Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161126:12:03:00
>> reporter: until jfk's hard-line and back-channel diplomacy got the russians to pull back, for 25 years moscow helped castro arm communist insurgents throughout latin america. with the end of the soviet union, cuba's economy imploded on. makeshift boats, thousands of cubans fled the increasingly repressive regime. >> his legacy is a complicated one. but there's no forgetting how many cubans left the island under duress. >> reporter: in the 1990s, the aging ruler courted u.s. businessmen and american tourists. he showed a new tolerance for religion, welcoming pope john paul ii in 1998. he won...
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