gu guba libre is available after t for signing. please join me in welcoming tony pe perrettet. >> thank you for coming out on such a beautiful spring night. d.c. is looking pretty good today. to celebrate the secrets of the cuban revolution. and you may be wondering from my funny accent what is an australian doing living in new york and writing about cuba? many have wondered and the reason is i used to live in argentina and buenos aires and reported a lot all around south america. if you live in latin america, you deal with latin america, everyone there is in some way thinking about cuba. you know, what happened in cuba, and what's going to happen in cuba, and so in that sense, i felt like i really had to go. and i finally did in 1996, just after the soviet union had collapsed, and it was the nay deer of cuban's fortunes. it was kind of an economic disaster. i got down there from new york because you couldn't fly direct in those days. i went via nasa. all i knew is i had to take a thousand dollars in cash and gif it to a guy named