The Economist.
Day-to-day life is bleak in Cuba.
Since the Trump administration cut off oil supplies to the island earlier this year,
power cuts can last most of the day.
Food, medicine, and clean water are in short supply.
The Cuban regime has outlasted 12 American presidents.
How much longer can it stagger on?
I'm John Prideaux, and this is Checks and Balance from The Economist.
Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth.
Today: America's plans for Cuba.
It's remarkable that a communist regime has managed to survive for 67 years
with the world's most powerful nation just 100 miles away determined to overthrow it.
The Trump administration wants wholesale change in Cuba.
What does that mean?
And how could it be achieved?
Joining me this week to talk about the Trump administration's policy towards Cuba
and what might happen are James Bennet and Charlotte Howard,
both this week just around the corner
from where the Knicks will be playing game two shortly after this podcast is released.
How are you both doing?