jeffrey: cuba is a very small country. julia: cuba is a very small country. he has been notoriously ambitious. he took office in 1959 when he was 32. he was in politics since his early 20's. 70 years of putting himself on the political stage in cuba. doing it in a very high-risk way as well. jeffrey: what was it about him that made him want to insert himself into the course of world history? again punching way above his , weight? julia: i don't know it was answerable. it was in his dna. he was born that way. he was fixated as a young channel dish as a young child with the united states. the relationship with the united states was formative, not antagonistic. we have letters from him when he writes to fdr as a 12-year-old. he came here on his honeymoon. [indiscernible] [laughter] he campaigned in new york city and washington dc to raise money for cuban-americans. jeffrey: was it a love-hate relationship? or a hate-hate relationship? jorge: no, it was an effort to bring cuba out of the thumb of the united states of america. he was insulted how the united states

it's not whether americans are ready to head to cuba, it's whether cuba is ready for them. those accustomed to five star hotels may find current accommodations a little bare bones, crumbling infrastructure and critical shortages. >> we bring our own toilet paper, nice soft charmin. from the us. >> while u.s. visitors will be able to use credit cards and debit cards, cuba is mostly a cash-only society. >> it will take a while for american tourists in volume. >> still, more trade with the world's largest economy have some here in havana hopeful that this new u.s. policy is actually just the beginning. >> no more embargo, i tell you, no more embargo, everybody is going to be the americans going to be welcome here. >> reporter: in the meantime, tour guides in havana will have their hands full with more and more americans descending on the island. >> and that's our show for today. i'm ali velshi, thank you for joining us. game down? >> absolutely not, no one was slowing the train down. >> and the white house trying to rein them in today. thank you for joining us i'm joie chen. t

anticipate having come and go to cuba -- come from cuba to america and go to cuba from america? >> sir, the scheduled commercial service that you're referencing, that would be a department of transportation economic estimate... >> ok. ok, i've heard that. you know, i -- i got three minutes and 41 seconds left. let me tell you again about my trip to cuba. they hate capitalism. they hate everything we stand for. i -- i learned that in my trip to cuba. i can tell you that. they hate america. they do not hate us as americans, but they do hate america and what we represent. >> they blame us for all of their economic woes. everything. and -- and this was not just the 83-year-old and the 23-year-old. everyone that i had the -- the opportunity to speak to over there felt the same way. i took great offense to that. great offense. i love america. i think it's the greatest country ever in the history of the world. i -- i can't for the life of me understand -- you know, i'll tell you another story. we -- we had the -- the opportunity to visit with some journalists and i asked them -- i -- i

viva cuba! >> sreenivasan: ...in leftist leaders like venezuela's hugo chavez and bolivia's evo morales, who said they were inspired by the cuban revolution and joined castro in delighted defiance of uncle sam. fidel's slow fade began on july 31, 2006, when he ceded power to his younger brother, raul. the news that castro had undergone successful surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding aired over state television. in the states, among the exile and cuban american population, there was anxiety along with jubilation at the idea that this could be the end. but soon, castro allowed himself to appear in photos from his hospital bed and even entertained friends while convalescing. when he was up and moving in october of 2006, the video captured a frail and aging man in a much weakened state trying to look healthy. in december 2006, cubans celebrated the 50th anniversary of the revolution and a belated birthday without the guest of honor who was still too ill to attend. he didn't reappear in the public e

>> well, that's one of the reasons my parents left cuba, took us out of cuba to the united states. i would -- when fidel castro took over, i would bring home from school the color in pictures of the brave cuban soldier bayonetting the cowardly american soldier brainwashing the kids, and one day at school our teachers said, all right, kids, pray to god for ice cream. and we closed our eyes, no ice cream, and then the teacher says, well, let's ask fidel for ice cream, and, yay, we got ice cream. at first the castro regime tried to undermine the church before they decided it was easier to co-opt it, but that's the story of fidel and raul castro in cuba and 60 years of socialism and communism and failure. >> alex, you told us your parents got you out of cuba in 1961. you left with $11 and 2 suitcases. do you think after this death overnight of fidel castro that things will change on the ground in the country of your birth? >> i am hopeful, but i'm not optimistic. you know, raul castro basically has been in power since 2006, since 2008 officially, and cuba is a military oligopoly, it's

president to visit cuba since 1928. obama took steps to reopen economic ties with cuba. will president-elect trump toss president obama's cuba initiatives out the window? we'll talk it over with josh rogan. what do we know about trump's stance about cuba? >> sure. trump has said a lot about what he would do about cuba. the vast majority of the time he said that president obama's opening to cuba was a bad deal. he's not opposed to bring cuba back into the fold, but he thinks cuba must do more in order to receive the social and economic benefits that come with a normalized relationship with the united states. what more, you may ask? what we've seen is that the u.s. trade embargo in cuba has not proved to move the castro away from its admittedly brutal and repressive policies. the question will be for donald trump when he takes office, does he want to roll back those policies? he will have the ability to do so, they're mostly executive orders. congress has not lifted the embargo. the question is does he see any benefit to taking those relationships away, taking u.s. busines

for cuba, and not what cuba is doing for itself. we have seen reforms in the last ten years. they have created a massive private sector, now 10% of cuba's economy is private. but still, it's an economy at a sub sis tant level. and they don't seem to be too interested in allowing the private sector to exist. we have seen in the last 15 years, whenever you have a ccessful business, the cuban authorities move in to try to this rather it. so we have to be cautiously optimistic about the chances for cuba, and the changes, and the needing for reforms. >> we're talking about the changes in the future, and the changes over the next several months. it could be that next month, come january, we have a different party in the white house, and what's your calculation as to what happens to this opening? what happens to the kind of thaw that we have seen in that relationship? >> there's no question that there's a risk that it gets completely shut down, certainly those on the right have mostly, with the exception of candidate trump, have said this

in 1979 in cuba. but despite decades of fighting we became friends because we respected each other, and certainly there's a lot of respect for fidel castro as the leader globally. >> at the same time though a very different scene we're seeing in places like miami. there are many people who hated fidel castro, who call him a dictator, who call him a person who murdered families, imprisoned people. >> yes, i think if you look at fidel castro through the lens of miami, you see it through a very distorted lens. there's one simple statistic i give to people, which is 7.3 billion people on planet earth and 3 or 12% live in the west and 88% live outside the west. for the 88% who live outside the west, who watch the story of cuba and this amazing small country that was able to stand up for decades to the most powerful country in the world, it was a david and goliath fight and everyone expected david to be crushed and david kept surviving. that why there's a lot of global admiration for fidel castro even among

socialism in cuba has wrecked lives are for 55 years when the president criticized cuba castro pushed back and said americans suffer because we don't enjoy the benefits of socialism and president obama kind of agreed. >> in his view making sure everybody is getting a decent education or health care has basic security in old age and those are human rights as well. i first of all do not disagree with him. john: so socialism is good? listening to some democrats planned for america, free education, it's clear that many are quite comfortable as socialist people who have lived under socialism or communism rarely feel that way. cuban exiles, americans property was stolen by castro are the most vehement in their hatred of socialism and they are furious that obama even went to cuba. >> we feel disgusted. we feel betrayed. it's the end it's the liberal press. john: this woman in florida got upset when she saw these family pictures of obama and rob castro. >> he is a murderer. i feel awful. john: i understand how she feels but i don't fully understand the opposition to lifting the embargo. we ha

and cuba in business and commerce. we have a live picture as president obama is meeting with some business leaders right now. some companies are wasting no time getting in on the president's loosening of relations. google announced a joint venture to provide internet and smartphone technology for the people. lowest rates of internet penetration in the world. google's head of cuban operations spoke about the joint venture. here's what he had to say. >> i think thenergy and the feedback that we're getting from our counterparts in cuba is there is a lot of excitement. >> reporter: travel also a hot topic in the warming of relations with cuba. we're expecting news from carnival any minute now. we'll have those details coming up in our next half hour of news. as of just a few minutes ago, when we checked, there have been no disdents detained today. that was a different story yesterday. the ladies in whitehas a peaceful protest yesterday and many of them were detained as well. another dissident i spoke to was detained for th

writing, trying to be the conscience of cuba more than the ruler of cuba. but he remains, to his death, a very important figure. while he was -- because of his nationalism, because of what he meant to the people, he meant that cuba would not be dominated by the united states even though the united states is so big and so close. >> so jim, looking at this, we're looking at the historic footage of fidel castro. you can't help but think about his legacy after all these years. what do you think will be the word of historians when they look back at the life of fidel castro? >> well, i think he'll be the most prominent figure in cuba. perhaps only overshadowed a about cuba becoming free. but fidel castro changed the course of cuba. he changed the way cuba was. in 1959, 1958, cuba was pretty much a satellite of the united states. run by the united states. run by the united states mafia. all those casinos, all that lively dance footage we see of cuba, that was all run by the mafia. the united states and castro came in and he cleaned that out. and not only did he do

desde cuba tenemos el sentir del pueblo. reportera: continÚa la consternaciÓn y sin poder creer esta gran noticia del fallecimiento de fidel castro. se puede sentir la rigidez en la comunidad cubana. tuve oportunidad de hablar con varias personas que con lÁgrimas en los ojos expresaron la gran partida del lÍder polÍtico. tambiÉn hable con muchos jÓvenes, es impresionante como la juventud tambiÉn quiere conservar el nombre de fidel castro y las memorias que dejÓ para generaciones futuras. >> muy valioso, una pÉrdida irreparable. reportera: hoy y maÑana estarÁn los familiares despidiendo se de Él, para dar inicio a todas las actividades que se estarÁn conmemorando a fidel castro, y para dar su despedida. en general las calles estÁn vacÍas. las personas tratan de seguir con sus actividades normales, pero con la tristeza que no dejan de sentir. fÉlix: el regimen castrista ha organizado una jornada para homenajear a su mÁximo lÍder durante dÉcadas. recorriend -- recordando el reo triunfal que hizo hace aÑos,

policy toward cuba. i just want to make sure that those changes are reciprocal, that they're reciprocated by the cuban government. that was not part of what president obama did. and i want to make sure they're the kinds of things that help create a pathway toward democracy in cuba because while fidel castro was 90 years old his brother's 85. there is going to be a generational leadership change in cuba over the next five to foreign policy toward cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. >>> when the "overnigh i did everything i could to make her party perfect. almost everything. you know, 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. but for only $7 a month, rid-x helps break down waste. avoid a septic disaster with rid-x. ?living well? rise above joint discomfort with move free ultra's triple action joint support for improved mobility and flexibility, and 20% better comfort from one tiny, mighty pill... get move free ultra, and enjoy living well. ? r

cuba, you were being watched. you were being spied on. >> we assumed. >> hinojosa: i mean, you assumed. >> we assumed, yeah. >> hinojosa: what does that do to you, when you're thinking, "okay, well, this guy is parking my car, but is he really just parking my car, or is he..." you know, or, "the woman who's cleaning my house, is she really cleaning my house, or is she picking up..." did that... did you let that get into your head, about the fact that that's your life in havana? >> well, i mean, i was cognizant of it, and quite frankly i did see a lot of people write down my car license plates at different parking lots and stuff. they would... you know, that was sort of a matter of course. i mean, i remember going to the clinic, the health clinic for foreigners, and every car that was parked down there they'd write down their license plate, every single one. >> hinojosa: we talked about the fact that you assumed that your phone line was being tapped. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: but when you think about what's happening i

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to cuba. accustomed to these protests. tourists apparently aren't. this woman is visiting from switzerland. >> i thought the cubans accepted it and like it that obama is coming over to cubaa to open the door. americans can go over there without any problem and the cubans to america. >> reporter: almost everybody here shares in their disdain for the castros and obama expectcept for this woman. >> obama is going to help to open cuba. then we have to help ourselves. >> > porter: while anti-castro rallies happen regularly outside of the versailles restaurant, today protesters stepped up their game. calling president obama a coward with president raul castro. nobody was hurt out here and no arrests were made. you can bet these protesters will be back outside this restaurant making their point even after president obama leaves cuba. so jackie and jawan, a spirited day here in little havana. let's send it back over to you guys in havana, cuba. >>> a very awkward moment happening today at that joint p

three were originally from cuba. the facts presented so far raise a number of intriguing questions, such as did someone put up a lot of money to have the democratic headquarters infiltrated and, if so, who and why? >> the president's press secretary said of this incident, i'm not going to comment from the white house from a third rate burglary attempt. obviously, he said, we don't condone that kind of second rate activity. >> when the first reports came about the burglary at the watergate, i didn't think much of it. but more and more facts begin to come out. >> this is a police photograph of james w. mccord. mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is. a consultant to president richard nixon's reelection campaign committee. mccord and his accomplices meanwhile have been charged with second-degree burglary and have been released on bail, but i don't think that's the last we're going to hear on this story. >> it's one of the most shocking actions i think that

i was born in cuba. i was in one of cuba's most prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro. i was a teenager. the kid that slept on the bunk bed on top of me recorded our conversation and i was expelled from school. my mom said the only choice is for us to leave cuba. i'm a business man. i've lived in miami for 35 years. it's my home base. i come back and forth to cuba. i've been coming to cuba for over 20 years. i mean, cuba is a communist country in economic transition. fidel castro allowed cubans to establish more businesses. there are people that are making money. there are people that have created a tremendous amount of wealth. >> anthony: people with family connections to the states, people tied to the exploding tourist industry, small business owners, taxi drivers, people operating in ever-changing gray areas of what is permissible. how's it work right now? if you're cuban, you can sell your property to -- >> hugo: another cuban from cuba. and that's what's happening right n

policy toward cuba. i just want to make sure that those changes are reciprocal, that that's a reciprocate by the cuban government. that was not part of what president obama did. and i want to make sure they're the kinds of things that help create a pathway toward democracy in cuba because while fidel castro was 90 years old his brother's 85. there is going to be a generational leadership change in cuba over the next five to ten years, hopefully sooner, and incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a (coughs) cough doesn't sound so good. take mucinex dm. i'll text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. one pill lasts 12 hours, so... looks like i'm good all night! but just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. let's end this. i did everything i could to make her party perfect. almost everything. you know, 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. but for only $7 a month, >>> fidel castro was a thorn in the side of ten u.s. presidents. he died friday at the age of 90. martha tieshner look

and cuba. just last march, closer ties were marked with the president's visit here. since then, u.s. tourism has stepped up. hotels, airlines, stepping up their plans. jim avila on what's at stake right now. >> reporter: a sunday afternoon game of dominoes on the porch in havana. bars and nightclubs are closed for the cubans until after the funeral. the visitors have noticed. >> missing all the music which >> reporter: tourism up 12% in the first half of this year. starting monday, american airlines flies from miami, united from newark and delta from atlanta. bringing the total number of direct flights to more than 100. fidel's death unlikely to cool the warming relationship between the u.s. and cuba. but the freeze could come from the north if president-elect donald trump follows through on that campaign warning. >> we will cancel obama's one-sided cuban deal made by executive order if we don't get the deal we want and the deal that people living in cuba and here deserve. >> reporter: this hav

though cuba pays for the trains, the doctors don't actually stay in cuba. how many of you are from the united states? almost all of you. how many of you had ever visited cuba before coming to medical school here? just two of you. how many of you plan on going back to the united states after finishing your school? all of you. all right. i spent some time just now with many students from the united states. they don't pay to come to school here. and when they're done, they're going to go back to the united states. what is cuba getting out of that relationship? >> translator: this university was founded in 1999 because of several problems that occurred in central america related to hurricanes mitch and george. but sending cuba medical teams could be the definite solution. >> the idea of medical diplomacy has been a running theme in fidel castro's cuba. cuban doctors often go on medical missions to other countries and cuba sent hundreds of health care workers to west africa to fight ebola. they have also exported doctors to other latin american countries in exch

and cuba. i know that the state department played an important role in arranging the civil aviation partnership with cuba, and i hope that principal deputy assistant secretary tong can give us some insight into the process that led to this agreement. right now, as we know, only chartered flights operate between the u.s. and cuba, but under the terms of the agreement that was announced in february, at some point this year american air carriers will be allowed to operate more than 100 scheduled flights each day in addition to the chartered flights. before that can happen, tsa, dhs, cbp, and other relevant agencies must verify that cuban airports meet international security standards and are fully prepared to screen passengers and their baggage before they board a plane bound for the u.s. i'm looking forward to hearing from tsa and from all of our witnesses about how they would assess cuba's airport security right now, what they are doing to enhance security at cuban airports, and whether they hav

to havana, cuba. i want to touch on something you mentioned last hour. the statement that fidel castro was described as immortal until proven otherwise. this is a leader revered and loved by many. and hated and despised by many. what would you say the reaction is as you point out the news is starting to slowly get traction there in cuba. that this former leader has died. >> i think people are stunned. there's a been a silence and sadness. i haven't seen too many tears. that perhaps will come later. whether they are real or people being told by the government to show their sadness at fidel castro's passing. for many of the young people here they never knew him as president. he has been out of power and out of sight for ten years. certainly in the last years of rule here did not lead the active life. he drove his own jeep, shook hands, gave speeches, sometimes for hurst hours. there was no escaping fidel castro for many years. in the last years he was out of sight. a few months ago talked to his son and

and cuba. so i'm wondering, how do you see the next administration handling relations with raul, his brother, the president? >> well, i think it's a complex set of choices. the incoming president is a hotel guy who is a business guy who until the very end of this campaign basically endorsed obama's opening toward cuba. said he would have gotten a better deal. but only in the last throes in florida said he would undo the actions the president had taken. i think there are a number of business and just constituencies in american society across the board who are going to be standing behind continuing what has started in terms of the opening of commercial and family and travel and people to people ties. the flights are starting, the cruises are going down there. hotels are opening. there was an 80% increase in american travel this year over last. cuban americans -- i noted in your coverage from miami -- there weren't so many of them out in the street. that's because they're traveling on the more tha

they cannot travel to cuba, invest in cuba, they cannot export their products to cuba. many problems of that this law generates. know,re the people will the more the politicians will know. the more probability there will be for a positive influence to eliminate it. charlie: if it is in fact eliminated, it will open the gates to an exchange culturally and every other way. economically, politically between these two countries. maria: yes, of course. that is our wish, the wish of the people and the government of cuba since the triumph of the revolution in 1959. but the response has been hostility and we have to negotiate. the united states is not going to come out and appropriate cuba for itself. we have to negotiate for our sovereignty, for our respect, for reciprocity. which has been the case since the beginning of the normalization process. if it continues this way i trust it will happen. charlie: president obama in his speech to cuba and the cuban people resonates with them about the good intentions he felt to make this leap forward. do they feel enthusiastic about the

esto llegÓ a cuba mÁs tarde que en estados unidos. esto acaba de llegar a cuba. entonces, salgo de mi cuarto para ver fernanda: de verdad, estoy en shock. sigue celebrando, siguen celebrando, estÁn tomando, estÁn bailando como si nada hubiera pasado. canadÁ, rusia, mÉxico, china, espaÑa. pero el cubano estÁ trabajando dentro tuve la oportunidad de platicar con alguien y me dijo "estaba enfermo desde hace mucho" y le pregunte "quÉ piezas que estÁ pasando en cuba, la habana?" y me dijo "el que se atreva a celebrar, estÁ loco". mucha gente no quiere hablar, no quieren hablar, pero yo les creo. que lo que percibo es hasta cierto punto, un alivio. o bien, no me lo ha dicho. pero les preguntÉ cÓmo se siente. oye que de la habana, pero la mayorÍa de las personas eran amantes de fidel, eran seguidores de fidel, eran personas que de verdad sentÍan el movimiento de la revoluciÓn. y tambiÉn, algo que me sorprendiÓ, considerar un gobierno socialista grano comunista. con mucho coraje y resentimiento con mucho amor a los mexicanos. pero donde yo fui al hotel na

and cuba. of course there's an important thing to point out here, while donald trump has been very critical of the cuban deal, he has said that he is open to creating some sofrt of a normal relationship between the two. he said this deal is weak and because it was done through executive action without any type of congressional approval, there's a lot trump can do to change the situation between cuba and the united states. listen to how he talked about this issue on the campaign trail in miami back in september. >> all of the concessions that barack obama has 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, not my demands, our demands. you know what the demands are. those demands will include religious and political freedom for the cuban people. and the freeing of political prisoners. >> so, essentially donald trump has said that he is going to go to the cuban government and

policy towards cuba. i want to make sure the changes are reciprocated by the cuban what president obama did and they are the things that help create a pathway towards democracy in cuba. while fidel castro was 90 years old his brother is 85. there is going to be a generational leader change in cuba over the next five to 10 years and hopefully sooner and we need to insure that our policy makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. that is how i would examine our foreign policy towards cuba. >> why is this such americans and the cold war? >> it's important for three reasons. cuba is a source of stability in the region. historic numbers are fleeing cuba putting pressure on the united states and they are anti-american. they allow the chinese and the russians to conduct electronic espionage from the island of cuba. they harbor fugitives of american justice there are american law including those who have stolen millions of dollars in medicare fraud and are living in cuba. and cuba is 90 miles from o

and cuba closer together. i want to play for you here some sound regarding what donald trump said about this back in september. >> all of the concessions that barack obama has 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, not my demands, our demands. you know what the demands are. those demands will include religious and political freedom for the cuban people and the freeing of political prisoners. >> juan carlos, we all know that the embargo can only be lifted by congress, but we heard there what president-elect trump is hoping to accomplish. do you think that he would be able to negotiate anything differently than what has been discussed thus far with cuba? >> it would be very complicated and we see that his tweet is in the same direction as what he said in september. now, we have to keep in mind that this current white house did what we heard is they wanted to do as much as they coul

writing, trying to be the conscience of cuba more than the ruler of cuba. but he remains, to his death, a very important figure. while he was -- because of his nationalism, because of what he meant to the people, he meant that cuba would not be dominated by the united states even though the united states is so big and so close. >> so jim, looking at this, we're looking at the historic footage of fidel castro. you can't help but think about his legacy after all these years. what do you think will be the word of historians when they look back at the life of fidel castro? >> well, i think he'll be the most prominent figure in cuba. perhaps only overshadowed a little bit by jose marti, the author who in the 1900s wrote but fidel castro changed the course of cuba. he changed the way cuba was. in 1959, 1958, cuba was pretty much a satellite of the united states. run by the united states. run by the united states mafia. all those casinos, all that lively dance footage we see of cuba, that was all run by the mafia. the united states mafia. and castro came in and he

to cuba's government. the two spoke for roughly 30 minutes with castro asking the holy father, what does a pope do? still, castro's conspicuous absence in later years fueled constant rumors about his health. when president obama announced the softening of u.s. sanctions against cuba in december 2014, president raul castro spoke with the american president by telephone, welcoming the announcement. but the man who brought communism to cuba, fidel, made no appearances and had no public comment on the ending of the cold war freeze he'd ushered in more than a half century earlier. though often referred to as a tyrant kal dictator, millions on the impoverished island considered castro a charismatic leader who brought education and medicine to the masses. but to america's cuban exiles he was forever hated, responsible for cuba's economic ruin. in washington, bret behr, fox news. >>> florida's lieutenant governor tweeting, quote, has it finallycome? fidel is dead. this is the beginning of a free and democratic cub

cuba, they invest in cannot export their products to cuba. there are many problems this lot generates. the more the people will know the more the politicians will .now the more probability there will a positive influence to eliminate it. charlie: it will open the gates to an exchange culturally and economically, politically between these two countries. guest: yes, of course. is our wish, the wish of the people and the government of triumph of the revolution since 1959. we have to negotiate. we have to negotiate for our sovereignty, for our respect, for reciprocity. since the beginning of the normalization process, if it continues this way i trust it will happen. charlie: president obama in his speech to cuba and the cuba with them about the good intentions he felt to make this leap forward. do they feel enthusiastic about the step by the president? guest: in cuba i can tell you that first there was a great reception for president obama. him andl very close to his policies because he is the first president that has facilitated this encounter.

cuba. here when he landed. >> it's been nearly 90 years since the u.s. president stepped foot in cuba. it is wonderful to be here. >> this is day two of the president's three-day visit. the culmination of a diplomatic thaw. the president and his cuban current part raul castro. we join melissa chan in havana. >> the biggest event is going to be president obama's bilateral meeting. it is important to mention that he's not going to be meeting with fidel castro. the two are going to assess the progress of normalization, their new bilateral relationship and they have re-established diplomatic ties. now for the goal of president obama very much on this trip it is symbolism to a certain extent misbecause he's thinking about his legacy, but he's considering the possibility that the next president might not move the process forward enough. his trip exceptionally makes it very difficult, irversible, in terms of the changes we have seen in the u.s.-cuba relationship over the past 14-15 months. now on

hasta el momento cuba no figuraba en los primeros 100 dÍas del presidente electo. pero cabe mencionar que en el equipo de trump, Él incluyÓ figurvor de mantener el econÓmico contra la isla. >> fidel castro llegÓ vivir el deseo de su revoluciÓn. pero muriÓ con la incertidumbre de lo que podrÍa venir con la elecciÓn de trump, dicen que es un escuadrÓn de rechazo a los derechos humanos y harÍa de todo para que el pueblo cubano empiece la campaÑa por la libertad. >> a menos que hallan cambios en materia de derechos humanos. >> es fundamental que la polÍtica de estados unidos sea una polÍtica de absoluta solidaridad con el pueblo de cuba. >> necesitamos suspender la lÍnea de vida econÓmica que la administraciÓn obama le ha dado al rÉgimen de castro a traves de inundaciÓn de dolares. >> pero la casa blanca apuesta por las relaciones diplomÁticas. eso ahora vÍnculos comerciales. >>> yo creo que es muy difÍcil revertir porque muchos inversionistas americanos que invirtieron dinero en cuba. la situaciÓn de latinoamÉrica en dÓnde aplaude sobre todo el

i would love to go to cuba, a free cuba. right now cuba's not free. the hope is, and i think the real celebrations here show that everybody here hopes for a free cuba soon. and for human rights on the island to come to pass. see that is my hope. >> reporter: thank you very much. this is an expression here and last another person who is celebrating with a flag. how do you feel tonight, sir? >> oh, my god. there's no words. so emotional. for my grandparents that are no longer, that they came for freedom and liberty to this country. >> reporter: they never returned? >> they never returned back to cuba. they lost everything in cuba, taken away their businesses. their homes, businesses, they worked hard. if you didn't want to give to the government, they would execute you, you know. the regime is still there. raul castro is going to go through the same system and ideas. but today is a day of celebration. >> reporter: yeah, a celebration, but there is a lost emotion, an emotional moment for many -- a lot of emotion, an emotional moment for many in the commu

>>> tonight, a special edition of "world news tonight" from cuba. the president making history here, proclaiming the united states and cuba are no longer enemies. standing side by side with raul castro. the extraordinary moment. castro taking questions from reporters. pressed on human rights. and the uncomfortable moment with president obama. and right after, my exclusive interview with the president. we asked, what was said inside that room with raul castro. trust president castro? do you believe that he truly wants change here? we also asked the president about criticism back home and the arrest of disdepartments arrived, as he now prepares for his historic speech to the people of cuba. >>> tonight, donald trump with . defending his supporters. what he's now saying tonight, and we ask president obama about trump's prediction of riots, if the republican party tries to stop him. >>> good evening tonight from havana, where we witnessed and historic moment today. president obama standing side by side with cuban president raul castro. saying, the unite

the cuba that you love. i want to say that america wants to be your partner, and around this visit, american companies are going to move more commercial deals. ge on going to sell more, cleaver will be the first company to build a factory in 50 yeaes, tractors for cuban farmers. star wood would be the first u.s. hotel that operates here in 60 years, and marriott is coming as well, and they will help to but first, starwood is coming in inin may. and one of the best waysor the cuban people is for the u.s. ngress to lift the embargo once and for all. [ plause ] here today, we're doing even more to empower cuban entrepreneurs. i know that you've been net working with each oth. businesses like air b&b's brian pa chess ski, sharing the lessons that they have learned. we have a shark here, damon john. for those of you who don't know, there's a show in a arica, called the shark tank, which is an outstanding show, where on television, young entrepreneurs and they try to get some type financing on the air, and it's a