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Devastating humanitarian impacts, crushing poverty for the cuban people and an entrenched cuban communist party. if we think that continuing this hawkish, hard-line policy towards cuba will do anything to help the cuban people or to advance the cause of human rights in cuba, were refusing to learn the lessons from several decades of history. >> indeed, and that whole definition of insanity, doing the same thing again and again, excepting different results. it applies in cuba, iran and so many pl...

This is a simple question we asked in the obama administration, weve been trying an embargo. weve been trying the total isolation and pressure on the communist party for more than 60 years. and all it has led to is devastating humanitarian impacts, crushing poverty for the cuban people and an entrenched cuban communist party. the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again. if we think that continuing this hawkish, hard-line policy towards cuba will do anything to help the...

>> ben, you mentioned cubas 90 miles off the coast of florida. this is a major political dilemma for the democrats right now. youve got val demings running for the senate against marco rubio. she cant win a place like florida unless she takes on cuba, and thats been a problem for the democrats. florida is a swing state where a bunch of conservative people on cuba insist on a hawkish policy on cuba and your party has to go along with it. >> mehdi, barack obama ran for president of the united stat...

Dilemma for the democrats right now. you have val demings running against marco rubio. and thats been a problem for the democrats. florida is a swing state where a bunch of conservative people on cuba insist on a hawkish policy on cuba and your party has to go along with it. >> barack obama ran for president of the united states in 2008 promising to engage in direct diplomacy with cuba. he took steps to relax the embargo in his first term and opened things up in the second. the only democrat who...

Donald j. trump. he targeted cuba with a raft of policies. all but reversing the obama era policies. and these moves have helped cripple the country and its economy. paired with surging cases of covid-19, cuba is now in serious economic turmoil. to be clear, much of that turmoil has also been caused by the dictatorial regime in havana. this week, weve seen protests. government supporters have taken to the streets, though its difficult to tell whats driving different groups of people in that coun...

Well as overseeing to the secret talks in canada. author of "after the fall." ben, your resume is far too long. thank you for joining us today to talk about all of this. i want to start by asking you about some of the calls were seeing for action. the miami mayor says the u.s. should consider air strikes. rubio says cuba will see a horrific bloodbath if biden does not take action. what is your reaction to all of that? >> its absurd and counterproductive. its a gift to the cuban nationalist party...

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We saw the obama/castro game that they watched together. some people would say thats not how you do diplomacy with dictators like the castros. what do you say to your critics? >> i would say this they were learning from the mistakes of 60 years. we were learning from what had not worked in americas cuba policy. this is an island of 11 million people that are 90 miles from florida. if you allow for travel, the internet, the people are going to be empowered. you talk about a lot of american politi...

Private sector suddenly had resources pumped into it because it was connected to the gray of the cuban economy. the cuban people were suddenly connected to the americans who were traveling down there. we negotiated as part of the normalization deal with the cuban government not just the release of 53 political prisoners, but also increased internet access in cuba, increased wi-fi in cuba, entry for u.s. technology and social media platforms into cuba that became part of the way people in cuba we...

Its violate human rights, killed dissidents. the u.s. must act. theres that whole "u.s. must act." i dont know about you, wherever i look, it seems to be some sort of divide where youre either someone who thinks the embargo is to blame for all of cubas problems or the castro and the regime is to blame for cubas problems. it can be true, can it not? >> its even more than that. the embargo and the regime are symbiotic. what the embargo does, it cuts off this island of 11 million people from the re...