{"id":1567806,"date":"2024-03-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=464280"},"modified":"2024-03-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:00:00","slug":"havana-syndrome-how-the-biden-administration-is-driving-cubans-into-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/22\/havana-syndrome-how-the-biden-administration-is-driving-cubans-into-misery\/","title":{"rendered":"Havana Syndrome: How the Biden Administration Is Driving Cubans Into Misery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BLOCK(acast)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22ACAST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Afalse%7D)(%7B%22id%22%3A%22havana-syndrome-how-the-biden-administration-is-driving-cuba%22%2C%22podcast%22%3A%22deconstructed%22%2C%22subscribe%22%3Atrue%7D) -->\n<div class=\"acast-player\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/deconstructed\/havana-syndrome-how-the-biden-administration-is-driving-cuba?accentColor=111111&#038;bgColor=f5f6f7&%23038;logo=false\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"acast-player__embed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END-BLOCK(acast)[0] -->\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-underline\">Chanting \u201cpower and food,\u201d<\/span> demonstrators have filled Cuba\u2019s streets in recent days. This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim delves into the complexities of Cuba\u2019s current economic crisis with Andr\u00e9s Pertierra, a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. They discuss the various factors deepening the crisis and driving people to the streets, from the half-century-long U.S. embargo on the island, its own economic policies, pandemic-related destabilization, and sanctions the Trump administration imposed and the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/12\/16\/cuba-obama-biden-trump-policy\/\">kept in place<\/a>. Pertierra is in the fifth year of his Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and hosts \u201cOr\u00edgenes: A Cuban History Podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Transcript coming soon.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/22\/deconstructed-podcast-cuba-food-protests\/\">Havana Syndrome: How the Biden Administration Is Driving Cubans Into Misery<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/22\/deconstructed-podcast-cuba-food-protests\/\">The Intercept<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters have taken to the street on the island, decrying power blackouts and food shortages.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/22\/deconstructed-podcast-cuba-food-protests\/\">Havana Syndrome: How the Biden Administration Is Driving Cubans Into Misery<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579193,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567806\/revisions\/1579193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}