'Cuba is not Venezuela': Trump's takeover threat collides with 'disciplined revolutionary state'

As US President Donald Trump threatens to take over Cuba, following the forced collapse of its national electric grid, Mark Owen welcomes Christopher Sabatini, Senior Research Fellow for Latin America Programme at Chatham House. What we are witnessing today, Sabatini explains, is not an isolated infrastructural failure, but the convergence of long-standing structural weaknesses and acute geopolitical pressure.

'Cuba is not Venezuela': Trump's takeover threat collides with 'disciplined revolutionary state'
As US President Donald Trump threatens to take over Cuba, following the forced collapse of its national electric grid, Mark Owen welcomes Christopher Sabatini, Senior Research Fellow for Latin America Programme at Chatham House. What we are witnessing today, Sabatini explains, is not an isolated infrastructural failure, but the convergence of long-standing structural weaknesses and acute geopolitical pressure.