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>> george: for more than 20 years. >> anthony: mostly cubans or, tourists? >> george: no, tourists. most of them spanish, italy, even people from canada. a lot of canadian people. ♪ >> anthony: youre from santiago? >> george: yes, i was born in santiago. i will say it in spanish, santiaguero. i used to live in russia for six years, i studied there. >> anthony: really? >> george: yeah, i was really young and, and i really enjoyed it. >> anthony: oh yeah? cause it must be cold there. >> george: ...

Still largely stuck in time. >> crowd: juana! juana! juana! juana! >> juana: [ speaking spanish ] >> anthony: 93-year-old juana bacallao is very much a part of that past. >> juana: [ speaking spanish ] >> anthony: long before the revolution, she was a shining star at meyer lanskys tropicana singing for capone, luciano, you know the names. >> juana: [ speaking spanish ] ♪ >> juana: [ speaking spanish ] ♪

Leonardo: this is a typical street of this neighborhood. houses of wood, houses of concrete. the street is not in good condition. here was the bus station. its not a bus station anymore. now its a building. its a monument of the past. >> anthony: mantilla is a suburb of havana, home to one of cubas most celebrated writers. >> leonardo: [ speaking spanish ] >> anthony: author of the internationally successful mario conde detective series, padura has been able to portray the daily struggles, the a...

This place is called casa santy, owned by two brothers that go out and fish every morning and bring in fresh seafood. >> anthony: okay, humble fishing village. traditional fishing family? >> hugo: yes. >> anthony: what about the sushi? whats going on in this country, man? >> hugo: things are changing, anthony, what can i say? my name is hugo. i was born in cuba. i was in one of cubas most prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro. i was a teenager. the kid that slept on t...

Have twitter every day. one things i love about coming to cuba is the fact that i can put my iphone away. who cares. look what we have around us. i hope cubans that continue to have access to free information, they will still want to preserve the family times. ♪ >> anthony: tourists have been coming to cuba for some time. predominantly europeans, many of them men of a certain age, looking for, how should we say, company. now it looks like americans looking to live out fantasies of "godfather 2...

At that time? >> jon: thats what theyre worried about. the last time i was here which was in 2013, i counted 8 to 10 homeless garbage-eating people in the street. and i thought, "wow, ive never seen that before in cuba." thats something the old cuba, the socialist cuba that could look after all of its citizens would never have allowed. its allowing it now. this period were here in, its the lull before it all hits. the train is coming. its either going to roar by and theyre going to be able to ju...

Reporting from new york. thank you for your time and for watching. good night. ==terry/vo== right now at six -- friends and family pleading for answers in we dont know what happened, if shes alive. >> right now at 6:00 friends and family pleading for answers in the search for a missing teen. tonight the effort to find her hits a new roadblock. good evening everyone. >> that teenager last seen last

The external influence that youre seeing. remember, this is a country where chewing gum or listening to the beatles were prohibited. i dont think we all need to have twitter every day. one things i love about coming to cuba is the fact that i can put my iphone away. who cares. look what we have around us. i hope cubans that continue to have access to free information, they will still want to preserve the family times. ♪ >> tourists have been coming to cuba for some time. predominantly european...

>> yep. >> and thats within five years. >> yeah, i would say so. >> will every cuban have an inalienable right to free medical care and education at that time? >> thats what theyre worried about. the last time i was here which was in 2013, i counted 8 to 10 homeless garbage-eating people in the street. and i thought, "wow, ive never seen that before in cuba." thats something the old cuba, the socialist cuba that could look after all of its citizens would never have allowed. its allowing it now. ...

In this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la la ♪ ♪ >> cuba has been sitting here 55 years now, half an hour away, basically giving the biggest superpower in the world the stiff middle finger. 50-plus years of animosity, embargo, rationing, and fidel castro is still hanging on. but recently, there are powerful indications that everything is about to change. we are in a little fishing town....