i was suffocating in cuba. when i was told by the regime i had to go to the countryside and labor when i had graduated as a professor of music, i went crazy and begged my mother. if i stay, i will end up in jail or crazy. i begged my mother and she let me come. the older pedro pan at the time of arrival, the more they would have understood the decision of the parents to allow them to come here. i don't believe anybody who has never lived in a country where there is oppression can understand the desperation of being in a country where you are not supposed to express yourself, ok? that is hard. only a person who has experienced that can understand the real purpose of seeking freedom, and i believe that was the purpose of my arriving. i thank my parents every day of my life for allowing me to come. although it is hard when children from their parents, that is their security blanket. when you separate children from their parents, everybody is going to suffer. it is going to be a rough experience. but if you say 100

don't mess with cuba. khrushchev not using rhetoric.o with military assistance. >> many latin americans were shocked to find out how much communistic weapon castro actually had. >> the sense was that kennedy has to do something about castro. >> when kennedy comes to the presidency he's briefed on the fact there was a plan in place to topple castro. >> but the plan that's presented to him is not what he wants. it's a huge invasion on a noisy beach. it's going to look like a u.s. invasion of cuba, so he says to the cia, he can't be associated with this. i want something that's believably cuban. >> this is ron oppen in miami. i'm standing in one of the many anti-castro recruiting places scattered throughout the city. >> they were into communism and we found there's something against castro, we learned where there was a recruiting center and we just approached them and joined. we had no idea it was the cia. >> since 2:00 this morning, men and boys have been filing through this door behind me anxious to join the fight in cuba against fidel c

people stayed in cuba? i'm not sure dish. >> the first part of the question is what is the fate of the 22 who originally did pay the additional money for valid visas and got off and then the second part was -- >> [ inaudible question ]. >> so of the 22 and then also the 10,000 or 12,000 that in gem ended up getting into cuba, legally, what is their ultimate fate? so who is first? >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> i have three microphones here. so in terms of the 22 jewish passengers who paid the $500 and got off in cuba, all of them immigrated to the united states, but i believe the exception of one family. i was in havana in 19 -- excuse me in 2001 and i saw their graves. they are buried at the aroundkennot cemetery and there is one family that lived there and the rest i believe immigrated to the united states. there is one still alive in washington heights. her name is today vera hess. and vera, interestingly enough, went to nursing school in cuba. and she donated to the holocaust museum her nursing diploma

there's one family that stayed in cuba and built a life there and died in cuba.est, i believe, immigrated to the united states. there is one, i believe, who is still alive in washington heights. her name is today vera hess. and vera, interestingly enough, went to nursing school in cuba. and she donated to the holocaust museum her nursing diploma which is in spanish. any way, fasrw

>> less go back with cuba. russia has had a relationship with cuba going back decades. >> which you know very well because you knew fidel very well. >> i do. i have been to the country eight or nine times. i have spent a lot of time with fidel castro. he is a remarkable man. castro is. not our favorite guy. but he is unbelievably charismatic man. i don't think i have ever seen anybody with greater feel to the audience. his brother is a different kind of a person. his brother is an operating man. castro is a visionary in cuban terms and his visions go way beyond cuba. i don't think this is a surprise. >> he is 90 years old. what are we talking about? >> you are propping these guys up and moving them around in carts or something? >> he is still there and he intends to do something for the longer term interests of cuba. and his brother is a lot younger. >> but you see them as a threat to the united states? >> i don't see them as a threat. no. of course not. i didn't say that. i didn't come close to saying that. >>

remaining $3 billion will be used for education in cuba. mr. putin wants to invest in the creation of a grand transportation hub. construction of an airport and petroleum projects on the island's north coast including drilling for new oil and vast volume offshore deposits. next stop argentina. president putin visited the arch argentinian president and signed agreements with her involving the massive russian atomic corporation. >> president obama's belief this is not a cold war, a new one, is that wishful thinking? >> no it is not. there is not a new cold war. putin is playing in our backyard because we are in his backyard. he doesn't want a new cold war. he and angela merkel are working to cut off aid to the separatists of ukraine in return of his recognition of the ownership of the crimian peninsula. after that russia comes in from the cold. europeans don't want russia in the cold. i don't want russia in the cold. putin doesn't want to stay in the cold. i believe he sees his future with the west. i think down there they are playing games. >> p

that's 90% of cuba's outstanding debt to moscow. in addition, russian officials recently confirmed that cuba has also provisionally agreed to re-open a spy post. this eavesdropping facility 150 miles off the coast of florida allowed russia to spy on the united states until it closed in 2001. putin denied claims that he was reopening the listening post in cuba, but many experts doubt his denial. what in the world is going on? remember that when the soviet union collapsed in 1991, havana lost billions in aid and subsidies from moscow. the cuban economy plunged contracting by about 1/3. then cuba found another oil rich regime to prop it up, venezuela. trade with venezuela accounted for about 20% of cuba's gdp in 2012, but plunging oil production and political instability in venezuela means that cuba needs to build new ties. enter vladimir putin who is in his latest incarnation trying to show the world that he doesn't need the west and that russia can forge its own global ties. the moscow/havana alliance is a sad setback because cuba wa

aid worker alan gross was caught in cuba and imprisoned for bringing illegal technologies with cuba deemed illegal technologies into the country like an i phone or something right. to any of this work actually in courage any of the dissidents or i mean did anything even happen was there any warning as is the according to the a.p. and other reports is that none of you know as far as you can tell none of their kind of political objectives actually were bad were met were made you know you know in fact a lot of the key would contacts were kind of shocked that these people they were talked to or thought they were just other youth from from peru and all that they were shocked to find out that they had an agenda as to why they were giving them information or helping them along it's interesting you know these cuban kids even were also saying you know they may have taken to an extreme just you know kind of complaining about potholes or complaining about the general bureaucracy of the country that they were not really dissidents as much as were just regular citizens complaining about our government

this fake twitter app and cuba. which was created to stir dissent among cuban air not users on the gambrel a company called creative associates international and just this week the a.p. exposed yet another subversive program in the guise of humanitarian aid this time usa i do you work within the same umbrella company to recruit foreign nationals to send through the prevention programs on college campuses tell me break down the story i'm joined by eugene puryear organizer with the answer coalition thank you so much for coming on your genes both of you so much for having me sure to have you on this is insane breakdown first what exactly what this program consisted of and how widespread it was so what this program consisted of and again run by creative associates was they were recruiting these young college age people from around latin america and finding any number of you know very worthy endeavors whether it's hiv aids prevention and i just other forms of n.g.o.s style work and saying go to cuba and use this as your

contractor under us was arrested in cuba sentenced to a very severe. sanction was sentenced to fifteen your turn prison for trying to undermine. independence by financing helping. helping organize the inner not of the internal this isn't ok it was no this was not the first dime that things like that happen in cuba do you expect the cuban government to react somehow taking action against western n.g.o.s for example after this particular instance. well as we all know this is a very serious breach of international law and he's not allowed under international law to try to undermine another government or to interfere in. human affairs but this is also a violation of cuban law it would be also violation of any other law with france in the united states in russia and in any other country so the cubans are used to the . intent of trying to undermine the other system. the problem is that these students maybe were not aware of the risks that where. taking by. participating in these kind of programs ok well like i say to age and sad they had no safety net in cas

agency for international development that's doing that in cuba. yes this time it was u.s. aid the got into the business of regime change according to the associated press the agency sent nearly a dozen young latin americans on a risky mission to cuba as part of a secret democracy promotion program usaid work with a contracting firm known as creative associates which you may remember was behind a nother usaid cuba fiasco the zunes in a a program which created a fake social media alledge similar to twitter to also stir unrest in cuba. you can stay tune for creative associates next project in the summer teaching kids in cuba to read. friedman the zooms in a revelation prompted senator patrick leahy to grill usaid administrator dr rajiv shah at a recent hearing the legislation doesn't say anything about setting up a cock i mean the idea in cuba twitter accounts and all now this latest usa program was even more cockamamie recruiting young cubans stan type government activism theory number of fake civic programs including an h i.v. prevention workshop a ploy that could discredit

they remain locked up in the judicial limbo of the american enclave in cuba. it's fascinating to me when i first brought a lawsuit through out the doors in america against one time a we were told by the right wing there is a you should have legal rights for terrorists and if you insist on legal rights routers kill them and i thought that was all for then but one of the ironies and it's a very sad irony a very bad when he opposed one ton of and he was right to oppose it of course is that he's replaced detention without trial with execution without trial and he just kills people know and the idea that the intelligence that america has before they kill someone is better than the intelligence they have as they lock someone up for ten years and one time i was just silly so we can be pretty certain that the people they kill or render inappropriate as the people they put in guantanamo. executions without trial now replace arbitrary detention. where. there are. no. all of this robotic stuff shows that if they can build it they will build it even if it's unwise to buil

and the people of cuba who depend on this industry to bring in a lot of their a lot of their foreign currency and to support their economy to allow them to have things like universal free health care that celebrated around the world does some of the greatest and so i think it's deplorable on multiple levels you use the word reality that you're pretty sure this is happening with the a.p. news agency has brought this forth now and so there's just been questions later in the last few minutes towards the state department about it how does this recruiting actually would. the thick end of it. well i mean it's difficult to say one hundred percent but we do know at the very least from some document from an individual who was a double agent inside of venezuela and cuba who was recruited this is released a little earlier this year a few months this year that they recruit people from a number of ways especially young people from college campuses in particular different sorts of travel programs more or less anywhere where they feel that there will be some conglomeration of students who for whate

has done quite a bit quite a bit to impact the humanitarian situation as well as the economy of cuba and the fact that they will covertly do things that they won't openly do shows how unbelievably byzantine this situation is eugene why why does a small island nation pose such a threat to the u.s. government are continuing to expel resources into the country to try to overthrow the government yes well i think that it poses the ultimate threat because what happened in cuba nine hundred fifty nine is they overthrew a brutal us back to her and they established a government that established universal health care the right to housing the right to a job all sorts of other very positive social and economic indicators inside of the country and that they weren't afraid to do what they wanted to do and for the united states to say to have sitting ninety miles away from florida oh here's this little tiny country with very few resources that's been able to do so many things for its people so people in the united states might start to we can't have that exactly like if they can have it why can't w

d work is illegal in cuba. you talked about get smart, the cone of silence, back to the show if you remember, they had to use encrypted thumb drives, obfuscating the files, speaking in code like "i have a headache", meaning the cubans were catching on to them. they had to be careful about the work. >> they were doing the clandestine work with no training, were not told what happened with alan gross, who was arrested by the cubans, and is behind bars in cuba. this was dangerous. >> this happened around the time that alan gross was arrested for trying to smuggle insensitive technologies, and is in gaol on what the cubans called crimes against the state. a contract at that a contractor signed, days after this happened, and it happened around the time that u.s. a.i.d. officials emailed contractors saying you should avoid sending people to cuba, we valued your safety, and the supply is to nonpersonal citizens. this was connected to the programme, cuban twitter. now, the attorney-general u.s. a.i.d.'s attorney-genera

governments towards cuba. >> reporter: the cuban investmenters they say are not being put off.arbor with deep access and plenty of land in which to grow in a prime geographical low take they believe it's simply too good of an opportunity to miss,. >>> al jazerra is demanding the release of its three journalists who have now been impressed in egypt for to 231 days, they were falsely accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood in. june 2 were given seven years sentences, mohamed got an extra three years because he had a spent bullet in his possession which he picked up eight protest. >>> no more than 100 years fish american in bangladesh have caught fish with the help of otters. but this way is disappearing. >> reporter: when he heads out on his boat, he takes with him a crew of otters. >> reporter: thanks to the otters, he doesn't have to wait around for the fish too bite. >> translator: when you put them in the water they start chasing after the fish. the fish try to escape and we position ourselves so that the otters chase the fish right in to our nets. >> reporter: for

aid says is discrete programs going on in cuba. these are programs that are illegal if they are not sent to congress and congress is not informed. >> peter, maybe attack this in two different ways. doesn't a revelation like this, make it more difficult, i don't know whether he was guilty of or not guilty of, the contractor allen gross who has been in prison there for more than four years now? >> i just read a story coming into your studio, about allen, last time i saw him late last year in december of 2013, i came away convinced that he was suicidal. and that he was planning to kind of are a suicide by escape type of plan. and now the story says that he has said good-bye to his wife and children and that he is so depressed over the death of his mother and over being in prison, the fact that his government isn't doing anything to get him out. this story is going to depress him even further. after he was arrested in cuba was sending in innocent teenagers and college students basically to pose as covert operatives and gather intellige

and about the fish will slam it covert you say the operation to stoke rest in cuba under the guise of a harmless health problems. which are here national coming to life from moscow a marina josh welcome to the program now israel is withdrawing its troops from gaza and new seventy two hour cease fire is now in place and troops have pulled back to defense position defensive positions well these are the latest pictures from the area the i.d.f. says it has completed its main mission of destroying hamas underground tunnels as the truce began the rockets were still being fired from both sides efforts to broker a permanent cease fire are now underway in cairo. and on monday hamas accused israel of breaching its own partial ceasefire by bombing a gaza refugee camp officials say an eight year old girl was killed and thirty people injured in that attack and here are some of the pictures from gaza city that were taken shortly after israel announced its cease fire on monday people are seen clearing the rubble from a bombed helps. and while international criticism of the israeli operation rings ou

government has tried to meddle in cuba in two thousand and nine u.s.a.t. tried to set up a twitter like program to organize people in cuba and we can't forget about the ill fated cuban television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is just why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put in america and they have limited industrial capacity they can't do anything to anyone just leave the poor island alone and let the people there figure out their own future without the us to. departments help but that's just my pink. slip play. live. live. live live. live. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. to live. america's colleges which through hollywood television and the media have become very familiar. with their vast campuses american football it stalls cheerleade

cuba. television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is the justification why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put in america and they have limited industrial capacity they can't do anything to anyone just leave the poor island alone and let the people there figure out their own future without the us state department's help but that's just my opinion.

government has tried to meddle in cuba in two thousand and nine usa he tried to set up a twitter like program to organize people in cuba and we can't forget about the ill fated cuban television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is the justification why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put in america and they have limited industrial capacity they can't do anything to anyone just leave the poor island alone and let the people there figure out their own future without the us state department's help but that's just my opinion. if sweden or finland to bring deep to join me to that would provoke some sort of free action on the by the french a thing as far as military calculus is concerned none of what faces humanity east the west north and south none of it can be solved by merely to. or or .

now was just cation why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put it america and they have limited industrial capacity they can't do anything to anyone just leave the poor island alone and let the people there figure out their own future without the us state department's help but that's just my opinion.

and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put a man.

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there's one family that stayed in cuba and built a life there and died in cuba. the rest, i believe, immigrated to the united states. there is one, i believe, who is still alive in washington heights. her name is today vera hess. and vera, interestingly enough, went to nursing school in cuba. and she donated to the holocaust museum her nursing diploma which is in spanish. any way, fast forward many years she settled in washington heights and when it turned to a spanish neighborhood, there's a big hospital there, and because of her training in cuba, she is able to treat the patients in spanish so she has made full circle. but to answer your question, they were all america bound with the exception of the one family. >> those who remained in cuba, they came as tourists of passengers in transit but they were always paying bribes to the policemen or to somebody organizing. none of them was deported. although they were afraid to be deported. by paying, they were able to stay until they got the american visas. and little by little, almost all of them went to the states.

that under the guise of an hiv prevention workshop and as tourists young latin americans were sent to cuba by the u.s. government to overthrow that government yes the u.s. agency for international development organized for these young people to go to cuba to recruit and set up new political activists however the infiltrators were not very good at their jobs in the cuban authorities were able to nab these well funded travelers in their country this is nowhere near the first time that the u.s. government has tried to meddle in cuba in two thousand and nine usa he tried to set up a twitter like program to organize people in cuba and we can't forget about the ill fated cuban television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is the justification why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right you want doesn't have nukes put in america and they have limited