do you think that fear is one of the legacies of the generation of el che and fidel castro and raul castrong for a new political system in cuba are the ladies in white. originally formed by the wives of political prisoners, their weekly protests to call for free elections are often broken up by the police and state security, the organisers arbitrarily detained. libertad, libertad! they say they're calling for greater human rights on the island. the cuban government accused them of being mercenaries funded by right—wing anti—castro groups out of miami and washington. certainly the cuban government allows them no room to operate. this was their protest on the eve of a visit by president obama in front of the world's watching media. when our cameraman tried to film a weekly protest outside the lady's house, the police intervened. he was told he couldn't film there. and the police removed the camera from the scene as the mood began to heat up. what happened next was predictable and swift. a number of women were detained that day. it's a side of cuba thatjars with a new hip image of the island

i was in one of cuba's most prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro. that slept on the bunk bed on top of me recorded our conversation and i was expelled from school. my mom said the only choice is for us to leave cuba. i'm a businessman. i've lived in miami for 35 years. it's my home base. i come back and forth to cuba. i've been coming to cuba for over 20 years. i mean, cuba is a communist country in economic transition. fidel castro allowed cubans to establish more businesses. there are people that are making money. there are people that have created a tremendous amount of wealth. >> anthony: people with family connections to the states, people tied to the exploding tourist industry, small business owners, taxi drivers, people operating in ever-changing gray areas of what is permissible. how's it work right now? if you're cuban, you can sell your property to -- >> hugo: another cuban from cuba. and that's what's happening right now. a lot of cuban-americans, a lot of cubans living abroad are now coming back, and through relatives, are buying propert

i spent it with fidel castro and 5haker there are. “— with fidel castro and 5haker there are. —— checkro like to be photographed, like any celebrity. i can sort of compared them to cowboys. they were affable, pleasant, interesting and very photogenic, a5 pleasant, interesting and very photogenic, as you will see. especially che. he was the marilyn munro of the period. he seemed to be ina good munro of the period. he seemed to be in a good mood, as i remember. he even gave me a box of cigars, which idid not even gave me a box of cigars, which i did not bring into the united states because it was prohibited. i regret the box office —— box of cigars. he was a charming man, apart from what he did or didn't do. many people have doubtful backgrounds and doubtful histories. face—to—face they can be quite charming and accessible. and interesting. i didn't speak so much. i listened more. photographers shouldn't get in the way of things. i hope that i was an observer rather than a participant. elliott erwitt remembering the cold war. don't forget you can catch up on the whole series at the bbc w

when fidel castro was ready to come out of the sierra maestre, his support is based not on the poor but the middle-class. ironically, it's the knowledgeable who form the advance guard of the revolution but when the pied piper seeks to broaden his support and sounds support for bread and peace, the poor are there to listen. many believe, few doubt. the revolution is a success. castro's brother raul is already a self-proclaimed communist. his associate, che guevara, participated in the unsuccessful rev pollution guatemala but in the revolution, few cubans, even in the middle-class, believe that fidel castro will turn communist. he believes in the rights of citizens. but the elections never take place and the government becomes an instrument of coercion. the takeover is a success. berlin, 1961, our road has almost reached the present. why have the russians built this wall? why are all people denied the right guaranteed them under the international agreements to pass freely from zone to zone within berlin? the communist explanation is simplicity itself. according to them, west berlin was a

my father at the time was in prison under fidel castro. he was a political prisoner. he basically fought to help free cuba, when obviously the dictatorship came in in the late 1950's. he served time in jail, and it was a trying moment for my family. they came to the united states, and it was one of those things where theyrt

my father at the time was in prison under fidel castro. he was a political prisoner. he basically fought to help free cuba, when obviously the dictatorship came in in the late 1950's. he served time in jail, and it was a trying moment for my family. they came to the united states, and it was one of those things where they started with nothing. my father, being the entrepreneur and hard worker he is, teaching his kids their values, he started working as a carpenter and electrician. he made ends meet for his family. it was those lessons around the table with my father in particular, who would constantly remind me of the importance of freedom and democracy in america, and how we have a responsibility to preserve these values. taughts something i have to my kids about as well. steve: your parents are still alive? mercedes: they are. in my family, he was one of the earliest supporters of president trump. he would tell us, you know, he just speak his mind, and i respect my command have to say -- what this man has to say and the direction he wants to take this country. for a

my father at the time was in prison under fidel castro. he was a political prisoner. fought to help free cuba, when obviously the dictatorship came in in the late 1950's. jail, and ite in was a trying moment for my family. states,e to the united and it was one of those things where they started with nothing. father, being the entrepreneur and hard worker he he started working as a carpenter and electrician. he made ends meet for his family. it was those lessons with my father, who would constantly remind me of the importance of reagan and democracy in america, and how we have a responsibility to preserve these values. this is something i talked to my kids about as well. steve: your parents are still alive?e mercedes: they are. they are proud americans. if you asked my father today, would you go back to cuba? he would say no, i am a proud american. he loves this country. he loves the opportunities that this country has given him, being able to come in and grow his business. to raise his family. in my family, he was one of the earliest supporters of president trump. tel

. - in 1959 with the advent fidel castro, the rules of the game changed because a soviet union did become a supporter and an active participant in our hemisphere. - you can find a lot of very wealthy people who appreciated the role that the united states played during that period. there are a lot of others on the left, younger people and also poorer people that resented that the united states was very much paternalistic and a bully in some cases and really treated these as almost colonies of the united states. (dramatic music) - [narrator] in argentina the political violence of the 1970's would leave a lasting scar. - by the mid 1970's argentina had been in trouble for a while. finally in 1976 the military essentially said we're gonna put an end to this and they led a very dramatic coup. they killed anywhere between 10,000 and 30,000 suspected leftists, including many people who really had no involvement with the left. these people were drugged, kidnapped, thrown out of helicopters, tortured. some of the worst things in latin america's recent history. - [narrator] three more revolutions i

will: barely a year since fidel castro died, weeks to go before his brother raul steps down as president, this is a time of great change in cuba. critics among the previous administration think washington is missing a huge opportunity to influence the direction of the island at a critical moment in its history. will grant, bbc news, havana. laura: a chill now in relations between washington and havana. you are watching "bbc world news america. still to come on tonight's program, anticipation in johannesburg as the anc prepares a new leader to replace jacob zuma. nasa has discovered an eighth distantircling around a star, making it the first solar system to host as many planets as our own. nasa says the star, known as harder than the sun. the newly found planetary system is arranged like ours with the smallest planets nearest the stars and the biggest furthest away. the discovery was made with the help of an artificial intelligence techniques. >> astronomers have discovered more than 3000 planets circling other stars come but very few of these distant planetary systems resemble our own. n

19067s, it used anti-americanism as a safety valve and aligned subwayeden we the viet cong, and fidel castro. sweden had a policy of neutrality sin the napoleonic wars. yet how many know throughout the cold war sweden had a secret alliance with washington. the prime minister was in the pro cia wing of the swedish intelligence service. sweden is not what it appears. so when in the late 1960s, sweden launched a war on coal, first with the acid rain scare and then with global warming, what was it up to? it would, i think, be naive to take this at face value and think that pal per was motivate bid genuine concern about global warming. deep deception came easily to this immensely talented and sew fix it indicate politician. in newspaper interview where he first talked about global warming, palmer explained a vision of utopia has the same function as a mirage in the desert. without the mirage, you wouldn't get to the next oasis. global warming perhaps is a political mirage and what was the oasis? sweden's social democrats were about to embark on the world's largest civil nuclear power program in t

cia attempts on on secure when citizens cuban officials there were many attempts to assassinate fidel castro including such things as giving him exploding cigars and the one point the cia wanted to put poison.

of cia attempts on secure when citizens cuban officials there were many attempts to assassinate fidel castro including such things as giving him exploding cigars and one point the cia wanted to put poisonous fungus diving suit. where the man's a hobby. lobby. you don't really trying to screw up ronald reagan's movie night at the white house poison john f. kennedy's marilyn. donald trump's gold in the book lamps the newly released john f. kennedy papers it just came out show further proof of operation northwoods where the joint chiefs of staff staff under kennedy wanted to create false flag terrorist attacks on u.s. citizens and blame it on cuba that got all the way to kennedy's desk before he told them not to do that. so why the anger why the fury against this. this far fewer cars on the road. you'd see in a big city in the u.s. this is no l.a. trying. for new york traffic we believe that says a lot about the economy right our economy is bustling people got. to get there let's go man we're all in our cars for hours a day rushing to our jobs but you've got to think about rushing to we're rush

and 1970s thatad anti-americanism as a safety valve and aligned sweden with the viet cong, the fidel castro. shredden had a policy of neutrality since the napoleonic wars but how many know in the cold war sweden had a secret military alliance with washington and palmer's job after returning from study was in the pro cia wing of swedish intelligence service. in the late 1960s, sweden launched a war on coal, first with acid rain scare and then global warming. it would be naive to taking this at face value, and think that olaf palmer was motivate bid genuine concern about global warming. deep deception came easily to this immensely talented and sophisticated politician. in the newspaper interview where he first talked about global warming, palmer explained that a vision of utopia, has the same function as a mirage in the desert. without me mirage you wouldn't get to the next over assist. global warm -- oasis. global warming was the mirage and what was the oasis? they were bat to embark on a civil nuclear power program but nuclear power wasn't popular with many ordinary swedish voter sod the so

. >> narrator: the flames of crisis burn far stronger, fed and fanned by the bitter tirades of fidel castro

francisca: se revelÓ la tumba donde descansan los restos de fidel castro.pecial. esta tumba representa la ideologÍa de fidel castro, de hecho dicen que estÁ al lado de donde descansan los restos de josÉ martÍ, que tambiÉn fue un independentista bastante venerado en la isla de cuba. se dio a revelar estos detalles, llamado la atenciÓn de todo el mundo. en la tumba, han ido a visitarla mandatarios como maduro, entre turistas que van a tomarse fotografÍas y a haber dÓnde descansan los restos de fidel castro. esta interesante. ana patricia: sin palabras, seÑores. en la ciudad de guadalajara,va a castigar con cÁrcel y multas a personas querÍan o echen piropos o miradas morbosas a mujeres. [aplausos] ana patricia: esto fue hecho travÉs de las leyes en algunos municipios. espero que se extienda no sÓlo al estado de jalisco, sino a toda la repÚblica y tambiÉn que llegue a otros paÍses como en estados unidos. el acoso sexual hacia las mujeres se ha vuelto un tema recurrente en la sociedad. asÍ que esto va a ser implementado porque dicen que obviamente las mujeres se

. ♪ >> fidel castro had taken control of cuba in 1959.iets. and eisenhower favored the overthrow of their new leader but knew the plans were in the earliest stages. jfk agreed with the goal and, in 1961, fast-tracked the bay of pigs invasion, headed by a group of cuban exiles trained by the cia. >> eisenhower, keep in mind, never did green-light the bay of pigs invasion. so it was a plan that was being really seriously thought about. >> it was a disaster, ending in a quick surrender and a huge pr victory for castro. >> well, americans invaded cuba on april 17, 1961. it was my father's birthday. and it was his birthday present. ♪ >> april 22, 1961, president kennedy called for eisenhower to meet him at camp david. ike, the man who planned d-day, questioned the new president about the operation. he felt kennedy needed to do more than simply sign off on a plan recommended by the cia and the joint chiefs of staff. even worse, kennedy had called off air support, hoping to conceal american involvement. eisenhower told him people would know the

that's illegal because of the u.s. embargo imposed after fidel castro's communist revolution. since 1962, cuba has been cut off from the goods and services an economy needs to survive. despite free healthcare, housing, and higher education, many are struggling. >> [ speaking spanish ] >> how you doing? todo bien. >> mucho gui'm jorge. >> marcus. but walking around the old city, i saw a place full of life, energized by the changes. [ men singing, latin music plays ] desperate to boost the failing economy... this is a cool bag. ...the government has loosened their reins on private enterprise. so everything's made in cuba? >> yes. >> instead of working for the state, thousands of cubans are now working for themselves. very beautiful. [ up-tempo latin music plays ] i found them everywhere, even here -- a sleepy street in a residential neighborhood in this tiny rented garage. welcome to burner brothers bakery, run by a brother and a sister, tony and sandra camacho rodriguez. good morning. >> good morning. >> i'm marcus. so, the name is burner brothers. >> yes. >> why not burner sis

did some horrible aberrational things like hiring the mafia to assassinate fidel castro.he full report of the church committee, which went into a history of administration after administration that spied on americans, opened their mail, bugged their telephones. not just the mob, people like richard nixon. lennon.e like john they were under pressure. lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the civil war. gned thegned -- adams si alien and sedition act. during times of crisis, you can make excuses. morality, i don't think when you look at roosevelt, truman, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, and nixon, that there is a huge bit of difference as to what they would do to advance their own political future and country. brian: i had a question about the media. you have an interesting source i will ask in a moment. let's watch not. >> did you ever ask yourself why so many in the media are against you? >> they did not agree with what i stood for. this was long before watergate. they all thought he was innocent. if they did not think he was innocent, they did not want them exposed, becau

we had to point out to them how many people had died under mao, under stalin, under fidel castro. of these facts and figures had to be brought together to convince these commissions that yes, there was a reason to have a memorial to the victims of communism. brian: how did you decide, or try to decide where your spot would be? lee:[laughter] well, we had several different places. finally, glenn with the national park service jova us by massachusetts avenue and new jersey writer of the corner from the georgetown law center. he said, this is something, what about this? love it because there were thousands of cars going by. there was not a lot of residential people there around. therefore, we had to worry about -- didn't have to worry about getting people who lived in an apartment to approve the site. finally we discovered it was not good enough. all of these various commissions had signed off. we had to get the approval of a neighborhood commission. 6c. that? ok, how to do have to get mr. thomas. home.n a nursing we called up, made an appointment on a sunday afternoon. mary kay and

met with fidel castro. close to several u.s. a very vocal civil rights activist in alabama and mississippi and a great champion of inter-religious dialogue. an outcry when he was forced to resign he got a plum position as a high priest, one of the four basilicas in rome. his funeral will take place tomorrow at st. peter's basilica in the vatican. pope francis will give a final blessing likely to provoke anger of survivors of abuse in boston. they don't think he should have such an elaborate funeral. this is very common practice to do a funeral this way at st. peters any time a cardinal passes away. >> heather: you can see the impact of all this is still very real for those victims listening to that woman. thank you very much. >> jon: the house expected to vote on the republican tax bill in our next hour. we will cover it live. . . if yor crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough, it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved

we had to point out to them how many people had died under mao, under stalin, under fidel castro. of these facts and figures had to be brought together to convince these commissions that there was a reason to have a memorial to the victims of communism. host: how did you decide, or try to decide where your spot would be? mr. edwards: we had several different places. finally, glen with the national park service joined us by massachusetts avenue and new right on the corner from the georgetown law center. he said, this is something, what about this? love it, because there were thousands of cars going by. there was not a lot of residential people there around. therefore, we had to worry about getting people who lived in an apartment to approve the site. finally, we discovered it was not good enough. all of these various commissions had signed off. we had to get the approval of a neighborhood commission. 6c. i said, how do we do that? the key guy is mr. thomas. we have got to get him. he is directly responsible for this plot of land. i said, where is he? in a nursing home. we called up

this is a guy who worked for fidel castro, became disillusioned with the violence and the revolutionaryse, ostensibly flipped by the c.i.a., brought to miami in the anti-castro cause, and was really raring for a rematch and when we had the bay of pigs invasion and that fell through, literally all of exile miami thought it was fait accompli that kennedy would finish the job. but then kennedy didn't finish the job and kennedy dies and l.b.j. is looking at vietnam ultimately and so we have all these orphaned people, all these bombers and mercenaries and c.i.a.-trained people like monkey morales who are kind of rudderless for the '60s and '70s. and first pot happens, and it's child's play to move marijuana because the c.i.a. trained them to know evasion on the coastline better than anybody else. and cocaine is multiples as profitable and even though morales passed away in about, he was shot and killed at about christmas of 82, he keeps popping up in headlines if you his ghost lingers and i think he is a metaphor for everything that went wrong between cuba and the united states. this was a p

budapest and hungary and i'm thinking how we the disastrously made the mistake and misread the fidel castro phenomenon and of course bay of pigs two years later to thinking nixon and of course we had vietnam and 68 but nixon could have perhaps influenced nato or the european allies if you want to call them that to do more, more support or perhaps material to help the prague revolutionary is and i can't think of any past 68 wondering if there was a lot of opportunities missed or if the presidents were occupied or fearful or what? >> let me put the question back on you which is what would you like them to do. before you answer, what would you like them to done; that would not have led to immediate nuclear war? >> no troops. >> okay. >> but i think we could have had better covert support which i don't think we gave any of course the bay of pigs we could have stopped because we could have gone right in there and probably one with more air support, more air cover perhaps, better trained troops, i don't know. >> i think your argument works best for keep up because they're well outside the securit

ella quiere entrevistar al papa juan pablo ii, fidel castro y luis miguel.es que ahora te falta entrevistar? marÍa elena: ah, caray, tendrÍa que pensarlo tambiÉn. el papa francisco que me sigue fascinando, la figura del papa. es tan diferente al papa juan pablo ii. karla: serÁ porque el sacerdocio estÁ muy pegado a ti? mÁs adelante nos vas hablar de este sacerdote que es muy importante en tu vida porque es tu padre. ya regresamos despuÉs de la pausa. ♪ ♪ ♪ cuando tienes un resfriado, el dolor de cabeza puede hacer que esto... se sienta como esto. alivio todo en uno de los síntomas de resfriados y gripe de tylenol®, la marca n.° 1 recomendada por doctores para el alivio del dolor. locutor: en univisiÓn, salud es vida. >> marÍa elena salinas, te agradecemos por tus enseÑanzas y generosidad. te deseamos lo mejor en esta nueva etapa de tu ccarrera. nos vemos muy pronto para celebrar. marÍa elena: gracias, ilia. la admiro mucho ma estoy contenta de que ella va a cambiar de horario, ella va a salir mÁs temprano, hay más gente que va a tener la oportunidad de disfr

a mi padre lo habÍan metido preso en cuba en el aÑo 59 cuando llego fidel castro.to. creo que pasaron varias cosas en la vida que si una las vuelva a ver, ni madre que hablaban el hospital de la ciudad de miami para mujeres que le habÍa dado cÁncer como voluntaria, cuando se enfermÓ la Última vez, ella fue a un doctor y dijo que tenÍa dolor en la espalda. ella decÍa que se le iba a quitar. cuando se dieron cuenta ya tenÍa cÁncer por todo el cuerpo. ella le daba miedo para hacerse un estudio. si mi madre se llegaba a meter en la mÁquina que tiene que estar como 45 minutos, le iban a encontrar e iba estar viva. la disfrutÉ mucho. ese dÍa estaba de viaje. habÍa estado enferma de tratamiento. estaba con quimioterapia hasta el final. yo habÍa ido a colombia. volviÓ a colombia. cuando yo estaba en el hospital anoche saquÉ la fui a ver, mi madre se despidiÓ de mÍ. me dijo que apagarÁ la luz. ya no hablaba mucho. en el hospital estaba hace cuatro dÍas. llego a mi casa y me dicen que mi madre habÍa fallecido. alan: tÚ dijiste que durante muchos aÑos cuando estabas en cuba,

attempts on on sick children see this since cuban officials there were many attempts to assassinate fidel castro including such things as giving him exploding cigars at one point the cia wanted to put poisonous fungus in his timing suit. where the man's a hobby. you don't really trying to screw up ronald reagan's movie night at the white house poison john f. kennedy's marilyn. donald trump's gold in the book lamps the newly released john f. kennedy papers that just came out show further proof of operation northwoods where the joint chiefs of staff stamped under kennedy wanted to create false flag terrorist attacks on u.s. citizens and blame it on cuba that got all the way to kennedy's desk before he told them not to do that. so why the anger why the fury against this. this far fewer cars on the road. you'd see in a big city in the u.s. this is no l.a. traffic or new york traffic we believe that says a lot about the economy right our economy bustling people got to got to get there let's go man we're all in our cars forty four hours a day rushing to our jobs but you've got to think about rushing t

until april two months longer than planned due to the damage caused by hurricane castro and his late older brother fidel have ruled the country for nearly sixty years. british foreign minister boyce johnson has confronted his russian counterpart over the annexation of ukraine and russia cyber hacking so gay lover of told him relations between the two countries were very low johnson's visit to russia is the first by a british foreign secretary in more than five years. russia's sports minister says the country will host an alternative competition following its banned from february's winter olympics in south korea that suspension came after the international olympic committee found evidence of a quote unprecedented systematic manipulation of the anti doping system. in less than fifty day use around two and a half hours and athletes would descend on pyong chang for the twenty eighteen winter olympics the question is how many russians will be here among them earlier this month i.o.c. president thomas bach amounts to ban on russia because of state sponsored doping. the launch now appearing somewhat premature

raul castro stepping down as cuba's president, the 86-year-old took over in 2006 after fidel stepped castros are ruled the islands since overthrowing dictator batista in 1959. the current vice president will take over in april, castro will stay on as far from the communist party the next few years. rob: las vegas taking security to the next level, 800 new safety posts installed to protect pedestrians on the strip, they are connected underground to withstand ahead on collision from a car driving 50 mph, will install 8000 more of these posts next year. jillian: 100 passengers on a united airlines jack, smoke in the cabin forcing the flight to make an emergency landing in texas. our lady passengers were put on another flight, no one was hurt. a mechanical issue is to blame but it is unclear where the smoke was coming from. >> millions of americans on the move. jillian: according to aaa this is the busiest travel period of the holiday season. todd biro joins us from newark airport, new jersey, a good time to head out but i see people behind you. >> reporter: the magic of television. all