>> anthony: in september 2017, hurricane maria devastated the american island of puerto rico. at the time of this writing, 12 days after the hurricane, almost 95% of the islands residents are still without power, and close to half don't have clean water. just months prior, we shot an episode there hoping to capture the staggering economic crisis that puerto ricans were already dealing with. so now we have to ask ourselves, can the island ever rebuild? and what is our spsibility, as americans, in making that a reality? ♪

♪ >> anthony: it's the american dream right? what so many of us work for, sell our labor, or pieces of our souls for. an island in the sun. preferably one where they speak

english and the dollar is accepted everywhere. puerto rico, it's america, right? it's ours and we've held on to it fiercely at times since 1898, after taking it by force durin the spanish american war. >> archive: i want to take you to one of the worst performing economies in the developed world. 73 billion dollars in debt. the employment rate is only 35 percent. the highest sales tax of any united states jurisdiction, 11.5 percent. 45 percent live in poverty. biggest municipal bankruptcy in u.s history. over the last 10 years, more than 5 percent of the population has fled. >> anthony: but what's it like for puerto ricans?

for the people who live here, whose family have lived here for generations? many have left for an easier life in the states and more keep leaving, but not all. >> anthony: what do you write about most of the time? what do you cover? >> hermes: right now i'm covering a lot of politics. >> anthony: journalist hermes ayela is one of those diehards who's sticking it out. >> hermes: the more i've done investigative and political journalism in puerto rico, the more i feel a responsibility to stay here and help out my nation. so this is santurce. >> anthony: somebody called it on the way over the art district? >> hermes: this is sort of an art district but this was a barrio that was founded by freed black slaves, right? going through tons of transformations like every working class neighborhood. some people think that puerto rico takes advantage of the states, but it's a two way street.

you know? this is my friend laura. >> anthony: hi how are you? tony. >> laura: nice to meet you. >> anthony: like everyone here, hermes and his fellow journalist laura moscoso are trying to make sense of this situation that seems kafka-esque at best. >> anthony: so dumb question what is puerto rico? it's n a state it's kind of like a colony but it's not. >> laura: it's not kind of, it is. >> hermes: it's an unincorporated territory. >> anthony: unincorporated territory? >> hermes: yeah, so you know what's that? >> anthony: what is that? >> hermes: we're still trying to figure out sometimes. >> anthony: would you say the majority of puerto ricans consider themselves americans, or do they consider themselves puerto ricans, or both? >> laura: i think that they consider themselves puerto ricans with the privilege of having the united states citizenship. >> anthony: yeah but it's kind of a half ass citizenship, can't vote for president -- >> laura: nor congress. >> anthony: or congress --

>> laura: not anything -- >> anthony: you don't really have much voice in your own destiny. >> laura: exactly you can only go to war. that's the only thing you can do with rights. >> anthony: puerto rico owes 75 billion dollars right now -- >> laura: 72. >> anthony: i don't see statehood. i don't see congress or senate ever, ever taking on a 72 billion dollar debt load. >> laura: exactly. >> anthony: especially for a lot of people who speak spanish. what's the way out of this? >> hermes: oh my god. [ laughter ] >> anthony: what about tourism? >> hermes: it's an industry of services to service the wealthy. and at the same time you take 450 million out of the university for example so you're going to have less educated people willing to do any type of work to survive. >> laura: you are not really producing an economy that a person can survive in. this is a country where people live. where we do things, where we have culture and literature and music and produced intellectual important work. they are selling us as only a good resort to have pina colada in the beach and that's it.

we actually invented pina coladas so i shouldn't be talking bad about pina coladas. >> hermes: even before we were getting [ bleep ] over by -- >> laura: vultures -- >> hermes: a lot of vultures, people of puerto rico are good people and i think that we are going to get pass this. >> anthony: the situation here is truly grave. so how exactly did puerto rico find itself so deeply, and seemingly irrevocably screwed? ♪ in the early 70's, things were looking pretty good for puerto rico. a tax incentive was introduced which helped lure dozens of major companies to the island, employing significant numbers of people.

but when that incentive expired in 2006 concurrent with a major recession in the states, those companies packed up and left. thousands of puerto ricans followed, looking for jobs that no longer existed on the island. the tax base shrunk drastically creating a dire need for cash to shore up basic needs and services. so along came the municipal bond. a big, fat, i-o-u that appeared to be salvation for a near-broke government. they're sexy for investors, triple exempt from taxes, and bond owners buying puerto rican debt would have to be paid back before anyone. that's anyone. hedge funds, or vulture funds as they were often referred to in these cases, had profited from similarly desperate situations in greece, argentina, and detroit.

as the situation worsened for puerto rico, you could buy up more and more bonds for pennies on the dollar. this was a fire sale too sweet to pass up. and the resulting insurmountable debt? it means drastic austerity measures determined by an unelected board who have near absolute power to raise taxes, empty teachers pension plans, and close down schools, hospitals basically squeeze every dollar out of puerto rico to pay back the funds. every puerto rican is being made to feel the pain. >> anthony: i mean i know schools are closing, yes? >> liza: last year 240 schools closed. in the last two years. this year there is a list of 300 schools that are in risk of shutting down. >> anthony: born in puerto rico? >> liza: i was born in chicago, il. >> anthony: in chicago? >> liza: my family came back

mostly because our family was here. puerto ricans want the family to stick together. if you can live close to each other, the better. i decided to stay because i wanted my kids to grow up here. >> anthony: better times? >> liza: better times of course. >> anthony: what changed? >> liza: the government took too much in loans. and couldn't pay them back. so they kept putting taxes on the people, the working class people like me and we cannot pay. >> anthony: like many professionals here, liza marie cordova would likely have an easier time of it in the states but she chooses to stay. >> liza: when the crisis came to puerto rico mostly i think about my kids. will they have the options to stay here and work and have a family? >> anthony: okay so where are we? >> liza: we are at casa vieja in ciales. this is typical 1960s 50s grandmother house. >> anthony: and the food is,

grandma food? >> liza: it is grandma food actually. those are corn fritters with ham. typical sunday, after a saturday party. >> anthony: hangover food, delicious. >> liza: so this is like a plantain soup. >> anthony: oh that's good. >> anthony: the specialty here is pastele al cadero, pork marinated in bitter orange, taro root, green plantains, squash and garbanzo beans slow cooked. and morcilla, blood sausage. one of my favorite things. >> liza: it's good? >> anthony: it's fantastic. teachers here are being asked to pay into a pension system that has been described as a ponzi scheme. you pay 10 percent of your income, into your pension plan out of every paycheck. the money you're paying in now is being used to pay the ones who are retiring right now. in a pyramid scheme by the time it gets down to you who has been paying in for your entire

life -- >> liza: there's no money left. i worry about my future. i don't know what i'm going to live off. i have two jobs in order to pay my bills, have my car, have my house, and pay for my kids education. there's no way with one job as a teacher i can do that. >> anthony: so how do you continue? >> liza: i know i can get paid triple in the states, but i don't want to give up on my country. my kids see how their parents struggle. things can change if only one stands up and decides i'm going to do this. but we have to empower those children. we have to make them believe they can change that there is a better life for them. and i'm getting emotional because sometimes i feel that i failed. i cannot save all of them that's the truth, but i can save a lot. and that's my job. so that's what i'm going to do. i have hope. i have faith. i'm taking a jump of faith.

[ praying in foreign language ] >> anthony: it's semana santa, holy week before easter. clearly, not a casual affair. this is a predominantly catholic country, still. pounded in deep after 400 years as part of the spanish empire. [ praying in foreign language ]

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♪ >> archive: today the flag of the commonwealth of puerto rico waves proudly beside old glory.

american citizens all, puerto rico has come into its own, a real democracy. ♪ [ cruise horn ] ♪ >> anthony: more than a hundred years under the wing of the us has left puerto rico without any real economic engine beyond tourism. the old industries are no longer wanted, needed or no longer economically viable. agriculture, manufacturing, trade have all shrunk drastically. the island is dependent on us exports for just about

everything. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: so where are we? >> pedro: we are in loiza. after the liberation of the slave of the island this is where all the africans and slaves get together and established themselves. >> anthony: despite, or maybe because of economic turmoil, pedro alvarez- cortez saw an opportunity to make something. >> pedro: we keep working the formula until my grandmother said "whoa, this is very good. give me more." using the tradition as a weapon that's what made us successful. >> anthony: at a local beach in loiza, about 45 minutes outside san juan, a crab shack that is one of his favorites. >> pedro: oh my god, look at that.

excellent. >> anthony: what do we have here land crab? >> pedro: land crab, this is a coconut arepa. >> anthony: what do you think, just bang the [ bleep ]? >> pedro: yeah just knock it open like a lobster, there you go, you see? >> anthony: ahh there we go. >> pedro: they are very sweet the meat. they just leave it a few weeks in the cage. feed it with grains to take away the flavor of the mangrove. >> anthony: why did you think sausage? >> pedro: i had the experience as a chef in puerto rico. i knew the necessity that there was in the restaurant for good quality sausages. so i put my little kitchen to make the experiment and i worked well with that. >> anthony: where were they getting their sausage before you? >> pedro: yeah from the mountains. >> anthony: under the table. >> pedro: yeah under the table because they were not inspected by the usda.

>> anthony: can you use entirely puerto rican products? >> pedro: i'm in the process. i use the pork shoulder and there is nobody in puerto rico that produce that. >> anthony: now that's [ bleep ] up. i mean correct me if i'm wrong the spanish generally brought pigs with them. you can certainly raise pigs here no problem, there is the land for it. why is no one raising pigs in puerto rico? >> pedro: 90 percent of the pork meat in puerto rico comes from the states. the prices are very hard to compete. that is changing. we still have the resources and the talent that is the most powerful tool that we've got the talent to see an opportunity and working forward to that. we have a great generation of young agriculturists that instead of going from the countryside to the city to work in a bank or sombig companies they are going back to the countryside. they don't need anybody to say hey you can do it. they just make the click. >> anthony: so there is hope? >> pedro: yeah humbly i can say me and my family are an example of what you can do with the tools you've got. >> anthony: well said man. these are delicious.

>> pedro: you can squeeze the palito like that . >> anthony: yeah no yeah believe me that used to be my job. i used to have to squeeze all the lobster legs with the rolling pin. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: puerto rico is still inarguably rich in one thing: natural splendor. beautiful views, unspoiled coastline. but that too, is in peril. >> pocho: my name is pocho. i'm born and raised in aguadilla. this space is so special to me personally because i'm a surfer and i've been surfing here all my life. i want my son to be able to keep coming here. it's so open.

so free of all of these pollutions. all this mayhem. ♪ >> anthony: pocho and his fellow activists have occupied playuela, proud to serve as human shields against the encroachment of a planned development, that would transform this place into a massive resort, named appropriately or inappropriately enough after christopher columbus. >> pocho: this is our resistant camp. >> anthony: just a hypothetical question if the beach is public what's the problem? >> pocho: the project it's not a building, it's a mega project. it's a five star hotel 120 villas, a mini mall, the biggest casino in the caribbean that's how they sell it. and two parking lots four stories high. we are talking like -- you know, it's not sustainable. >> anthony: if they roll the

bulldozers right now with a bunch of police what do you do? >> pocho: oh no we go, civil disobedience we go stop in front of the machines and we will give the time to the lawyerto do their case in the courts and what not. >> anthony: oh you got some lawyers here. >> pocho: oh [ bleep ] yeah we've got all the lawyers. >> anthony: lawyers go to the beach? >> pocho: yeah, hey! >> anthony: the chef is making sancocho. a stew of beef, veals, and sausages. and there's some fresh caught grouper and red snapper. >> anthony: there aren't many places left like this. that's the point, that's worth something. the tourism business in the caribbean is going through a lot of changes. in the short term developers and construction get paid a lot of money for pouring concrete. but everybody is going to be going to cuba in a few years. why? because it's unspoiled. they haven't [ bleep ] it up yet. >> man in blue shirt: that's why

we have to start talking the same language. you said it, profit. let's talk profit right. let's show them that there is profit in nature unspoiled. that reef back there provides us with millions of dollars worth of services. fish, tourism, protection from hurricanes, annually that produces a service to us as a community. >> man in blue shirt: so if you all of a sudden destroy this, you start losing money. >> anthony: can you conceivably settle for a revised project. meaning okay no casino, no giant hotel, an eco-lodge for super rich people? >> lady in blue shirt: in nicaragua they have a lot of these things that are developed around communities. >> man in black shirt: costa rica you know and places like that the government is conscious about the environment and the amount of money that environment and eco-system brings to the economy. >> anthony: do you have any faith in your government at all? >> man in white shirt: we are a

colony. we are an island surrounded by water and we don't produce almost like 90 percent of the things we consume. which makes us needy, it makes us a third world country. third world country which belongs to the most powerful nation. there is a lot of motivation in the people of puerto rico right now. it's not about independence or not it's about what is right, what the people need. >> man in black shirt: it's coming out of the comfort zone, and realizing if we don't do anything right now we're just going to get run over. >> man in white shirt: all the puerto ricans that want to quit they can leave. yo no me quito, i won't quit. t that can prevent the rejection and prevent the recurrence of the original disease. i never felt i was going to die. we know so much about transplantation. and we're living longer. you cannot help but be inspired by the opportunities that a transplant would offer. my donor's mom says "you were meant to carry his story".

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african slaves. this tradition probably goes all the way back. as old school, and as awesome as it gets. a timeless classic, something that has been good forever. >> xavier: baby's in the house! >> anthony: pretty. >> xavier: beautiful, huh? >> anthony: a great idea that will never be anything less than great. put a pig on a stick and turn him slowly, slowly, over a low fire. >> xavier: you want some of the skin? >> anthony: oh hell yeah. >> xavier: cheers on that. >> anthony: twenty-five minutes up into the hills from san juan, an institution that celebrates pork.

the whole damn pig, in ways that can only be described as spiritual. >> xavier: he's a puerto rican samurai. >> anthony: it's incredible. >> anthony: lechonera el rancho de apa is one of many such places but this one, this one is special. apa ramos has for nearly fifty years of his life been perfecting the art of the perfect slow roasted suckling pig. he starts work at four am. ♪ it takes six hours on the slowly, slowly turning spit to get it right. >> xavier: pure knowledge, rotation, fire, time, mastering the heat because there is no thermometer or anything. and you can see it is really

crispy but still really, really juicy. >> anthony: mhmm incredible. whoa what's that? that looks -- >> xavier: that's a stew, it uses all the inner parts. it's one of my favorites. >> anthony: apa's sister rosa maria begins her day making gandinga, a traditional stew made from pig's heart, liver, and kidneys. >> xavier: that's really nice. >> anthony: now how's business? because the economy has been tough, do lechonera's feel it or people are always going to buy that. >> xavier: everybody has felt that. lechonera's, restaurants, food trucks, everybody. but whole hog is more of a family gathering. this is something so classic i think that they are the least that are going to feel it. >> anthony: chef xavier pacheco, favors puerto rican dishes and ingredients that have been largely forgotten. >> xavier: when you go to another place tand thl you yeah, yeah i went to mcdonalds when went puerto rico. that sucks i hate that. because we have a lot of really good stuff here, and it's our job to keep it alive and show it to the world.

and say hey we are more than a fast food. we got to go back to farming. >> anthony: because you don't want to be buying from imports. >> xavier: we shouldn't! of course my restaurant i started 6 years ago with just 2 farmers. now we have more than 15,16 farmers. it's like a chain, you go to many farmers and you ask them this type of root vegetables and they don't have it because people stop buying the local root vegetable because the imported one is a whole lot cheaper. and that's all they have in their mind. but if you go to the farmer and you tell the farmer i'm going to buy your product. the farmer is going to start having the product. >> anthony: pay more is a hard argument to make when people are struggling. >> xavier: but if we don't change our mind i don't know what is going to happen with the island. >> anthony: do people listen if you say look it's not particularly patriotic, you're not helping the country by eating mcdonalds or shopping at walmart? >> xavier: uh yes, like i tell you tony we have a lot of different types of puerto ricans. we have this type of puerto rican who is like, "yes i love my island."

but they don't think more ahead. they simply think i'm happy with what i have. the other type of puerto rican know that it's going to be hard but they want to grow, want to keep running, want to stay here, want to develop what they have in the island. >> anthony: this is a good argument for it man. this is incredible. i could eat this all day. ♪ alright, i brought in high protein to help get us moving. ...and help you feel more strength and energy in just two weeks! i'll take that. -yeeeeeah! ensure high protein. with 16 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. ensure. always be you. ...has grown into an enterprise. that's why i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. now, i'm earning unlimited 2% cash back on every purchase i make. everything. what's in your wallet?

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>> anthony: if you need any prep done, if you need any knife work just let me know. >> xavier: we've got to put some avocado in that. >> anthony: gotta have it. >> xavier: first time using a knife? >> anthony: it's been a while. >> xavier: you've got talent. >> anthony: yeah if this tv thing falls through i could always work at denny's. >> anthony: man looking great. >> xavier: all these dishes are traditional holy friday food. this is salted cod marinated in coconut milk. and then we sear it with some root vegetables and boiled eggs

from our farmers. and here we have the escabeche. >> anthony: like fried fish marinated or pickled. >> xavier: these have fried local mackerel and then i roast all the vegetables and cure it for at least a week. >> anthony: the salt fish is good. the coconut milk really takes that salty -- >> anthony: vieques is officially within the commonwealth of puerto rico. the main island, a mere eight miles away. it is phenomenally peaceful here, but it hasn't always been that way. for over sixty years, the island was used as a bombing range for the us navy and for training exercises. the soil is rich with depleted uranium, agent orange, and the kind of good stuff left over after 60 years of explosives raining down on it. many see a clear connection between that recent history and a cancer rate that is 30 percent higher than in the rest of puerto rico.

while the navy works to clean up what it left, vieques tries to deal with the financial crisis in its own ways. ♪ chef erica connelly grew up here and has raised her family here. she invited me to a meal at her home. joining us is her mother and son, carlito, her two nieces, and her best friend, elda. >> anthony: now where was the bombing range? >> erica: pretty close here, 2 miles after this. >> elda: maybe less. this was part of the navy land. >> anthony: when did the navy stop using vieques as a bombing range? >> carlito: 2003. >> anthony: that's not that long ago. so what you'd be eating lunch and you hear boom, boom. >> elda: basically. and still they detonate bombs. >> anthony: this is left over ordinances. >> elda: yeah this is like the clean up process. they gather the unexploded ammunitions and they detonate them all together. >> erica: the house moves with the bombing. it's like middle of the war. >> anthony: and i'm sorry you've lived here how long? >> carlito: all my life.

>> erica: me too. all my life in vieques. [ rooster caww ] >> anthony: i've been drinking a fair amount of this lately. this one is flavored with? >> erica: acerola. >> anthony: acerola. alright who'joining me? salud. mhmm good. >> erica: it's good? >> anthony: i'm not driving after this. [ laughter ] >> anthony: lobsters with mashed yautia and yucca from the the garden. conch salad, and coconut arepas. >> anthony: it's really beautiful here. this is not san juan this is much more lush. >> erica: no traffic lights, no fast food. >> anthony: born and raised in paradise. >> erica: beautiful beaches, awesome sunsets. >> anthony: the whole world wants what you have already. how's the economy here? [ speaking spanish ] [ laughter ] >> elda: we are like the colony of a colony. basically the biggest employer is the municipal government. >> anthony: wait a minute the number one employer on vieques is the government? >> elda: yes the municipal government. >> anthony: the local government?

>> elda: yeah we also have this dynamic that people that study and make a profession, 10 percent come back and that's a high number. there is no jobs for them. our population is getting older and it's formed by retired people. >> anthony: where are they going? >> elda: main island or united states. >> anthony: what's the plan when you guys grow up what do you want to do? >> girl in purple stripes: i want to be a chef. >> anthony: a chef? good for you, that's hard. your dream restaurant where would it be? >> girl in purple stripes: on the main island. >> erica: you see? [ laughter ] >> anthony: so in 20 years. >> elda: that's scary. >> anthony: who's going to live? >> elda: not our kids. >> anthony: who will own vieques, i mean who will be in charge? >> elda: not locals. not people that studied here. >> erica: the land is too expensive for the local people. >> anthony: so this will be vacation homes for wealthy people from other countries. who will save puerto rico? who will save vieques, it ain't going to be big daddy america. >> elda: it's ourselves.

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♪ ♪ >> anthony: life on vieques offers a kind of freedom, the kind of beautiful views, that have largely disappeared in the developed world. but life can be difficult. there is little agriculture or economy to sustain the people who live here. at one of the highest spots in vieques, the sea visible in the

distance, is finca conciencia. a small but sustainable farm founded by jorge cora-peña. intent on providing locals and area restaurants with fruits, vegetables, honey, and medicinal herbs. >> ana: my name is ana elisa. i live and work in finca conciencia. we run a productive and educational, agroecological project, we farm. we have the land and the resources to produce food that is economically viable, that is self sustaining without a lot of investment. it's liberating. >> anthony: jorge cooks lunch.

♪ mero, or grouper, stuffed with lobster and white eggplant. wrapped in banana leaves and grilled over mesquite. mangu is mashed plantains with sofrito. >> anthony: alright that looks good. and what's this here? >> ana: and that's pitorro. >> anthony: oh i know what this is, i'll have a shot of that. >> ana: actually we call it lagrima de monte, teardrop of the mountain. >> anthony: will i be crying afterwards? >> ana: maybe, it's very intense. >> anthony: how long have you had this farm? how long have you been doing this? >> ana: jorge started the farm around 10 years now but the farm was originally part of the area

that the navy took. so it's part of the rescues that happened throughout the 80's 90's. >> anthony: farming is difficult work so why? >> ana: my mom would ask the same question. she was like what are you doing? are you quitting job that -- in puerto rico it's hard to find a good job but i think that farming is the most practical thing that we can do in the midst of a crisis. >> xavier: that is something that is going to create work that is going to help the economy. >> anthony: it's a blunt question but can you make money farming? >> ana: in puerto rico it's still a challenge because obviously we still get food that is super subsidized from the u.s. but many people who are our neighbors are like i'll pay more like how much is it worth. people really value the work when they see we're working for it. >> xavier: that's part of my statement. it's part of educating people. since our generation, supermarkets, supermarkets. >> ana: we were consciously stripped away from farming. people were forced out of the country to be able to work in all these maquiladora and

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s ♪ >> anthony: hello, hi. >> cristina: these are my friends. >> tito: want some beer? >> anthony: yeah, sure. it's so beautiful here. >> tito: salud man. >> anthony: thanks for having me. >> anthony: tito auger is a beloved singer-songwriter. cristina rivera-miró is his fiancée. he lives on the outskirts of vega alta, where he grew up. >> tito: i've been playing for 20 years now. i write very specific songs about my town, my country. i'm not trying to sell any dreams but i tell everybody that we have it inside of us to make it to the other side. >> tito: do you want to come inside and meet the chefs? >> anthony: in the kitchen, they're putting together quite the ast. >> anthony: how are you man? >> tito: this is my bass player and chef. >> anthony: okay good someone in

the band who can cook, that's good. essential. ♪ >> all: salud. >> anthony: mollejas con guineitos, sautéed chicken gizzards and green bananas. >> anthony: wow that's good. >> anthony: codfish fritters. carne guisada, a beef stew cooking since the morning. traditional mofongo. >> tito: it's like, what we call our food, you know? and these guys do a nice twist to it. >> anthony: and you make a living as a working musician just on the island? >> tito: i do but i'm lucky. i'm like one of the few ones. you can play around the island but it's really hard to get heard. everything comes from the outside. the radio station don't support local music. >> anthony: do you have any faith in your political leadership? >> both: no.

>> anthony: every time i ask this question nobody pauses. >> cristina: we don't think about it, there's no hesitation. it's no. >> tito: what happened with us is that you don't know where the blame is. you don't know if you want to blame washington for this. you don't know if you have to blame our leaders for that. >> anthony: why would a bank front 70-plus billion dollars into an economy that had been in decline for quite some time. did they ever really have any reasonable expectation of getting their money back or was this a cheap way of buying a country? >> all: yeah. >> tito: thank you! ding, ding, ding! >> cristina: it's not rocket science. we need money so develop whatever. we're giving it all away. >> tito: it's like they're selling out their country and they're pushing us out, that's what it feels like. >> anthony: what about move on and [ bleep ] this i'm going to florida? >> man in black shirt: i still want to live here, i still want to have that view, i still want to breathe this air. >> tito: we should get the chance to just be ourselves you know? i'd rather have us dealing with it than being in no control at all of anything. like we are right now.

>> man in black shirt: we need to change the way we think. we have been taught that we can't do it. >> cristina: we are preconditioned to think that we need the support of the u.s. if we decide to be an independent country you have to go through a process of being on our own and we have never done that. we have to start from scratch we don't have agriculture. we don't have production, anything. >> tito: it can be tough. and i hope that we can fight for ourselves. to inspire people, to give them strength, to resist. obviously music is good for that. ♪ [ singing in spanish ] ♪

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president kennedy: good evening, my fellow citizens. this government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the soviet military buildup on the island of cuba. >> anthony: this is the cuba i grew up with. >> narrator: mankind teeters precariously on the brink of a thermal nuclear war. >> anthony: the missile crisis. duck and cover. hide under your desk, kids, cover yourselves with wet newspaper, because we're all going to die. >> narrator: the flames of crisis burn far stronger, fed and fanned by the bitter tirades of fidel castro. >> anthony: and this guy, always in the fatigues, underlining with every appearance that w