Latin Pulse: 11.12.2016

This special edition of Latin Pulse includes an opportunity to hear a Cuban perspective on politics and diplomacy, along with an analysis of what derailed the peace process in Colombia. A Cuban professor discusses the importance of continued exchanges between the United States and Cuba, while analyzing reactions to U.S. programs designed at political change and Cuban succession. The program also discusses the rejection of the peace treaty with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The news segment covers doubts about the sincerity of Venezuela's president during the papal negotiations to end the country's political crisis and avert violence. The program includes interviews with: Santiago Perez Benitez of the University of Havana & the Cuban Center for International Political Research (CIPI); and Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell; and Associate Producer: Jim Singer. (To download or stream this podcast, click here.) (The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 42 MB.) podcast news Latin America politics Venezuela Cuba diplomacy education The Vatican Nicolas Maduro Pope Francis Colombia United States embargo Juan Manuel Santos U.S. State Department USAID economics corruption agriculture Raul Castro media Russia China Canada Fidel Castro economic reform Miguel Diaz-Canel plebiscite Alvaro Uribe FARC justice European Union human rights peace accord