the newspaper of the sandinista party. brian: panama. mr. gruber: panama was fascinating because i have a friend who is a jazz musician. his cousin is a pilot on the panama canal. in panama, through the meeting with the exiled president of guatemala, jose serrano, i met someone at lunch who is a psion of panamanian political families. he has two great grandfathers who were presidents of panama. through repeated attempts, i finally got to get on a midnight ride with him down the panama canal. the whole story of panama and our intervention there under president george h w bush has to do with the canal and with our desire to keep the canal. actually physically seeing how that canal threads through the country and what means to the country, interviews with the most important way to do that. one interview was with this black panamanian who years before could never have had that job when it was under u.s. control. a chance to get a physical sense of what the canal meant to panama was valuable. brian: serbia. mr. gruber: serbia w

leftist regime in place, the united states was supporting the nicaraguan contras to overturn the sandinistaas going to overthrow them and the heroes were the contras that were going to do it like our fathers at lexington and concord. >> we are complying with the law. we're complying with that fully. >> the boland amendment passed unanimously in the house and says the united states cannot provide funds for the purpose of overthrowing the government of nicaragua. >> when congress tried to cut funding off, reagan believed it was his obligation, a moral obligation and obligation to american security to make sure the contras continued to get funding. >> the last of the u.s. marines left beirut today for the relative safety of the six fleet warships offshore ending a 17-month peace keeping mission which brought lebanon no closer to resolving its strife. >> lebanese factions realized their impact was very short lived. so these groups in lebanon began nabbing americans. >> in beirut, the united states was again the target of lebanon's shadowy men. they kidnapped william buckley. he's the embassy's

during the campaign, hillary clinton tried to redbait you by raising your support of the sandinistasking about you being favorable towards fidel castro. but i was wondering if you could talk about the significance of the life and legacy of fidel castro and talk about the u.s. in relation to latin america today. sen. bernie sanders: well, it's not just latin america. you know, i think what we can say, and i've been to cuba two or three times. i think jane and i went in 1989 for the first time, and i've been back a couple of times, and jane had some educational work in cuba. a lot of positive things that can be said. their healthcare system, for a third world country, is quite good. it's universal. all people have healthcare without any expense. last time i was there, i visited a hospital, where they do very, very serious and good work. they come up with a lot of new drugs, actually, in cuba, i believe. their educational system is strong. but in truth, their economy is in pretty bad shape. and in truth, you don't do very well if you dissent in cuba. so i think, you know, if you look ov