In this special collaboration with America Abroad, Latino USA brings you the political and personal history of the U.S.-Cuba relationship. We also examine some of the factors to be ironed out as diplomats try to normalize relations between the two countries.
Disappointing show on Cuba.
You put a long time into it and had a lot of voices but you also had a lot of voices missing.
WAY too much on the Miami Cubans.
Way too little from modern Cuban youth.
And it had a lot of US based dualities. The part about the coop was capitalism vs evil state control when the whole thing is much more complicated. There are other reforms going on in the Cuban economy relating to the environment and the technologies that they use and there is a new period opening for the innovators movement with its decades of history under US embargo. There are other changes happening with Cuba’s lead in many medical spheres leading to a new form trade. I am listening, and hear a lot about thumb drives and the internet, but little about tourism, sugar cane and pharmaceuticals which make up the big pieces of the Cuban economy.
International is not only talking with different generation of Miami Cubans and I hear nothing from the political neighbors of Cuba or the important nations of Latin America. A call to the public relations office of the Venezuelan, Mexican and Brazilian embassies would have made this a better show. It would have added more that a comparison of Fidel’s boots and I Love Lucy.
It kind of reminds me of a show about the mid east where we never speak directly with a Palestinian or any other Arab, but interview every type of Israeli and Israel supporter.