Escaping Cuba News Today

For Part 3 of the convo with Frank Mederos, we discuss the choices he faced after escaping Cuba.

Spadea continues his conversation with Frank about his escape from Cuba.

Frank Mederos has a story to tell. He wrote a book about it.

We have to have assimilation to have a country. we have to have assimilation. im not the first one to say this, dana, weve had many people over the years for many, many years saying this is a country where we speak english, not spanish. [ applause ] >> well, ive been speaking english here tonight and ill keep speaking english but the simple fact is of a high school kid asked me a question in spanish, a school by way of voucher program created under my watch, the largest voucher program in the co...

That question in spanish even though they do speak english and even though they embrace american values. >> this was a reporter, not a high school kid. >> i agree english is the unifying language of our country. everyone should learn to speak it and its important. i want to tell you about someone who didnt speak english well, and that was my grandfather. he came in the 1960s escaping cuba and lived with us growing up and my grandfather loved america. he understood who was so special about this c...

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ripples of relief spread from europe across the world market. a deal has been reached to tackle the e.u. financial crisis. european leaders have agreed to expand the e.u. bailout fund while private sectors will take a 50% loss on greek bonds. the european agreement translated into a huge day for u.s. stocks. lets go to alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. the closing bell just rang. how did stocks finish? we dont know the final number, but we know its very positive. >> it is. t...