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SPOTLIGHT © France 24
11:57
Issued on: 18/03/2026 - 12:31
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As US President Donald Trump threatens to take over Cuba, following the forced collapse of their national electric grid, Mark Owen welcomes Christopher Sabatini, Senior Research Fellow for Latin America Programme at the Chatham House. What we are witnessing today, explains Mr. Sabatini, is not an isolated infrastructural failure, but the convergence of long-standing structural weaknesses and acute geopolitical pressure.
What concerns him most is not only the immediate humanitarian toll, but the illusion that external pressure alone can engineer political transformation. Cuba is not a system that yields easily. Its centralized, deeply entrenched governance structure resists rapid change, and any attempt to force transition from the outside risks producing instability rather than reform.
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