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Sanchez, who has toured the united states, a well-known blogger in cuba and abroad, someone who called for the end of the embargo. its a vestige of the cold war >> it seems like weve heard is an economic and political argument, right? certainly it is a moral and ethical one. but on the politics and the economics, the question of whether or not the embargo itself does the work of moving the island towards democracy. >> i dont think -- in fact, i think that it does a reverse. under the bush admini...

Against a resolution to condemn the u.s. embargo. even the marshall islands abandoned the u.s. on the u.n. >> theres a different way of framing it than i had been doing previously. this isnt about whats good for cuba, this is a question about what is reasonable u.s. policy. no national security threat and its 90 miles off the coast. theres a $1.2 billion potential economic capacity and even if there are the kinds of human rights violations that people wouldnt suggest there arent, we have relatio...

Finish. so you used the south african example which is extremely compelling for the use of sanctions to change regime that was appalling. but for example, it included travel ban, right? at any point americans still had the freedom to move around the globe, which is part of how we understand our americanness, our ability with that passport. i could at any point still go to johannesburg or cape town in the context of it. i really am interested. help mean to understand why a travel ban, an embargo ...

Even some of those critics question the effectiveness of u.s. policy and the u.s. chamber of commerce has urged president obama to drop the embargo citing $1.2 billion burden it poses on the u.s. economy. the cuban government uses the embargo as a perennial scapegoat blaming it for shortages on food and medicine. after half a century of passing the buck on failed policy, is it finally time that the buck stops right here with the carters? joining me now, la san droe perez, a cuban american and pr...

That mauricio espoused is that the people who want to keep the embargo want change in cuba. yet, they want to keep a policy in effect for 50 years that obviously hasnt brought about any change in cuba. you would think that you want a new approach since one hasnt worked for about 50 years. >> mauricio, thats a reasonable claim. if you have 50 years worth of a policy and that policy hasnt brought the change needed. why persist with the policy? >> id like to come back to the same point that i made ...

Rights. that happens all the time. its tough to say, if you have arms. no one has arms in cuba. its a totalitarian state. finally, one of the colleagues mentioned, its important with the jay-z situation, in regards to hip hop, there are artist this is cuba that are currently in prison because of their lyrics critical to the regime. one of them, another one who has lima cruz who is has been in prison since december of 2010. simply for listening -- hes an amnesty prisoner of -- simply for listenin...

Remember the cuban government that castro regime holds a monopoly over every industry in that country. it is a totalitarian economy. it would be a huge betrayal to the courageous pro-democracy activists fighting as we speak right now on the streets of cuba. >> so hes framed this for us almost like the spring of the middle east, of the arab spring that there is a pro-democracy effort and its our responsibility as a country to maintain the sanctions and the embargo to support that effort. >> you k...

Criticized. censorship exists. there are a large number of people, large number of rappers and filmmakers, documentary makers, many of them young who dont agree with the movement but are working within the system to launch critiques to think how they could make it better, to think about a post embargo cuba. >> mauricio, thank you so much. im so sorry. were just out of time. its complicated. mauricio, i want to thank you for joining us. i know its tough when youre not sitting at the table. >> i a...

Off limits. the only country that the united states restricts citizens from visiting. president obamas travel allowance is the latest update to the u.s.s 50-year-old policy of economic and diplomatic isolation against cuba. the u.s. embargo was put into place in 1962 by president kennedy after $1.8 billion worth of u.s. property was confiscated by the cuban government under fidel castro. it has been the inheritance of every u.s. president ever since. each administration hoping that the economic ...

Economy that we can benefit from. in 1957, cuba was our largest or the u.s. was its largest partner with respect to exports and with respect to imports. so if we have this push to get exports out the door to create a gdp thats vibrant based on exports, this is a place thats ready to receive ours. >> lis andro. >> id like to get away from the cultural -- the embargo is a failed policy and it has in many ways an ethical and moral dimension to it that is in the absence of any national security real...