{"id":1181,"date":"2026-02-24T05:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/after-venezuela-is-cuba-next\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:20:51","slug":"after-venezuela-is-cuba-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/after-venezuela-is-cuba-next\/","title":{"rendered":"After Venezuela, Is Cuba Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>For more than six decades, the United States has tried to topple the regime in Cuba. After ousting President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro of Venezuela, who was one of Cuba\u2019s closest allies, the Trump administration is closer than ever to forcing radical change on the island.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reporters Frances Robles and Michael Crowley discuss how the latest escalation is pushing Cuba to the brink, and whether this time the United States will get what it wants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/frances-robles\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Frances Robles<\/strong><\/a>, an international correspondent covering Latin America and the Caribbean for The New York Times.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/michael-crowley\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael Crowley<\/strong><\/a>, a reporter covering the State Department and U.S. foreign policy for The New York Times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Background reading:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cuba\u2019s government has lasted 67 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/08\/world\/americas\/cuba-communist-government-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">Will it fall under Mr. Trump<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/17\/world\/americas\/cuba-venezuela-oil-power-blackouts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Can Cuba survive without Venezuela\u2019s oil<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photo: Yamil Lage\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>For more information on today\u2019s episode, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily\"><strong>nytimes.com\/thedaily<\/strong><\/a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe today at <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/podcasts\">nytimes.com\/podcasts<\/a> or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/activate-access\/audio?source=podcatcher\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/activate-access\/audio?source=podcatcher<\/a>. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com\/app.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href=\"https:\/\/pcm.adswizz.com\/\">pcm.adswizz.com<\/a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than six decades, the United States has tried to topple the regime in Cuba. After ousting President Nicol\u00e1s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pod-casts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}