

Re-Evolution: The Cuban Dream
Special | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Student Cray Novick goes to Cuba and meets artists, sociologists and everyday Cubans.
Summary:Student Cray Novick goes to Cuba and meets artists, sociologists, and everyday Cubans who reflect on Cuba today. Their stories reveal the evolution of Cuban society dating back to 1960. Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit Cuba since the 1959 revolution. Cuba is changing and Cubans are searching for a collective Cuban dream.
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Re-Evolution: The Cuban Dream
Special | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Summary:Student Cray Novick goes to Cuba and meets artists, sociologists, and everyday Cubans who reflect on Cuba today. Their stories reveal the evolution of Cuban society dating back to 1960. Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit Cuba since the 1959 revolution. Cuba is changing and Cubans are searching for a collective Cuban dream.
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Katie Heath, Hampshire College, The Repass Family Fund, Leslie Frank, Clinton Elliott, and Artemis Joukowsky Additional funding was made possible by: Alex Elliott, Jennifer Nelson, Gregory S. Prince Jr., No Limits Media, Geralyn Dreyfous, Sarah Shannon, and Steven Cadwell.
A complete list of funders is available at APTonline.org (crowd sounds) Jezabel: My parents are Cuban immigrants.
The revolution that began when Castro a fugitive.
Ended with fight of dictator Fulgencio Batista, and...
There was turmoil, there was instability.
They really felt they had to leave.
There are reports that in addition to the building of airfields, Soviet technicians are at work in Cuba now.
Cray: When I went to Cuba for the first time, I fell in love with the people, I fell in love with the sense of community.
Now we're asking what is possible if we engage with Cuba; with Cuban culture, Cuban music, Cuban art.
President Obama: We can make this journey as friends.
Jezabel: What is the Cuban dream?
I know what it is for me, but what is it for you?
♪ Jorge: (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) Tammy: (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (crowd sounds) Zuleica: (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) Male PA Announcer: (speaking Spanish) Female PA Announcer: (speaking Spanish) Tim: As a species, we're wired for homeostasis: to stay the same.
And that's just human nature, but the reality is, without change, we don't exist.
In the case of Cuba, you can't sustain a country unless you create opportunity for its people.
Leosbel: (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) (speaking Spanish) ♪ (singing in Spanish) (singing in Spanish) (singing in Spanish) (singing in Spanish) (singing in Spanish) (singing in Spanish) The history of the United States and Cuba encompass revolution and conflict, struggle and sacrifice, retribution and now, reconciliation.
Leosbel: (singing in Spanish) Jorge: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Tim: One of the challenges was you had countries for more than 60 years completely broken off from each other.
These are long term; I don't mean transitions of power, but transition and transformation of a relationship.
It doesn't happen overnight.
(speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Jesus: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Tammy: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Zuleica: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Wilfredo: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Jesus: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Wilfredo: (speaking in Spanish) ♪ Lilia: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Jesus: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Lilia: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Leosbel: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Lilia: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Leosbel: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Jorge: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Zuleica: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) President Obama: It is time now for us to leave the past behind.
It is time for us to look forward to the future together.
(speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Lilia: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) ♪ Wilfredo: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Tammy: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (singing in Spanish) ♪ (singing in Spanish) (singing in Spanish) Jorge: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Wilfredo: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) Leosbel:(speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) I just had this sort of crazy idea: why not get Pope Francis involved?
To it, it can develop this sort of reputation as a real moral authority figure.
Pope Francis: (speaking in Spanish) "Normalizing" relations with Cuba, talking about reconciliation, going to Cuba is now more allowable.
Not just legally, politically, and emotionally than ever before.
Change is possible, but it takes time.
(crowd sounds) Male PA Announcer: (speaking in Spanish) Female PA Announcer: (speaking in Spanish) (crowd sounds) Wilfredo: (speaking in Spanish) (speaking in Spanish) President Trump: We will enforce the ban on tourism.
We will enforce the embargo.
Lilia: (speaking in Spanish) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Major funding provided by: Katie Heath, Hampshire College, The Repass Family Fund, Leslie Frank, Clinton Elliott, and Artemis Joukowsky Additional funding was made possible by: Alex Elliott, Jennifer Nelson, Gregory S. Prince Jr., No Limits Media, Geralyn Dreyfous, Sarah Shannon, and Steven Cadwell.
A complete list of funders is available at APTonline.org ♪ ♪ ♪
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