the heart is the helms burton but the embargo is also full of holes. some said i.t.e holes than cheese. you have to know where the holes are so you don't fall into it. >> canadian companies have gone in, can american countries catch up? >> the european companies will be overwhelmed. we will overwhelm them. we are a tsunami of investment and interest and we are 90 miles away. and there are 2 million cuban americans here that can be the ambassadors for both sides. we can be the you know the people that facilitate the business. >> what will go first? what companies do you think will get into cuba first? >> travel and tourism. that's the low-hanging fruit. that's the easy one. that's easy because i always call travel and tourism is the thing that pulse the cuban train. they have done a little bit in infrastructure. they have hotels. the island is stunningly beautiful. they love americans and they love tourists. >> there are still serious infrastructure problems in cube. >> very serious infrastructure. you name it, they have it. cuba needs to rebuild its power grid, some

however, helms-burton was it -- , thelation passed in 1996 liberty and democracy solidarity acts, does it that the embargo stays in place until the cuban government means a whole series of criteria, one of which is restoring the property of cuban americans who had subsequently become u.s. citizens. claims working group is certainly going to start out talking about the recognized claims, the claims that are recognized under either national law or that the human government recognizes. there is an argument to be made that it would be in the interest of the cuban government to find some way of satisfying some cuban-american claims, if that the door to detente between the cuban government and the united states. there are various formulas through which one might try to do that. you can look like and what we have done in eastern europe or in vietnam, some other countries. or are a lot of different models that can be used. ours, at thef brookings institute, is actually working on a white paper. it will be up in a couple of weeks. he begins to talk about some of these models and how this issue