Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
Planet Money
- Published
- April 2, 2026
- Duration
- 27:41
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 10, 2026
Discusses Live event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contrad…
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Live event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning on friendly communist and socialist countries, and flirting with capitalism. And right now it seems the US is making both strategies impossible.Since January, the U.S. has been preventing almost all oil from reaching the …
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Live event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning on friendly communist and socialist countries, and flirting with capitalism. And right now it seems the US is making both strategies impossible.Since January, the U.S. has been preventing almost all oil from reaching the island. Doctors can’t get to the hospitals where they work, many buses aren’t running, trucks can’t deliver food and medicine where they’re nee