-cuban relationship, we are joined now by carla robbins. she is an adjunct senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. so, why was this meeting so important? >> it's been a very very long time since there's been any contact, certainly this level, i think. 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 young