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From our Bureau of Perfectly Acceptable and Praiseworthy Apartheid with some assistance from our Bureau of Socialist Social Justice Aaaaah, the many joys of apartheid, especially in socialist utopias! For the past few weeks, Castro, Inc.'s oligarchs have been dwelling on the subject of fish. One of them says that there aren't any fish to

Exclusive Interview by Karen Beishuizen Ernesto Guevara is the son of Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary. He runs a motorcycle touring company in Havana, Cuba. It is called La Ponderosa like the motorcycle in the movie "The Motorcycle Diaries". His tours are for groups and individuals an

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

A lot of the survival depends on venezuelan oil money is drying up and economy is in shambles. weve held it in place for 50 plus years. the cuban regime, two castro brothers since january 1st, 1959. over half a century. we are a lot closer to the end than we are to the beginning and so now when we are so close to the end of the castros, the end of that regime, when you havent seen fidel castro react because if hes alive, hes too weak or too senile to know this just happened and react. now that w...

Government to arrange trips. they expanded, the administration expanded the reasons why you could go to cuba. before, journalist ix, religious, cultural reasons. now just about any reason. you will see more and more americans go. if they can afford the price. same time, we asked, will americans buy a cuban cigar? at a store in the united states? no. you will have off to bring cigars out of cuba if you travel there up to $100 worth of tobacco and rum. so there are still sort of quirky, goofy, res...

We have not seen any pictures of him since late august. its just another sign that raul castro is running the show here. fidel castro is a figurehead but no indications that he was involved and may not even have been aware of the deal. >> patrick from havana, thank you. political reaction is divided, not exclusively among party lines. new jersey senator robert menendez condemned the deal. senator nelson, a florida democrat called it a hallelujah day and hopefully a rebirth of economic ties betwe...

Awe thought got everyones attention. the president called him "the real deal." here to talk is father thomas reese, senior analyst. pope francis wrote letters to president obama and raul castro, there was a diplomatic meeting in october. do you know how this played out behind the scenes? >> well, it all began last january when john kerry visited the vatican and personally asked the vatican for its help in getting alan gross free. and then president obama, when he came to the vatican in march fol...

The american people in the long-term. when i was a president, as you just mentioned, we started the diplomatic relations process and we established major intersections in both havana and also washington. in cuba two or three years ago, we had diplomats serves in the intersection of havana. i think that will continue no matter what happens. the normal diplomatic relations will continue and i hope congress goes ahead to remove the embargo and the sanctions because that doesnt hurt the castro broth...

Right to travel where we want to go. were the only ones who cant go to cuba. anywhere else in the world, you can go to cuba. this has been a restraint on americans as well as it has been on the cubans. >> former president jimmy carter, thank you very much for your time. i appreciate you being with us. >> thank you. pope francis will tell you how he was involved ahead. the high performance gti. looks like were gonna need a bigger podium. the volkswagen golf family. motor trends 2015 "cars" of t...

The u.s. intersection is the largest diplomatic gathering in the country. its housed in the building that was the u.s. embassy before we broke off diplomatic relations, so the notion youre going to shut that operation down when, really, what youre doing is changing the sign on the door is one that doesnt square up with reality that much. marco rubio can make a ambassador confirmed but the united states has incredibly ranked career foreign services officer, when we normalize, hell become sergeant...