Inside Cuba- Documentary

WRAL's Leyla Santiago and Zac Gooch spent almost two weeks in the island nation exploring the links between Cuba and the United States.

[@claudiayanirarojas1808]

I was just in Cuba & let me tell you the energy you feel in this country is amazing. Yes it’s horrible what they live but so humble people. I will pray for Abundance & Prosperity for this country. Loved, loved Cuba!

[@luisvaldes8945]

Thanks

[@CherCherico]

Why did you come back? Should have stayed there since it is so amazing.

[@caliz56]

Pray for their freedom so that the prosperity and abundance has a chance to come into being.

[@msq5067]

Caucasians are becoming the minority...Hispanics, Asians, Blacks and yes little Becky Sue & Billy Bob have fallen in love & had 5 kids with our Hispanic & Black sons & daughters..so get ready grandmas & grandpas with lily white skin...its going to be one big race with all our mixed babies..i have 5 that dont want to & not going to speak Spanish or Tagalog...😄 Oh & God knows I'm not prejudice..just go back to England & take your taxes with you..we'll be alright...😂

[@boogeyman2868]

whats so horrible what they live?

[@Stella-ic7qt]

My father was born 1938, spent 13 years political prisoner, and came to the U.S. in 1980 by the "Mariel".. he saw death and suffering and lived thru it.. I asked him if I should visit Cuba, his response was "you have nothing and no one in Cuba" . I never asked him again, because u can see the pain in his eyes. The beautiful Cuba was before communism, not now.

[@eddysardinas]

After living in Cuba for 10 years I have to say that I have never seen such humble people any where else. Is nice to visit every now and then but living is a different story. The Cuban people have what they need to survive and if they don't have it they find it. No one dies from hunger; all they lack is materialistic things.

[@abualward7881]

is it possible to buy property there for a canadian citizen?

[@abualward7881]

Lawrance Ovarabia thank,s for your reply i might retire in caribbean island cuba in the map

[@eb9172]

@@abualward7881 make sure you bring food

[@whatabouttheearth]

​@@abualward7881 If you live there. Communists are against "private property", to communists this does not mean "personal possession", to communists a house you live in is considered a personal possession not "private property" but if you own houses to rent them out that is considered private property and they are against that. Cuba has a 97% home ownership rate, to communists it is immoral for people to not have a home this is why they do not have homelessness. And businesses are owner operated (aka the workers "own the means of production") and some are state owned so the state can get funding to operate. And this video is kind of bullshit, they're showing the decrepit Old Havana district which is has been going through refurbishment for a while, it's not all that run down, but it is true that most of their economic issues are due to the US policy of economic warfare against Cuba

[@whatabouttheearth]

If you live there. Communists are against "private property", to communists this does not mean "personal possession", to communists a house you live in is considered a personal possession not "private property" but if you own houses to rent them out that is considered private property and they are against that. Cuba has a 97% home ownership rate, to communists it is immoral for people to not have a home this is why they do not have homelessness. And businesses are owner operated (aka the workers "own the means of production") and some are state owned so the state can get funding to operate. And this video is kind of bullshit, they're showing the decrepit Old Havana district which is has been going through refurbishment for a while, it's not all that run down, but it is true that most of their economic issues are due to the US policy of economic warfare against Cuba

[@javierp98]

This is amazing I just came back from Cuba. I was looking at videos of Cuba since I'm missing the island and my family there. Who would of thought that I've also been to that restaurant in North Carolina and those same streets in Habana and caves in Viñales. It truly is a small world. Thanks Leyla

[@davegarmendia1717]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ddizon666]

We have them but destroy by American bomb it

[@jonathanmiller776]

Cuba is a beautiful island with beautiful people

[@amybaum2722]

I have been fascinated by Cuba for many years. I love any documentary about it

[@davegarmendia1717]

❤️❤️❤️

[@cristovaodacosta4000]

I admire the People of this Country- I admire the supreme natural beauty as well, the music-the food. the famous coffee! the ocean! I pray that one day soon- I will have the opportunity to enjoy Cuba bela!

[@thewitcher8658]

Cuba gives an eerie vibe.

[@ANHTUAN_ART]

The friends who helped Vietnam most were the Soviet Union, Cuba and Iraq. Cuba is under embargo, so it is extremely difficult for them. Vietnam has also gone through a period of being embargoed by the US, so it is extremely miserable because of poverty. It's great when the friendship thinks that Vietnam - Cuba is still burning red. Admire the talent, great personality of P.Castro and CHE Guevara. Thank you Cuba for its great help to Vietnam during the war and the transfer of Covid vaccine technology to Vietnam. Hope Cuba quickly stands up strong and rich.

[@deloreswilson1798]

Cubano is in my family.I am proud.I love them and respect their beating constant odds and their resilience.🤔👍💪

[@DaveyZeeTV]

I want to visit Habana so bad! I am a musician and love the music from there! It looks so beautiful!

[@ChatNowAmerica]

I just returned from Havana Cuba and it was beyond my expectations, it was amazing! If you have been thinking about going to Cuba, GO, it’s safe and the Cuban people will greet and treat you as family!!

[@Rainman270]

“ FREE Education and FREE Healthcare ! “ Meanwhile people have very little food, are constantly in poverty and have had 60 YEARS of human rights violations. Reminds me of the guy who said “ Other than THAT Mrs. Lincoln, how’d you like the play ? “

[@truthteller4442]

Exactly. If I learned one thing in life, it's that anything "free" sucks, and also that nothing is truly free.

[@tj5180]

Because of the emberago and sanctions

[@Rainman270]

@@tj5180 Cuba is free to trade with any other country. They trade with Russia, Mexico and Venezuela. Try again.

[@misanthropyunhinged]

wow maybe u.s should stop the embargo on their country??

[@Rainman270]

@@misanthropyunhinged Maybe the Cuban Regime should stop abusing their own people, for GENERATIONS..

[@aresdiangelo2664]

Please We Need To help Cuba This Country Goes To War With Everyone Else Why Not Cuba That Country Needs Liberating

[@captjimMcintyre]

May God continue to bless this amazing island nation--me gusta cuba mucho--Viva Cuba!

[@brucemarsico6]

Why would god bless an atheist nation?

[@luisvaldes8945]

Why not..? Atheism came from the government not from people our people are animist (yoruba religion)Catholics evangelicals..sorry for my little English

[@richardkennady9568]

Yes

[@gabepenn7386]

@@brucemarsico6 the people are not all atheists this is forced by the govt

[@glowood1700]

Yea Jimmy boy. Why don’t you go and try living there. You’d be back in a hot second with your tail between you legs crying. You don’t have cajones big enough to deal with what the Cuban people have had to endure.

[@sarah6557]

I love Cuba I go every November for a holiday it's a beautiful place with beautiful people ❤️

[@deborahchesser7375]

Such a rich country in so many ways and beautiful, it’s a shame it’s deadlocked

[@pasindukanishka7504]

rich country,s crime rate and cuban crime rate is very different

[@belingonza318]

@@pasindukanishka7504 not much crime in Cuba you can walk around at 2 3in the morning and no will bother you.

[@pasindukanishka7504]

@@belingonza318 i mean cube is greater than other capitalists

[@goldeneagle.9098]

The government should free the people.

[@Uaene]

@@goldeneagle.9098 fuck you, it’s the capitalists in the US that are starving the Cuban people with morally inhumane embargos

[@alan-rk2yy]

God Bless The Cuban people, Very touching story.

[@juniorkabengele9439]

Hello

[@EuroGuy85]

why doesn't god give them democracy?

[@dododakowski2813]

The biggest blessing would be the end of the embargo. A Hallelulja

[@latinlatino5146]

@@EuroGuy85 because even America doesn't have democracy while they made whole nation belive that they have perfect democracy. And Americans believe that people hate them because of how free they are hahahahhah

[@EuroGuy85]

Hey Latino, so america has to get democracy first before god can give Cuba its own? Why can’t Cuba be the first to get “your definition of democracy” first, since not even America has it? Are you saying that god loves Americans more than Cubans, and Americans have to get “proper” democracy then Cuba?

[@johnmiller7453]

The cell phone and the hand held computer will and is bringing Cuba down. Cuba is better off having nothing to do with the US. I hope other countries come to their aid. I admire the people of Cuba and I love watching videos of the life they have there. It's much happier than here for sure even though on the material level they struggle much more. They have heart and music and color, dance and spirit, something we have almost none of here. I wish them well and envy the love you can see that they have for each other. I hope they get the material help they need from better places than the US.

[@LordDirus007]

Say a guy who doesn't live on food rations. Cognitive dissonance!

[@samanthab6642]

john miller hmm...ny has amazing jazz so does Chicago etc.maybe you just have shitty taste in music. Lots of cultures great food nyc and in other cities in the USA. The usa is the melting pot

[@texicanamerican9346]

john miller let them decide for themselves!!! Who are you to say what's best for this country? You think they'd choose what they have now???

[@tinotrivino]

SPain tried to help CUBA but USA voted against us and Europe is lazy! Its always the same :(

[@samanthab6642]

@@tinotrivino as spain should since uh history....lol

[@linkedinfred]

That was really interesting. Great documentary. Thank you.

[@davegarmendia1717]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Snooty-Pookie]

I would love to go to Cuba and visit my family one day. Beautiful culture, wonderful people. Gotta make do with what you get.

[@davegarmendia1717]

Sadly it is true, el país de mi abuelo

[@samali5870]

I was in Cuba 2021. They have freedom, they are enjoyed they life, some cuban people have lot of food they always invite you too party. They are smoking ciggar. Many cubans are standing with goverment. But somone not, But the life is hard where you go👍👌

[@mikestone9129]

I have been to Cuba several times. The Island is beautiful, the people some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. They deserve to be free to make their own choices.

[@latinlatino5146]

Yeah like you are free and can make more choices then Cubans

[@Cyrus600]

How about you let Cubans manage their own affairs without pretending as if you know what's best for them. Let's start by lifting the genocidal 60+ year embargo

[@rajo8493]

Beautiful çity with different road side song añd music and. defferent things

[@ishaAlease]

Wowwww I go to Carmen's ALL the time! How awesome is this!

[@christinabrown6442]

Yummy! I'm in Fayetteville and we have quite a bit if Cuban restaurants here! Now I want to go to Mooresville to try their food!

[@illumination101]

I live 1 hr south of Nashville Tn, (Lawrenceburg Tn) , would live to visit the area.

[@eddiezorro1]

This is the greatest Documentary I have seen in a while. Obama had great intention for the Cuban People, But unfortunately Trump destroy the relationship. So Sad...

[@earth7451]

The reporter Leyla Santiago did a great job. Leyla, hiciste muy buen trabajo y me encanto la forma en que lo conduciste.

[@TisaTells]

Loved your video! It inspired me to go to Cuba and make a few videos for my channel! Thanks for the I spo

[@davegarmendia1717]

Are you making videos about Cuba now?

[@davegarmendia1717]

Awe inspiring video, el país de mi abuelo

[@FishHeadBiologist]

Buy local from one another.. Keep out corporations.. then you have an Utopia..

[@richardkennady9568]

No you will have unemployed people and a weak economy. Just visualize a million people in one simple river valley. Every house hold for themselves. No factories, no power grid, no sewer systems, Sounds like a Hollywood film to me or China....haha.

[@glowood1700]

You’re a simpleton

[@dennis_duran]

🤦‍♂️Its definitely not a utopia, we’re you listening? They’re paying fortunes to live in century old slums and without transportation and eat very little. There’s a reason people like my grandfather tried to escape during Castro’s uprising.

[@jaguarwarrior9140]

Cubans don't give in to the American corporate greed. Stay strong.

[@QuabmasM]

Maybe one day we can ESCAPE USA to be free in Cuba.....said no sober minded human ever.

[@JudoLover71]

@Jaguar. You can always move there if you want!! You're a talker! That's all!! A liar! A deceitful person!!

[@LordDirus007]

Really? How about you explain this filthy rich neighborhood next to a dirt poor ghetto Havana Cuba Dropped pin maps.app.goo.gl/h289i

[@shauncameron8390]

While prostituting themselves and their daughters to Canadian and Western European tourists.

[@johnames6430]

They achieved equality. Everyone is poor.

[@SEAL341]

The US has more people in poverty , over 40 million, four times the population of Cuba

[@ushavns]

@@SEAL341 yes cause population is 40 times more

[@karlos_marxican-godless-co1712]

Cuba has free education and free Healthcare. Just because they don't have a McDonald's or shopping malls or gas stations at every corner doesn't mean they're "poor." Theneichest country in the world doesn't even provide decent services for the people who work and make wealth possible.

[@karlos_marxican-godless-co1712]

@SusanCommie Wojpsycho I am. Have fun paying for your Healthcare and education in the states.

[@charsafrazier9953]

@@SEAL341 the United States isn’t facing national hunger either way more opportunities as well

[@mira2987]

Talk to old people and ask them how was it before Castro

[@macman9689]

Depends on who you ask. White Cubans would say it was great

[@robbied2113]

That dude said no problems until castro. Lol

[@richard_red_64]

@Ryan Tippens Exactly....

[@mira2987]

@@macman9689 white cubans

[@eb9172]

@@mira2987 now their all starving. Castro ain't done shit for blacks. Your just an idiot

[@indigowildflower]

Michael Moore made a documentary about Americans going to Cuba to receive better Healthcare. My grandparents are Holocaust Survivors and came to the United States after the war and I wish they never did. I am embarrassed to have a birth certificate in the United States. We, and the rest of the world, let this happen because we were afraid of Fidel Castro. Human perseverance in a world where power and greed trumps global starvation, and brutality, in 2018 is humbling this American in a way I never thought of.

[@eb9172]

Moorer is a moron

[@jungleno.]

Indigowildflower, you're free to leave and renounce your U.S. citizenship. Bye Bye.

[@barthestation]

Superbe doc, Thanks Zac for sharing and for the photos!

[@gowiththeflowxd9224]

Omg about the phone part to connect with your family it’s soo truee

[@illumination101]

Truth of the matter, cuba didnt give in to the mafia, the corrupt banking cartels and the u.s. govt! I would love to visit the beautiful island of Cuba.

[@gabepenn7386]

youre ignorant...go go and see for yourself

[@shauncameron8390]

But it gave in to horny Canadian and (western) European sex-tourists.

[@eb9172]

Legend you are missing a brain

[@jasavak]

This video claims rich soil and 60% of the land can be cultivated . When I was in Cuba the people told me there is a lack of food because the soil is poor and very little land can be used. The Cuban government seems to be blaming the embargo on "lack of fertilizer" . I asked why they can't produce their own fertilizer and they said they "don't have the technology" . It seems , the Cuban government has been lying to the people and blaming the pitfalls of their system on the embargo.

[@kimobrien.]

Creating fertilizer depends on what kind of fertilizer you need. If the embargo has no effect why keep it? The US only embarrasses themselves in the UN every year when the rest of the world votes against it.

[@lauracortez3904]

Fyi cuba has biological fertilizers and pesticides .. but the embargo prevent cuba to do comerce and get many of the things that are necessary o develop more . By the way which country in the world has develop industry and economy with the same embargo as Cuba ? None, maybe North Korea but their economy is not strong

[@pics8619]

jasavak why can't they get fertiliser from another country for there trade

[@tolpacourt]

You need oil to make fertilizer. No more oil from USSR since no more USSR.

[@migueloliva4953]

Very true & can corroborate this claim. I was born there.

[@ChenSolomon]

Visited Havana in 2020 February. Stayed at a beautiful Airbnb house. Nice and friendly local people. With amazing passion. Everyone are poor but happy overall. Safe city where we goes. Will need to go back again soon.

[@aidamatokko7027]

Fiction that is what Cuba is, live there for three months with the same conditions any Cuban lives and you tell me!

[@omarshabazz9753]

THEY ONLY COME TO SEE WHAT THEY CAN TAKE FROM MY PEOPLE !!!

[@caliz56]

Take what from your people? The Cuban people are more broke than broke.Thanks to the robolucion.

[@lemfarba4827]

Says the boy that lives in America. Go home and live among your people. That's what I thought.

[@shadwashington3403]

It's sad that people hate Americans so much. But I understand when you live under a dictator you probably will begin to hate anything that looks happy inside.

[@shadwashington3403]

Sub zero when the United States gets involved with another country it's because it's already been destabilized by your theiving ass government. I bet you wanna come here don't ya. Everybody does. AMERICA THE LAST FREE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. FUCK COMMUNISM.

[@shadwashington3403]

Take what. the castros already have taken everything from you. Including your dignity.

[@granddad6689]

Bless my familia en cuba.thats the motherland

[@stoopstified7376]

Cuban's are a beautiful people

[@topflight2358]

today is 1-15-2020 does this still exist ?

[@kingdelpollo1567]

Cubans are very Kind and smart people, They find solutions to all problems and have survived 60 years of tough económica embargo

[@luisvilla799]

Funny we trade with China but not Cuba lol I would be worried more about China than Cuba

[@CherryJ2911]

Aww 2:11 is so cute !! I love the older man and the younger mans duo😄😄😄💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

[@greghoff4676]

Enjoyed your presentation immensely ... wish I was fluent in Spanish

[@acajudi100]

Greg Hoff Spanish is easy.

[@elena16350]

History is as well, all you have to do is portray it accurately, something this mediocre programme didn’t do, I’m English I care about Cuban history, all these jokers are trying unsuccessfully to do is rewrite history, something yanks do all the time, it will only succeed if the yanks win the coming war with Russia and China, the way it looks at present is yankland is beaten if it starts anything.

[@Ira88881]

Doesn’t this reporter know that Cuba never pays its bills, produces nothing to trade, and is a dictatorship which doesn’t allow people to enjoy the fruits of their labor? What is so fucking complicated about this that people don’t understand? And she also has the cojones to say Cuba is going to be a leader in cancer pharmaceuticals? And that she saw change during her visit? She might make a great fiction writer, but as a reporter, she’s sorely lacking. It’s a crime and disservice to tell things as you would like them to be, as opposed to the truth and how they are.

[@elsiosuengas1355]

Yes, I’m a Cuban American, but I owe everything in my life to the U.S. and for that I’m very grateful.

[@brianjamesruiz6711]

I have been there to l want to know if Yanet sapata Sanchez still on Cuba thanks

[@nancyyanez8179]

Los amamos hermanos cubanos; somos tus vecinos quienes los entienden.

[@davegarmendia1717]

❤️❤️❤️

[@serendipity9defined]

I miss Cuba. I've never been. But my soul feels like it belongs there sometimes.

[@daniellegler4011]

stupid hipster

[@yayam9959]

serendipity9defined so how do you miss a place youve never been to?

[@blane6592]

This is the weirdest comment I think I’ve come across on YT EVER!!!!😩🤦🏽‍♀️😩

[@twhite7900]

was interested to watch this until the into immediately started referring to the united states.

[@unpluggedtoaster7421]

Well I mean kinda important when talking about Cuba lol

[@shadwashington3403]

I know thats right T White. I pray to God you don't have to live here in the United States. Hopefully your luchy and you live in communist China somefuckin where. And have a nice cushy job working in the sweat shop makin 20 cents a day and you enjoy rat or dog everynight for dinner. And sleep in raw sewage like the almighty cuba.

[@twhite7900]

shad washington actually my country is rated above yours in economy, healthcare, and overall greatest places to live, but arguing online is like being president of the United States, even if you win the argument/election, you’re still an idiot.

[@shadwashington3403]

T White. Lies you tell. No country better than USA. I bet nobody is begging to come to your country. Communist always lie.

[@ian-wv6mk]

shad washington America sucks. You’re just brainwashed.

[@wayneenglish2658]

Thank you for your report

[@davldmorand8125]

Organic farming will die in Cuba when the US conglomerates get hold of agriculture.

[@remedy1858]

What Farms there ain't no farms here everything is imported.

[@muralis533]

True.Actually Cubans living a good life,in the terms of organic food and organic lifestyle.

[@10esca]

I am Cuban and I live in North Carolina, agriculture in Cuba died in 1959 when Castro took power Cuba has to buy everything because they do not produce anything, the dictatorship does not allow the people to develop their ideas, private activity is prohibited, the economy It is centralized as in all countries where Communism has been implemented a disaster.

[@CrysisMachinima]

Good, any farming practice that can't support the people should die. There is a reason we commercialized farming. Hint, it wasn't so we could poison everyone, that makes zero sense (killing your customers, really?). It was because old methods of farming simply cannot support a massive population like our earth has. Without modern tech, we'd starve. Would you prefer starvation and "organic" food, or "synthetic" food and to eradicate starvation?

[@aidamatokko7027]

What organic I’d they do not plant anything!!! You can drive I. The country and do not see one plant of vegetable for their own use, they have become too dependent of the regime and that is what happens with communism!!

[@yourhighness4746]

Nacer pobre es una circunstancia, vivir y morir pobre es una decisión.

[@oscarutrera9829]

Oh Cuba once upon a time such a beautiful place. Since 1959 you have been under a nightmare. 😔

[@PerfumePriestess]

Tobacco... a native Arawak/Taino crop of the Caribbean. That Farmer and his ancestors have been growing and tending that tobacco since before Columbus. I hope that capitalist greed doesn’t come in ruin the organic way of life, natural soil, and food production that this beautiful island has. Big business is always looking to rape, pillage, and steal natural resources from the locals.

[@richardkennady9568]

...but how many people worldwide die of lung cancer every day? Someday Cuba will realize they have more to offer than a killer cigar. Oh yes Americans are just as bad, but we are teaching our kids not to smoke.

[@josejimenez5168]

Leyla Santiago is Beautiful! I Love Cuban people especially their gorgeous women 😍😍

[@suzanne448]

She's from Mexico.

[@grampuseelfry]

Yeah, I've begun crying thinking about growling up in Miami with Cuban refugees. Beautiful isn't enough to describe the Cuban people.

[@kithsirirubesinghe9202]

Fidel Castro once said that "Israel has the right to have their own nation". He spoke on their behalf when many political leaders were afraid to speak on behalf of Israel. Thus according to the God of Abraham ( the Hebrews, Israelites) he became a possessor of the Blessing of YAHWEH. "I will bless those who Bless you and curse those who curse you" I did pray for him (F. C) after I heard/read that statement. So Fidel's Cuba also is in the line of Blessing accordingly. I hope and pray that the people if Cuba will turn to the living saviour Jesus Christ who is the culmination of the Blessing to Abraham. “And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” - Genesis 28:14 (KJV) God Bless you Cuba.

[@br5448]

Keep the Pope and Americans out, gain your independence.

[@davidchkhapelia9450]

Viva Cuba from Georgia❤️

[@aidamatokko7027]

You mean viva Cuban people

[@aidamatokko7027]

We are here in USA too!’🇺🇸👮‍♂️👮🏾

[@biggiesmol]

A Govt that will jail a person for saying the truth? Heaven forbid! Ask Julian Assange and Edward Snowden!

[@jefferystewart9252]

All the every best for the people of Cuba.

[@eb9172]

Yea they need it . There is a crazy tyrant there and they been suffering for 60 years

[@damiandyd5]

Only the Cuban government and USA can change the situation in Cuba, Cuban people are not ready for change, their mentality is different, unfortunately or fortunately Latin countries need from USA , and Cuba is not the exemption, Cuba and the Cubans need from USA, today is 7-25-2019, remember my words, Días Canel need, have, must make negotiations with USA and change Cuba once for all, and then , it could take up to 20 years to change the old mentality and see the new generation growing in a new Cuba.

[@wandad1799]

How dismal to be dependent on USA

[@damiandyd5]

@@wandad1799 Fidel did nothing , just experimenting with people and his crazy ideas about communism

[@sanoflight15]

VISIT YA'LL...THAT COUNTRY STILL NEEDS OUR HELP

[@MrGuitars8]

Cuba is Beautiful Country with good people , sad that the two Countries have not put aside their differences even 2019 .

[@strongdan1]

Thanks ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@donjud1]

I took my family to Cuba in August 2017. We hired a driver and car and made it a point to see many areas and visit with people wherre tourists never go. The people were wonderful and gracious. We're planning our second trip soon. But Cuba is a communist country. Locals were afraid that they might go to prison if one of us said the wrong thing and it was overheard by the wrong person. We were advised to talk quietly in public and even our hotel . On the economic front, It's a country that never put an effort into building its economy. It lived on Soviet welfare until the Russians ran out of patience and stopped subsiding it to the tune of about 7 billion US dollars a day. People there told us that education is excellent but health care doesn't exist. No internet to speak of compounds the problems. My heart goes out to these wonderful people. I can't wait to go back.

[@bonitaashford]

nice report but the developments in diplomatic relations have been achieved with Cuba and andCcanada for many years in terms of Canada supporting tourism, agriculture and building preservation.SO..-.they- are not so inovative....but of course that is all dependent on the current US government's will.. it is a complex history but the political will will as always have the biggest impact.

[@JustMeELC]

I believe they actually have better healthcare than usa

[@bb-bk3sm]

D Judson I appreciate your honesty. I am a daughter of Cuban exiles. What you said is very accurate. Especially what you said how they are afraid to speak about what really is going on in Cuba. There will never be freedom there until the communists are gone. What good is their "high literacy" rates if they don't have the freedom to read books they choose to read. What good is their free healthcare if their is no medicine and the hospitals are in deplorable conditions. The Castro's get richer as the poor get poorer. Hurricanes have ravaged the already crumbling buildings and yet any monetary aid and food NEVER reached the people of Cuba. Why? Because the government pocketed it all. Castro died a billionaire. A billionaire! Such hypocracy!

[@bb-bk3sm]

@Cesar Raudales Whose choice? The people? They have no choice. They can't even vote for their leader. I have no respect for that evil government whose leaders have committed atrocious acts against the people of Cuba. They have blood on their hands and billions in their pockets while their people starve.

[@islandantoinette]

@@JustMeELC I was The Cayman Islands Medical Social Worker and Cayman sent groups of Dr.'s to Cuba for joint education. Cuba is FAR better in health care than USA. They are HONEST in helping their people and really curing illnesses not just capitalism like USA.

[@passionforluxury]

Great Video !!

[@elsiosuengas1355]

Viva Cuba yes, but free my friends! I came in the Mariel Boat lift for a reason. To have freedom...

[@JoseEQuesada]

Elsio Suengas cuba is free and independent since 1959 , or do you mean free is to be colonies of us??

[@richardkennady9568]

Good for you, I raise my glass of Bacardi and Coke with a twist....Cuba Livre, now get ready to go back and take your country back, if you are too old, then put your money where your mouth is.....

[@JoseEQuesada]

Richard Kennady if the most powerful country in this planet couldn’t destroy the cuban revolution and fidel , do you really think this idiots from el mariel are going to do something to cuba let me laugh 😆 cuba is a legacy of dignity and principles, of unity and solidarity...

[@richardkennady9568]

@@JoseEQuesada Haha no, I do not believe any of the 125,000 “Marielitos,” who came ashore on asylum will help bring down Fildel’s Regime, which is his legacy. And yes you are right that the people have made the best out of a shitty situation of being oppressed by dictatorial rule and secret police. But Fidel spent his whole life promoting Communism throughout the Western World and it was our job to prevent it period. Like this or not, Communism is just not the same as freedom. You said the Cubans today have a “legacy of dignity and principles, of unity and solidarity...” yes I would agree with the people, workers, farmers, but not for the Government workers, Military or Police. Even the Educators who teach the children Bullshit Commy crap. Oh one last point, Trump is setting up for real negotiations, first he rolled back all the policy mess Obama did, and now is looking for real progress. It now is up to the Communist government to back down, give the control back to the people. Let’s see if it happens, Buena suerte.

[@JoseEQuesada]

Richard Kennady i like your point of view the future of cuba! I live there most of my life and agree in many things fidel did wrong but tell me who doesn’t make mistakes? The idea was to help the poor people and as you may know most the problems of the destruction of the economy of cuba is the embargo by the us, wish I believe is criminal and inhuman for the people there that is my people, why don’t let cuba alone? Why usa think is the owners of the planet and when don’t like the way a country is been rule they want to overthrow the leaders?? If you really think cuba has done nothing for the world i will tell you some of the conquest of the cuban revolution even under the embargo that thanks to that many of us has to let the island for better economy..

[@mileydispena6609]

DIOS TE BENFIGA Y TE GUARDE MI CUBA BELLA TE AMAMOS

[@carmeloortiz5877]

Soy puertoriqueno y tambien te amo.

[@midwestcountry314stl2]

Looks like New Orleans

[@Jazzmarcel]

MidwestCountry314 Stl no more!......... It's almost completely gentrified! This is why I am hoping the empire of hate implodes NOLA will rise again!

[@jesussgoe]

Cubans wish that Cuba looked like New Orleans!

[@dduh78]

my view is - don't change, with changes people will change as well - it's now almost 20 years from when I was in Cuba and I must say I've never met such wonderful people ever since.. don't change that which is right - change the rest (of the world) which isn't!

[@eb9172]

Change the dumb people in this world like you

[@knucklemodding]

Im a cuban and cuba makes me very special and it stays in my heart VIVA CUBA 🇨🇺

[@CherCherico]

Why did you leave ... clearly it wasn't that special or you wouldn't run from it.

[@knucklemodding]

CherCherico i was born here, I just wish I was born in Cuba

[@kristinam7928]

@@CherCherico you clearly have never been to Cuba.. It is a beautiful island.

[@rimasmeleshyus6545]

Great video, many thanks Greetings from the garden island of Kauai

[@LordDirus007]

If you want to compare Communist Cuba with another nation. Try Puerto Rico. Their standard of living is miles above Cuba. Both are Caribbean islands and both share similar culture.

[@shauncameron8390]

But Puerto Rico is a US territory, not an independent country. PR's supposedly high standard of living is due to US money and infrastructure.

[@fitness403]

You can't compare Pr with Cuba plain simple.

[@meowmeow9677]

I don’t think that’s true but why not compare it to Haiti? Cuba is way better.

[@Majestic_Dark_Horse]

Dios te bendiga Cuba!...help is on it's way....hold tight, we on the way!

[@captainnemo3549]

Hi, Help to the Cuban People or Help to the Cuban Government ?, its really difficult to separate since Cuban Government controls every aspect of Cubans life.

[@10esca]

They did not look for people who disagree with the single party, they bowed to the comments of the communists, within Cuba there are voices and many contrary to the communists and they are imprisoned and repressed for only expressing what they feel.

[@blondezeke6640]

Cuba doesn't have political prisoners lol

[@Aracelerii]

If you think about it, Cuba's been a colony it's whole life. First Spain showed up, then America, then the USSR (with good intentions however), and arguably now China with them reaching with influence to other communist nations. It just depresses me how sad Cuban history has gotten...

[@dododakowski2813]

Cuba ist small. It can't become a superpower. It can't be a strong leader but a strong lead one.

[@blitzfox8989]

It's all the US Embargos fault. Long live the free peasants and workers of Cuba!

[@richunggoy3960]

Funny how it's the US fault, the embargo is a lie. The Europeans and asians trade with Cuba. The embargo is used by the cuban government, to justify starving and not giving other goods to it's people. Doing some basic research would have told you that

[@yaearmeow]

Long live!

[@jessewfowler]

Cubans are some of the kindest people there are

[@milaescarpe3971]

How about creating a self-reliant economy.

[@glowood1700]

How about it. Doesn’t happen on communism. The people are capable it’s the government that keeps them down even though many are educated. Life is very hard.

[@TuAmigoElMorrocoy]

Self reliant economy involves private businesses, that doesn't happen in comunism

[@caliz56]

@@glowood1700 Amen to that.60 yrs of tyrannical rule by the Castro family.

[@glowood1700]

grumpy old fart. You’re wrong. It’s totally the the Cuban government abusing their citizens. If the USA lifted the embargo the Cuban people would still be living the same and then who would the Cuban government blame. Don’t kids yourself dude.

[@glowood1700]

elenitademialma. Yes a small private sector totally controlled by the government with severe restrictions.

[@TheMohadam]

Blame communist party for bad economic decisions

[@davidcarrera7642]

Her white voice is on point

[@emilzatopek8241]

A beautifully worded American propaganda film. Perhaps for the average Cuban life is hard and the wallet is empty but he is much richer in soul to whom the dollar is not the only “God” he acknowledges.

[@martinj1009]

"The Cuban government provides food rations.." WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! The Cuban government sells the people food rations which amount to probably about 50% of the rations consumed by the Cuban people on a daily basis, the other 50% must be obtained from the black markets or purchased with American dollars sent by relatives living in foreign countries mainly the USA.

[@MrFrisco8]

Absolutely!!

[@cherylharewood2549]

True words

[@gordonmurray5962]

Yes, Cuba was 'reopening' under Obama, and this video is six years old now. Donald Trump cut off anything Obama had done, and then the Pandemic came along. So its 'two steps forward, one step back' for now. I wish the best of luck to Cuba and the Cuban people.

[@yeleneortega1682]

I was born in Cuba, I don't blame the embargo for the lack of food or essentials. I blame the Communist/socialist government. Until the government takes ownership for the lack of freedom, Cuba will stay the same. Before Fidel Castro Cuba was at the same level as the United States. Communism/Socialism does not work!

[@rickybhardwaj5825]

India will suffer the same in coming years......the govt. Sucks in many countries i guess.......power to you💪

[@Stella-ic7qt]

You find stray animals in the hospital, dirty bloody beds, black mold in rooms, and hard to find any medication-including Tylenol and penicillin. You can't fish without permission. Lobster is illegal. My people are suffering, and the police do what they want and abuse power. I pray and hope for "Cuba Libre," and I hope to be alive to see it 🙏 ❤️

[@aralonzo6238]

Sound like RJ want Cuban tobacco market

[@ACREPAIRINORLANDO]

ALL CUBANS DONT FORGET YOUR COUNTRY IF YOU ALL GET TOGETHER YOU CAN INVEST BACK HOME ... THIS COMMUNISM WILL GO AWAY SOON. IF YOU NOTICE HAITI IS ALWAYS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM FROM THE GOVERNMENT CROOKS

[@pejomaub2]

Los que dan comentarios positivos por si las moscas no viven en Cuba, ja ja!

[@BrownLiquorBaron]

SHE LOOKS AMAZING

[@gabepenn7386]

cuba used to be a great country as advanced as thge US...then that castros destroyed it

[@janparadowski4894]

Castro's rule was far from great, perhaps not even good, but I can't help but think that they are still better of than being dependent from U.S corporate interests like other nations in Latin America. Thus, overall I think Fidel was a rather positive character than a negative one in the broader context. Unfortunately Cuba has had a pretty damn bad history of censorship and freedom of press is non-existant, but AFAIK this has been changing. Saludos desde Polonia.

[@eb9172]

Man please Castro dont care about his own people. His dad was a Spaniard. Nobody owns a thing on Cuba, it all belongs to Castro. How is he anything positive? What's wrong with you man????

[@janparadowski4894]

@@eb9172 idk studying data and shit, living in a post communist nation which isn't bad off and has many good aspects of its economy based on what the communists build here, later expanded on by our rather decent transition to capitalism Plus IMO again, given how the US badly wants to fuck them up, Cuba is doing good and I keep supporting them against the USA's aggresive foreign policy

[@eb9172]

@@janparadowski4894 Cuba is not doing good. Cubans dont own anything and are all extremely poor. No food either. How can you defend that?

[@Markcigar1]

Fuck Fidel. May he rot in Hell

[@IDK-pi5lu]

@@eb9172 You’re too hung up on owning materialistic things as true happiness

[@raulpendas1401]

THe only way that you will see a change if the United States require that the Cuban Governmment agrees that freedom and liberty to be guarantee. The embrago would change the way the people of Cuba live. I will not return until a Democratic government is establish. There are no guarantees that if you invest in Cuba they would not conficate your business. The only the Cuban People could see a change if capital is permitted to be introduce to their ecomonic.

[@SuicidalLaughter]

Cuba is more democratic then the US, but our government of oligarchs will never give us freedom

[@georgeplith]

do some research and you'll see how "free" cuba was before the castros overthrew the american-backed fascist government

[@beckyroque8950]

The cuban government does not want the farmer to farmer relationship, it is the cuban regimen, not the cuban farmer, they are crazy to be able to get credits to buy tractors from whoever, but the cuban regimen does not allow it, because they lose the control they have over all the society .Our soil is rich but the regimen blocks ours farmers, you have to be loyal to the regimen otherwise they do not give you seeds , access to water the plantations etc, they create all type of obstacles to the farmer if you are not loyal. They implemented something called agricultural cooperatives , a method copy from the Soviet Union , and the farmer who does not want to join the cooperative does not get the supplies , simple, this is a communist dictatorship and this is the way communist works. They do not care about its people it is all about them, the elite .

[@kylelusher147]

Salaries are low, resources are hard to come by, speaking out against the government can get u put in jail

[@monserratetirado1603]

Funny...same here in America!!

[@paulotudela6499]

@@monserratetirado1603 have you ever lived outside of the US? Even with all of its problems it is still an extremely great place to live, when compared to most of the world

[@curtisjones400]

@@paulotudela6499 Cuba needs to get rid of it's dictatorship by the Raul Castro regime.

[@rodsphotography1]

Cubans are good hardworking people God Bless The Cuban people and God bless USA Great documentary