in the united states pays the cuban government and in the cuban government pays. ask someone months ago who should know these things whether all of those cuban nationals are spies. i was told, well, not all of them but i was told somebody in the government, all of them are susceptible to pressure from the cuban intelligence service. we have a couple of hundred potential spies that the american taxpayer pays for. one of the things that congress should do is decide this is not a good deal and if the united states is workers, the united states octagon find those workers. if the cuban government doesn't let us do that well, that's too bad. the level of work or whatever will have to be reused to what the americans can do. the problem when you have surveys if you ask an american are you in favor of american taxpayers paying for cuban spies inside the diplomatic mission in nevada what percentage do you think would respond to that? and like that their are a number of other issues that have to do with the us intersection. this was a was a good time for the congress to look

leaders inspired by cuban ideals.are puppets and agents of an international conspiracy which has turned cuba against your friends and neighbors in the americas and turned it into the first latin american country to become a target for nuclear war. we know your lives in land being used as pawns are those who deny your freedom. >> the president of the united states announced the nation's intentions will stop among the decisions, and insistence upon immediate dismantling and withdrawal of the missiles will -- a quarantine not all offensive military equipment on shipment to cuba and continued increased surveillance of the military buildup. hemisphere support was quick. the organization of american states by a vote of 22 nothing approved the resolution. some nations offered active military assistance. surveillance did continue in the air as planes made passes to photograph missile installations despite cuban antiaircraft stop -- antiaircraft. and on the sea as the u.s. navy task force 136 steamed to a fateful rendezvous wi

the coast guard captured the cubans and then sank the buick. two of the cubans had tried to make the same trip months earlier in a 1951 chevy truck they also modified so it would float. >>> still to come here on a second look, making due with what they have. high priced food and a handmade bat. and a bit later rolling them by hand, a look at what it takes to make cuban cigars. >>> welcome back to a second look, for years cuba has been a popular tourist destination for the rest of the world. americans haven't been allowed to travel to cuba directly. but some found some round about ways to get there. in 1997, ktvu reporter craig heaps visited cuba and filed this report on what led to the initial resurgence of that country's tourist industries. >> reporter: when the sun set on the soviet union in 1991 it looked like the beginning of a long economic night here in cuba. gone were $6 billion in economic aid. another billion dollars in military assistance. add to that a u.s. embargo designed to cut cuba off as much as possible from the rest of the tra

and cuban banks. additionally before 2005 the only requirement was that the payment had to be made before the delivery of goods to the port in cube. in 2005 that changed to the require that payment be made before it deported to the u.s. this goes back to the old rule as it was before. you don't have to pay before the vessel leaves the potter. it just has to be paid before it arrives in cuba. >> this is an aspect that the new opponents of the obama administration, it stuck in their craw thisy that you could get down the road extensions of credit that cuban buyers would not have to pay up front in cash everything that they pressured. that going away they see as a real problem. you seem to see it as a real boom. >> it still requires cash in advance. the cash has to be paid before the vessel arrives or the title changes and the goods delivered are the cuban port. it's still cash in advance. we still cannot offer credits. our export competitors as an example in vietnam offers credit to cuba and cuba uses v

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 allowed for dialogue and travel to the island beginning under the carter adminis

and cuban governments agree. the u.s.nment doesn't agree. >> relations remain stable for 50 years and then the cuban revolution and it was the beginning of a hostile relationship and the trickiest question what to do with all of the cubans that worked there. and it is working on the base and commuted to the other side of the fence. and a number of the cubans had opposition to the new rev lougzary government and wanted to stay on the base and eventually hundreds of cubans came to live on the base full-time. >> no one had any idea how long they would be in guantanamo. >> the kennedy administration said you can stay until it is resolved and they are surprised to find them there. >> height of the population. hundreds of cubans living there and now only two dozen living around. >> they have ended up in a place is as good as they hope. all of them have u.s. citizenship but live on guantanamo bay because they feel at home. >> the youngest one in the the 70s and the oldest one in the 90s. they have lived out entire adult live con

cubans will remember, and cubans will remember -- when i was a little boy in cuba, all cubans kn that at the end of the war between spain and unitedew states and the cuban patriots who a thought for 30 years, the united states went to paris, met with spanish diplomats, and between the americans and the spanish committee decided future of cuba in secret without consulting with cubans, without allowing the cuban patriots to be a part of the discussion. and the same thing is happening today. i hope that 50 years from now cuban children will not say that what america did. by the way, what happened in paris has been a true of castro's propaganda for all these years. he gets saying the united it is evil, what they did, they would to paris, they debated, they discussed the future of the island, and no cubans were allowed. now raoul castro is doing the same thing. for a while, some of us were wondering, what is this campaign about lifting the embargo getting cuba out of the terrorist list, and so exchanging cuban spies for an innocent american hostage? now we do the answer. for about a year,

spanish for eighth street where many old school original wave of cuban exiles live here drinking cubanoffees and hatred for castro brothers remains as passionate today as it was when they fled their homeland. >> we like freedom. >> what do you think about the castros today? >> same thing as yesterday. criminals. criminals. >> i feel like we are starting to negotiate with hitler. >> what are your thoughts on the castro brothers? >> [ bleep ]. >> the cuban community in miami has always been a loud and influential one unified of one goal, the total defeat of the communist castro regime. now that cuban americans have been born here 90 miles from the homes of parents and grandparents many see the old hard line approach with cuba softening and younger generation taking a more practical approach to havana. >> i spent 22 years in cuba before i came here. i know what happened in cuba. >> 76-year-old george suarez as a boy says he witnessed his own uncle's execution and at 17 he and his family were put under house arrest and threatened with death. his father and sisters were thrown in prison. at

cuban policy. that pretext no longer exists and it's time that he pushes back and insist that they do something for their friends and their neighbors who live in cuba. in the five weeks since president obama's decision on diplomatic relations, the regime arrested more even several of those who had been free as a result of their deal with president obama be demanded of them into the end are going to demand a determination of the cuban adjustment act under which the refugees are in the territory and demanded that they be removed from the list of terrorists. also in the last month the number of cubans claiming and fleeing the country has more than doubled. it seems they know what to expect from the regime that has been emboldened by the weakness. they are voting with the war. all of this is entirely predictable. those who know the nature of the castro regime expected no meaningful steps towards liberalization particularly because it's already been handed a major diplomatic victory political recognitio

the cubans might object to that.ot used to being pushed around by big american companies. >> politically, i've seen this over the years, you have the chamber of commerce highly republican influenced group, business groups from the midwest, number of senators from the grain states they want to go through. does that mean there's any possibility that this could get through congress lifting the embargo? >> politically controlled by republicans and in miami, there's still opposition and marco rubio and others this is for many cuban americans this is personal. while this is a -- this embargo been pronounced more than 50 years, this a communist government and should not be awarded for the record on human rights. there may be some practical reasons to lift embargo but you can't ignore that it can be very difficult to ignore that among many people especially in miami. -- >> that older generation in particular? >> certainly. >> such a pleasure to be with you. thank you both so very much. just hours before the u.s. delegation,

and those -- this small group of people don't represent cuban society and the interest of the cuban peopleted states government. >> despite that and disagreement over that meeting even taking place and others may hold later in the day, the talks will continue. the pathway towards establishing relations between our two countries seems to be proceeding on track. >> the talks will continue. actually, we have had talks with obama administration for several years now. the new thing now is that for the first time we are beginning a new kind of conversation and it is the one aimed at reestablishing relations between the two countries. i mean diplomatic relations, opening embassies and starting a dialogue on how to normalize relations and for that we have to discuss some problems and to try to find solutions. so that one day we can say that relations between cuba and the united states are normal. >> one of the things that jacobson said was that you discussed letting people go in and out of the intersection which will become the u.s. embassy. once it becomes an embassy, that nobody would be interfe

any cuban american can. cuban american members of congress can go. you can't. they can send money to their relatives there. you can't. their relatives in cuba can now invest. we can't. so there is almost -- there's almost an interest there that i hope some of you in the press will look into about conflict of interest with members of the house and senate who want to restrict others from getting the privileges that they now have. but it's going to be a fight. as they say, i think that the conservative viewpoint is going to be a -- the politics is going to be motivated by the agriculture interests who like the governor pointed out have already made contact and their states and their ag interests, their business interests already know what the opportunities are and they'll have to pressure their congress members and senators to follow through on being able to implement this incredible announcement of the president. so i -- i mean, you please, the point there that we'll gain market share that we've lost actually that's gone down because of fewer -- the financial hur

present in nearly all cuban mills.ir annual consumption is one of the highest in the world about 200 pounds a year. compared to the u.s. which we consume 27 pounds a year. cuba does grow rice. they grow about 400,000 metric tons a year but to meet their high demand they import 600,000 metric tons. i'm proud to say that our industry is pressing for open trade and travel to cuba since the mid-1990s. we were the first u.s. commodity to re-enter cuba in 2001 at the havana trade fair and we continue to sponsor trade missions participating in forums here and in cuba. we did have sales during the early 2000. we sold about 64 million. that was the top sales in 2004. money is government policy changed our sales have fallen to zero starting in 2009. our loss has been vietnam's gain. they are the primary supplier of rice to cuba but we think is a lot for the cuban people as well. they are forced to eat and inferior product. we know the cuban people prefer u.s. rice. when i traveled there and when we were selling rice there consum

cuban relations. publicly we had an overt and covert nastiness against cuba, particularly in the aftermath of the bay of pigs. in the aftermath of the missile crisis some of kennedy's aides noted that the missile crisis ended badly for fidel castro and his relationship with the soviet union. he had been willing to sacrifice his own country for the socialist bloc and their right to defend themselves. here nikita khrushchev had not talked to him that he would secretly swapped them for u.s. missiles in turkey. the issue was whether he would be so angry at the soviets, and he was very angry, that we might see that opportunity and entice him to come back to us. there was a shift in kennedy's thinking. it was helped by the fact he started negotiations with the cubans to free the bay of pigs prisoners. i went to make george bundy, before he passed away, and i asked him why did kennedy reach out to the cubans? he said there was this bridge but the soviet union. kennedy was a smart guy. he thought he could exp

depository institutions to have cuban peso accounts, but not cuban banks to have dollar accounts. will that be good enough? >> it does not address our financing issue at all. >> the problems -- a journalist called me the other day from the financial times. had been talking with european banks and american banks on how they view the financial provisions which are limited. she said the european banks seem more interested in trying to expand their presence in cuba than the u.s. banks. we have a great problem right now that u.s. banks don't want to handle anything to do with cuba including the account here to accept visa payments. it is a tremendously complicated problem. john kerry has been instructed to do a review and report in six months and everyone has concluded that he recommend cuba be taken off the list. the bank secrecy act, the patriot act even dodd-frank, sarbanes-oxley, make american banks risk-averse when it comes to countries under any kind of sanctions at all. i think we need more leadership from the administration, treasury, the comptroller of the currency, and among

people for the cuban people and with the cuban people. president castro spoke for three minutes sitting at a table wearing a military uniform. they still feel they are under attack and many of them still feel there are war wounds. cuba is only going to permit what it believes it can control. it's not a criticism, just a fact. one of the challenges is missing the belief that somehow cuba is due by 90 miles south of key west florida and archipelago at 11.3 million people that has so much money flowing and waiting for the currents to push it north. cuba develops its trade relationships not solely based on cost but also on politics. again not a criticism. countries do that throughout the world. to give you a little history from 1980 to 1992 cargill engaged in trade with cuba by $5 billion worth. 1946 libertad allows for private settlements to the u.s. companies. it reauthorizes putin had fails. there have been little health care product sales in cuba since 1992. while in large measure is because cuba would rather have a political issue than h

that said, the cuban people receive a lot of remittances from cuban-americans emma from -- cuban-americansfrom other cubans abroad. they are living off that cash they get. cuban-americans are set -- have sent over $6 billion after the remittances program was expanded. this allows cubans to open their own businesses, and to take advantages of the openings in the economy that role castro -- raul castro has opened. in travel, tele-communications agriculture, construction, there will be some initial interesting new activity. it will very much depend on the cuban government, and how they will open up those sectors to allow more american commerce and activity. >> what will increase tourism for you but economy, -- cuba's economy? will hotels be able to handle increased demand? >> tourism has done well, they've invested in new hotels and other structures. they are investing in new sites new golf courses marinas, even condominiums that will be available for foreign renting and even leasing. this is an infrastructure that is well underway. it still has a long way to go. they have already received mi

in 1995, the cuban and u.s. government sat down and agreed that maritime -- unauthorized maritime travel would be stopped, and the united states would be picked up, and anyone seeing them would return them to cuba, but the loophole is what happens when someone actually touches land. this is the loophole that calls into force a law that was passed in 1966 called the cuban adjustment act, which grants residency one year and one day after the arrival for any cubans. the automatic thing is that cubans who arrive on u.s. sure actually run towards the immigration officers because they can then start the clock and gain residency, whereas other people would be apprehended and deported. >> we're talking about the most high-ranking delegation in cuba for some 35 years. however, they have not managed to agree on when and where to establish indices. you would imagine that that would he one of the more simpler things to organize. why is the sticking point here? >> well, yesterday was a meeting that was set aside and planned

we think that the cubans -- cuban people -- i mean, the persons -- the cuban persons inside and outside of the island have the right to getting both with the real changes at -- to the [indiscernible] of the world but also to you and to the democratic and to the goodwill persons is to engage in that demand. we are engaged in [indiscernible] it could actually affect the decisions of our nation. to participate in free elections and that's something that everybody could support and that's something that is not even political because it's in the base of the democracy. it's a human right. >> i would like to add a couple of things. so far we've been talking about human rights in cuba, the cuban people. but there's a foreign policy issue beyond cuba and when you're dealing with u.s.-cuban relations, it's not like dealing with u.s.-costa rica relations. the dimension is simple. two years ago a cargo ship from north korea was caught in the panama canal carrying warplanes to north korea, missiles. this is during the obama administration after at the beginning of his administration said he was exte

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the cuban people could be free. so since that time there have been the nationalization of the real property where at the time that castro took control of cuba, 25% of the real estate in cuba was owned by americans. they held deeds to that property. there was over land in cuba that was owned by people from other nationalities. every other country was compensated for their real estate except americans. no american that i know of has been compensated for their real estate. they hold those deeds to this day. sometimes a second generation. while i was there, before i came to this congress, while i was there was also a situation where the exchange rate for cuban peso to dollar was 21-1 at that time. so if anyone achieved an american dollar, they could take into a dollar store and they would get one peso's worth of goods for it or deposit it into a cuban bank and get one peso for that. that's 20 pesos difference. that's one of the things that supported the castro regime financialy. another thing that happened was sugar was

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release of the 53 cubans?it in stages? people that are entirely -- it is a real crime other than opposing the regime. i think the worse part is what james rosen reported. we are going to start negotiations in two weeks on normalization without insisting in advance that the prisoners are released. we are going to start and get absolutely nothing? it is impossible to believe the administration would be so weak and thoughtless in doing that. we will see. they have two weeks to produce, i hope they do, but i think they won't. >> and this will affect something very big indeed. as if is evidenced that the president is an -- >> this is going to be trouble on capitol hill. >> well, if those names do not come out before they are negotiating normalization, yes. >> that is it for the panel. stay tuned for an example of pure excitement. [ male announcer ] are your joints ready for action? osteo bi-flex® with joint shield™ nurtures and helps defend your joints° so you can keep doing what you love. what'd yoyou guys do toda

/cuban relations.ton international trade association is an hour and a half. >> good morning, everybody. thank you for braving the weather today.gkevr(t&háhp &hc% we were a little worried that the federal government might have a delay or a closure because, as you all know, when there's a half an inch of snow in washington anything can happen, can have a disaster. john came in from buffalo this morning where when they have half an inch of snow, that's sort of like spring right? it's like pollen on our cars here. i'm kevin levinson, the executive director ofo we are delighted to have you all here. before i turn it over to our moderator ambassador, john, i would like to thank team diego, inez. we have a big announcement that we made yesterday which was the launch of a new blog called america's trade policy.com. it was actually created in 2013 by bill chryst at the woodrow wilson center for scholars. it's a new content platform for wida. we welcome input from membersccÑ and members of the trade community. t

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. >> cuban cigars will be permitted into the united states. >> cuban cigars and many other componentson the illusion that more commerce and access to money and goods will translate to political freedom. >> help the cuban people help themselves as they move into the country. >> this country is not going to lift the embargo. >> it's interesting. senator marco rubio did an interview saying they need to bring the party to the 21st century. maybe they should try to get on board with this. the white house announced a new set of regulations that will ease decades old restrictions on cuba. it's the first major step in president obama's plan to. these new regulations take effect tomorrow. first, americans will be allowed to travel to cuba for any of a dozen reasons without a license from the government. they include x education, journalism artistic performances and, quote, support for the cuban people. i think that could be interpreted in a lot of different ways. many wonder what impact this will have on cuban baseball players coming to play in america. it's not immediately clear with all this

cubans have given up nothing.'t see any way shape, or form why we're doing this, except for one more box on the president's legacy list. which i don't think gives him a legacy. lou: what does this mean for the president and the state of israel? he will not meet with netanyahu when he comes to address the joint session of congress next month. but he's meeting the new king of saudi arabia. king solomon. >> the perception, the prime minister of israel an obviously strong defender, has never gotten along with this president. i don't think this president is a pro-israel president. they're the most important ally we have in that part of the world. we've spent billions of dollars and thousands of men's lives trying to create democracy in other places. this is the one democracy. this is the one ally. then the base to go to saudi arabia. just the new king there to me, it's an added insult. lou: our poll question tonight is whether or not you think most americans would like to see the clock just run out on this administrati

there's ties with cuban americans -- >> who for the most part, based on the polling we have seen cubanmericans are not interested in a failure to free the island and see no quid pro quo, no reciprocity whatsoever in this deal, at least as articulated, i don't know what's been negotiated but articulated publicly by this administration. do you? >> i think there's a split in the cuban american community. the younger cubans want to see a change in policy on the embargo. the older cubans want the status quo. i think the point is going to be how this new relationship evolves. i think it makes sense to open up the relationship with cuba. >> i get kind of a kick out of the cuban american thing to be honest with you. i've got the greatest respect for cuban americans but it would be like saying you want the irish in boston deciding what u.s. policy is with ireland, for crying out loud. i mean what sense does that make? >> no but lou there is a lot of other involvements that we have had with cuba. you know the cold war kennedy, the missile crisis. it's a strategic area. we don't want iran, we don

we cubans don't deserve less. another important topic that i think we need in these conversation but also in the conversations and the relation with the cuban government with the rest of the keynote america is the fact that not so democratic of the cuban government has been spread in the region. we have high level of impunity not just in cuba but also in the region and i'm thinking that just about the recent larger in argentina that i. this, and also thinking about the students disappear in mexico and also thinking about the teenagers in caracas a year ago. i'm not saying they cuban government is difficult what i'm saying is that we are facing a not so democratic movement in our region that needs to be controversy. and i think that the influence of the cuban government, has a large instability for these not so democratic in our region for these not so democratic and not so realistic system that we have seen replicated or trying to be replicated in the rest of latin america region. so our goal of international unit

it has not helped ordinary cubans one bit. in fact, the sanctions have harmed them and us by holding back cuba's democratic and economic development. back in 2007, i had the opportunity to chair the agricultural appropriations subcommittee. at that time, i led a bipartisan group of members on a trip to cuba. and on that trip it was so interesting to me that one of the things one or two of my colleagues, and again in a bipartisan way, wanted to do was to go to the port and to see the offloading of rice and the fact of the matter is that instead of getting their rice from the united states which cuba could do, they are getting their rice from ma lay shah. -- from malaysia. imagine where we could make an economic difference for our rice farmers, or our agricultural community, and because of a policy that has been so shortsighted that we are putting our own economic interests aside. i had the honor of taking part in another delegation to the island last year led by our colleague, barbara lee, and what we saw on the visit was an im

in a cuban economy that's going to free the cuban citizens from the conditions that they live under now. the district, i represent central illinois has a very rich tradition inning a culture, from agricultural manufacturers like gsi in assumption, illinois. food processors like kraft in champagne, in decatur ill they makes my economy run. we see first hand how manufacturing processes are supported through trade. i'm somebody who has long before the president announced his prospective changes in policy to cuba has had advocated for more normalized trade relations with the cuban people. so his actions didn't get me here today to talk about this issue and frankly, i am not somebody who supports trading prisoners in regards to further ideas. i, while i am static that mr. gross is home, i am not ecstatic that this administration decided to release others to make that happen and, frankly, i think that could encourage more americans beingulesed as collateral and i do not think that that was a good idea. but long before that happened i think the cuban people will only experience freedom thr

they saw our cuban-american lapel pipn and came up to talk to us. the opponents are say thing is a reward to castro. this is a threat to castro. you have trade, you have travel you have transportation you have interaction open internet. this is the dynamic that has to get going in order for the cuban people to have a shot at opening up that society and having a more democratic government. i can see why senator rubio is against it. but the cuban people are quite excited about it. >> and why now -- you know the castro approach to government having spent real-time with fidel, why did the castro brothers come around now? >> because they had to. they had no choice. their biggest ally is venezuela, which the president is in a very wobbly condition there. they didn't know if they had years, months or even weeks with venezuela, which provides a huge economic subsidy to the island of cuba. 100,000 barrels of oil every day. and the laundry list goes on and on which they have helped them with. china, not available to be a patron. the russian ruble, you know, c

and there is no doubt that many after row-cubans have thrived in politics, media and arts.ever, manual labor is still done by black cubans, there are a few in enterprises the government has has enticed to the island. campaigner says centuries of discrimination have left her people with low self-esteem. she says, though, she's optimistic about their future. it's a social process that needs time and space. i feel there is not just a black person's fight. i i feel it's society's fight. the fight for a group that's been denied its rights to be full citizens. >> reporter: more than 50 years after the triumph of the revolution a revolution that promised equality for all. the wealthier neighborhoods here are predevelopment are dominantly white. while neighbors such as this one are predominantly after row-cuban, fundamental change can be a long-time coming. it was only when this after row cuban housing project was renovated that lifelong resident barbara felt that she and her neighbors began to be accepted by the rest of cuban society. >> it was because we are black. the problem wa

cuban-men will be allowed to send up to $2,000 every three months to cubans in the island instead ofst month between the u.s. and cuba. today the white house says these moves will empower the cuban people and promote positive change for the country. these new regulations go into effect tomorrow. we're just getting started on the second hour of "the rundown. "new details on charges filed against a 20-year-old ohio man who authorities say wanted to attack the u.s. capitol. >>> and it's an even more contentious battle over immigration after the house votes to block president obama's executive action. those details plus one of the few republicans who broke party lines, representative jeff denim will be here live from the republican retreat in pennsylvania. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. [ m'm... ] [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm!

. >> we cubans could not travel before. that is not the case. now we are free to come and go. >> the right of every human being to travel and see other countries. >> to spend your holidays somewhere nice. >> the u.s. issues 20,000 visas a year to cubans, hundreds apply every day. the reaction is clear to see. >> look at her. i don't know if they are told -- if they have told her yes or no. that look on her face. >> we are very happy. really very happy. >> next time. >> despite the burgeoning diplomatic relationship between the u.s. and cuba, there is some way to go before there is free travel between the nations. however, cubans will be able to apply for visas and an embassy to be opened soon. one which will likely prove a major symbol of u.s.-cuban reconciliation. >> the brother -- the brazilian president rousseff has been sworn in. she said her government would rein in public spending to allow the economy to grow again, but will do so at the minimum cost for the population. growth has slumped in the world's second-biggest