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Episode: Hasta la victoria, quizás: Cuba’s broken economy
Description: Even before America crimped Cuba’s oil, the country was teetering. We ask what is to blame for the Cuban people’s plight, and whether anything better is in prospect. The craze of injecting peptides is not only scientifically unsupported—it is potentially dangerous. Chuck Norris once got mad at dinosaurs. Just once. Our obituaries editor recounts his unlikely rise to international manly stardom. Guests and host:Sarah Birke, Central America and Caribbean bureau chiefNatasha Loder, health editorTim Cross, senior science writerAnn Wroe, obituaries editorJason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”Topics covered: <...