my question is could medea benjamin talk about the influence of eduardo galliano who passed in april of this year and also she said that cuba normalizing the relationship with the united states, she sees as a positive thing, but i have a concern that what happened to the ussr in 1989 will happen to cuba with the socialist character with cuba will die. could you speak to that and galliano's influence on her maybe? >> guest: eduardo galliano, for those of your viewers who don't know him, run to the library and get the book. "own veins of lat -- open veins of latin america" is one example of a writer who is a beautiful literary writer but gets into the soul of latin america and also the way the u.s. has historically tried to subvert the wildfires latin american people. so, eduardo galliano has had a tremendous influence on me as i was growing up and reading his books. roane talked about the character of the socialist revolution in cuba. i mention my love-hate relationship with cuba. i think one of the exciting things about cuba is that it's different and we need societies that try diffe