Fidel Castro is dead and Raul Castro is retired, so who is running Cuba? Roseann Lake, The Economist Magazine's Cuba correspondent, is here to tell us all about Cuban President and newly elected first Secretary of the Communist Party, Miguel Diaz-Canel. Where did he come from? What will his policies towards the U.S and economic freedom potentially look like? Roseann Lake is back on the show with all the answers. Find out more about her and buy her book "Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower" here: https://www.roseannlake.com/.

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