welcome thank you so cuba cuba stories is a great story and it's an interesting story it's a sexy story everyone equates cuba with massive home maximum sex appeal why is that where you've got the caribbean aspect obviously the weather but you've also got the fact that it's been to boo for so long and so the americans are now switching their attention to it if you look at our website website stats since obama went to cuba visits went up by thirty six point eight percent from ip addresses in the united states and that represents over fifteen million americans looking for information about cuba up from four percent in two thousand and thirteen so there's a lot of interest here of course that's why it's sexy you know if you ever see the movie heat yes i know i love going to miami vice actually yes there's a scene where they take the cigarette boat from miami over to. and they meet it's a michael mann film it's brilliant you know they're out there in the water and you're just like livin the dream out there and everyone wants to go to cuba but you know it's been ostracized politically going a

there is a lot of optimism in cuba at the moment.f he viewed the island today. as the conversation turned back to che guevara, gabriela had an extraordinary revelation about her family for me. my grandfather died with che guevara — in bolivia. and he died struggling for the revolution, for the freedom of cuba. so i grew up with this feeling in my family, and this is what the young people have now. this legacy and this force for struggling to get what we want. gabriela's grandfather, she told me, was orlando pa ntoja, a guerrilla who fought alongside che in bolivia exactly 50 years ago. he died in the battle in which che was captured. i was interested how gabriela's family connection to the world—famous revolutionary influenced her life as an entrepreneur in today's emerging cuba. do you feel like you are inspired by the sacrifices of your grandfather and his generation, or are you growing away from what they built? in spite of i belong to another generation, of course, i feel inspired by this legacy. he was struggling by what he want

i was born in cuba.st prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro. i was a teenager. the kid that slept on the bunk bed on top of me recorded our conversation and i was expelled from school. my mom said the only choice is for us to leave cuba. i'm a businessman. i've lived in miami for 35 years. it's my home base. i come back and forth to cuba. i've been coming to cuba for over 20 years. i mean, cuba is a communist country in economic transition. fidel castro allowed cubans to establish more businesses. there are people that are making money. there are people that have created a tremendous amount of wealth. >> anthony: people with family connections to the states, people tied to the exploding tourist industry, small business owners, taxi drivers, people operating in ever-changing gray areas of what is permissible. how's it work right now? if you're cuban, you can sell your property to -- >> hugo: another cuban from cuba. and that's what's happening right now. a lot of cuban-american

so everything's made in cuba? >> yes. >> instead of working for the state, thousands of cubans are now working for themselves. very beautiful. [ up-tempo latin music plays ] i found them everywhere, even here -- a sleepy street in a residential neighborhood in this tiny rented garage. welcome to burner brothers bakery, run by a brother and a sister, tony and sandra camacho rodriguez. good morning. >> good morning. >> i'm marcus. so, the name is burner brothers. >> yes. >> why not burner sisters? >> because i'm a guy. >> but she's the boss. >> no, she's not. >> yes, i am. >> ware the bosses. >> okay. all right. >> come in. >> thank you. this is unbelievable. it's small. >> yes. >> they started selling cookies out of their house in 2013. now they've really taken off, with a retail space, several employees, and a catering service. >> [ speaking spanish ] >> can i try something? >> of course. >> i want to buy a box, a big box. can i have a guava and café? what did you do before this? >> i'm a dentist. >> you're a dent

announced a policy of engagement with its former cold war enemy cuba. this seems to harold and era of new ties with tourism one of the most visible changes. president trump has rolled back obama's cuba policy, and the administration has reduced staffing in havana. will grant reports. will: jose marti, poet, rebel, and cuba's most beloved son, and today, a peace offering. the bronx museum of the arts in new york is to be presented -- recently presented the statue of the independence hero to havana as a symbol of friendship between the countries. of course, it is a famous son of new york, donald trump, who is accused of trying to undo that friendship. president obama: the united states is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. will: 3 years after president obama began engagement with the communist-run island, president trump has rolled back on that. the man credited with obama's cuba policy, former advisor ben rhodes, sees domestic politics at play in the collapse of the relationship with cuba. >> what i think is that there was a narrow consti

my trip to cuba. what it comes down to is this why don't we give they choose to set up their society whether it's socialism or capitalism or whether they worship woodland creatures and wiffle ball and give every raccoon its own gold card that it drives around in from garbage bags of garbage back when i can serve you go for her ours or yours what they have is to push socialism or hurt your life that's like saying simply knowing that someone out there has a genital piercing is hurting your marital status you know i just can't i can't get it off in van because i know that's going on and nothing to do with you and i don't tell me it's because you're concerned for the cuban people every american is that we're all wearing clothes made by children and torture again for a vacation in gundry's where gay people are executed we used a lot tronics that are that have meddled in the mind by teenagers lowered into the center of the earth on a rope made out of twenty bark just just so your smartphone can have a batte

my parents came from cuba, they were fleeing the castro regime. my father at the time was in prison under fidel castro. he was a political prisoner. he basically fought to help free cuba, when obviously the dictatorship came in in the late 1950's. he served time in jail, and it was a trying moment for my family. they came to the united states, and it was one of those things where they started with nothing. my father, being the entrepreneur and hard worker he is, teaching his kids their values, he started working as a carpenter and electrician. he made ends meet for his family. it was those lessons around the table with my father in particular, who would constantly remind me of the importance of freedom and democracy in america, and how we have a responsibility to preserve these values. taughts something i have to my kids about as well. steve: your parents are still alive? mercedes: they are. in my family, he was one of the earliest supporters of president trump. he would tell us, you know, he just speak his mind, and i respect my command have to s

not do business with cuba but we punish any country that does do business like if you are a good seed talking to cuba punish you if you if we see attacks to them on your phone you're you're screwed any anyway i i went down there. a couple of weeks ago to get to the bottom of this so that i could write the trip off as a business expense. take a look. welcome to the evil empire cuba which looks strikingly like good laid back caribbean country where all the people are pretty damn nice i don't know i guess the evil stuff is hidden deep underneath deep down below friendly people showing you where they like to drink one of the things americans love about cuba are the old cars the nineteen fifties cars it makes us feel like we're back to the future one although i've yet to see a soul or even. around here to get a job now the reason they're still on the road is because juba has had to make do with what they have because of the aboard go the blockade of goods cuba has been stuck with a lot of the material they had before their revolution however this proves that these cars were built to last n

fought to help free cuba, when obviously the dictatorship came in in the late 1950's. jail, and ite in was a trying moment for my family. states,e to the united and it was one of those things where they started with nothing. father, being the entrepreneur and hard worker he he started working as a carpenter and electrician. he made ends meet for his family. it was those lessons with my father, who would constantly remind me of the importance of reagan and democracy in america, and how we have a responsibility to preserve these values. this is something i talked to my kids about as well. steve: your parents are still alive?e mercedes: they are. they are proud americans. if you asked my father today, would you go back to cuba? he would say no, i am a proud american. he loves this country. he loves the opportunities that this country has given him, being able to come in and grow his business. to raise his family. in my family, he was one of the earliest supporters of president trump. tell us, you know, he just speak his mind, and i respect my command have to say in the di

. - [narrator] inspired and at times supported by cuba, a half dozen nations saw political revolutions in the 1960's alone. ism versus anti-communism and we saw a wave of military dictatorships come in in defense of democracy, but undermining and in fact, moving democracy in this fight against communism. the united states supported many of these dictatorships. it really was the precedent of anti-communism that took over us foreign policy towards the region. - in 1959 with the advent fidel castro, the rules of the game changed because a soviet union did become a supporter and an active participant in our hemisphere. - you can find a lot of very wealthy people who appreciated the role that the united states played during that period. there are a lot of others on the left, younger people and also poorer people that resented that the united states was very much paternalistic and a bully in some cases and really treated these as almost colonies of the united states. (dramatic music) - [narrator] in argentina the political violence of the 1970's would leave a lasting scar. - by the mid 1970'

anddoes not have a cuba now probably couldn't anyway in the case of cuba, so he is building s that caneach the u.s., even though he can already entirely and in japan. moreover, we had no idea at that time, though it was the most surveilled island in the history of the world -- satellites were flying over it, even low-level reconnaissance planes -- that managed not to discover he is put tactical nuclear weapons, weapons in cuba. he had done what we thought was in the kabul for a russian dictator who wanted central control of everything. he had delegated the use of those weapons against our invasion fleet to the local commanders. it is almost necessary onhnically you can't wait moscow if an invasion fleet is coming at you. but we do not think you would ever do that. his theory, khrushchev -- he was a smart man, actually. his theory was, they can't reach miami. these are only tactical, short range missiles. they can only blow the invasion fleet out of the water. kill 100,000 americans and let it stop there. it won't escalate further. when mcnamara learned that 30 years later he said, that

welcome to the evil empire cuba which looks strikingly like good laid back caribbean country where.

two weeks later he reached cuba. gradually this. of havana developed situated in a sheltered bay the jewel of the caribbean. was . was. in stark contrast to the modern metropolis the old town on the v.a. ha this never ceasing to and fro of old and new inside and outside noise and quiet gives her vanna a rhythm all its own. virtually nothing has remained in its pure and original state everything is a mixture and this is been going on for five hundred years ever since native americans began to intermix with europeans and later with africans to. god it was. god when sacred places seemed to exert a strong power at any rate visitors to the city love to come to the square where the say buck or silk cotton tree stands according to legend the city was originally founded under this magic tree but more important than the legend itself is the way the tree story has gone through so many versions in its history the native americans worshiped it the spaniards well the legend of the virgin mary around it and the africans naturally believe their. l

cuba on o his way to the airport. he was coming to speak at an event hosted by freedom house and justice cuba right here in d.c. to educate the public on the brutal realities of what continues to occur every day in cuba. instead castro sent his thugs to detain him and prevent him from boarding the plane. the regime promised him that he could travel if he only, quote, tempered his activism, end quote. well, mr. speaker, anyone who knows him who spent many a year in castro's jails knows that he will not abandon his principles, nor should he ever be forced to do so. [speaking says, spanish] end quote, which means i won't stay silent. the castro regime wants to paint a picture that people on the island are free. that human rights abuses do not exist in cuba, but we know better. that is why it continues to be the day, every day, arbitrary arrests, beatings, stopping dissidents and activists from t speaking out, that's the menu every day. reminding the world that they want -- what these activists want is freedom. that is re

but cuba uses other means. so, for example, there's american students who are very -- still very romantic about the castro regime, and they sympathize with the ideologyically and particularly from puerto rico, because puerto rico, the independence movement there looks up to cuba as an example of an island that has stayed independent and has stood up to the united states. so, i tell the story in there of two young women, both of puerto rican background, and one of them whose name was marta velasquez, recruited the other one, annabelle montez to work for cuban intelligence when they were grad student at the john hopkins university, the school for advanced international studies. the one who was recruited, montez, is much better known. she rows to be high up in the defense intelligence agency as a cuba analyst and had a big say in our cuba policy for many years before she was finally caught and pleaded guilty to espionage relate charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison and is in prison today. the other, marta ve

so here is castro visiting moscow just prior in '61 to the cuba missile crisis. and when america discovered that russia had placed inter continental missiles on cuba, he went before the united nations in september of '61 and said we had to meet the challenges of our age and put into effect policies that dealt with berlin, the wall, berlin, germany, laos, suit vietnam and so forth. but america was introduced to the atomic bomb because missiles so close to the u.s. this was a picture in los angeles of school kids being taught about the febts of teffe bomb and how they had to run into the hauls and protect themselves. and to me it kind of shows you this duck and recovery situation that we were all being educated to the effect of nuclear weapons, not in japan or in some other place in the world, but right here at home. in '62, kennedy made this speech concerning the soffit missiles in cuba to the nation. this is a picture taken by ralph crane of "life" magazine. and it wasn't long after that, six months later, that kennedy and the world is faced with the effects of t

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more americans would visit cuba. we'd empower the people of cuba with more money in their pocket. this would give them an opportunity to have more say in how their island country was governed. so you essentially had a situation where there was a ration rationale. president trump had not introduced a rationaleric. >> we're out of time, so i want to ask you, what are you going to be watching for in the days and weeks and months ahead for the real world impact of this? there's concern about violence, protests, but beyond what, what are you watching? >> well, it is going to be regional reaction. what are traditional friends and allies going to say and do. this puts enormous pressure on egypt and jordan. the two arab countries who have signed peace treaties with israel. they are now in a very tough position. president trump has managed to do the extraordinary. he has united turkey, iran, saudi arabia, and jordan on a particular issue and it is the condemnation of this step. so you know, the apple cart is turned over for the first time in 70 years and for him to say that well what was w

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eventually cuba's culture ministry agreed to provide the company a large building. it's allowed to expand her other key project a dance school for nearly fifteen hundred children and adolescents the next generation of police cell phones and dancers the waiting list is long these eight year olds practice outside before going into their class knowing they're among the lucky ones. since i was small i wanted to be a dancer i would say mom mom i want to dance let's hope so dance cuba school has two years ago. the school receives the international spotlight award from former u.s. first lady michelle obama. but as always there are challenges the least of which are the handmade costumes in a way these costumes tell the twenty six year old history of this company and that includes political obstacles for example the trumpet ministrations recent decision to stop issuing visas from its embassy here in havana has forced the company to cancel planned tours to the united states. alphonso and her husband one catalyst the company's manager take it in stride as they go through their

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policy towards cuba. the previous administration had basically changed our policies towards cuba, opened it up to much fanfare and, quite frankly, a lot of editorial board excitement. it was the enlightened position, apparently, to argue that doing more trade with cuba was going to somehow transition, help cuba transition to a democracy. but after two and a half years it's become apparent that that change has doing nothing than flow more dollars into the hands of that regime and help them in their efforts to normalize. when president trump was elected, one of the things he wanted to talk about was what we needed to do to change that relationship back to something that favored the cuban people and not the cuban regime. and those changes came about and they were announced earlier this year in an event in south florida. and to cut to the chase, what it does is this, it says that people can still travel to cuba. americans can still go to cuba as part of a group or as part of an individual going on behalf to s

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cuba's president will stay in power until april that's two months longer than expected raul castro was due to step down in february after elections for a new national assembly but that vote has been pushed back by two months because of the destruction caused by hurricane september in a speech on thursday castro again denied accusations that cuba is behind so-called health attacks against u.s. diplomats working in havana you lost your. in two thousand and seventeen we have been witnesses to is serious and irrational deterioration of relations between the united states and cuba our country is absolutely not responsible for this setback i say again categorically that cuba did not and does not have any responsibility whatsoever with the incidents they have alleged to have affected the health of diplomats accredited persons or other foreign visitors. as trainees first naval submarine has been found more than one hundred years after it went missing the eighty one and its thirty five member crew vanished off the coast of papa new guinea in one nine hundred fourteen when the first world war it

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cuba's president will stay in power until april that's two months longer than expected castro was to step down in february after elections for a new national assembly but that votes been pushed back by two months because of the destruction called for in september and a speech on thursday castro again denied accusations that cuba is behind so-called health attacks against u.s. diplomats working in have. you lost your. in two thousand and seventeen we have been witnesses to a serious and irrational deterioration of relations between the united states and cuba our country is absolutely not responsible for this setback i say again categorically that cuba did not and does not have any responsibility whatsoever with the incidents they have alleged to have affected the health of diplomats accredited persons or other foreign visitors. here without is there are these are the top stories united nations general assembly has overwhelmingly back to resolution rejecting the u.s. recognition of to receive them as a capital of israel one hundred twenty eight states voted for the non-binding resoluti

in 1964, i went to cuba for about a week or ten days andi to cuba for about a week or ten days and ith fidel castro and 5haker there are. “— with fidel castro and 5haker there are. —— check there are. it was fascinating. fidel castro like to be photographed, like any celebrity. i can sort of compared them to cowboys. they were affable, pleasant, interesting and very photogenic, a5 pleasant, interesting and very photogenic, as you will see. especially che. he was the marilyn munro of the period. he seemed to be ina good munro of the period. he seemed to be in a good mood, as i remember. he even gave me a box of cigars, which idid not even gave me a box of cigars, which i did not bring into the united states because it was prohibited. i regret the box office —— box of cigars. he was a charming man, apart from what he did or didn't do. many people have doubtful backgrounds and doubtful histories. face—to—face they can be quite charming and accessible. and interesting. i didn't speak so much. i listened more. photographers shouldn't get in the way of things. i hope that i was an observer

which was the invasion of cuba. which was supported by the united states and the cia which led to what we call the cuban missile crisis. in which castro allowed missiles that could hit almost any target in the united states. nuclear missiles to be housed and made operational in cuba. of course this is a picture of castro and -- i never met him. so here is castro visiting moscow. just prior in 61 to the cuban missile crisis. and when america discovered that russia placed intercontinental missiles on cuba. john f. kennedy went in front of the united nations and said we had to meet the challenges of our age. and put in to effect policies that dealt with the berlin the wall. germany, louse. south vietnam and so forth. america was introduced for the first time very seriously to the atomic bomb. because there were missiles so close to the u.s. this is a picture i made in los angeles of school kids being taught about the affects of the bomb. and how they had to run into the hall and protect thepss. to me it kind of shows y

while tourists like cuba's u.s. style classic cars cubans themselves have long relied on russian technology including machinery and trucks the island's links to russia are strong. our policy is to diversify our relationships not to depend on just one market nor one product but to work in the broadest way possible and of course the political relationship with russia is excellent as is the economic relationship and this reflects that. the new law is of course a symbol of the political tug of war over cuba after the u.s. had opened relations with the communist country during the obama administration president on the trump is retreating from cuba opening a vacancy that russia is more than happy to fill. russia as one of the few countries that gives cuba credit because you know perfectly well that you because of the embargo especially the financial blockade despite good regimes it can't access international financial markets mcevers infamous you know it's been us here for now is only shipping three hundred new cars to cu

in fifth place cuba u.s. ngo freedom house studied restrictions on internet access content and data protection in sixty five countries despite modest steps to increase internet access cuba it says remains one of the world's least connected and most repressive environments for. scoring seventy nine out of one hundred possible negative points . in fourth place iran and iran has its own cyber police internet access beads and band with have slowly improved still the country scored eighty five negative points. at number two no you haven't missed anything in this ranking two countries are tied for second place syria and ethiopia both with eighty six negative points. torn syria it's dangerous to air independent views. bloggers and bloggers risk their lives and ethiopia has the world's worst internet access. and at number one china was the worst abuser of internet freedom despite a smartphone and. mobile internet boom the country has the most digital restrictions marching eighty seven out of one hundred possible poin

and why cuba's leader raul castro has delayed plans to step down we'll tell you want straight up to the bright. alec temperature wise in shanghai and hong kong and chong do is just a little above average at the moment chengdu the most obvious about should be about eleven but if anything the humidity will make it feel back down to normal the next day or so as the northerly breeze tucks in shanghai down to twelve from g.'s to fifteen it is snow we have in the mountains in the west of sichuan butler in chengdu itself have been watching the air quality in the northern indian play particularly in delhi you'd think from this cloud he might be hint of some movement but i'm afraid not is to all the hazardous or very unhealthy officially say and nothing's going to really change that i'm afraid in the next day week month or so this is the quiet northeast monsoon but mostly itself he's not very weak he's just quiet winter weather at the moment temperatures as you see them as where they should be and he showers a lot to be inserted into possibly still in town again they weren't amount to much we ha