Frances Robles
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256 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 May
Frances Robles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So when the Soviet Union fell, they started relying on Venezuela.
Venezuela kept them afloat for almost 25 years.
The other thing they did was open to tourism.
So if you'll allow me to jump forward in time a little bit, President Obama decides that he's going to try the exact opposite of what everybody else tried.
So everybody else is trying to suffocate Cuba to get them to fold.
He's like, you know what?
We're going to do the opposite.
We're going to let people visit.
We're going to let private businesses get licenses to do business there.
They were hoping that the opening of Cuba will allow it to fall.
Right.
We'll get all the Cubans on the island to say, wait a second.
You mean there's an internet?
There's cell phones?
You know, I want a piece of that.
Right.
And so from about, let's say, 2015, 16, 17, you see this big boom in tourism.
And that's another point where people think, oh, yeah, now the Cuban government is really going to end because there's no way that people in Cuba will see how the rest of the world lives and be able to stick it out with this government.
That's exactly right.
It didn't exactly work because the Cuban government saw it as a Trojan horse, and they put up a lot of obstacles to that opening.
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