however, cubans in the u.s. and on the island have come to attribute very different meaning to the children's exodus. they disagree about the motives that inspired it, about whether to remember it as a humanitarian or politically motivated event. and they disagree about the impact the familial separation and life in catholic charities administered camps, foster homes, and orphanages had on young cuban refugees. these competing collective memories have emerged over time as pedro pan children grew, matured, attended college, and began articulating their own identities. as they watched television news stories about child refugees coming to the u.s. from south vietnam in the 1970's, and as they watched new generations of unaccompanied central american, haitian, and even cuban children arriving in the u.s., as they married and had their own children, and as they confronted changing political circumstances on the island and in the u.s. that allow for dialogue and travel to the island beginning under the carter adminis

describing cuban exiles and children. these praised the humanitarian anti-communist motive which at that pan was time were seen ame thing and those who administered the program and cared for the children. these articles would gloss over origins of the children and how they ended up in the u.s. rarely featured the voices or perspectives of the themselves but rather ramed their experience as grateful well adjusted children patriotic growing attachment to their new nation. these articles in the 19 sixties use the term pedro pan. positive memories of the exodus remained alive in and minds of a small number of former child refugees a group of radicalized american youth ollaborated in havana to publish a book, a book of testimonies about the process of alienation on and that they experienced from the american mainstream and their community. the first section includes testimonies which describe the these children now young adults having left cuba. unaccompanied refugees, although they too did ot make reference to operation pedro

descent, you've not ever made it a secret, your opposite to the cuban government. you're about to become the chair of the foreign relations committee. you think that's what it was? >> for 22 years between the house and the senate, i've had a firm position in opposition to the cuban regime that violates the human rights, the democracy of the people of cuba. i have been outspoken in that regard. i wouldn't be surprised the regime would do anything it can to stop me from being in a position that ultimately would impede their hopes of being able to get a different relationship with the united states based upon their interests but not the interests of the cuban people. >> now, you aren't at liberty to talk about the letter your lawyer wrote to the fbi but you're in the proof business. if you're probing anybody in a hearing, you would want information and proof. do you have proof, solely proof of this? >> look, it seems to me that based upon what the "post's" sources are, that it's the government that has the proof. and it seems to me that the government should ultimatel

he's been very critical for more than two decades of the cuban government. he is pointing to a story that originated in "the washington post" with government sources saying that there is a cia report that this all could have started with the cuban government, that it was a conspiracy, a plot, really, by the intelligence community of that government to try to take menendez down. listen to our conversation. >> it should be pretty appalling that a foreign government would be engaged in trying to effect an election or a united states senator. if that can happen, i think there's real consequences for our democracy. i hope that the authorities will investigate and come to the bottom of who was engaged. >> is that what you think happened, that you are somebody of cuban descent, you have not ever made it a secret your opposition to the cube be governme cuban government, you're about to become the chair of the foreign relations committee is that what it is? >> for 22 years, between the house and senate, i have had a firm position in opposition to the cuban regime tha

and this is what the puerto rican community... we inherited afro cuban music through our forefathers, et cetera, from the mambo era, et cetera, et cetera. and they... as we say in spanish, tambor llama, "the drum calls." so imagine listening to that in the projects. i grew up in the melrose projects, 681. in the canyons of the projects you're hearing that not only during the day, but at 3:00 in the morning in the basketball courts, et cetera. and instead of... what i tell people is the difference between our community and, say, somebody living in the suburbs, is in the suburbs, somebody would start calling 911, the cops, say, "hey, there's these people drumming," et cetera. but at 3:00 in the morning in our neighborhoods, people would be going, "yeah, keep it going." >> hinojosa: "don't stop." >> yeah, yeah. and so (speaking spanish) >> hinojosa: so for you... but this notion of kind of living with music all around you, you... i love the story of your dad, who was a machinist. >> right. >> hinojosa: again, puerto rican. and he would come home from work, and he would sit and listen to

thief been targeted by cuban spice in the past.believe the allegations may have been the result of another smear campaign by the cuban government. this adds a legal and political twist to a long-running drama involving menendez. was the cuban government behind the plot of an elaborate smear campaign? his lawyer said the cia discovered cuban intelligence agents using an el yas p that the senator traveled to have sex with underage prostitutes. the senator tells dana bash this information deserves the obama administration's attention. >> it should be pretty appalling that a foreign government would be engaged in trying to affect an election and/or position of a united states senator. if that can happen, i think there is real consequences for our democracies. >> reporter: the law maker is still under separate federal scrutiny over allegations he had improper ties to political donors. some ethics watch dog groups question the timing of this newest disclosure. senator menendez and the legal time are trying to muddy the water and that mig

many cubans are ready for the u.s. to go. >> this is guantanamo bay from the cuban side. on anoves very slowly ideological frontline. the watchtower marks the edge of the us-based. the american military is inside of communist cuba. things are tranquil these days. there is resentment under the surface. the americans control the entrance to guantanamo bay and restricted the cuban fisherman to this part. are in the catches deeper water that is off-limits now. the men here are hoping that the americans leave. the base was part of the landscape before the revolution. both sides must agree if it is to be close. here the american national anthem coming from the military. here ands the presence illegal occupation. the base proves pretty lucrative for some. thousands of cubans work for the americans in guantanamo bay. the u.s. stop tiring after cuba turned communist and the countries cut ties. many carried on working at the base and collect big pensions from the americans. good here.a good bosses. >> the streets are full of americans. the city historian points out the brothel and

cubans became heroes in the soviet union.like the day david challenged goliath. >> in the years since he took power, fidel castro has become an enemy of the united states. >> in cuba, you have fidel castro who's tying himself to the soviet bloc. which seems to be threatening the united states by the possibility that they're going to export communism to other south american countries which are in many instances anti-american. khrushchev is saying that you have to understand that cuba matters a lot to us. don't mess with cuba. khrushchev not using rhetoric. the eastern bloc was supporting castro with military assistance. >> many latin americans were shocked to find out how much communist equipment castro actually has. >> the sense was that kennedy had 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 is going to look like a u.s. invasion

you are somebody of cuban descent.o the cuban government. you are about to become chair of the foreign relations committee. do you think that's what it was? >> for 22 years between the house and senate, i have had a firm position in opposition to the cuban regime that violates the human rights democracy of the people of cuba. >> reporter: still, beyond the prostitution allegations is an ongoing corruption probe of menendez' relationship with a political donor, a florida doctor whose practice is being scrutinized for medicare fraud. he gave menendez private jet rides to the dominican republic to the tune of $58,000. menendez did not pay for them, as the law requires, until the flights were publically disclosed. i asked the senator if his legal team may have pushed this cuban plot allegation out into the public to muck up federal investigations surrounding him. he dismissed that and noted that the "the washington post" spoke not just to legal sources but actual officials with knowledge of the cia investigation of this cu

allowed hundreds of thousands of people to open businesses in the private sector however cuban leaders have made clear that these measures do not equate to the embrace of capitalism but instead are necessary modernizations and just this week current president raul castro has reassured the cuban parliament that while they won't be immediate more reforms are on the way to combat the country's poverty and slower than expected economic growth yet despite cuba's willingness to embrace these changes the reigning view of the small island nation in the us is that of an oppressive to tell a tarion wasteland is that really the case where earlier i spoke to break in the newest addition to the team on the program bill i started by asking her to explain the concept of internationalism and cuba's role in liberation movements around the world. so a lot of times people keep thinking of cuba as the bubble but in reality from the very beginning q but the cuban revolution was all about drawing partners in movements across the globe that were struggling to liberate themselves and i think this is most clea

undocumented cuban children were brought to miami.and we caught up with people who made the trip. >> she was a teenager during the cuban revolution. one of the thousands of children sent to the u.s. alone by parents who feared that the cuban government, run by fidel castro, would take them away and brainwash them. >> my parents got very desperate because they started indoctrination in schools. and a lot of children turned against the parents. and it was becoming a real tragedy. >> ultimately, 14,000 cuban children would flee the country on u.s. commercial flights to florida. part of a of program started in 1960 called operation pedro pan. >> i traveled with my five-year-old sister. she asked my mom, why do i have to leave? i mean, how could you explain to a five-year-old child that she had to leave her mother and father, you know? >> everything, little by little,-. >> though she didn't know him then, her future husband, a latin star in the united states, was boarding a plane as part of pedro pan. and both used music to help adjust to

i can separately am going as a cuban american kid from isac shelled and also my artistic identity. so you have these triangulations. so yes, i studied engineering partly because of homophobia, my grandmother but also it was a cultural circumstance. we were were a working-class immigrant family and the idea of a career in the arts is just not, just wasn't within the realm of possibility. so i love to see all all these three things but up against each other, collide, problem each other to make this a little kid called the ricky, become who he is. and begin the idea of the village. we can't separate those components in and of themselves. i have all these great labels and i love for latino, immigrant, gay men to read at the inauguration. all those things sort of come together in one person. and part of selfish reason i write the book was to explore how those things were connected and what is the unique recipe that makes a human being a human being. that really excites me about the book because i think it's something that's not talked about often. as you said, your that combined with xe

approaching fifteen minutes into the hour welcome back a lot of your putin is in the cuban capital at the beginning of a week long tour of latin america will be his longest foreign trip since returning to the kremlin in two thousand and twelve our correspondent election is in have on and on we can speak to him live alexy has it been a productive day for the two countries so far than. well indeed the word is coming from the revolution palace at the moment that signing of the document the procedure has started this will include lots of different very important deals including oil deals which would allow russia. the research of the cuban offshore oil platforms and of potentially about twenty billion barrels of. oil in that area also military cooperation and many other things but of course the most impressive and the thing and that's the talk of the town right now is russia officially rubber stamping unprecedented move writing off ninety percent of cuba's debts to the u.s.s.r. that is thirty two billion u.s. dollars the rest the other ten percent remaining ten percent of the debt will be

talk of the town now is that most school officially confirmed it is writing off ninety percent of cubans debt to the soviet union which amounts to thirty two billion u.s. dollars an astronomical sum of money for this country the remaining ten percent will be reinvested into the cuban economy the trick of course is now what will often offer in return the speculation is rife that the military base the writer base on cuba the soviet base will this which was shot down in the late one thousand nine hundred may be relaunched but that is of course a speculation it was not confirmed by neither i or one of the highlights of this visit here was. to talk with fidel castro who has been spending the best part of the last decade in a hospital being seriously ill. they talked about international and regional politics and it was a rather short conversation which is typical for the legendary cuban leader he has been a good talker his longest speech in one thousand nine hundred six and have on the last that for as many as seven hours may no longer be controlling everything in his country but still he is p

allegations of cuban spies, cuban intelligence and your first reaction is holy cow.dez, have they put forth any proof of this? >> reporter: no, they haven't. keep in mind, there are other things going on. they are basically asking the justice department to investigate the beginnings of their own investigation. >> investigate the investigation. >> reporter: right. exactly. because some of it began with the prosecution stuff, then moved on to other parts of his alleged behavior. and that's where this is going. >> evan, thank you so much for this. weaving your way through a complex story. appreciate it, as always. >>> ahead, it was supposed to be a thrill but it turned into quite a nightmare. a roller coaster jumping the tracks leaving 22 people dangling from those very tracks. we will tell you about the rescue, next. ♪ ♪ fill their bowl with the meaty tastes they're looking for, with friskies grillers. tender meaty pieces and crunchy bites. in delicious chicken, beef, turkey, and garden veggie flavors. friskies grillers. could help your business didavoid hours of delay

you never made it a secret your opposition to the cuban government.the chairman of the foreign relations committee. you think that's what it was? >> put thit this way, for 22 yes in the house and the senate i've had an opposition to the cuban regime that violates the human rights, the democracy of the people of cuba. >> reporter: still, beyond the prostitution allegations is an ongoing corruption probe of menendez's relationship with a florida doctor whose practice is being scrutinized for medical fraud. he gave menendez private jet rides to the dominican. menendez did not pay for them as the law requires until the flights were publicly disclosed. i asked the senator if his legal team may have pushed this cuban conspiracy allegation out there in the public to muck up federal investigations surrounding him. he dismissed that. in fact an attorney who worked on cuban spy cases in the 1990s told cnn that back then they had evidence that the cubans did target politicians including menendez and tried to discredit them politically. dana bash, cnn, washington

louis must leave cuban waters tomorrow. so for a figure of $10,000, or $11 per passenger, those negotiations broke down. so even then there was debate within the jewish community as to whether or not everything proper had been done. >> thank you, martin, very much. the remarkable thing for me, and i'm sure many others, about the st. louis story is that if you examine the american media throughout the course of world war ii, editors did know what was going on in europe. very little of it did appear in the press. i did a study once of "the new york times" coverage throughout world war ii, and what is remarkable is that "the new york times," new york paper owned by the sulzberger family, did its very best to bury the story. when they had information that a million and half the jews had been killed, information that was very reliable, gave them good sources in switzerland, passed on through london to new york, at that time the information was there, that's a front-page story. it was put on page 17 and only three or four paragra

the senator has asked the justice department to look into claims that the cuban government was behind smear campaign. according to former u.s. official, the cia has obtained credible evidence linking cuban agents to reports that maine nen dez visited underaged prostituted in the dominican republic. he claims the rumors were timed to derail him just as he assumed the chairmanship of the powerful senate foreign relations committee. >>> and still ahead, the rising democratic star who's gaining traction by saying things other candidates wouldn't dare even mention. if you wear a denture, touch it with your tongue. if your denture moves, it can irritate your gums. try fixodent plus gum care. it helps stop denture movement and prevents gum irritation. fixodent. and forget it. and prevents gum irritation. (vo) ours is a world of come on let's go! (vo) the red-eyes. (daughter) i'm really tired. (dad) i feel bad for you. (vo) the transfers. well, that's kid number three. (vo) the return trips. how you feeling buddy? i'm fine, dad. (vo) the day trips. (boy) i get it this time! (vo) the carpools.

lori: this university of no, tex sat student sent an email to mavericks owner mark cuban and cuban respondedith jesse. you can see him on the screen. welcome to the show. i have to know, jessie, what did you think when mark cuban actually responded and then not only responded but agreed to go into a deal with you? pretty amazing. >> yeah. i was definitely very amazed. i actually remember sitting in my history class got his email and stood up and ran out, really happy. and then we had a couple conversations more about, you know, technology in general and decided to start a company. david: jessie, when you were involved in this project, i'm told you were working 18 hour days, which you can do when you're 20 years old. it is not unusual to work that hard. when did you get your school work done? >> oh, well the good thing i was on winter break when i started awe the develop mane work. so i was able to work all the way through the day and night. david: you didn't get a break. you worked on that alone. does it interfere with your school work at all? >> not really. i have had teachers who are prett

it was a rather short conversation which is typical for the legendary cuban leader he has been a good talker his longest speech in one thousand eighty six and have on the last that for as many as seven hours may no longer be controlling everything in his country but still he is pretty much the cuban leader politically outliving ten american presidents he has been claiming that he survived as many as six hundred thirty four attempts on his life most of them as he says were masterminded by the cia and some of those have been creative to say the least including poison pills that talks are exploding mosques and even a special chemically created powder to getting rid of his beard to undermine his popularity on cuba. and we have plenty more stories online including lice and i will soon no longer need to be good shots thanks to self guided bullets being developed in the u.s. plus. digging deeper into the mysteries of love archaeologist celebrate finding this pair romantically intertwined skeletons there romeo and juliet of the bronze age and more in our section. your friend post a photo from

it was a rather short conversation which is typical for the legendary cuban leader he has been a good talker his longest speech in one thousand eighty six and have on the last that for as many as seven hours may no longer be controlling everything in his country but still he is pretty much the cuban leader politically outliving ten american presidents he has been claiming that he survived as many as six hundred thirty four attempts on his life most of them as he says were masterminded by the cia and some of those have been creative to say the least including poison peels that talks are exploding even a special chemically created powder to get rid of his beard to undermine his popularity. delivery could soon be on the brink of revolution getting your pizza books or latest gadget from a courier on a scooter could be a thing of the past the world's biggest web retailer amazon wants government permission to test drone technology in seattle things one day drone deliveries will be as normal as trucks on the road today some pioneers of already taken the bull by the horns a pizzeria in northe

do you think investor hear cuban.rles: i think one sold their stock after mark cuban's tweet. >> this is the hand that these companies were dealt by the government because of the tax codes, boast bottom line for our -- best bottom line for your shareholders is what you have to do. charles: corporate america find ways to engineer their way to success. not build a top line, they are doing is engineering, buyin is e something about this rally that should be with an asterisk? >> overall rally no, individual companies yes, i would not buy wind stream for example. it unlocked value to the company, but not buying a company basedo fact it is doing inversion, you buy a company based on fundamentals. >> this tax code has not been updated since 1986, every other country had a lower tax code since then, tracy mentions, but we need up-to-date the american tax code. charles: i will quibble with you, i think it has been updated, they have added pages to it. this company blew away the street with its earnings, there was a broke an do

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our government's best estimates of how many cubans ever see tv marti indicate it's less than 1% of cubans was hatched during george w. bush's presidency to increase that viewership. it is one of those nutty ideas that would have been rejected instantly if the word cuba was not attached to the idea. the idea was, aero marti, an airplane that would fly around cuba and dropping tv marti signals from the sky meant to supplement the tv marti signals already being beamed across a much wider area by direct tv satellites. the airplane signal cost ten times more than the direct tv signal, and according to the government's very best estimates again, picked up exactly no more viewers. radio marti and tv marti are complete and utter failures, but in cuba policy, failing means never having to say you're sorry, and never having to stop doing what is failing. but aero marti has taken failure and turned it into disaster, since it increased broadcasting costs dramatically and did not pick up a single viewer. so a small note of sanity has been struck in our cuba policy with the quiet collapse of aero marti

ultimately 14,000 cuban children would flee the country on u.s. commercial flights to florida part of a program in 1960 called operation pedro pan. >> i kept looking back to see my mother. when they finally rushed us into the plane it was pretty rushed. i looked back at my mother and she was waving good-bye. >> luis remembered spending a lot of time with his father before that event. >> what i remembered that summer was a lot of fishing trips. >> what do you think your father was doing spending so much time with you? >> i knew he was sick, he wasn't going to be leaving cuba. so i thought all this time was sort of his way of while it could happen, of being with me. >> do you remember what the last thing you said to him was? >> no, i just remember hugging him. hugging him really hard. but i don't remember, i don't remember the words. >> he says he was nervous when he boarded the plane to the united states. nervous about leefg o leaving hy and his country. but armored vehicles in the streets. >> i think everyone knew castro was there to stay, but the

that you are somebody of cuban descent.e not made it a secret that your opposition to the cuban government. you're about to become the chair of the foreign relations committee? you think that's what it was? >> let's put it this way. for 22 years between the house and the senate, i have had a firm position in opposition to the cuban regime that violates the human rights, the democracy of the people of cuba. i have been outspoken in that regard. and i wouldn't be surprised that the regime would do anything they can to stop me from being in a position that ultimately would impede their hopes of being able to get a different relationship with the united states. >> so dana, the discredited story about the prostitutes, how, if at all, does that then fit with the probe into menendez and his donors? >> unclear, but you make an important point, which is there is an ongoing federal probe that senator menendez is still caught up in. it surrounds one of his top political donors who is under investigation for a number of things, includi

allowing cubans to buy imported vehicles. we learned this week that in the six months ago since the law passed, only 50 cars and four motorcycles have been sold in cuba, because the price tags on the vehicles far exceed what the average cuban makes in a year or in most cases in a lifetime. the average cuban makes $20 a month, and a kia rio goes for $42,000 in cuba. and that means that the average cuban would have to work 175 years in order to afford the car. no sale. >>> it's a cyber attack with a code war twist. how sabotagers could aim at america's oil consumption, and the casino binge has forced some to fold in the gambling capital of the east coast. >> a group of russian hackers, known as dragonflies, are starting an energy company, and they may be capable of interfering with power supplies. this is the stuff of movies. global it threats, out with a new threat detailing the hacking network. dragonfly targeted defense and aviation companies before changing it's focus to energy companies. so far the russian attacking hacks

allowing cubans to buy imported vehicles. we learned this week that in the six months ago since the law passed, only 50 cars and four motorcycles have been sold in cuba, because the price tags on the vehicles far exceed what the average cuban makes in a year or in most cases in a lifetime. the average cuban makes $20 a month, and a kia rio goes for $42,000 in cuba. and that means that the average cuban would have to work 175 years in order to afford the car. no sale. >>> it's a cyber attack with a code war twist. how sabotagers could aim at america's oil consumption, and the casino binge has forced some to fold in the gambling capital of the east coast. >> we're following the stories of people who have died in the desert >> the borderland marathon >> no ones prepared for this journey >> experience al jazeera america's critically acclaimed original series from the beginning >> experiencing it has changed me completely >> follow the journey as six americans face the immigration debate up close and personal. >> it's heartbreakin