Can we really patch things up with Cuba?
Is there hope between Cuba and the U.S., is change possible?
What steps can we expect the Obama administration to take to actually end the American-Cuban confrontation? These are questions pondered in this weeks New York Times Magazine.
Cuba is stuck in time. There is a lot of wasted talent there. There is pressure on both sides, the U.S. and Cuba, for change to come. One 71-year-old Cuban man said “I know I’ll see the day in my lifetime where you will get in your speed boat in Coconut Grove, Florida and be home in time for dinner in Havana.”
Columnist Roger Cohen, joins the Takeaway to discuss his piece ?The End of the End of the Revolution?.
“Cubans spend a lot of time hanging around talking. They have nothing else to do! ….They sit around talk and they will say yeah this system is bad but look at the U.S., look at the financial crisis you have! And it has to be said that one of the very few places on earth that has not been effected by the financial melt down is Cuba.” –Roger Cohen
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