hansi. >> thank you, phil.y name is hansi lo wang reporter at npr headquarters in here in washington, d.c. i'm part of a new reporting team called code switch. we are a team of nine people covering race, ethnicity and culture. one of my particular subbeats is asian-american community. i produce regular features that you hear nationally on morning edition, all things considered, weekend edition and also things for our blog. so my takeaway tip for folks interested in covering the asian-american community and working not on this particular beat is to embrace the stereotype, which is -- maybe that's not the right word. but holidays coming along and i'm thinking often the lunar new year is a very big holiday in a lot of asian-american communities. and that often is a time when newsrooms want to find a story about lunar new year. or chinese new year it's often i have been given that assignment two years in a row. partly because i also am interested in -- i see it as a challenge, because i think we pretty much have al

hansi. >> thank you, phil. my name is hansi lo wang reporter at npr headquarters in here in washington, d.c. i'm part of a new reporting team called code switch. we are a team of nine people covering race, ethnicity and culture. one of my particular subbeats is asian-american community. i produce regular features that you hear nationally on mrng edition, all things considered, weekend edition and also things for our blog. so my takeaway tip for folks interested in covering the asian-american community and working not on this particular beat is to embrace the stereotype, which is -- maybe that's not the right word. but holidays coming along and i'm thinking often the lunar new year is a very big holiday in a lot of asian-american communities. and that often is a time when newsrooms want to find a story about lunar new year. or chinese new year it's often referred to. i have been given that assignment two years in a row. partly because i also am interested in -- i see it as a challenge, because i think we pretty

backed cuban dictator for hansie about tista was enjoying a mutually beneficial relationship collaborating with american multinational corporations but everything changed in one nine hundred fifty nine during the cuban revolution when a young named fidel castro successfully ousted. and created a socialist state of course with the cold war in full swing and communism manufactured as america's number one threat the new socialist government demanded that guantanamo be returned to cuba carver the us refused citing that both parties had to agree to rescind on the lease in america simply did not instead of a buffer zone was created littered with cacti and explosives now the fence right here is the only point of entry into mainland cuba which closed january first one hundred fifty nine at the closest point there are three hundred metres between perimeter fences and unfortunately the beautiful landscape is still covered in the land mines but it's not just land mines separating these territories to the cuban government the base represents a perpetual occupation by a hostile force which is why it st