at one time cubans here were reviled as gazans, worlts, counter revolutionries. anybody he left the country was a counter revolutionary. there is still some of that attitude. particularly since the early '90s and that economic crisis. it's very handy to have somebody, a relative who lives in miami who is willing to send even, $100 a month, will allow you to live pretty decently in cuba if you receive that in hard currency. i think people look to cuban-americans in hopes that they can help change u.s. policy. i think one of the big changes that is going to take place if the u.s. does lift the embargo will be for cuban-americans to become organized to oppose the line of hard-liners, doing everything possible to strangle the economy in cuba. i think cubans look to that as some hopes in that regard. then in a broader sense people are really hopeful about. there was a lot of hope that obama in the election would make for change in the u.s.. >> are there higher expectations held on cuban-americans then, than cubans in spain or cubans in other parts of the world? >> i s