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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-25T12:08:00.000Z",
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    "Crisis",
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    "Marco rubio",
    "Trump",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nThis week, **Ian Bremmer** sits down with University of Miami historian and Cuba expert **Michael Bustamante** to make sense of the US-Cuba standoff.\n\n\n* * *\n\n\nCuba is in its worst crisis in 30 years, with basic necessities like fuel, water and food in short supply. Between one and two million Cubans have left in the past five years, the largest exodus in the island's history. And the opposition is too weak, too scattered, and too decimated by exile and imprisonment to be a real political alternative.\n\nTrump says 2026 is the year of liberation. But Bustamante argues the hard realities don't match his expectations, and a military invasion is unlikely. A purely economic deal, closer to **Obama** 's 2015 opening, might suit Trump's deal-making instincts, and Cuba's government has signaled it could live with that too. But it would be a betrayal of everything Cuban Americans in South Florida have been promised. And for **Marco Rubio** , it would be a defining political problem. Together, Bustamante and Bremmer discuss the realistic outcomes -- will Trump get what he wants, and can the 80 years old communist regime survive this crisis?\n\n\n\n\n**_Subscribe to the_ GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast_on_ Apple Podcasts_,_ Spotify**_**, or your preferred podcast platform, to receive new episodes as soon as they're published.**_",
  "title": "Cuba's Trump standoff and economic crisis with Michael Bustamante"
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