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This week on "VICE": Young people
are rising up in the West Bank.
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This is the kind of thing that really
pisses off the Israeli soldiers,
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and now they've started
to shoot back live bullets.
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And then, the underground
cultural revolution in Cuba.
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Relations are normalizing because
all the young people in Cuba
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are seeing how it is to live
in the rest of the world.
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Hands up!
Don't shoot! Hands up!
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Sync & corrections by honeybunny
www.addic7ed.com
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The effort to broker peace
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between Israel
and the Palestinian people
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has been going on for decades,
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and it has failed
at almost every step.
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Now, that hopelessness has given fuel
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to a new uprising in the West Bank.
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Every single day for weeks now
Palestinians have been coming here
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and clashing with Israeli soldiers.
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All across Palestine,
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the youth are taking
to the streets to protest
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the current state of affairs
in the occupied West Bank.
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We're in the heart of Hebron,
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which is, for many Palestinians,
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the most extreme example
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of what life is like.
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This is the front line between them and the
Israeli soldiers who've been firing tear gas.
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They're rolling tires across the
street with cardboard in it burning.
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This is the kind of thing that really
pisses off the Israeli soldiers,
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and now they've started
to shoot back live bullets.
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For decades, the conflict
here has been stuck
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in the same cycle
of bloody violence...
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...with near-constant
casualties on both sides.
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But what we found in
our time in the West Bank,
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is today, the youth are
the ones leading the uprising.
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And just like the young people
behind the Arab Spring,
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these kids say that their own government
is a big part of the problem.
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The protests we saw
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were sparked completely by the youth.
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Even the volunteer medics that were
treating the injured were kids.
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As the casualties poured in,
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we talked to the protesters
on the ground
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about why they are
risking their lives.
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The losses here have continued,
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whether it's from Israeli
bullets or Palestinian attacks.
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And with no leader
guiding the uprising,
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the situation is only
intensifying on the ground.
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We spoke with Columbia University
professor Rashid Khalidi,
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an expert on
the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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What makes this uprising different
than previous uprisings?
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First is the failure
of the Palestinian leadership
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to do anything to relieve
the sense of despair
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that Palestinians have been feeling
in the occupied territories
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since the occupation began.
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The prospects for young Palestinians
are extraordinarily limited.
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No horizon, no future. Things are
much worse today after Oslo.
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In 1993, the Oslo
Accords were supposed to begin
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a path towards peace, and
established an interim government
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in the West Bank known
as the Palestinian Authority.
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What was the expectation
of the Palestinian Authority?
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That this was the embryo
of a Palestinian state.
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The Oslo agreement was supposed to
accomplish a continued negotiation.
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The hope was that it would
lead to a two-state solution,
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and the Palestinians could
have some arrangement
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for autonomy or
self-government within that.
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Unfortunately, it's deluding
very few people in Palestine
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and a lot of people outside
into thinking the Palestinians
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are well on the way
to statehood. They're not.
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They've moved away from
self-determination since Oslo.
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So, in a sense, the Palestinian
Authority itself is an illusion?
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It is. It's a cardboard facade
behind which nothing exists.
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There haven't
been any presidential elections
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in more than ten years,
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since President Mahmoud Abbas
came to power.
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And with polls showing
that nearly 70%
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of the population wanting
him out of office,
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the anger on the streets is palpable.
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Just down the street
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from Mahmoud Abbas'
presidential palace,
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we found a group of protesters
calling for him to step down.
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A lot of the
Palestinian youth tell us
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that they see the Palestinian Authority
as a symbol of the occupation.
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Why would they be saying that?
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Well, the aspect of
the Palestinian Authority
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that's most unacceptable
to Palestinians
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is its security
cooperation with Israel.
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That's because
under the Oslo Agreements
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the Palestinian Authority security forces
are charged with maintaining the peace,
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which includes suppressing protests.
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But it's what the PA can't do
that's angering the Palestinians,
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which is their
inability to stop Israelis
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from creating new settlements
in the occupied West Bank.
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What has happened since 1967
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is the establishment of communities of
Israelis inside the occupied territories.
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Every place that a settler
goes, the military goes.
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Every place the military goes,
restrictions against
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the native population,
the Palestinians, follow.
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This is why settlements
are such an enormous factor
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in the West Bank
and occupied East Jerusalem.
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We met up with Daniel
Luria, the head of an organization
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that helps move Jewish
Israelis into East Jerusalem,
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reclaiming land they say
is theirs by divine right.
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I'm gonna take you now to a
predominantly Arab neighborhood.
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And about 12 years ago, Jews started
to return to the old village.
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Okay. Good to know.
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So you're carrying a gun? Yeah.
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What's he saying?
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Um, he says all of this is a lie,
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and you are robbers.
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This is everything here.
This is the center of it.
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Whose land is this?
Right.
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Whose land is Jerusalem?
Whose land is Israel?
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Why can't it be both people's land?
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It can't be.
Why not?
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It doesn't work.
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You can tell that this
is as tense as it gets.
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Come, come, come!
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Before 1948, this used to be
an old synagogue.
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That's correct.
And now...
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It's been returned. Correct.
It's been returned.
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So, last week there were
families living here. Correct.
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And they were the ones who were...
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And those were illegally
squatting in an old synagogue.
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For 77 years, they were living here.
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In a synagogue.
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Reconstruction
started here immediately,
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but this isn't the only
new settlement on this block.
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We met a couple just as they
moved in down the street.
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So, when do you move in?
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Straight away.
It's their honeymoon.
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He just got married,
he's moving in now.
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But as settlers
were moving into one house,
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we met a Palestinian family that
was being evicted from theirs.
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As both sides
maintain claims to the land,
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the Israeli settler population
has increased dramatically.
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The settler population has
tripled in the last 25 years.
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There were a couple hundred thousand
after about 25 years of occupation.
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There are another 400,000
for a total of 600,000 today.
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The Palestinians see
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these settlements as a provocation.
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But when they clash with settlers,
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Israel escalates its security
measures across the region.
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Nowhere is this more pronounced
than the city of Hebron.
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So, right now we're crossing through
one of the checkpoints in Hebron.
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Security is so tight here, the
city's been divided into sections,
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with the majority of Palestinians
living in an area called H1,
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and the Israeli settlers living
in H2, which is where we were.
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All of the shops are closed. There's
absolutely no one in the streets.
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It feels like a ghost town.
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This street we're walking on has
been off-limits to Palestinians
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for years by order
of the Israeli military.
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Right over there is
a Palestinian cemetery.
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If you look, all of the
tombstones are written in Arabic.
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It's literally two feet away from a
street where Palestinians can't come.
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And even on the Palestinian
side back in H1,
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we could see how rigid
this divide was.
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As more and more kids grow up
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under the rules of this agreement,
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it will only feed into more
violence and a furthering divide.
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Dr. Hanan Ashrawi was involved
in the early negotiations
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of the Middle East peace process,
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and a former member of
the Palestinian Authority.
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Young Palestinians taking to
the streets and throwing rocks
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say they're not just
disillusioned by the occupation,
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they tell us they're disillusioned
by their own government.
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The Palestinian Authority
is part of the occupation.
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We're not surprised that the
young people are disillusioned,
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and they are angry.
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They're sending a clear
message to the world.
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The peace agenda,
the negotiated settlement,
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the two-state solution
has not worked.
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The leadership could not deliver.
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It seems like there's a
bigger and bigger disconnect.
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There is a wide gap, yes.
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These perceptions are cumulative.
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If you allow your system to atrophy,
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your leadership to become geriatric,
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then of course you're going to have a
situation of total discontent and anger.
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The only way forward
is through elections.
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We need elections,
we need a new leadership,
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and we need the youth
to be part of this.
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Until that happens, the
youth seem to only gain more resolve
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in their anger towards both the
occupation and their own government.
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America and Cuba
have been adversaries
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since Fidel Castro's
Communist revolution in 1959.
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But this month President Obama
has made history
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by becoming the first sitting US president
to visit the country in 88 years.
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We're focused on the future.
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And I'm absolutely confident
that if we stay on this course
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we can deliver a better
and brighter future
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for both the Cuban people
and the American people.
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So, muchas gracias.
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It's part of the so-called
"Obama Doctrine,"
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which is the president's policy
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of re-engaging with
traditional enemies.
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And we've been following
the process with Cuba
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since last year at the 2015
Summit of the Americas.
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We're here in Panama City
at the Summit of the Americas.
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And it's a historic summit because
for the first time since Eisenhower,
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the head of state of Cuba,
Raúl Castro,
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and the head of state
of America, President Obama,
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are gonna actually meet
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for the purpose of
normalizing relations.
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Point is, the United States will
not be imprisoned by the past.
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We're looking to the future
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and to policies that improve
the lives of the Cuban people
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and advance the interests of
cooperation in the hemisphere.
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Now these statements both represented
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a sea-change in relations
between the US and Cuba.
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The Obama Doctrine is this
administration's foreign policy shift,
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which now engages
in dialogue and treaties
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with countries like Iran and Cuba
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that have long been considered
our enemies.
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But this decision in particular
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marks a huge leap forward
in our relations.
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Now, that's because
at the height of the Cold War,
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the Soviet Union deployed
nuclear missiles to Cuba
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as a strategic check
against American power.
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This triggered
the Cuban missile crisis,
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which brought the US
and the Soviet Union
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to the brink
of all-out nuclear war.
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But even though the crisis ended,
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the US tightened
its economic embargo on Cuba,
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and travel between the two
was totally cut off,
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thereby isolating the Cuban people
for more than half a century.
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Now, to gauge the attitude within
the Cuban government today,
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we spoke with Abel Prieto,
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a former minister of culture
and a close Castro aide.
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For our audience,
which is mostly young people,
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there's a fascination with Cuba.
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I was wondering
if you could talk a little bit
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about the cultural aspects
of what's happening in Cuba.
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We would love to.
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So we accepted his invitation
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to see what's actually happening
on the ground in Cuba.
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Because we had heard that the
country's large youth population
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was playing a big part in forcing
the regime to change its policies.
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And ground zero
for this social movement
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is Alamar, Cuba's largest
housing project,
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which is a hotbed
for political dissent.
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Edgaro Gonzalez grew up in Alamar
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and explained to me just how
music had bridged the divide
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between Cuba and America.
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So, I grew up in this.
Like, every day, all day,
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all we did all day was
listen to hip-hop all day.
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And how did you learn
how to speak English?
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I listened to Biggie every day.
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Yeah.
You know?
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This was my house.
Okay.
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I had the only entrance
to the rooftop over there.
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You know, you just
went up to the rooftop
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and tried to get
some signal from Key West.
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Though Cuba has been cut off
politically for over 50 years,
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their close geographic
proximity has actually allowed
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for music to be shared
over the radio.
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And you just, you know,
move the antenna around.
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So, you kinda put it up
to try to get a signal?
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Yeah, try to get a signal.
From Florida.
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Yeah, right there.
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So, what effect did that have on the
young people who live here in Alamar?
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Whoa. You know, they be kind
of letting love for hip-hop.
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Everybody knew every
character of the Wu-Tang Clan.
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People love American culture.
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When we were starting doing
hip-hop, it got really popular
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the government started realizing and
said, "Yo, we gotta shut this down."
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And so Reggaeton now would be
the most popular in Alamar?
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Now the reason why
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the government would want
to control the music scene
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is that for decades
it was policy here
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to denounce all things American.
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Now, although this seems like
old Cold War rhetoric,
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the regime is still putting
this out today,
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as we saw firsthand at
the Museum of the Revolution.
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We got the cowboy.
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We got the Caesar.
Is that Caesar?
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Bush Jr.
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So they're saying thank you
for being such a bad guy
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that we then have a revolution.
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So, it goes from Batista to Reagan.
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What does it say about Reagan?
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But what we found out was
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that the bridge between
cultures couldn't be stopped.
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And the government was
speaking one way,
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and the people another.
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We're here in the barrio in Havana
with the biggest Reggaeton star.
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And we're gonna interview him
and talk about Reggaeton
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and how that's pushed all
of these changes even further
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'cause the government tried
to stop it, but they couldn't
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because everyone
needs their dance hall.
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The music made in this
tiny studio goes all over Cuba.
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Baby Lores explained to me
the importance it's had
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in bridging the divide between
America and the Cuban people.
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How does your music
get out to so many people?
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The paquete has spread
Reggaeton across the country
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and evolved into kind of
a canned Internet
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with hand-delivered hard drives
packed with pirated music,
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videos, and TV shows
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that had not been
accessible to Cubans before.
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But since traditionally as few
as four percent of Cubans
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actually have
Internet access at home,
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the hackers who make the paquetes
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have to steal Internet access
at tourist hotels
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to get the material
that their customers want.
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How are you?
Nice to meet you.
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A leading hacker named Danny
showed us how he does it.
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How often do you
download from hotels like this?
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How much, average cost?
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The smuggled equipment
in this small room
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sends pieces of the Internet
all across Cuba.
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So you have to get all of this equipment
from-- Where does it come from?
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So you can get any series you want
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and give it to anyone in Cuba?
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This week on "VICE":
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The future of recreational drugs.
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He's got our show.
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How many people do you think in
Cuba get a paquete every week?
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So we're getting a call in right now.
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We saw a hacker who's
downloading all the shows,
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all the Internet,
putting it into drives,
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giving it to his runners.
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It goes out all weekend,
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which is one of the real reasons
why relations are normalizing.
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Because all the young people in Cuba
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are seeing how it is to live
in the rest of the world.
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So while it's been an
underground cultural revolution
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that's moved the Cuban people ever
closer to their American neighbors,
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on our side, it's been driven
by our political leaders.
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So we spoke to Ben Rhodes,
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the deputy national security advisor
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and one of the architects of the Obama
Doctrine, about this political shift.
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In the policy changes
the president announced,
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in addition to the normalization
in diplomatic relations,
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we basically are facilitating any
type of travel that can be permitted
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under a general license, which
will make it much easier.
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But we also authorized
certain commercial activity.
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And telecommunications
is the most liberal.
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We're opening the door for US companies
to help develop infrastructure in Cuba.
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You'll start to see an opening,
in certainly the economic space.
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You see Airbnb seeking
to get into Cuba.
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You see the NBA and Major League
Baseball looking to go down there.
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Essentially, a flood of interaction
between Americans and Cubans
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that hasn't taken place
in over 50 years.
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Is this part of this new
unfolding Obama Doctrine?
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Absolutely, it is.
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And the president's view is we don't
lose anything through engagement.
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We can break out of the past,
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but that doesn't mean we have
to compromise our values.
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People say, "While you're
making this change,
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"you're putting aside the things
that America cares about."
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Well no, we actually think
this is a better way
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to stand up for the things
America cares about.
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The Obama Doctrine has
caused a lot of pushback
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not only on Iran, but Cuba as well.
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And now it's become a debate
that's cut across partisan lines.
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And at least two of the presidential
candidates have publicly stated
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a desire to unwind
these developments.
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This is throwing an economic
lifeline to the Castros
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at a moment when their regime
was vulnerable
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and it was a serious mistake.
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We somehow ignore the fact
that 90 miles from our shores
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is an anti-American
Communist dictatorship
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that oppresses its people
and sows instability.
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We spoke to Josefina Vidal,
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Cuba's top negotiator
in dealings with the US,
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about the shifting relationship
between Havana and Washington.
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On the Cuban side is anyone thinking
that okay, Obama is obviously pushing
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to normalize relations with Cuba.
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But as of today, Rubio from
Florida, Cruz from Texas,
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would probably try to push back the advances
that Obama and your government have made.
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Do you think about that?
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The changes and the announcements
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have been made
through executive decisions.
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The next American president can
undo through the same ways, means,
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what has been done so far.
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But I don't think it will
be easy to do that.
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Because this is good, not only
for our both countries,
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but also for the region
and for the whole world.
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And I see having a respectful
relationship that can enrich Cuba
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and that can
enrich the Americans too.
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So what President Obama's visit marks
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is a step where two
traditional enemies
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are for the first time
starting a dialogue.
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If you look at the Iran deal,
the Cuba policy,
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these are seen as these
hugely controversial things,
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but Americans generally support them.
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Sure.
Washington doesn't.
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For whatever reason, it's
easier to bomb another country
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than it is to sometimes
engage a certain country.
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If this is really about
helping the Cuban people,
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97% of the Cuban people support
normalization with the United States.
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What will be interesting to watch
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is how the interaction
with the United States
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and the interconnection
with the rest of the world
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helps normalize, not just the relationship
between the United States and Cuba,
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but Cuba's own position in
the hemisphere and the world.
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