episode we discuss:
• Hardship versus state collapse: why the regime has endured before
• China, Russia and the limits of external support
• US pressure, oil interdictions and the debate over “blockade”
• US pressure, oil interdictions and the debate over “blockade”
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Dr Jorge I. Domínguez
Dr Jorge I. Domínguez is a retired professor at Harvard University and one of the leading scholars of Cuban politics and Latin American international relations. Born in Havana, he has spent decades analysing Cuba’s political system, US–Cuba relations and comparative politics across the region. A prolific author and academic, his work has shaped scholarly and policy debates on regime durability, democratic transitions and hemispheric relations.
The LatinNews Podcast is hosted by Richard McColl, a foreign correspondent in Colombia. Having first travelled to Colombia in the late 90s, McColl made the move to Bogotá in 2007. He holds a Diploma in Conflict resolution and a PhD in Social and Human Sciences both at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. He has worked as a journalist across Latin America.
Political Analyst, Richard McColl