Michael Crowley
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92 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 22 Apr
Michael Crowley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, it could be.
But the experts that I talk to say, in the words of one of them, it's a fool's errand to try to find Adelce Rodriguez in Cuba.
Hmm.
Why?
Because of the nature of their political system, number one, it's very unlikely that you would have somebody who was willing to kind of
step out of the political culture and allow themselves to be seen as a sort of American puppet.
At least in Venezuela, you have a substantial part of the population that has some sympathy for the United States.
But there's just going to be very little of that in Cuba.
The other problem is that it's a question of what you would want from the Cubans.
And Rubio gave an interview over the weekend that gave us some clues as to what they might be thinking.
And he said that it's really important that Cuba's government agree to some significant changes to its state-run socialist economy.
He really emphasized the economy over the political system.
But he has made clear many times over the years that other deals the U.S.
has struck with the Cuban government, which in his view have led to
very incremental reforms were almost worse than nothing.
You know, Rubio's reaction is that that's the Cuban government being dishonest, playing for time, making promises it has no intention of keeping and eventually reneging on.
That's absolutely right.
So that leaves you with a situation where it looks like the Cuban government would have to essentially agree to its own demise.
to get Trump off its back.
And that seems very unlikely.
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