if we look at the history of the irish in cuba, most of the irish to went to cuba in the 18th and 19th centuries arrived from spain, some of them with the spanish royal armies; other irish influx arrived from the u.s. for the construction of railroads used to transport sugar cane to the sugar plantations. that was at the end of the 19th century. and then at the beginning of the 20th century, we're talking 1902, 1910, before odono that i mentioned before, this man who gave his name to -- he was very proud of this lighthouse. the cubans offer hospitality to general alexander alejandro o'reilly. he rose through the ranks of the spanish army. the spanish sent alexander o'reilly to cuba to form a militia. he was appointed governor of louisiana and head of the army later on. he arrived in august, 1769, and took formal possession of louisiana for spain. think of new orleans and cuba, in particular havana, governors there were also in cuba so there was all this traveling from one city to another because later when i got my ph.d. from tulaine university and i went to the irish channel. it's int

cuba, in particular to havana. i want you to know that on the left side of the entrance to the havana harbor, there is a well-known fortress, el moro. there is a lighthouse there and the moro has become a image of cuban nationality and in particular havana. in that lighthouse you find, you read an -- when you enter the havana harbor, you find an irish name. that lighthouse was known for many years as the odono lighthouse. who was this person, odono the man that oversaw the project of the lighthouse in 1844 and he was a governor of cuba from 1843 to 48, but he was a spanish man of irish origin and irish ancestry, a descendant of the -- chieftan of the ticanelles. he is spanish and irish together. if we look at the history of the irish in cuba, most of the irish to went to cuba in the 18th and 19th centuries arrived from spain, some of them with the spanish royal armies; other irish influx arrived from the u.s. for the construction of railroads used to transport sugar cane to the sugar plantations. that was at the en

why do they go to cuba? there is a market in cuba. looking at the natural resource, the beaches, the nickel, the good land that is there. they know that the labor is relatively well-educated in it will be relatively competitive. adam: roughly left million people. you have roughly 11 million highly educated people ready to go to work. >> exactly. adam: it is essentially a communist dictatorship and can you trust that kind of government to do business? >> we have to distinguish within the government between the orthodox guys and reformers, those who are looking for change. as we do aund the world, we want to engage behind those who are supporting reform. so we should be supporting the pro-market elements because we know, as fox knows, freer markets, eventually, leads to freer people. adam: let me ask you about this because there is reform in cuba. we actually ate at a restaurant privately owned. >> exactly. adam: the people that run the restaurant say taxes are high. castro instituteeforms. they take two steps forward but the cuban gove

not only people traveling to cuba but people com combining vacations with a trip to cuba. it's a win win for the cruise linings if the embargo is lifted. >> one area you would like thei. that is a fiscal cliff area. >> closed american bond fundsaee leveraged and we think the dividends are going to be cut and there is a risk we would just avoid them. >> do you own any of theserecom? >> for our discretionaryaccounte closed end accounts and the herzfeld caribbean accounts olds all of the those we spoke of. >> susie: thank you very much tom. or our market monitor tomorrow herzfeld. coming up on monday on "n.b.r." we'll be monitoring those fiscal cliff negotiations, and we'll have news and analysis. we'll also a look back at the year in stocks, and s&p's sam stovall joins us to pre-view what's next for the markets in the year ahead. it could be one of the biggest trends in business next year: companies setting aside time for their employees to play. ruben ramirez explains. >> reporter: it may be hard to remember those hot summer days on the playground. the freedom to let your m

not only people traveling to cuba but people come combining vacations with a trip to cuba. it's a win win for the cruise linings if the embargo is lifted. >> one area you would like theinvestors to avoid is municipal. that is a fiscal cliff area. >> closed american bond fundsare over value yelded and they are leveraged and we think the dividends are going to be cut and there is a risk we would just avoid them. >> do you own any of theserecommendations? >> for our discretionaryaccounts we own all of the closed end accounts and the herzfeld caribbean accounts olds all of the those we spoke of. >> susie: thank you very much tom. or our market monitor tomorrow herzfeld. coming up on monday on "n.b.r." we'll be monitoring those fiscal cliff negotiations, and we'll have news and analysis. we'll also a look back at the year in stocks, and s&p's sam stovall joins us to pre-view what's next for the markets in the year ahead. it could be one of the biggest trends in business next year: companies setting aside time for their employees to play. ruben ramirez explains. >> reporter: it m

he has been undergoing treatment in cuba. his doctors recently did tected more malignant cells which means more surgery and an uncertain presidency. patrick is joining us, this announcement has a sense of urgency to it, what do you know? >> we having some difficulty? all right, we just lost him. we'll get back with them when we get that signal back. >>> meanwhile, when you hear the term fiscal cliff, you probably think about higher taxes, right? could it also have an impact on what we eat? first, a very good morning to washington dc, a foggy start on this sunday, december 9th.si eenx a month! okay, come with me -- we're gonna save you money. with straight talk at walmart, you get unlimited talk, text and data for only $45 a month per phone. would we get the same coverage? same coverage on america's best networks. you saved $146.76 by switching to straight talk. awesome! now you can afford to share your allowance with me. get the season's hottest smartphones like the samsung galaxy s2 and get straight talk with unlimited data

>> reporter: very emotional chavez telling people here in cuba, taking the air in cuba as well, announced he has a recurrence of cancer, that he'll be returning to cuba immediately to undergo surgery. this is his third cancer that we knew of before the elections in october in venezuela. he said he'd been cured of cancer. that the doctors essentially saved his life. it turned out that that information was incorrect and hugo chavez in a very emotional address tonight to the people of venezuela said he needed to return to cuba immediately to undergo surgery and that his life is essentially on the life. he said good-bye to venezuela, said the support of the vice president -- and hugo chavez perhaps looking at mortality in the face. >> i think it's interesting that he said good-bye to the people of cuba. should we be reading anything into that? >> reporter: i think absolutely. it's been a year and a half where hugo chavez has really spent more time in cuba perhaps than in venezuela. months and months in cuba fighting cancer. some of the speculation flying around this time about his health and

my career at the headquarters in virginia i had the national intelligence estimates, quite a few on cuba over the years, and many of the other latin american countries. >> before we get into fidel

the biggest statue in cuba today is not to fidel or to ché, it's to maceo-- black man.ey met in new york, 1885. they had a spanish language newspaper, they interacted with black intellectuals such as the great arthur schaumburg-- and we all know about the schaumburg library, the new york... the harlem branch of the new york public library. arthur schaumburg was puerto rican, fluent in spanish, wrote about cuba, wrote about the war of independence, wrote about the terrible massacre of black men in 1912 in cuba when they tried to form a black political party. he wrote about it for w.e.b. dubois. the other period, of course, would be the harlem renaissance. >> hinojosa: mm-hmm. >> the harlem renaissance, which was a time of... well, it's the... historian david levering lewis puts it, "it was civil rights through art." black people had the idea-- which was a not very efficacious idea, but they had an idea-- that they could change the image of the race vis-à-vis white people who doubted our ancestor's intellectual integrity and intellectual capacities by creating great liter

manuel roig-franzia, the story about his parents, his grandparents in cuba, there was some discussion about the accuracy of his interpretation. what is the truth, and how will that potentially affect him politically? >> guest: yeah. what happened is that marco rubio when he was rising as a politician in florida presented himself as the son of exiles who were forced to come off of cuba because of the castro takeover. communism, the island being a place transformed and the antithesis of american political doctrine and that they had to leave. and i and others were able to find documents that showed defellowshiptively that they -- definitively that they did not come after castro, they were not forced off the island. they came in 956, in the spring of 1956 before castro had even invaded the island. so it got to this kind of very central part of his unite which is that -- of his identity which is that he was formed by a family culture that was steeped in the exile experience of cuba. at the same time, i should say that the senator says that he still is shaped by the exile community because

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. >> nicolas maduro visita cuba donde hugo chávez recibe tratamiento.dumbre si hugo chávez estar en la toma de poder en enero. >> tenemos un recuento de lo pasado en nustraos países. >> un vergonzoso escanalo en cartagene en el gobierno del presidente barack obama con renuncias y perdidas de status de alta seguridad. >> el terrible paso del huracán isaac en cuba dejando destruccion y casa derrumbadas. más de 140 mil personas afectadas. >> benedicto xvi y su visita a cuba. cientos de miles de cubanos estuvieron con el santo padre que se reunió con fidel castro. >> en pmr lugar hugo chávez su salud y reeleccion. la oposicion tenía la esperanza en el candidato contrarioo que solo tuvo un 40% >> el presidente dijo que estaba libre de cáncer y se pone en duda si puede juramentar en enero. solo el tiempo dirá que trae el 2013-. >> para conocer las condiciones del tiempo pasamos con estefany severino. >> hola ¿que tal amigos? buenas noches >> hoy las amximas estuvoer en v57° en oakland y empezamos este sábado con 40° y se espera más frío y con poca brisa. tamb

en cuba, el presidente de venezuela chÁvez se sometera a una cuarta operaciÓn ante la reapariciÓn dellcÁncer, reacciones polÍticas ante el anuncio del mandatario, vamos con la informaciÓn. ♪. ♪. >>> este es su "noticiero univisiÓn" fin de semana. con fÉlix de vedu. >>> buenas noches bienvenidos al "noticiero univisiÓn" la mÚsica regional mexicana, y el mundo del espectÁculo estan de luto, la celebre cantante jenny rivera, muriÓ cuando el avion en que se trasladaba de monterrey a toluca, se estrellÓ, con ella perdieron la vida otros 4 pasajeros y dos pilotos de la aeronave, en monterrey brindÓ el Último concierto de su exitosa carrera, francisco hace un recuento de la dolorosa jornada. >>> quÉ tal, buenas noches. monterrey y todo mÉxico continÚan consternados, luego de la noticia que el aviÓn que transportaba a jenny rivera, se desplomÓ en nuevo leon, cerca de monterrey, hasta el momento rescatistas que estaban en la zona localizaron los restos de la aeronave en un pobrado, la colorada, en iturbide, al sur de la capital. lo que pasÓ en el dÍa lo tenemos en el reportaje. >>> la noticia

in c ingainga inaguraciÓn del nuevo mandato de hugo chÁvez no se sabe si estara >> desde la habana, cubael vice d presidente leyo la carta del n mandatario que se recupera en cuba en una operacion relacio relacionada con el canÁncer >> mientras unos celebran otros indignados >> es inaceptable >> blanca marmol alega que fuero destituidos ilegalmente, porque los jueces deben permanecer h t hasta que la asamplblea genera o non nombre sustitutos >> asÍ no tienen que esperar una seleccion en la asamblea por mayoria calificada, objeciones de la ciudadania al candidato >> ahora se espera el 10 de e enero cuando chÁvez debe tomar j juramento, pero se reitero lo i dicho, venezuela esperara por chaÁvez >> olvidense del 10 de enero, si tienen alguna esperanza que si el pdresidente no esta va a as i asumir el presidente de la asa b asamblea nacional, no es esa fehfe fecha, a menos que el presidente chaÁvez decida volntariamente >> dijo que el vice presidente s se mantiene viva la revolucion >> aquÍ hay una revolucion mi militar en marcha, y debe ser e permanente,no puede detenerse >> a cavhavÁvez qu

jack kennedy as i said was determined to do something that the cuba problem. he was obsessed, humiliated that the day. lyndon johnson can after kennedy and his obsession with vietnam so he declined precipitously. subsequent presidents such as gerald ford, jimmy carter made a very serious efforts to achieve a rapprochement with castro, quite the opposite of what kennedy was doing. so yes, cuba has waxed and waned and it's been a different kind of priority over these 50 years, so it is with american presidents. estimate on the reverse side, does cuba have good assets, did they have good assets in the u.s.? has the castro regime ever tried to assassinate a u.s

invasion of cuba.the united states have been planning an invasion and in fact we had a mock invasion planned for october of 62 called operation -- after the bay of pigs. or cusack as castro spelled backwards. the u.s. was in heavy planning mode for an invasion to overthrow after the disaster of the bay of pigs. we had also been running operation mongoose which was other contra insurgent should -- counterinsurgency program so was clear the u.s. was planning an invasion. khrushchev thought he could kill two birds with one stone by changing the balance -- that the united states was so far ahead in missiles and the ability to do liver warheads that he thought if we could put the intermediate-range listed missiles into cuba that was somewhat offset america's big advantage of nuclear weaponry in 1962 and it could deter a u.s. invasion of cuba. the mistake he made was not announcing that the weapons were there and not announcing that he also had 100 battlefield nuclear weapons and that it united states does n

here we go. >> if we attack cuba, it's going to be nuclear war. what your judgment is, what are the chances that they will be fired if we invade cuba? >> would we take that risk is the situation so desires? >> if this thing is such a serious thing, we are going to be uneasy, and we know what is happening now. all right, we have to use something. it may make these people shoot them off. i just don't believe that's completely. [inaudible] well, hang on tight thanks a lot, gentlemen. >> ellen, talk a little bit about 50 years later. people have forgotten how important considerations about berlin and our allies were throughout the cuban missile crisis. >> yes, there is a wonderful transcript in the book in which president kennedy himself sort of gives an overview of what he thinks is at stake in the deployment of these missiles in cuba. the concern was if we were to attack and try to have a strike, that the soviet union would then feel emboldened to take over berlin. berlin had been very much -- they were really the issue that was most of greatest con

en instantes hugo chÁvez llegÓ a cuba, luego que segÚn Él.amos su comentarios como cada noche, a travÉs de facebook y twiter. ediciÓn nocturna, para tenerlos mÁs adelante. >>> lo invitamos a unirse a esta causa. que comienza el viernes 14 de diciembre, en punto de las 10 de la noche hora del este. 7 en el oeste del paÍs. la gran familia hispana unida por esta gran causa. los niÑos. >>> el vicepresidente venezolano nombrado por hugo chÁvez. desco mo lÁgrimas en un acto pÚblico en el estado de miranda. horas despuÉs que su jefe. partiÓ para ser sometido a una cuarta cirugÍa por el cÁncer de que padece. tiene lo Último desde caracas. el presidente hugo chÁvez se despidiÓ de los venezuela nos en horas de la madrugada partiÓ a cubas para someterse a una nuevo operaciÓn en su batalla contra vida o muerte contra el cÁncer. intercambio palabras y abrazos con sus colaboradores de Último a su vicepresidente nicolÁs maduro a extiende sigo nao como su sucesor y el otro hombre fuerte del rÉgimen. presidente de la asamblea. uno al lado del otro. a nundz da

el presidente venezolano, hugo chavez, anuncio que a cuba para noticias al punto,.ana. y la asamblea nacional de venezuela esta debatiendo el permiso que solicito chavez para viajar a la isla.ahora regresamos a la discusion y el debate con ♪. ♪. ♪. >>> hablemos ahora del eterno tema del estatus polÍtico de puerto rico, es una naciÓn, colon colonia, estado libre asociado, futuro estado norteamericano, el 6 de noviembre hubo un plebiscito, la mayorÍa dijo que no quiere ser un estado libre asociado, y luego el 61% dijo que le gustarÍa que se convirtiera en el estado 51 de estados unidos, para hablarnos de lo que va a pasar, nos acompaÑa desde washington el comisionado de puerto rico con el congreso, pierluisi que en noviembre ganÓ la reeleccion en el puesto. comisionado, gracias por estar con nosotros. >>> buenos dÍas, jorge, encantado. >>> muchas gracias, dejeme comenzar de atrÁs para adelante, comencemos con fortuÑo por quÉ perdiÓ el gobernador, en elecciones, por la alta criminalidad, o no cumpliÓ la promesa de no despedir a nadie, y al llegar, despidiÓ a miles? >>>

despuÉs que fue a cuba para una operaciÓn. batalla de vida a muerte contra el cÁncer. y compartiÓ palabras con sus colaboradores. y al otro hombre fuerte del rÉgimen, cabello, uno al lado del otro. >>> hasta la vida siempre. (aplausos) >>> a chÁvez lo recibiÓ raÚl castro horas antes daba sus Últimas medidas, y clasificÓ sus decisiones polÍticas y llamÓ a la unidad. >>> me voy y el alto mando polÍtico aunque no lo entregÓ estÁ en buenas manos. >>> chÁvez entrega la espada del libertador a su vicepresidente maduro, juramenta el nuevo ministro de la defensa. >>> cuenta con una fuerza armada leal e incondicional. a la revoluciÓn. >>> la designaciÓn de maduro cambia el panorama polÍtico. y busca evitar enfrentamientos. >>> pareciera que chÁvez vino a hacer su testamento polÍtico, y tambiÉn a poner orden en su partido. >>> maduro un civil que impone sobre el ala militar, y es el favorito de los hermanos castro, es una figura conocida en el Ámbito internacional. los venezolanos miran la norma, y esta indica que el presidente de la as

>> that's what they did in cuba, in fact, christmas and christmas trees were banned in cuba for 30 years. why? castro understood this was an important part of who we are. it's not about who god is. it's about who we are. we are religious beings with convictions and we should be able to carry those convictions to our work place. the classical music association doesn't pro-says they can get gal time. everyone beyond stands this is part of culture to be able to express ourselves. same thing with religion. no one should be complaining about the expression of religion. >> bill: as long as it's not forced on the folks. i agree with the ruling if you want to have other displays in the same proximity. that doesn't bother me. all right, christina. thanks very much. the ebenezer award goes to the governor of rhode island lincoln chafee. are you going to go up and give to him i hope so. >> we send him a bag of coal. >> bill: i get those, too. by the way my newspaper column this week is on governor chafey. you can read it on bill o'reilly.com in type papers across the country including the "new york

laaaa tragedia aerea en mexico conmocion por muerte de jenni riveraaprueban viaje de hugo chavez a cubaaje del presidente hugo chavez a cuba para someterse a una nueva intervencion quirurgica por el cancer que padecde desde 2011. mas en despierta america ♪. ♪. >>> continuamos con nuestras converciones dae inmigraciÓn. en estados unidos, nay mÁs de un millÓn de estudiantes indocumentados, traÍdos a estados unidos muy pequeÑos, se llaman dreamers, la princisal organizaciÓn que los reÚne se llama (hablan en inglÉs), y decidieron buscal una reforma migratoria integral para ayudar no solo a ellos, sino a sus padres, vecinos y amigos. la directora, cristina gimÉnez nos acompaÑa vÍa satÉlite desde nueva york, gracias por estar con nosotros. >>> muchas gracias jorge por invitarnos al programa. >>> comenzamos con el tema de la acciÓn diferida, es decir la orden que dio el presidente de estados unidos barack obama para proteger a estudiantes indocumentados, hay elegible cerca de un millÓn 160 mil pero se hicieron 8 mil solicitudes, por quÉ tan pocos estudiantes se benefician o aprovechan de la de

are on the other side from north korea, cuba and iran for sure. let's ask some questions. >> from the beginning, the first question from martin. >> i am not going to talk about palestinians. i always enjoy talking about is really politics. >> no, it is not fair. now you can ask a who barack. he is free and can speak openly -- ehud barak. he is free and can speak openly without restrictions. >> well, let me try. i think americans would be interested in your analysis of israeli happening in is reall politics. it appears that there is a rightward shift. is that true, and can you explain what happened to the electorate, why you joined with m as opposed to staying separate? >> the first idea was presidential elections. in the united states, you have only two parties. in the last knesset, now in the knesset, we have 14 parties. in the previous knesset, we had 23 parties in the parliament, and we only have 120 members. 14 parties. you know how difficult it is to establish coalition. for these reasons, israel has about 29-31 ministers and numerous deputy

what cuba has to do is release alan gross.lationship between cuba and the united states we can do that. with alan gross in prison that's difficult. >> why is this so difficult with cuba? we've negotiated release of people from north korea, from iran where the perception is it would be a lot more difficult. >> you know i'm at a loss. i don't understand why cuba is still detaining him. our delegation has engaged everyone from the pope to other countries to make it clear to cuba there's no reason to keep alan gross. >> what more senator can the u.s. do here and what more is it actually doing. are there contacts with the cubans at this point? is there even a conversation? >> well we do have conversations with the can you dance. they do have representatives that's in this country. we do communicate. we talk about it. the administration has been visited by us to make it clear that this needs to be high priority. we got to get alan gross back. >> judy gross and senator ben cardin, thank you. >>> up next meet the man who was fired fro

invasion of cuba. the united states had been planning an invasion. as a matter of fact we had an event, a mock invasion planned for october 62. >> the second invasion after the bay of pigs -- >> after the bay of pigs, right. and it was castro spelled backwards. the heavy planning for an invasion to overthrow of the disaster of the bay of pigs and we had the operation running on booze which was the counter insurgency terrorist program. so it was clear the u.s. was planning an invasion. khrushchev thought he could kill two birds with one stone by changing the balance. the united states was so far ahead in the missiles and the ability to deliver warheads and he thought if we could put the missiles in cuba that would somewhat offset america's biggest feige in the nuclear weaponry in 1962. and they could deter the u.s. invasion of cuba. the mistake that he made was in announcing the weapons were there and that he also had a hundred a battlefield nuclear weapons or their and the united states doesn't find ou

sugar is a key to cuba as one of the most dynamic slave societies in the world. so, they're on their way on a coastal voyage of 300 miles. during that voyage, a revolt at sea takes place. the amistad africans rise up and kill a member of the crew of the amistad, and then they kill the captain. a man named ramon ferrer. they take control of the ship. with the idea of sailing back to their african homeland, which is sierra leon. they keep two of the cubans alive. these were actually their so-called owners. pedro and montez. montez had been a ship captain so he knew navigation. they told him, sail toward the rising sun, because the rising sun had been at their backs when they made the middle passage across the atlantic in the first place. well, montes at the -- montes was very clever man. during the day he did sail to the east as he was instructed, but he kept the sails loose and flapping in the wind so as not to make too much progress. and then at night he reversed course and headed back towards the caribbean and the north american coast, in the hope that he would

hospital , para saludar a sus familiares durante su ausencia , queda en la vice presindencia , en cubal asesinatos , con violencia esto se dbee a un incremento de la criminalidad , en américa latina entre los más violentos , el testimonio de los familiares testimonios habituales en uno de los países más violentos del mundo la violencia en venezuela sigue en ascenso , por cada 100 mil habitantes el segundo informe , el observatorio , venezolano , dice que prácticamente vive una guerra . >>> en 1998 se cometieron 4550 homicidios y en el 2012 , se cierra con 21 mil , la muerte acecha en todas partes tanto en cárceles como sitios públicos carcelas y privados . >>> no hacer nada , dos semanas , antes del inicio de la campaña presindencial , vamos a ver todos los vertices garantizar la paz y la campaña està en los medios ambos sin resultados los delitos , los incendios los robos ni secuestros univisión a la morgue de caracas , aúnque esto sea prácticamente un acto de fe . >>> en todos lados hay inseguridad , afecta a todos como el llamado secuestró expressd , hasta el dinero su frecuencia en

cuba wants a trade. they will release gross if the u.s. allow five cuban spies to go free. >>> today quantico's -- the pretrial questions if bradley manning's case should be dismissed. yesterday a top correctional officer said manning was improperly kept on suicide watch for at least seven days. his testimony said this happened on two occasions. the correctional officer also said the commander did not follow a psychiatrist recommendation to take manning off suicide watch. >>> the future of a maryland state delegate seat is once again up the a judge to decide. greg hall filed an appeal in the case. hours earlier, a judge ruled that neither hall nor tiffany a a allston should get the seat. but governor martin o'malley asked the panel to withdraw his nomination after learning of his sketchy past that included gun and drug charges decades ago. the judge ruled governor martin o'malley will pick the next delegate for the 4th district. >>> virginia is considering a new law that could land you in jail if you're caught texting and driving. but unti

>> i would love to go to cuba, but i have not been yet. i would love to go. >> you and me both. >> that is all for us for now. see you next time. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--