senate cuban leader -- since president eisenhower met with batista. dr.ll, those are to be were different meetings. i am surprised that people compare them. in activity 61 president eisenhower met with batista -- -- in 1956, when president eisenhower met with batista that meeting did not have a real significance because it was the hegemon talking to the guy who was representing u.s. interest in cuba at the time. this was a conversation between raul castro and barack obama, a conversation among equals, and this is very important. for cubans, it is very significant that the president of the united states did what he promised, by the way, in the election -- in the campaign of 2008, which was talking to our president in respectful terms and i see a movement in that direction. i think whatever -- whenever i have been asked in the past what you want from the head states, i answer respect, and this is it. president obama is treating the cuban president with respect, and i think the spirit of that has been well signaled by president raul castro. he said we want a

eisenhower with batista, not with fidel castro.: we will be back on the story of the oas summit in a moment. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: topics expected to be on the agenda at the summit of the americas gets underway include trade, security and migration. panama's president juan carlos varela called on heads of state to put aside their differences. amy: well, for more, we are joined by two guests. in claremont, california, miguel tinker salas is a professor of latin american history at pomona college. his new book is, "venezuela: what everyone needs to know." you can read the introduction on our website. and him washington d.c., we are joined by mark weisbrot, co-director of the center for economic and policy research and president of just foreign policy. his article in "the hill" is headlined, "obama could face disastrous summit due to venezuela sanctions." welcome both of you back to democracy now! let us begin with miguel tinke

jose batista, also known as joey bat, showing off the power. to hockey now, the playoffs start this wednesday for the capitals at home against the islanders. plenty of questions surrounding this series like how the caps handled new york speed led by 24-year-old sense ace john tavares. these two teams are very similar, which makes this matchup very interesting. >> they have the leading scorer in the league right now. we have third and fourthis. their defense is lard to you and -- i think it's going to come down to who executes. >> we're excited about the challenge, at the beginning of the playoff run. we know there's a couple teams we have to go through and, you know the islanders will be the first team we have to go through now. >> let's look at how the schedule shapes up. the first round of playoffs, game 1 and 2 wednesday and friday 7:00 start with those games. you can watch them on comcast sportsnet. we'll have more later tonight on "sports final." >>> a few more scores wizards and hawks in action right now, the wizards are up 29-14 in the f

un gobernante cubano la Última en al aquel fue entre el mandatario paÍs en el agua y el dictador batistare de las amÉricas y en ese momento donde las hostilidades quedaron el pasado en este largo proceso para restablecer las relaciones diplomÁticas adelante, fÉlix. fÉlix: muchas gracias, asÍ es, arantxa por la trascendencia de lo que ocurriÓ aquÍ en este centro de convenciones este serÁ un evento del que se hablarÁ por mucho tiempo. en especial de 12 minutos y medio de los que se van a analizar todos los detalles. que esa reuniÓn entre obama y el gobernante cubano raÚl castro. no durÓ tanto como para hablar del fin del rompimiento entre cuba y ee.uu. pero los 12 minutos 30 segundos del encuentro obama_castro fueron suficientes para marcar un hito histÓrico en la relaciÓn de ambos paÍses. presidente obama: desde luego seguirÁ habiendo diferencias profundas y significativas en nuestros gobiernos. presidente castro: se hace como acaba de decir el presidente obama con respecto. fÉlix: en el centro de convenciones de atlanta con el el logo de la cumbre y con cuatro asesores como testigos crea

leader since president eisenhower's encounter, also in panama, with pro-american dictator fugnecio batista in 1956. president obama called cuba's presence at the summit an historic occasion after denouncing decades of american imperialism, castro offered this: >> ( translated ): i'm very emotional when i talk about the revolution. i apologize to him because president obama has hno responsibility with this. there were 10 presidents before him. >> reporter: the president called it a promising start. >> i think what we have both concluded is that we can disagree with a spirit of respect and civility and that over time, it is possible for us to turn the page and develop a new relationship between our two countries. >> reporter: president obama has not yet said whether the u.s. will remove cuba from its state sponsor of terror list, which restricts cuba's access to the u.s. banking system and american-made arms. >> we have very different views of how society should be organized, and i was very direct with him that we are not going to stop talking about issues like democracy and human rights and

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was still backing batista in cuba the dictator, was still allied with france against the algerian quest for independence. so you have overt foreign policy, you have covert foreign policy, and it becomes also a question of access. and it becomes then a question of working all sides of the street from the agency's point of view. now, they will justify it, say well, we were just intelligence gathering. you know, it behooves -- [laughter] us to know what they're thinking, what kind of people they are. but it was so much more than that because cia resources were going into the mechanisms that the dictators were using to repress the students that nsa was standing in solidarity with. so, you know, these are complicated stories but i think as i mentioned, one of the things that happened is that nsa was succeeding in standing in solidarity with the anti-batista cuban students and had an operation friendship. after the revolution many, many students went to havana. the leaders of nsa could be found around the pool talking to che and fu dell. and, of course students -- fidel. and, of course, stude

the fifth starter now because the phils released kevin sloany today, and o'sullivan serve it up to batista. one of the two homers he allowed. then there's giles leaving with back pain in the eighth inning but he says it's just tightness. he believes he should be okay for monday. the phillies lose again. 10-6. not going good down in clearwater. i'm john clark. we're right back. ♪ i am never getting married. never. psssssh. guaranteed. you picked a beautiful ring. thank you. we're never having kids. mmm-mmm. breathe. i love it here. we are never moving to the suburbs. we are never getting one of those (minivan). we are never having another kid. i'm pregnant. i am never letting go. for all the nevers in life state farm is there. >>> we can put the umbrellas away? >> yes. tomorrow very different than what we saw this afternoon and evening. it's going to be sunny, cool and breezy tomorrow. 50 degrees for the high temperature. thursday it's going to be a great day. 64 degrees. a little sunny, friday near 70 but that does come with some rain. clearing as we go through saturday. easter sunday look

we're talking about batista and eisenhower. it's a very very long time. >> sreenivasan: cuba started-- i should say the president of cuba started his eight-minute speech and told everybody i'm going to go longer because-- >> it's the castro way. actually, 50 is short for them 50 minutes. >> sreenivasan: when he spoke, he railed against sort of historical u.s. foreign policy but said i'm not holding the president of the united states, barack obama responsible for this almost apologized to him. >> he did apologize to him. i'm not sure he did a lot of favors in american politics by doing that. it was sort of a very weird, dissident moment. this was a classic castro performance, much more his brother than raul, to condemn the united states, and saying, of course, it's not you, you youngster pup weren't responsible for it. >> sreenivasan: juxtapose that from open hostility from the leader of venezuela, the leader of ecdo, right now, really speaking at the president and saying here's why the united states is a horrible place and a ho

he joined a revolution against batista and he began fighting. fighting with other teenagers two feet -- free cuba from the dictator. this boy at age 17 finds himself thrown in prison. finds himself tortured, beaten. and then at age 18 he flees cuba. he comes to america. imagine for a second the hope that was in his heart as he rode that ferryboat across to key west and got on a greyhound bus to head to austin, texas. to begin working, washing dishes, making $.50 per hour, making -- coming to the one land on earth that has welcomed so many millions. when my father came to america in 1967 he could not have imagined what lay in store for him. imagine a young married couple living together in the 1970's neither one of them has a personal relationship with jesus. they have a little boy and they're both drinking far too much. they are living a fast life. when i was three, my father decided to leave my mother and me. we were living in calgary at the time, we got on a plane and he flew back to texas and he decided he did not want to be married anymore a

the first time remembers batista when i was a child. the reason for them, special comment on the latest, the ukraine. thank you. >> guest: we had a short-sighted policy that we thought we could overthrow governments in iran and look at what we have got. it was foolhardy and the cia was part of that. all that was approved by the president and the cia never did anything the presidents didn't approve of. that certainly has not been food for us and a good example of the problems that existed in those days within the cia. we had the bay of pigs which was ridiculous where everyone, even the new york times, new the invasion was being planned and yet the cia went ahead with that. hundreds of people lost their lives. outrageous things. in many ways the country has gotten much better. has become more focused. the improvement in oversight has made a big difference. in terms of civil rights we have seen big improvements. i remember when i was at police headquarters at the boston herald, the other reporters referred to a cheap murder meeting of the

that was dwight eisenhower and batista. can you imagine? look at that handshake.re than 50 years of problems and certainly differences between both nations. the hard line communist nation on the left, the grand american democracy on the right. a lot of outstanding questions. we'll be talking to mark a little later on in this hour. for example, those fugitives. dozens and dozens that fled from the american justice system they found sanctity and safety in cuba. will they be extradited and brought back to our country? there are issues of trade families, cuban americans. although the president said that it's an historic meeting and it was time he said to try something new and engage more directly with the cuban government and the cuban people. mr. castro said that there will be differences and they may not agree with everything but that both sides are talking about opening up embassies in each country, so we will see what the president has to say when he steps up to the podium in a moment. >>> regarding those embassies, talk of embassies in both countries, they made g

different batista.ember used to be the 7th richest man in the world. >> if you get to roll your rs you will show off. no one does it better. she even rolls rs at the greek guys. >> it's a habit. so they're on trial for insider trader. they have to redo the trial completely because the judge in his case is now charged with embezzlement from a separate drug trafficking case he was presiding over. this comes after the judge had already borrowed his porche to drive around after it was seized. >> this is oil. >> right. >> like a couple of years ago we're talking he's the richest in the world. >> they claimed he would be richer than carlos slim. >> yeah took a wrong turn. >> he did. >> so there's some graph down there going on. >> the irony is that -- >> latin america? >> brazil is trying to prove that it's finally into the modern age, good corporate governments et cetera et cetera. you have batista going down and his judge going down and then of course he's just in the midst. >> i'm going to alienate the lef

the united states with drew after batista withdrew the regime until president obama moved to normalize relations with cuba in december. >> major, what are the big issues that the two will discuss today? >> three issues. you mentioned cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. the president is expected to lift that designation. the other is opening up embassies, taking cuban off the state sponsors of terrorism could pave the way for that. the other big issue ending the u.s. economic embargo in cuba. only congress can do that. they don't appear to be in any hurry to do that although the white house is urging congress to move your jerjtsly on that front. >> what's the state of cuba now and how prominently has that issue played there? >> it's glacially slow and senior officials in the white house tell us it's going remain a painfully slow process in cuba. we met dissidents here some who were roughed up by pro-castro supporters outside the cuban embassy on wednesday. they say the united states shouldn't move so rapidly because political oppression is all too well. the white house travel that inc

those were between president eisenhower and batista, the cuban dictator.nt castro in private what i've said in public. that our governments will continue to have our differences differences, and the united states will continue to stand firmly for universal values and human rights. at the same time, we agreed that we can continue to take steps forward that advance our mutual interests. we'll continue to work toward re-establishing diplomatic relations, reopening embassies in havana and washington and encouraging greater contexts and commerce and exchanges between our citizens. i'm optimistic that we'll continue to make progress and that this can, indeed, be a turning point. >> now castro for his part says he agrees with obama, but he did urge patience. nbc's perry bacon jr. is at the white house this morning. so perry, what more can you tell us about as the president says a truly historic meeting? >> reporter: it was. well, good morning, steve. you know the president talked about normalizing relations with cuba in december. and this was a big first step was

would like to see a book written on the coos sponsored by the united states but first i remember is batistaild. the reason for them and especial comment on the latest, the ukraine. thank you. >> caller: we have a short-sighted policy in those days where we thought we could overthrow governments for example in iran and look what we have got and it was foolhardy and the cia was part of that and it was improved by the president and the cia never did anything the president to approve of. that certainly has not borne fruit for us and that is a good example of the problems that existed in those days within the cia. we had the bay of pigs which was ridiculous, where everyone -- everyone knew this vacation was being planned and the cia went ahead with it, hundreds of people lost their lives, just outrageous things. in many ways the country has gotten much better since those days, has gone more accountable certainly has become more focused. the improvement in oversight has made a big difference. certainly in terms of civil rights we have seen big improvements i was at police headquarters at the bost