Setting Cuba free with Rosa Maria Paya
Few countries on earth are as politically and economically repressed as Cuba. For all its brutality and illiberalism of six decades of one-party rule, the communist regime has somehow managed to sell an image of itself as a brave holdout against Western imperialists, rather than a despotic economic basket case, allied to the world's very worst regimes, including Putin's Russia.
Our guest this week, Rosa Maria Paya is the scion of what she describes as a 'family of dissidents' on the Caribbean island. Her late father Oswaldo was a prominent human rights activist who won the Sakharov Prize and…
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