and cuba at that point back? >> guest: yes, the was there still transportation. >> host: what kind of work did your parents do? >> guest: my father had his own business, he was an import/export, a custom broker and he also taught import/export law at the university. >> host: how old were you when you came over traffic 11. >> what to remember about political discussions atto? >> guest: a lot. my family was involved against batista and then against fidel so i heard a lot of the stuff going on. we actually had guns hidden in my house for a short time. i lived right next door to the secretary of labor under batista. i remember, i did put in the book i used to play with his son and the use to guard, we used to hide behind the guards and play cowboys and indians and stuff like that. it was very much in my presence, in my life. >> host: in the book you have dialogue between family members kind of stating their positions as well. >> guest: exactly. a lot of that was going on at the time. being that as a kid i was not par

the cuba 5. this was in excess of government attention on potential. >> just briefly, if you haven't read the book. in the 1980 numplaps-1990s the cuban right-wing and the american government were interested in having a provocation. and create war, with right-wing cubans, sometimes 40, various rogue operations in the united states who were killing not only sympathizers of the left in florida but also trying to blow up folks and at one period of time and aircraft was shutdown. and various terrorist groups that were trying to create provocations and then what the book deals with is the involvement of the american government with those people and in 1990, a conversation - >> there is one part in your book where you describe an incident is being worthy of a opera. this book is sort of like an opera. there is the prologue which is america's long and tortured relationship with cuba dating back to the nineteenth century. in act i, in 1996 the cuban government shooting down a plane and take it from there

cuba. what was your process in cuba? and did you have government officials who shepherds you around or not? were you free to do the kind of research that you wanted? >> what was my process and was i followed. you know, cuba had changed a lot. by obama years there was a sort of window of opportunity. not only was this the first commuting book about cuba, i was able to zip back and forth to cuba and stay a week, come back, i could go into the archives, make my request, make them think about it for a month which is what they often like to do. there's one place cilia set up, the office of historical affairs and got everything to do with the revolution and put into one repository the and it's still there, you can go in and make requests, you have to get an academic visa. it became very difficult unfortunately in the trump era because america end the cuban secretary of all this stuff so it's hard to get a visa of any kind. but i did manage to get an academic visa and go in there and explain what i was doing and they we are act

and arrested by the cubans and convicted of espionage in cuba and was being held in prison in cuba was also a horrific circumstances. >> and then was there on behalf of the jewish community and was given technology. in reality, he was giving technology to cuban dissidents so they communicate. so he allowed them to communicate within cuba and other places. so basically he was in communications with the jewish community and as a result those demonstrations on behalf of the community to put pressure on obama. so originally gross said it is convicted and this is what he was sent down to do. that you did not sufficiently warned me of all of the dangers of what happened to me when i went down there, ultimaty he gets a substantial settlement from the american government. at some point in time gross becomes a very powerful force of the jewish community to focus on the anti- cuban community and then he demonstrated how he had to go to the hospital and then obama insisted on his return claims that he was innocent and the cuban government refused to release him with respect to negotiations even t

in cuba they know everything prayed they know who my uncle is. my uncle was killed in a firing squad. i had another uncle that was sentenced to 30 years of hard labor. they know who i am. after i wrote that book with the subtitle about how the castro's allied, cheated, and murdered their way into power, i don't think i'm welcoming cuba. but they don't send me there anymore by the way. >> guest: the president stopped it when they found out the cuban government was supporting -- keeping him in power. as punishment for doing that they took some of the benefits of people going to cuba. >> host: has is nearly 60 years of sanctions worked in your view? >> guest: no. see what we allow free trade with cuba? >> guest: that is a 64000-dollar question. definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result. the embargo. [inaudible] the fear people against castro's any type of financial benefit to that government goes to the government and not to the people. in the industry that makes money including tourism is run by the

soh africa is the latest received cuba's healt -- help.octors are being welcomed by themb government and s of the cuban community. 0 medical staff are helping. cuba has sent doctors abroad, filling a desperate need. thousand health care worke have been sent abroad since 1963, seen as icons of cuba's socialist solidarity. many are paying for services. rt -- cuba earned twe as much as turned o tourism with these medical services. it offers a bigger price, diplomatic prestige. we found these pictures from [applause] four weeks ago cuban docrs receiving a heroes welcome in lombardi. these were postedy a pro-cuban revotion many held them as heroes but critics believe the real interest are economic and diplomatic. the u.s. is ac cri. in a statement to the washington post, the state department said cuba's appointment medical missions overseasle w the -- cloaked inltruism are not inherently unitarian. the regime earns income by retaining 90% of the doctors' salaries. havana denies we can get more analysis on this. this is our central american corr

cuba is somewhat of a medical powerhouse.ors, or nine physicians for every 1000 citizens. its free health care system is considered a pillar of the revolution's success. reuters describes it as "renowned for its focus on prevention, community—oriented primary health care and preparedness to fight epidemics." cuba was quick to take action with the pandemic. officials banned tourist arrivals, isolated at—risk groups and shut schools early on, when the country still only had 21 confirmed cases. but other factors make cuba vulnerable. the country has the oldest population in the americas. more than 20% are over 60. and the pandemic is putting cuba's fragile economy under even more strain. the economist reports containment measuers are hurting food supplies, and many supermarket shelves are empty. these pictures give you a better sense of life in the capital. the pictures on the left were taken in havana last year — a bustling, vibrant city. the footage on the right was captured a week ago. havana now resembles a ghost town. let's

south africa is the latest country to receive cuba's help.ria on sunday. the cuban doctors are being welcomed by the government and members of the cuban community. around 200 medical staff are helping south africa's health system. for decades, cuba has sent its doctors abroad — winning friends in remote countries but also filling a desperate need. state media tells us more than 400,000 health care workers have been sent abroad since 1963, often seen as icons of cuba's socialist solidarity. while some are sent on humanitarian grounds, many are paying for their service. the economist says medical exports make up 46% to put that into context more cuba earned $6.3 billion from medical services in 2018 — that's twice as much as it earned on tourism. while it is a major source of income, it offers an even bigger prize — diplomatic prestige. we found these pictures from italy last month. clapping. cuban doctors receive a heroes welcome in lombardy. these pictres were posted by a pro—cuban revolution group in italy. while many hail them heroes, criti

congress passed a law promising that as soon as the spanish were overthrown in cuba, we would allow cuba to become fully independent. the cubans welcomed american troops. teddy roosevelt had his famous day on san juan hill, which he decided qualified him for the medal of honor, and the americans easily defeated the spanish in cuba. at the same time, the spanish fleet happen to be parked in the philippines, then an american fleet was to destroy the spanish fleet, then we found ourselves in possession of the philippines, didn't know what to do with it, but suddenly president mckinley, after getting down on his knees and having a religious vision in the white house at night, said he had been told by god that it was his duty to take over the philippines and christianize the people there. apparently he wasn't clear that they were catholic party after several centuries of spanish rule, but god at that time sounded like henry cabot lodge and theodore roosevelt. that became the crux of our debate. when we signed a treaty and forced the spanish to surrender these islands, the philippines, guam, c

battleship to cuba.a battleship, send a tangible sign that we are paying attention and we are not happy. they are different messages. the uss maine has been afloat since 1895. it is pretty cutting edge. it is pretty impressive looking. maine to rders the have anna in january. of thet photograph maine afloat shows are coming into havana harbor. it is a great picture. it seems to work for a while. havana quiets down. on the night of february 15, the captain of the maine is in his cabin writing letters. the only sound you would hear if you are walking the deck would be the thump of the water. suddenly there is this thunderous explosion. goes down. 250 sailors and marines killed. the secretary of the navy is awakened at 2:00 a.m. with the exploded the maine has morning the new york city newspapers have headlines blaming spain for it. that is where we will start on tuesday. this is thursday? good to know what day it is. remember the maine. >> you can watch lectures in history every weekend on american history

i will end with cuba in the illustration in the 1950s in the cars in cuba. and then people think it is because they're still stuck with american cars. we have a margo but not a blockade. there is no one stopping key is to going to cuba except cuban government. as a result they have to keep using bubblegum to make the 1950s american cars take. as a result in a country that is very poor statistics will be and socialist companies but something on the order of $3000 per capita income, young 1950s car selling for 15 - $16000 when they're traded. in the picture, that is more like a $30000 car because this better suspension and brakes and might have ac, it does not exist in the united states you should not even go to your high school kid anymore. but if you step down supply hard enough, price is very high. i will stop with that and let bob continue the tour. >> i will talk a little bit about north korea and our wives were very generous in letting us travel all over these crazy places but they said you could not die or get arrested. so we didn't go into north korea.

[laughter] >> so, when we were in cuba, one of the things you find about cuba is the liveliness of the locals, the music is wonderful. every restaurant and bar you go to and especially you get out of the tourist area and go to central havana, wonderful music and people singing and dancing, but the plumbing is falling apart and the buildings are crumbling, but this is actually a hallmark of socialism, they've leveled wages so much. basically you make the same if you're a plumber as if you're a musician. do the math, folks, who wants to be a plumber, a terrible, dirty jobs so everyone decides to be a musician. so you get oversupply and we ran into-- almost everybody you meet who is from soviet times in georgia or ukraine, everybody, what did you study in college? >> physics. because people with any integrity would try to avoid political science or economics, they said-- math doesn't have many ideological overtones so they massively overproduced fizzists and chess players and gymnasts and massively underproducing plumbers, people that can fix brick that's falling down and things like that

you hear what he's doing no no i mean we see the photos and we know he's gone to college there in cuba and they don't really say much about what ellie on is doing we can only presume that he is happy and healthy he looks like it in the photos and he shows up to these press events with the castro family and he smiles and waves at the crowd oh we could only hope that mention janet janet made the right decision your friend janet reno i think she did she passed away a little while ago where she made the right decision i think in retrospect all right only time will tell what this young man does with his life larry king thank you so much for sharing this personal insight on this story. look at this this dark cloud you're looking at it is an actual tornado captured on cell phone video that happened as severe weather pounded central florida early monday other suspected tornadoes killed 2 people as the storms blasted a wide area across the deep south shattering homes and leaving thousands without power. and this year we celebrate earth day unlike any other year because of this pandemic and the

he puts medium-range missiles in cuba. a couple dozen medium-range missiles in cuba would be like having some intercontinental missiles in russia but then we discovered because are you 2 aircraft were better than khrushchev's people thought they were and third, there is a real pivot. think about the cuban missile crisis, there still a lot of myths, this was in 1962. still a lot of nonsense being written about the cuban missile crisis which strikes me as very odd because kennedy secretly taped all 13 days of the meetings he had with all of his advisers, you can go listen to these tapes, you can order them from the kennedy library, you can read the transcript of these tapes. the myth is we went eyeball to eyeball with the russians and they blinked. there is another method on the friday night, the night before the crisis ended khrushchev came up with a deal, we will take our missiles out of cuba if you promise never to invade cuba because kennedy had been plotting to assassinate castro as we know now, but on saturday he comes

me it was and when it came to one of the most one of the you know my cuba. on al-jazeera. april on al jazeera. countries are imposing drastic measures to contain the corona virus pandemic we'll bring you all the latest developments from around the world pulse and on tell stories from across asia pacific one i want east brings new insights from the well to my copulated region has the democratic presidential race narrows how will the corona virus outbreak impact the u.s. election campaign and get the investigated where running kept a group of independent journalists and a key role in the global fight against fate means the u.s. will count its population and a once in a decade census with coronavirus concerns will it get the full picture april on al jazeera it's a tough time for the afghan security forces taliban attacks have increased their suffering heavy casualties and the prospect of a withdrawal of u.s. forces hangs over them yet young men are still joining up some for patchy arctic reasons for others is the only way to get a job despite the risks midway's

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after reaching cuba passengers were then transferred back to the u.k. by plane and they remained grateful for the warm welcome as those on board started to fear the worst. i was surprised that not even any british commonwealth. countries or protectorates in an area were willing to let us dock in the end cuba agreed that we could dock their disembark and flights would be arranged to take us home so the silent relief then once we realized that cuba was letting us disembark i can't say enough about how welcome they made us feel ok i mean they they took their own protection there and me when we docked there was that dock workers were all wearing personal protection equipment but it was a very efficient operation to get us all disembarked from the ship there was lots of buses there to take us to the airport. we were processed through or quite efficiently and the cubans leave him left a small little gifts on the bus and some souvenirs and so on. i can't speak more highly about the way that we were treated by the cuban authorities i thought i thought that they

these doctors are coerced into going overseas, working on behalf of cuba. in fact the money that is funneled back into cuba from this trafficking except half of their total budget. this is no small operation. the sad part about it is that the arm of the w.h.o., the pan-american health organization has been overseeing, managing, funneling this money back to cuba. on the backs of these cuban doctors that are pushed out into these other countries. >> shannon: part of that "miami herald" article, they quoted the prime minister saying we find it astonishing that this program which has helped deliver good health care services to our people is communally characterized by others as human trafficking. how do we know what of these doctors are experiencing? is there any way for us to know accurately? whether they're willingly there or not? >> i can tell you about 1500 of these medical professionals now live in south florida where i am the attorney general. as the attorney general i lead up our efforts against human trafficking which is a modern-day slavery. these cuba

what if an intimate look at life in cuba. is working mom or will they like us hanging a cable but that the comment that with a year of my cuba. on al-jazeera. america is a regional wonder of joy tragedy and guess i'll fly list but it doesn't matter where you are you have to be able to relate to the human condition. of the cities are treated that way and not simply i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why. the a. coronavirus cases reach 1000000 worldwide and the us president reassures desperate states that medical supplies are on the way. i'm fully back to go this is al jazeera live from doha with continuing coverage of the corona virus pandemic fears in china of a new wave of infections people in the city of want to avoid going out. plus we look at the unintended consequences of australia's ban on.

intelligence activities against cuba. she had a lot of access not only from the defense intelligence agency, but from the intelligence community at large including places like the cia and the fbi. she had some access to all of that, and she was giving it to the cubans as quickly as she could get it. anna montez also had somes access to policy information, u.s. government policy related to cuba, and she passed that as well. just incredibly damaging to our country's interests. she was an ideological spy. she believed that the united states' treatment of cuba was harmful, was unfair, unjustified. she wanted to be a champion of the cuban people. she wanted to do what she could to correct the impression of our own country as he saw it. as she saw it. she essentially volunteered her services in cuba. i want to help the cuban people, she said, and that was her motivation. she took no money. she was, in fact, pretty outspoken in her pro-cuban views which makes me wonder how she could have stayed working in place as long as she di

cuba is part of spain. part of the spanish empire.t is part of the spanish empire -- it used to go from northern california all the way to sierra dell fuego. that is a lot of land. over the centuries that has shrunk and shrunk until now it is cuba and puerto rico. and spain does not want to let them go. the cuban revolution would flare up and the spanish army would come to cuba and crush it. a couple years later it would flare up again and the spanish would crush it. they started to put into effect these relocation camps. they would gather people from the countryside and put them in camps to isolate them from the rebels. then the newspapers in america started covering this really diligently. they found out there was a readership in new york especially that was fascinated. you wind up with a particular kind of journalism that came out of this, a journalism that is comfortably labeled yellow journalism.

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the meats prices doubled making it cheaper to rid the pigs yourself the practice was common during cuba's economic crisis 3 decades ago now figs are being kept in gardens kitchens and even bathrooms . in my part i would say there's already a pig around my place as a for me in the business team here in berlin you can find more from us at we don't converse lashed business we're also on facebook and twitter thanks to. my 1st. cameraman i was just one collection side. the materials are recycled and resold for a fair price but because of that to produce a good look is one of all objectives is to stay dissipation of more than technology that is to give people time to buy a new device focus she takes to get that $0.50 on the math wonderful africa. w f enter the conflict zone in these extraordinary times we decided to take the opportunity to focus on the impact that the coronavirus pandemic is having on human rights around the world there are reports of invasive surveillance authoritarian power grabs my guest is the head of human rights watch can it profit from any limitations on people willing t

when we signed a treaty and forced the spanish to surrender these islands, the philippines, guam, cuba, and puerto rico. we paid $20 million for the philippines. andrew connick he announced he wants to pay the u.s. treasury $20 million to buy the philippines so he can set them free. carnegie wrote this essay saying how can we hang the declaration of independence on the wall when we have made it illegal in the philippines to advocate filipino independence. so a huge war broke out in the philippines. only the anti-imperialists had expected this. mckinley and roosevelt and the others believed the filipinos would simply accept this, so for the first time in our history, the united states wound up in a war in which we had to shoot

invading cuba, bombing cuba, one thing after another so he comes up with an announcement to the country of quarantine. he calls it a quarantine rather than a blockade. the language is important. a blockade is considered an act of war, it was a blockade. it softened the impression for the world community so kennedy gives a speech and a lot of people, i was just a boy and then but you can see this illustration how riveted everybody was. in the department store and in the television section watching president kennedy on tv. it got tremendous coverage when he decided to blockade cuba. and it was very dangerous because we didn't know how the soviets were going to respond. a couple of things that kennedy demonstrated here in his own crisis management, not only perseverance, learning from experience. that notion of him changing with circumstances. when he felt that there were openings for a peaceful resolution of this and he took them rather thankeep pushing khrushchev into a corner so he's learning from experience . also, he had learned from the cuban missile crisis, before the cuban missile

but china is not the only country helping other nations cuba has sent brigades of doctors and nurses to italy as well as venezuela nicaragua jamaica suriname and granada well you can't throw i know he's dead but he probably put something in his will saying just to piss off the americans keep helping sick people after i'm dead you know. but this gruesome assault of helping does not stop with cuba russia has also sent medical supplies to hard hit countries like italy you know you know something is super evil if russia is doing it so clearly sending a medical supplies is the equivalent of napalming an orphanage of children who are one day away from being adopted by a loving family so let's call it what it is russia bombed italy with medical supplies utah starts and it continues france germany and britain have sent medical goods to iran through instead they work around to export girds goods to iran that bypasses u.s. sanctions they're helping iranians even after we put up roadblocks to stop them from helping iranians so i you get a great idea of what would you help or audience look at. s

but this gruesome assault of helping does not stop with cuba russia has also sent medical supplies to hard hit countries like italy you know you know something is super evil if russia is doing it so clearly sending a medical supplies is the equivalent of napalming an orphanage of children who are one day away from being adopted by a loving family so let's call it what it is russia bombed italy with medical supplies you bastards and it continues france germany and britain have sent medical goods to iran through instead they work around to export gird goods to iran that bypasses u.s. sanctions they're helping iranians even after we put up roadblocks to stop them from helping or iranians so i you get a great idea of what would you help a lot of ads look at. then have you ever seen something jovial of this especially the little one. haven't you heard the propaganda we've been reporting about that they they say they would sacrifice children did go do this there is something i don't remember ok it's hard to keep everything straight when you're making it all up again with which actually was

he goes to many many arguments about what to do, invading cuba so he comes up with an announcement a quarantine rather than a blockade against the languages and support, a blockade is considered an act of war. it was a blockade, softened the impression of it so kennedy gives the speech. i was just a boy and you see an illustration have riveted people was with this. in intelligence section watching president kennedy on tv, got tremendous coverage when he decided to blockade cuba and it was very dangerous because we didn't know how the soviets were going to respond. a couple things kennedy demonstrated, not only perseverance, learning from experience the notion of changing with circumstances, when he felt there were openings for a peaceful resolution and he took them rather than pushing khrushchev into the corner. also he had learned from the cuban missile crisis before the cuban missile crisis, learned from the bay of pigs that some of his military advisers including curtis lemay, a general who is very warlike in fundamental ways the military is pushing him toward a confrontation he d

interested on that out of it also as a missile to the end of his system an intimate look at life in cuba frankly laugh at me i mean yeah it outloud to me diag told me it was a little like the last one of the year my cuba. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. and. the restrictions needs to stay in place the world health organization warns against any letup as the coronavirus death toll passes 100000. the way down can be as dangerous as the way if not money used properly. rob matheson this is a doozy of a life from doha also coming up ignoring coronavirus measures brazil's president takes to the streets.

interested in that i did it also as a missile to the end of his system an intimate look at life in cuba frankly laugh at me funny to me dollars to make diag told me he was a loony guy like the last one of a year my cuba. on al-jazeera. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our own lives in taking these roads with cattle saving lives is a dangerous job it's a vaccine that talks on a good 24 hours there are patients waiting for these mothers who most of the day life's worth risking their lives a week ago one of the gang stops some vehicles on the road at that can do it with weapons. risking it all guinea on al-jazeera. please don't politicize this virus but please the politicians from the world health organization as it urges the u.s. and china to join forces to fight covert 90. i mean this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up british prime minister boris johnson remains in intensive care with coronavirus for the government says his condition is improving. i cannot in good conscience.

i was an international that i did it as an initial thought it was just an intimate look at life in cuba make clear what it means for media and our long time a triangle trade was a limit on what the us would have a year my cuba. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. in doha with a look at our main stories here on al-jazeera the number of coronavirus cases around the world has now topped 1500000 present donald trump is again criticizing the world health organization which is leading the fight against it more than 1800 deaths were recorded in the u.s. on wednesday nearly half of those were in new york state officials warn the outbreak there is yet to peak mike hanna reports. a long line of ambulances queued outside a new york hospital and officials say the pete.

know what a little like the ones you were my cuba. on. in the end the evening at the. top stories on al-jazeera the united states has the most corona virus infections in the world with more than 500000 cases and in the past 24 hours is recorded 2108 deaths its highest single day total the world health organization says government shouldn't rollback restrictions aimed at containing the corner virus pandemic 2 or lead it says the rate of infection has been slowing in some countries but out there is a seen and alarming said and a suburb of the philippines capital is about to start mass testing residents spoke of it 19 as a national and continues to be delayed a big focus will be on people from or of communities without access to good health care. now brazil has become the latest country to record more than a 1000 deaths from the coronavirus it's the hardest hit nation in latin america but despite this president. remains defiant and is ignoring the advice about social distancing during a national holiday on friday he visited a bakery wher

that appears to be the shining example of sending tens of thousands of doctors around the world cuba which is of course been persecuted by nato nations huber of course is doing really well in on environmental goals as well apparently. yes while you may is not a very interesting cases an addict as it has been doing pretty well on environment and has been doing exceedingly well on health there is decade long investment in the health sector in cuba and that has been not has been known and has been experienced by many countries around the world for a long time. but what they're demonstrating right now is not only that they haue the help expertise but that they're willing to to share it is it this is not something that we have to turn their foster because we are not quite seeing the international collaboration yet that we need for the development of a back scene for that vaccine to be made financially accessible to all countries for it to be universally applied and let's remember as long as one person has the virus we are all threatened by the virus so it hurts to be just a collaboration

cruise ship finally managed to dock off cuba liner called burma has been stuck at sea for more than a week 5 confirmed cases of covert on board it was carrying around $700.00 passengers at the time we spoke to one of them. life on the ship was pretty normal for the 1st week the passengers were not really worried at that stage because we didn't feel that there was any threat to us from coronavirus given the fact that the best tested positive were isolated we felt that there was some overreaction on this we it's not as if we had lots of positive tests because 19 on board we haven't had the ones that had tested positive were been isolated after realize that there was no ports in central america or ports willing to accept us in the west indies there was realisation that we could run out of medicines i've an idea that we might be running short of water i think most people that point felt the holiday to all intents and purposes at finished we were going to go to anywhere else on our itinerary and that cousin just felt we really wanted to get home and how we were going to get how were we goi

these doctors are coerced into going overseas, working on behalf of cuba. the money that is funneled back into cuba from this trafficking makes up half of their total budget. this is no small operation and the sad part about it is the arm of the who, the pan-american health organization has been overseen, managing, funneling this money back to cuba on the backs of these cuban doctors that are pushed out to these other countries. shannon: part of that miami herald article, they quoted the prime minister of antigua and barbuda gaston brown say we find it astonishing this program which is held to deliver good healthcare service to our people is characterized by others as human trafficking. how do we know what these doctors are experiencing? is there any way to accurately whether there willingly there or not, what they are being paid, what they are not being paid? >> 1500 of these medical professionals now live in south florida. as attorney general i made up our efforts against human trafficking which is a modern-day slavery in these cuban doctors say they were

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we have one of the most dramatic and dangerous moments and the cold war it you see how close cuba is they were installing cuban missiles that could have mitch watch much of the mainland and much of the area we had the reconnaissance he might've seen 13 days with three creations of these in movies some of them are very goes through many, many arguments within the administration on what to do, invading cuba, bombing queued a drink cuba one thing after another comes oath with an announcement of the country of a corn team. so instead than a blockade again language is important. blockade is an active or calling it a quarantine basically was a blockade, softened the impression of it for the war community. kennedy gives the speech and a lot of people, i was just a boy then but you can see this little illustration everybody was with this. there people in the department store in booktv section watching president kennedy on tv pretty got tremendous coverage when he decided to blockade cuba. it was very dangerous we did know how the soviets were going to response. one thing after another, coupl

he goes to many, many arguments within the administration on what to do, invading cuba, bombing cuba one thing came after another came with an announcement to the country of quarantine because of quarantine rather than a blockade. again the language is important calling of quarantine it was a blockade, softened the impression for the community. kennedy gives a speech and i was just a boy then but you can see just as little illustration how rooted everyone was with this it's people the department store in the television section watching president kennedy on tv. got tremendous coverage. it was tremendous coverage when he decided to blockade cuban is very dangerous because we did not have the civets were going to respond, one thing after another. a couple of things kennedy demonstrated here not only perseverance, learning from experience that notion of him changing with circumstances, when he felt they were openings for peaceful resolution and he took them rather than keep pushing them into a corner. his learning from experience. also, he learned he learned from the bay of pigs some of

and with mary on - - all these arguments with what to do invading cuba. making that announcement to the country a quarantine rather than a blockade. that is considered an act of war so there was a blockade so kennedy gives the speech i was just a boy them. and then watching kennedy on tv and then to blockade cuba and didn't know how the soviets would respond and then to learn from experience and doesn't change of the circumstances. and to take them rather than keep pushing khrushchev into a corner and he did learn from the cuban missile crisis from the bay of pigs that the military advisers and in those fundamental ways to push them through a comfort one - - confrontation so listen to the generals as much as he had earlier and most historians feel they have to do it so the confrontation ends and kennedy gets credit for steering us through the confrontation that could have ended up in a terrible nuclear war. later it was revealed we had traded the outmoded missiles in turkey for the removal of the soviet missiles but that was not disclosed at the time. so

is working mom or what i like i say ok perfect but the comment that made a year ago my cuba. on al-jazeera. but the bucket watching al-jazeera means a whole rom a reminder of our top stories more than 4000 people in the united states have now died from coronavirus donald trump is warning americans to prepare for the hard days that lie ahead white house health experts say the virus could kill up to 240000 people. also a leaked document published by spanish media says doctors are being advised not to admit coronavirus patients aged over 80 into intensive care more than 95000 people have been infected in spain making of the 2nd worst hit country in europe after italy. and almost $130.00 people have now got coronavirus after attending a muslim religious gathering in new delhi authorities in india have sealed off the areas where the meeting happened and are trying to trying down those who attended. let's return to the u.s. where at least $100.00 soldiers assailants partly on board a u.s. nuclear powered aircraft carrier have tested positive for the coronavirus where the captain of