Christian Parenti

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The Jimmy Dore Show · The Real Reason U.S. Wants To Crush Cuba! w/ Christian Parenti · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

You guys are still hung up about that?

Yeah.

And they're hung up about it because it's the most prominent example of

cuban intelligence and this little island getting right up into the grill of the cia and getting away with it you know getting intelligence defying them killing some other operatives and getting away with it and they're like you know the head of the cia they don't send marco rubio they don't send the secretary of state they send the head of the cia john rackliffe to meet with the cubans and guys like we want 95 year old raul castro extradited so we can punish him for killing these agents of ours essentially you know

In terms of Radcliffe going to Cuba?

Yeah.

Well, he goes there in...

I think it's late May and it comes after the Trump administration has

impose this oil embargo so they are uh you know they're not allowing oil to be imported to cuba anymore and cuba needs about a hundred thousand barrels of oil a day and it produces 40 000 and so it's 60 000 barrels short and as a result there's like you know constant blackouts even in havana there's hardly any fuel for automobiles the health care system is falling apart i mean the economy is in

you know it's in a disastrous state right so the trump administration has turned up the the volume on the economic wars warfare has gotten very very aggressive in this calendar year towards cuba and it's having it's having you know a pretty serious effect it's it's part of what's driving the cubans to make yet more concessions and they they made this

you know they didn't say oh we're doing this because john ratcliffe asked uh or demanded i mean they're doing it in part because they realized that they have to get investment and um and they have to get out from under this blockade and and the sanctions so that's uh that's that's the context i mean there has been um for decades there has been uh you know

And there's been economic sanctions against Cuba, and it's illegal for Americans to spend money in Cuba like you're not.

It's not illegal for you to travel to Cuba, but you simply cannot spend money there because that's considered trading with the enemy.

And they you know, they've been prosecuting people for years about this.

I have a friend who was was prosecuted back in the 90s.

And he went like, you know, he's a lefty, but he's not like politically active.

He teaches school on Long Island and he like went down to Cuba to, you know, as part of a trip to Latin America just to see Cuba.

And he ended up getting prosecuted and having to pay.

ten thousand dollars which you know back in those days was kind of more like thirty thousand dollars or something so i mean the sanctions against cuba have been in place and they have and they are actually uh you know activated it's not just the occasional high profile case against some activist group i mean like they come down on tourists to go to cuba

But what Trump has done is this actual embargo where they're threatening ships that are seeking to bring oil to Cuba.

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