is spanish from cuba jose my mom always told me that dad and i were like two peas in a pod our smiles we both have big eyes and i roll my eyes my talk and i squint just like my dad did. that to vote at the top of the i wrote to him and asked him to come to us saying that it was difficult for mom to cope with everything mommy my mom loved him there was never any talk in my family like oh that jerky abandoned his family you know. she was proud that she had had a man like that in her life and that she had been happy. to. have those people often ask me what i see in my future it's hard for me to answer this question i can't answer it i live outside of time i think of a family some sort of new year's celebration a child and maybe ten years but i'll still be younger and i want to sort of family but i can't become a mother now since i perform and i just it's just not the time. now i'm going to be part of a family. depending on well our character. the colonel for example has. you. seriously. today no no i simply want. courage. and challenge and joy we bring people joy i give the audience a pa

jose contreras was once a star pitcher in cuba. he was dubbed the bronzed titan.hen he defected in 2002, he like all sports stars who defected, were banned from cuba. that is, until now. i'm happy to be back. here with my people and my fans, he said. it is a dream come true. an impossible dream. then in january, cuban officials lifted the restrictions for most cubans to travel abroad and gave many living in exile the ability to return. with a change in immigration laws, more cuban sports stars who defected are expected to begin returning. no doubt that the cuban government that they'll bring back with them those multimillion-dollar salaries. more than the salaries on cuban's national team combined. he said that those big paydays didn't ease the longing to see his family back home. at first, we were missing the past, it was tough. ten years, not seeing my brother. he said, but everyone is good now. and just enjoying the moment. a decade outside of the island convinced him that he would be forgotten by his countrymen. but he can't go anywhere here without people ask

cuba has now lifted many travel restrictions and jose cantreras finally got to go back home.eunion in havana. >> reporter: this baseball diamond isn't much to look at. for one cuban legend, it is truly a field of dreams. jose contreras was once a star pitcher in cuba. he was dubbed by castro as the bronze titan. when he defected, he, like all sports stars, who abandoned cuba, was banned from returning. that is, until now. i'm really happy to be back, here with my people, my fans, he said. it is a dream come true. an impossible dream. in january, cuban officials lifted the restrictions for most cubans to travel abroad and gave many living in exile the right to return. contreras is the first major sports defector under the changed law to come back to visit cuba. with a change in immigration laws, more and more cuban sports stars defected are able to return and no doubt they hope that they'll bring back those dollars. contreras earned tens of millions of dollars, more than all the salaries on cuba's national team combined. he said those big paydays didn't ease the longing he fel

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a recent conference in baltimore, urging the audience to take a page from jose marti, the revolutionary poet and hero of cuba's independence from spain -- >> you need to cultivate the marti mind. the marti mind is simply that, as much love as i have for my own group, i have for every other group. to take possessive investment in each others' struggles. where whatever's happening to the gay community, is happening to us. whatever's happening in the asian community, that's us. instead of possessive commodified investment in our identities, we need to take possessive investment in our other communities' struggles. >> the life and work of junot diaz contain many worlds, and that makes him all the more worth listening to. his imagination travels between the old and the new, between the america that was and the america we're becoming. straddling different cultures, yet american to the core -- he seems to be looking in every direction at once -- a spotter of the future, a curator of the past, a man very much of the here and now. in his first book, "drown" and in "the brief wondrous life of oscar wao" -- the novel tha

cuba for the past month for cancer surgery. the opposition has been arguing if he is too sick, he should step aside. joseiaz, it's a pleasure to have you on. this is interesting for so many reasons. there have been calls for massive rallies tomorrow. as i just stated, the opposition is saying if chavez is too sick, it's time to go. what can you tell us? >> it's almost surrealistic. a country of 25 million people and history and extraordinary culture. one of two opec nations. they give 100,000 barrels of day of petroleum. in a foreign nation for over a month, his health is a state security issue. the constitution and i had to call up the article of the constitution with president chavez reaffirmed and asked for said that on the 10th of january, the president must be sworn in in front of the congress or if he can't number front of the congress, in front of the supreme court of that nation. according to his people in cuba, his people say he is going to be unavailable for swearing in tomorrow. i think he will stay in the cuban hospital. the supreme court of that country said you know what, let's extend his m

proposed by a yankees fan, jose serrano, a congressman here in new york, that says it's going to make the limitations less to bring in mlb players from cubat now, if you're a good baseball player in cuba, you have to defect and move to another country before the mlb will consider you. and the department of treasury, back to the department of treasury has to approve of you coming to the mlb, even if you're a cuban. >> and finally, there's this bill being proposed that would stop the treasury from actually making a trillion-dollar platinum coin to pay its bills. and it would be something that, even economist paul krugman and other people have signed. there's a petition with more than 6,000 signatures. i want to play for you some reaction to this idea. >> this whole coin business doesn't deal with the debt and deficit issue and it does not make it go away. >> basically, you would need a solid platinum 747 aircraft to have $1 trillion worth of platinum. >> so what are the chances this is going to pass? >> i don't know. i'm not sure which president is going to get his face on the trillion-dollar aircraft plane. >> last night, it was suggested

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