jose pertierra and peter kornbluh welcome to democracy now!wonderful to have you with us on this truly historic day. people are watching and listening, here all of the traffic. we're right across the street from the cuban embassy, which will soon hoist the cuban flag for the first time in washington d.c. on the cuban embassy grounds and 54 years. jose pertierra, you are cuban-american. talk about the significance of this. >> it is his dork. i have waited for this moment all my life. in 1961, i was 10 years old. i remember as if it was yesterday when diplomatic relations were broken. there were times when i thought i would never live to see the day. now you mentioned flags. it is interesting, there is a new cuban flag. inside the embassy, they're going to hoist the flag that the cuban government took back to cuba when on january third 1961, dwight eisenhower broke relations. that flag was folded, taken back to cuba and put in a museum. and it has been brought back and it will be flying inside the embassy today. amy: whited president eisenhower