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we think it is an cuba's best interest. 2010, you go back they proliferation -- the proliferation of social media becoming more widespread. go and find a cuban that does not have a cell phone. it has jumped up massively. in addition to the internet's , telephone issue. we have people in cuba who have opened up small businesses who are accumulating capital and involved with pursuing market capitalism. we have demographics of cuba changing quite radically. in a problematic way for raul castro. what he needs to do is keep young people with their education on the island. we have cubans traveling back on the island. we have access that didn't previously exist. americans were visiting there and cubans were coming here. i have been traveling to cuba for 30 years. it is a more open society in terms of speech and expression in the last 30 years. that inexorably is going to lead to political change and social change. theyour question about single party communism, that dates back to 1959. the cubant how national narrative relates to w

that is possible in cuba. yes, it is possible. after 50 years. >> cuba, people live a long time in cuba. the life expectancy, 70 years oyears -- 80 years old here. inhe united states, 79. why do you think? >> in my opinion, that's happened maybe because we live more quieter, more free in our spirits. the cuban is free. cue base the best country to live. no violence, no crime in the street, very, very loud person we have in this country, no crime and violence. for example, in cuba, you can see a child in the street playing in 6:00 in the afternoon to 12:00 midnight and no happen nothing. >> no worries. >> nothing. very, very safe country for living. maybe that is the one reason between the many one where cuban people are living better, are living more fine. >> what other reasons do you think? >> for example, the food in cuba is nature. >> natural? >> yes. >> that's good. the americans use so many chemicals in their food. not only in america, around the world. >> i think you are right. how about fixing the car if it has problems? >>

it. i need to live in cuba, near to the cuban people, near to the cuban language. the past, too, is everywhere. ♪ the buildings, the cars, the gears of the whole system are still largely stuck in time. ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] >> 93-year-old juana is very much a part of that past. [ speaking foreign language ] long before the revolution, she was a shining star at the east tropicana. singing for capone, luciano. you know the names. >> juana! juana! [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ ♪ ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] >>> cuba is not havana. it's a bigger country that you might imagine, and the road to santiago to cuba, the country's second largest city, takes you 12 hours on their less than modern highway system. along the way you see agrarian cuba, the country in which most cubans lived pre-revolution. ♪ >> santiago is a poor city. it's blacker. unlike havana, the symbols and faces of the revolution still seem to mean something. these brutalist prefab workers housing complexes are everywhere here,

it was just two years ago that made a visit to cuba himself visiting with castro. an interesting relationship what has evolved over the course of fidel castro's life in cuba which started out hostilely. even though they were ideologically similar, it evolved over time. >> mat rivers thank you very much. matt rivers in beijing with the china/cuba relations. of course, it will be interesting to watch how every country reacts to this, the death of one of the most prominent figures of 20th century history, into 21st century, especially because the way countries react is linked to, you know, their own internal and domestic politics. >> yes. >> so in china, run by the communist party, it is interesting to see how they're reacting. they've had ambivalent relations with raoul castro, matt rivers was telling us. we want to show you the last public photo taken of fidel castro. it was november 15th, just ten days ago, in havana. he was meeting at the time with vietnamese president tram di quon. >> we are bringing reaction from around the world. let's bring in a former ambassad

it's complicated, because cuba doesn't see this, they see it as the u.s. erent approach between cuba and latin america. and that's why maybe we haven't seen the progress as expected. now if president trump, once in office, could, as he said, do away with those executive orders. so far there have not been advances not as expected. and fidel castro is already out of the picture. he was critical of the process. even though he said there's only one revolution, that raul and he were one, and that he doesn't trust the u.s. this whole dynamic falls into what fidel castro was saying that the u.s. cannot be trusted. we'll see what's on board and able to go forward. we have to keep in mind the embargo, for example, only congress can lift it. that's not something that the white house can do. the white house can do one thing like one of the most controversial issues between cuba and the u.s., is that cuban who reach u.s. soil immediately receive refugee status. that's controversial in florida. many believe people are taking advantage of that. that's something that can

cuba from the united states. and see if perhaps we ought to split it a bit. rge, only looking at a donald trump presidency where we are confronting cuba? or is he building golf courses in guantanamo bay? where are we heading? jorge: i do not know. if i knew, i assure you i would be a very happy camper. what could the president of the united states, do by executive authority? he could stop the agricultural exports to cuba authorized by -- over $5 billion authorized by george bush. they all come from republican states in the midwest. he could authorize stopping collaboration with cuban security forces to prevent drug trafficking through cuban air and space and facilitate drug traffickers entering the united states in that way. he could stop u.s. cuban military collaboration and the perimeter of the u.s. base in guantanamo and make it easier to prisoners in guantanamo flee into cuba. he could stop the migration agreement that lasted clinton, bush and obama and therefore stop cuba from enforcing a child -- the trump-preferred u.s. migration policy. there is a lot

cuba. in just a few hours, you have to think when the sun rises over us, it rises over a very different cuband cubans. and it will take some time to absorb this news and begin to wonder about what this news means for their future. >> patrick oppmann, thank you thank you very much. >> fidel castro was born in cuba, and castro ruled cuba for nearly 50 years. first as prime minister and then as president. he was known for his long fiery speeches. military fatigues, and of course, cigars. and was widely criticized for his freedom of speech. turn his reign, and he named his brother raul his successor. the cold era ruled lived long enough to see the relationship with the united states. joins me now is christiane amanpour in london. first, let me get your reaction, christiane. >> martin, it was inevitable, 90 years old, he outlasted ten u.s. presidents but the last one, barack obama outlasted him and changed the dynamic, since 1959, when cuba came under castro's control and re-established those diplomatic relations with cuba. it remains to be seen whether that will ever happen in the foreseeable fu

cuba. hopefully someday. it's getting closer and closer. hopefully we do that soon. >> reporter: do you think that after the death of fidel castro there is some hope of political changes in cuba? >> hopefully. not just so much the death but hopefully this is the beginning. that's why everybody's here trying to celebrate that many years of suffering that we've been through. and hopefully that will be a start. >> reporter: thank you very much, sir, for this. we have a number of people here, how you live the death of fidel castro? i imagine for your age, you probably might, you were born in miami, no? >> yes, i was. >> reporter: how you live it? >> i feel that this is a great moment not to celebrate the death of somebody, now celebrate freedom. there are many political prison investigato ers in cuba -- prisoners in cuba, many throughout the world. to have somebody that perpetrated so many human rights abuse and enslaved a country, we still hope -- hopefully this is, castro's death foreshadows political freedoms on the island. >> reporter: so do

>> oh, i'm not worried because really there is not about communism here in cuba. >> reporter: it's still not clear whether he changed or whether he lied. but when castro began executing opponents, when castro started nationalizing industries and aappropriating u.s. property in cuba, it didn't matter. the u.s. response -- sanctions. the economic embargo that exists to this day. most of them landed in miami with nothing but their lives and the fierce determination to bring fidel castro down one way or another. in april of 1961 an army of cuban exiles backed by the cia tried to slip into the bay of pigs and liberate the island. the invasion was a disastrous and embarrassing failure. with a david to the u.s. goliath, a role he fine-tuned for the rest of his life, with help from the soviet union. >> this is the cbs news extra. >> reporter: the following year, in 1962, u.s. spy planes spotted the russians installing nuclear missiles in cuba. >> those are russian-made, russian-manned ballistic missiles. >> reporter: this was the cold important. >> i have directed the armed forces to prepare for

it could drive big changes in the united states. president elect trump's allies are already urging him to slam the door on cuba. >> it wasn't a romantic figure if you were shot by him. he wasn't a romantic figure if you were driven off the island. >> on the campaign trail, the president elect sent mixed signals on cuba before the election he hammered the obama administration for restoring ties and easing travel restrictions. mr. that. >> but all of the concessions that barack obama granted the castro regime were done through executive order which means the next president can reverse them and that, i will do, unless the castro regime meets our demands. >> fidel castro east death is giving some of his strongest critic an opening toed a vienz lobby trump to follow threw on what he said. was staying in power. period. >> cuban was jailed in cuba claiming the repression is worse since relations. >> increased repression, insults and torture. >> on the other hand, president obama says the more we open and expose the people of cuba to the united states the more likely they may be to drive change from within. debate in washington. well this who

cuba. a crisis ensued, which brought the world the closest it had ever come to nuclear annihilation. a u.s. naval blockade, called a "quarantine," was forced on cuba. kennedy took to the airwaves and warned of the consequences. >> to halt this offensive build- up, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to cuba will be initiated. it shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from cuba against any nation in the western hemisphere as an attack by the soviet union on the united states, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the soviet union. >> sreenivasan: it took 12 days of intense negotiations and u.n. diplomatic efforts, but the soviets backed down and promised to remove the missiles from cuba in return for a u.s. commitment not to invade the caribbean island. the newshour's robert macneil, who was in havana at the time, asked fidel castro about the missile crisis in a 1985 newshour interview. >> when the crisis was at its very height, did you personally think that nuclear war was a possibility one of those days? did y

it exactly. and my first book cuba confidential, and you just know. other thing so you had the idea of what a scorched earth warrior this man as is his family as you may know and i write about it extensively was very well lost. his father was a self-made man who came to spain to fight for the spanish and fell in love with the new world and just threw labor and greg amassed a very large part on trend ferment sugar cane, a nimble mind and fidel's mother was then made and was married to another person and have multiple dalliances with women who worked on and had to come to the castro think a thin she was a young woman and she is six children before he married her. while he was married. but this is a cultural context for that. the point being this fidel castro had a lot of money, that he had a cultural deficit. both of his parents were self-taught, semi-illiterate until they were older and were able to teach themselves. a very touchy matter where he raised as a young man and tells his father we put the postage stamp, the most recent things this kind of to

it. the castro family sold the entire nation of cuba stole it and still own it.ight, los angeles is next up, your reaction to the death of fidel castro and what it means for u.s.-cuba relations? cuban history,n and american history, and the founders of america, i heard in one program somebody was insulted by the fact that obama compared the founding of this country so-called founding .athers with fidel castro he was highly insulted. now, the thing with america is ordrink this history -- d,ould i say history kool-ai of the so-called american revolution. was something front down from heaven. america is still in the process of dealing with its demons. sessionin of the dealing with hate crimes. here we are 300 years up from a annihilating one group, enslaving another, and the group of the so-called free this country was landowners and slaveholders. who spoke at once out of their mouth about the so-called liberty in the equality of men while they held slaves. mandela, freedom fighter, martin luther king, freedom fighter, these were the allies of fidel castro. people w

it says while cuba remains a totalitarian island, it's my hope that today marks a move away from thefor too long and toward a future in which the wonderful cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve. we've seen statements from other world leaders that have glossed over the controversial aspects of fidel castro's reign in cuba. trump specifically goes after it. in other parts of the statement he calls castro a brutal dictator who will be remembered for his firing squads and other things his regime was criticized for. and it states the trump administration wants to make it clear they do not approve of the way he handled his leadership in cuba, that paragraph we read for you shows there is still an open door in the mind of the new administration to normalize relations between the two countries. and that's, of course, the big thing we're trying to figure out. how the trump team will handle relations with cuba. he's been critical of the deal that president obama struck with cuba through executive action. and the question now is, will trump try to renegotiate a new dea

in that sense, it has affected me a lot because -- the american-born children of exiles view cuba dimpley. >> it is an abstract for me. it is a culture, a traditional, it's family. it's what you do. for them it is more raw. for me it's -- i don't like castro. i'd love to see a democracy there and i think most americans probably would but what they feel will be greater. >> because we have to live with the invasion. we both lost, yeah, a lot of friends, you know, close friends. i remember october crisis. >> the talk turned toward what could have been done differently in the last 50 years to bring political change to cuba. it's not something the younger generation thinks of as much. time has softened cue man-american support of the embargo but they are adamant that castro's regime must go. >> the dinosaurs, if you want to call it, the cronies, that are in power right now they don't want to let go and they should have let go a long time ago and they were true patriots, yes. i'm angry at that because we had a beautiful country. >> did you think you would be at this age and not going back to cu

that day is today and it does feel like a changed cuba. >> what are the plans as far as mourning his ath? >> the mourning has begun. it will be a nine-day period of mourning. not far from where we are now, work is already under way and that will be one of the centers for people to go and pay their respects. we anticipate that perhaps fidel castro's ashes once he is cremated can be displayed there and you can see when they brought back -- hundreds of thousands people walked by his casket. we'll see some of those images. then after these large gatherings in havana where we expect thousands of people to show up, they will transport fidel castro's ashes down the entire length of the island just about people paying their respects all along the way. a very controversial leader but today many in cuba are mourning. >> patrick oppmann, thank you so much for bringing us that perspective there from cuba. we appreciate it. >>> want to go straight to chris moody who is in little havana miami and atmosphere there. >> chris what are people telling you there this morning? >> reporter: it's the opposi

it? sandra can't get bags for her soap from cuba so a relative from the u.s. is next. part martha stewart, part mcgiefr. >> it comes as a bag for bread and you cut it and make small ones? >> yes. >> it kind of doesn't matter that it's soap. what matters is that sandra wanted to generate commerce and they figured out how to do it. she's taking things that are already produced in different components, the bags, the fragrance, the soap that's already finished and she's reconstituting them and coming up with something that's more special. i wanted to see sandra's store so i headed down to the artisan's market. there's, of course, a havana. i saw booth after booth of private businesses. crazy to think a few years ago this was illegal. here we go. the brujas. sandra offers ten different types of soap. each one costs $1 to make. she sells some for 2 bucks, some for $2.50. the government charges her $94 a month in rent. >> so you have to sell 45 soaps to pay your rent, right? and how many soaps do you sell a day? >> now we have 26. >> today you've sold 26 already? >> yes. >> i

it will be the congress that determines whether or not the u.s. embargo with cuba stays in place. very likely that it will. >>> next, conservative talk radio host, neal borts joins me live. he called fidel castro a murdering dictator. we will get his take on the future of american/cuban relationships. >>> the hillary clinton campaign is joining the group for recount efforts. every day starts better with a healthy smile. start yours with philips sonicare, the no.1 choice of dentists. compared to oral-b 7000, philips sonicare flexcare platinum removes significantly more plaque. this is the sound of sonic technology cleaning deep between teeth. hear the difference? get healthier gums in just 2 weeks vs a manual toothbrush and experience an amazing feel of clean. innovation and you. philips sonicare. save now when you buy philips sonicare. >>> a deepening divide over the u.s.-cuban relationships. former conservative talk show host tweeted this. he was a murdering dictator. he wanted americans to die in a ussr nuclear attack. neal boortz is here. >> nobody told me that tweet was going t

>> against the odds, she made a better life for them both, but it may not be enough to keep them in cuba does it scare you? >> translator: of course. it was never my dream to leave my country. i want my daughter to grow up where i did. >> but? >> translator: if i want a better future for her, i have to consider the possibility that she will go elsewhere. that really makes me sad because i love my country. >> i can see the day coming where she has to make a choice and it won't be an easy one. >> nice to meet you. >> you have a wonderful mother. >> say thank you. >> thank you. >> gracias. i will pick up my shirt in a couple of days. this is great. i got a hug too. >> after leaving her daughter, i took a walk up the street. i wondered if people here are running out of patience. >> it becomes available to people and they see their options. people are going to start to go after it. not because they want wealth or fame, but they want something brighter. it feels like you took a picture in 1965 and nothing happened. it's crazy. how are you doing, buddy? put your hands here. ready? >> the kids d

cuba. but i think it -- >> what is the future? >> in reality, the cuban government is weaker and the obama government and the trump administration should take notice of this. there are people inside, the powers to be in cuba now that are wondering what's next. because everybody believed that the castros will never die. >> well, thank you very much for joining us, mayor. a lot of people wondering what this means, where it goes. and of course, for the moment, you have people who gathered down here, they've been celebrating since early this morning, celebrating what they hope is going to be a new democratic cuba. so many people who were exiled or never even got a chance to see cuba. cuban-americans born here but waiting to eventually, they hope, go back to a country that will be somewhat of a different government, somewhat of a more democratic state. back to you. >> all right, kerry sanders, thank you. the mayor just mentioned, let's bring in ron allen at the white house with reaction. ron, let's talk about what the president is sayin

in 1998, cuba opened its island doors to pope john paul ii. ly father and the man who chained down cuba's churches shared words before the world. critics would later call the historic meeting little more than a public relations campaign. cals astro underwent surgery for intestinal bleeding and quietly creed power to his younger brother raoul. in 2008 castro announced he would no longer serve as cuba's president and commander-in-chief. a surprising move few thought they would live to see. by the end of the month the country formally elected raoul to accede his brother raoul. castro remained largely out of the public eye. with one notable exception. in march of 2012 he would welcome a second pontiff, pope benedict the xvith. the two met privately at the end of benedict's three day visit to cuba. despite the pope's to the government. the two spoke to 30 minutes what does a pope do? still his conspicuous absence in later years fueled constant rumors about his health. when president obama announced the softening of u.s. sanctions against cuba in dec

>> because it's free cuba. we want -- we've been waiting for this for are years. it's finally time that we celebrate. >> thank you so much. >> many people -- many people here chanting "freedom." an emotional day, a very big day, a day for celebration. definitely here in miami dade county. back to you in the studio. >> and that's miami celebrating the death of fidel castro. word is coming out, and as people are finding out they are going to the streets of miami and celebrating as people said, the death of fidel castro. we're going to go to nbc gabe guy ate ez right now. you've been in cuba. how long do you think the people of cuba are taking this news that fidel castro has died at the age of 90? >> we were in cuba just a few days ago. went there on tuesday and wednesday, and we were shooting a story about the impact of the cigar industry and how the lifting of restrictions several weeks ago by the obama administration and cuban cigars might affect businesses here in the united states. we're also speaking about how they felt about the stalling of diplomatic relations

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one of those changes americans can now travel to cuba a lot more easily. it began with last year's restoration of diplomatic relations between cuba and the united states. the u.s. embassy in havana opened shortly afterward. american tourism in cuba forever transformed. >> the progress that we marked today is yet another demonstration that we don't have to be imprisoned by the past. when something isn't working, we can and will change. >> reporter: in may of this year a carnival cruise liner docked cruise ship to arrive in cuba in decades. and in august, the first direct commercial flight traveling between the two countries since 1962. americans now flooding the island and filling up hotels with record bookings. on my trip to cuba this past may, i ran into several american tourists. >> now it's here. the americans are here. the tourism is here. >> reporter: an influx of visitors bringing much needed income to cuba's tourist industry, a big difference from my first visit 20 years ago. i first came to cuba 19 years ago, and at that time this area, old havana, wa

it? >> i had gone to cuba when i was working for another network. and met him very briefly. with a whole bunch of reporters and said to him then, would you do an interview? it took us many years to actually get it. for a man who likes to talk, he does very few interviews. when he finally sat down, it was for me memorable. and to a large degree because we crossed the bay of pigs together. >> is it true that we are the first americans to cross the bay of pigs in 16 years? >> as i remember, it's the first time. >> what was your sense of the man? >> your feeling is that he's much bigger than he actually is. he's a big bear of a man. he was always in uniform. i shouldn't say always. the last time i saw him, he was not. he was wearing a business suit. to me, he was almost unrecognizable. because he loved walking around in his khaki uniform. he was funny. the crew loved him. we traveled throughout the country, throughout the sierra maestra martins where he had been a guerilla when he had been trying to take over for batista, get rid of batista, who was a dictator. the word charisma

his death now leaves an uncertain future for cuba and its relationship with america. we begin now with an update from charlie who is on the ground in cuba. charlie, good to see you. you don't look like are you on the ground, you look like are you up in the air. where are you and tell us what is going on in the street below you. >> rose: i think it's a kind of modified sadness. there is its people understand that he has cast a huge footprint not only in cuba but for someone who is simply the leader of a small caribbean nation, he had a global profile. and everybody understands that. he was in a sense the poster person for the revolutionary that i think influenced so many people in latin america, and who wanted to change their own country, whether in his image or in somebody else's image. but that image that he carefully created, i think, survived until the day he died, even though he was 90. and so they're sad about that, many people. on the other hand there are many people who feel like he was a tyrant and feel like he was doing things that violated human rights. and t

but it may not be enough to keep them in cuba. does it scare you?puesto. >> translator: of course. it was never my dream to leave my country. i want my daughter to grow up where i did. >> but? >> translator: if i want a better future for her, i have to consider the possibility that she go elsewhere. and that really makes me sad because i love my country. [ birds chirping ] >> i can see the day coming when she'll have to make a choice. and it won't be an easy one. >> dale la manito y"nice to meet you." >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> you have a wonderful mother. >> say thank you. >> thank you. >> gracias. [ laughter ] >> gracias. >> gracias. >> say thank you. un besito? >> i'll come pick up my shirt in a couple of days, okay? ah! this is great! i got a hug, too! >> [ laughs ] [ slow folk music plays ] >> after leaving kirenia and her daughter, i took a walk up the street. hola. i wondered if people here are running out of patience. as information becomes more available to people and they see what their options are, people are gonna start

in 1998, cuba opened its island doors to pope john paul ii. ly father, and the man who chained down cuba's churches, shared words before the world. critics would later call the historic meeting little more than a public relations campaign. in the summer of 2006, castro underwent surgery for intestinal bleeding and quietly ceded power to his younger brother, raul. in february 2008, castro announced he would no longer serve as cuba's president and commander in chief. a surprising move few thought they would live to see. by the end of the month the country's national assembly formally elected raul to succeed his brother fidel. after resigning as the head of cuba's communist party in april 2011, castro remained largely out of the public eye. with one notable exception, in march of 2012 he would welcome a second pontiff, pope benedict. the two met privately at the end of benedict's three-day visit to cuba despite the pope's vocal opposition to cuba's government. the two spoke for roughly 30 minutes with castro asking the holy father, what does a pop

we focused a lot on miami, appropriately, where it's kind of via con diablo, go to the devil, but frankly in cuba itself, it's a sincere -- they really care for fidel, strange as that sounds to us so we're going to have to square these two perceptions for u.s. policy going forward. >> we're going to talk to you a little later this hour and i want to hear what you have to say about that. admiral, thank you for talking with me. >> you bet, sheinelle. >> how the death of fidel castro was the first big diplomatic challenge for donald trump. how is he doing? we'll take a look. >> it's a historic moment that we're living now. castro's died. castro died. it's important to us. it's opportunity to be free! to really free. ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ channel islands national park. coronado. saguaro. you'll see there's one that's an eagle. my number one goal is getting more funds out to parks because some animals and plants are only found in one place in the world, and that's in some national parks. i find that's a great cause, and i