José Cárdenas

JOSÉ CÁRDENAS, Former Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the USAID, Associate at VisiónAméricas:

PART ONE:

• Criticism of the concessions given to the Castro regime in Cuba
• How the U.S.-Cuba hostage trade was a separate entity from diplomatic recognition
• Congressional options to keep the embargo on Cuba

PART TWO:

• What a normalization of relations means for the average Cuban citizen
• Economic woes of the Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro regimes continue to haunt Cuba
• Will the United States benefit from relations with traditionally hostile actors in the Western Hemisphere?

PART THREE:

• The Cuba situation distracting the U.S. from the faltering Chávisimo movement in Venezuela
• Russian, Iranian, Chinese, and Islamic radical actors all moving with impunity in Maduro’s Venezuela
• How aggressively will the U.S. government pursue those in the Venezuelan regime accused of human rights violations?

PART FOUR:

• High corruption and drug-related violence in Mexico
• The continued battle between the Colombian government and FARC narcoterrorists
• Uruguay granting freedom to six former Guantanamo Bay detainees