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Minutiae and becomes polarized and this was polarized from the get-go. >> it's been an issue for the past 50 something years. let me ask you this question. i would suppose one of the president's arguments would be look, the embargo hasn't worked for 50 years because the castros remain in power today. if not fidel, his brother raul. so obviously the embargo hasn't worked. democracy has not been restored to cuba so maybe we have to go down another road. >> yeah, there is something to be said for that. the reason'm t embargo hasn't worked is because it's a unilateral embargo. the united states is...

Another look at our embargo with cuba. after 20 years of observing and dealing with the u.s./cuba relationship, i thought we should shift the onus onto the castros to explain why they remained un-democratic and abusive. this will be a big debate, if not countrywide, but in the swing state of florida. >> earlier this year she called the embargo castro's best friend because she views it as propping up the castro regime this ideological excuse to posture against the united states. she's very much with the president here. that's where she wants to be. she wants to be right with the white house. sh...

Families, who had to flee with everything they had. phil has the reaction. >> reporter: how are you? >> well, i tell you this, no matter how you feel about the 55-year-old trade embargo against cuba. here in the land mark little havana in miami, southwest 8th street. this is a place for decades that elderly cubans many exiles fled in the early years of the castro regime and taking power and establishing the communist nation and government over there in cub a. they come here and railed against the castros. two men have signs there decrying what the united states under president obama did today....

In the middle of havana, thoughts have not changed at all. the same faces you saw 30 years ago are there today but our phil keating who is monitoring things. >> reporter: here it's typical for what you expect. policy change doesn't necessarily come down hard on the castros. you come to this cafe which is 8th street in miami and speaking of the younger generation typically wanting to move forward and end the embargo, we got this young man here and he's got a couple of older cuban-americans here who are the hard liners who want to keep the embargo in place and they have been engaging in some, sp...

End for cuba to end the restrictions on economic and political activities. is that going to happen under the castros? >> no, it is not going to happen. and we should have had the focus years ago. and right now, eric, is not the time. over the last several weeks, we have seen gas prices, going from $100 a barrel will to around $50 a barrel. venezuela and russia can no longer support russcuba. and now president obama throws them a lifeline and do a prisoner swap with it? if we wanted to have increased xhoers debate we should have had it. not when we are on the brink of winning. >> ten minutes or...