carlos gutierrez served under george w. nd is now the chair of the albright stormed -- albright stonebridge group based in washington. mr. secretary, welcome back to "bottom line." carlos: thank you. mark: president obama and well castro are going to meet. what can we expect? carlos: there are a lot of subplots. the summit itself has eight different mandates. you cannot expect a lot of different actions to come out of these, but the handshake between president obama and rowel castro is obviously going to be a highlight. the president would have wanted to go as a celebratory tour where he would have the glory of being the president who started a process of normalization in cuba. the problem is that in the meantime he declared that venezuela is a national security threat to the u.s., so now that has become the issue and the president of venezuela is going to panama with a list of 10 million signatures and all of these south american countries have ganged up against the u.s.. so, there is a lot going on and it is going to be mo

carlos gutierrez discusses what is at stake for washington and havana and the region. you in san francisco. brad: thank you. the former group on ceo, andrew mason, is next. ♪ brad: this is "bloomberg west." i'm brad stone. andrew mason's trading coupons to become a tour guide of sort. providing tours of cities based on your location. thank you for joining us. we were getting assaulted from above by seagulls last time we saw each other. andrew: i knew you would bring that up. nothing funnier. brad: that was what, four months ago. where are we right now? andrew colma -- andrew: we launched two months ago in the app store. it helps to see the city through someone else's eyes. these are immersive and high quality walks. brad: and you have got -- andrew -- brad: and you have got great tour guides? andrew: we tried to find people who were real tour guides. we had a fisherman who took you behind the facade. cory: -- brad: are you just in san francisco right now? andrew: we did one in conjunction with radio lab, but other now we are just in san francisco. ruzwana: what are the

joining me now, former secretary of commerce carlos gutierrez, joins me here, part of a business delegationere. you are cuban born and the business community and u.s. chamber of commerce all in favor of normalizing relations, do you have mixed views about this a sense of tug of war emotionally? >> that's always been the stress and it's it's the business community that has always been in favor of opening relations. if it's true that raul castro is reforming this system in a way where cubans can be free to open up business to aspire to a better future to prosperity and to dream, let's see if that really will materialize. but that's the big question will cuba really change the way so many companies here are expecting to. >> you've seen from all of your business connections, you see how eager american companies are, u.s. companies are to begin investing, you've seen the visits by telecom companies and internet companies and major league baseball we'll talk more of that later, so the cuba has been so economically stricken by this 50-plus year embargo. it could be wide open. >> businesses there's