pushing for his removal as washington still able to achieve political goals in latin america well ask jon kalish president of the us cuba trade and economic council. latin america has long been the united states exclusive playground with washington imposing trade deals assisting regime change and moving in the internal affairs of the region's countries now with the continuing pressure on cuba and washington's backing of the protesters in venezuela well the white house moves it and will the u.s. decisions help bring about any kind of peaceful resolution to south america's problems will the current policy only deepen the worlds of a complex and troubled region. john kerry of us trade and economic council welcome to my show it's great to have you with us so well let's talk about but allow me to start with because it's such a hot topic right now in news. from once. we have the u.s. government that is supporting the opposition legitimate leader putting its actions on the other hand the government is still somehow holding on or what do you think will happen at this point because america is so involved

and we're back with jon kalish president of us about trade and economic council john do you see. trump's logic behind his moves towards cuba because it was a big breakthrough during the obama era the relations between the united states and cuba were finally starting to normalize i mean even people over here were like lou that's great why it has reversed that y c. everything that obama especially. with the troubled history has of this world reaction when the president does basically whatever his predecessors did in office he looks to undo and whatever they didn't do he looks to do in the case of cuba. there's shared blame here the obama administration and the castro illustrations did do quite a bit but they also didn't do much of the hard stuff and primarily the reason that neither of them did the hard thing was because they both expected an election outcome in two thousand and sixteen and it didn't happen the way they expected the cubans were basically going along and slow walking because they figured mrs clinton would win during the transition then they could deal with the obama