Cuba Ep. 7: How Cuban Socialism Works w/ Helen Yaffe

Podcast: Upstream · Upstream

Opublikowano: 2026-05-19

Helen Yaffe joins us for a conversation exploring what the attempts to build socialism in Cuba look like in a practical sense—from housing to food distribution to economic management. Helen Yaffe is a professor of Latin American political economy at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World, and Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution. She is also the cohost of the Cuba Analysis podcast and the documentary Cuba's Life Task: combating climate change. The episode begins by bringing back the lens an...