long live cuba. and i just sent a sign of solidarity for commander in the death of fidel castro. >> ileana ros-lehtinen defeated both tyrant and thug, fidel castro is dead. we must work for a cuba that is free, democratic and prosperous. >> and in cuba and the united states, with the u.s. opening of the embassy in havana. >> reporter: fidel castro's were dwindling. saying soon i will be like everyone else. after a fear fatal illness in 2008, castro turned the reins of power to his younger brother raul. as cuba's new president began taking tentative steps towards reform, the u.s. began to ease its restrictions. fidel castro was suspicious writing in january 2015, although he does not trust u.s. poles and have not exchanged a word with them, this does not mean however that i will would oppose a peaceful solution to conflicts or threats of war. in september of last year, fidel met with pope francis and they talked about problems of humanity which the pope had condemned cuba's totalitarian regime. and ba

jeffrey: cuba is a very small country. julia: cuba is a very small country. he took office in 1959 when he was 32. he was in politics since his early 20's. 70 years of putting himself on the political stage in cuba. doing it in a very high-risk way as well. jeffrey: what was it about him that made him want to insert himself into the course of world history? punching way above his weight? julia: it was in his dna. he was born that way. the relationship with the united states was formative, not antagonistic. we have letters from him when he writes to fdr as a 12-year-old. he came here on his honeymoon. new york cityin and washington dc to raise money for cuban-americans. jeffrey: was it a love-hate relationship? relationship? jorge: no, he was insulted. the unitedlted how states had turned cuba into a playground for the rich and famous. humans do not have their own independence -- cubans did not have their own independence. he took a regular sized caribbean island and made it a major player on the world stage are beyond its geographic size and location. he also

, stirring the pot with cuba, fighting battles with cuba, that only supports hard-liners in cuba who reject any opening to the united states. what we said is we want to put the conflict in the past. we want to look forward that is in our interest. if we want to promote things like the empowerment of the cuban people, a better life for the cuban people, that is best served by not looking backwards but by looking forwards. >> all about cuba when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> good evening, i'm jefer ree goldberg of the atlantic filling in for charlie rose who is in cuba on assignment. fidel castro died on friday, he was 90 years old. the cuban revolutionary lead the country for nearly half a century. he first came to o power in 1959 as a passionate guerilla leader who transformed the small island nation into the first and only communist state in the western h

>> well, that's one of the reasons my parents left cuba, took us out of cuba to the united states. i -- when fidel castro took over, i would bring school the coloring pictures of the brave cuban soldier bayonetting the cowardly american soldier brainwashing the kids and one day at school the teacher said pray to god for ice cream. and we closed our eyes, no ice cream and then the teacher says, well, let's ask fidel for ice cream, and, yay, we got ice cream. at first the castro regime tried to undermine the church before they decided it was easier to of fidel and raul castro in cuba and 60 years of socialism and communism and failure. >> alex, you told us your parents got you out of cuba in 1961. you left with $11 and two suitcases. do you think after this death overnight of fidel castro that things will change on the ground in the country of your birth? >> i am hopeful but i'm not optimistic. yo has been in power since 2006, since 2008 officially and cuba is a military ole goply won by the generals. raul castro is the head of the military. and all business in cuba runs through a th

and cuba. so i'm wondering, how do you see the next administration handling relations with raul, his brother, the president? >> well, i think it's a complex set of choices. the incoming president is a hotel guy who is a business guy who until the very end of this campaign basically endorsed obama's opening toward cuba. said he would have gotten a better deal. but only in the last throes in florida said he would undo the actions the president had taken. i think there are a number of business and just constituencies in american society across the board who are going to be standing behind continuing what has started in terms of the opening of commercial and family and travel and people to people ties. the flights are starting, the cruises are going down there. hotels are opening. there was an 80% increase in american travel this year over last. cuban americans -- i noted in your coverage from miami -- there weren't so many of them out in the street. that's because they're traveling on the more tha

i was born in cuba. i was in one of cuba's most prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro. i was a teenager. the kid that slept on the bunk bed on top of me recorded our conversation and i was expelled from school. my mom said the only choice is for us to leave cuba. i'm a businessman. i've lived in miami 35 years. it's my home base. i come back and forth to cuba. i've been coming to cuba for over 20 years. cuba is a communist country in economic transition. >> fidel castro allowed cubans to establish more businesses, there are people that are making money, there are people that have created a tremendous amount of wealth. >> people with family connections to the states, people tied to the exploding tourist industry, small businessowners, taxi drivers, people operating in ever-changing gray areas of what is permissible. how's it work right now? if you're cuban, you can sell your property to -- >> another cuban from cuba. that's what's happening right now. a lot of cuban-americans,

what obama has done is not made a bad deal with cuba. he is not made any deal with cuba at all. he is said to the cubans, we're going to move forward in the interest of u.s. policy, and the interest of our relations with the rest of latin america, and in our own interest that we should have a different relationship with you and we think it will have an impact on our society, your economy, and on your politics over the long-term. that we are going to move forward for normal relations. if you wantn us wit and if you don't want to, you don't have to. cubans have always had normal relations with the united states. classified history of fidel reaching out to the u.s. and between speeches denouncing imperialist yankees is very clear in the book that rio grande and i did "back channel to cuba." he wanted validation for having a peaceful coexistence with the united states. and as lou perez pointed out, cuba purported not to live in the shadow -- preferred not to live in the shadow from the colossus of the north. they would much prefer not to have the threat of u.s. intervention hanging

maintains an embargo o cuba. and many people after the funeral, after the mourning is completed will wonder how this impacts their lives. they have lived, most people on this island, they have lived their entire lives with a casse toe as president. so very much the era of fidel castro has come to an end tonight many people want to know what that means for them. >> cnn's dedicated correspondent to cuba, patrick ottoman live for us this hour. patrick pointing out that many cubance learned this information from him. the news just starting to spread. >> many don't know yet. >> they are still learning, still learning. which is fascinating. patrick please stand by. i want to bring in cnn correspond enrafael romo. he has covered the geopolitics of latin america for many years. rafael, patrick pointed this out, but many people in cuba are looking at the changes that have been happening under raoul castro, under the u.s. president barack obama improved travel relations, improved relations as a whole. is this a possible op

jeffrey: cuba is a very small country. julia: cuba is a very small country. he has been notoriously ambitious. he took office in 1959 when he was 32. he was in politics since his early 20's. 70 years of putting himself on the political stage in cuba. doing it in a very high-risk way as well. jeffrey: what was it about him that made him want to insert himself into the course of world history? again punching way above his , weight? julia: i don't know it was answerable. it was in his dna. he was born that way. he was fixated as a young channel dish as a young child with the united states. the relationship with the united states was formative, not antagonistic. we have letters from him when he writes to fdr as a 12-year-old. he came here on his honeymoon. [indiscernible] [laughter] he campaigned in new york city and washington dc to raise money for cuban-americans. jeffrey: was it a love-hate relationship? or a hate-hate relationship? jorge: no, it was an effort to bring cuba out of the thumb of the united states of america. he was insulted how the united states

policy toward cuba. i just want to make sure that those changes are reciprocal, that that's a reciprocate by the cuban government. that was not part of what president obama did. and i want to make sure they're the kinds of things that help create a pathway toward democracy in cuba because while fidel castro was 90 years old his brother's 85. there is going to be a generational leadership change in cuba over the next five to ten years, hopefully sooner, and we need to ensure that our foreign policy toward cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a (coughs) cough doesn't sound so good. take mucinex dm. i'll text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. one pill lasts 12 hours, so... looks like i'm good all night! some cough medicines only last 4 hours. but just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. let's end this. ialmost everything. you know, ke 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. but for only $7 a month, rid-x helps break down waste. avoid a septic disaster with rid-x. >>> fi

i would love to go to cuba, a free cuba. right now cuba's not free. the hope is, and i think the real celebrations here show that everybody here hopes for a free cuba soon. and for human rights on the island to come to pass. see that is my hope. >> reporter: thank you very much. this is an expression here and last another person who is celebrating with a flag. how do you feel tonight, sir? >> oh, my god. there's no words. so emotional. for my grandparents that are no longer, that they came for freedom and liberty to this country. >> reporter: they never returned? >> they never returned back to cuba. they lost everything in cuba, taken away their businesses. their homes, businesses, they worked hard. if you didn't want to give to the government, they would execute you, you know. the regime is still there. raul castro is going to go through the same system and ideas. but today is a day of celebration. >> reporter: yeah, a celebration, but there is a lost emotion, an emotional moment for many -- a lot of emotion, an emotional moment for many in the commu

in 1979 in cuba. but despite decades of fighting we became friends because we respected each other, and certainly there's a lot of respect for fidel castro as the leader globally. >> at the same time though a very different scene we're seeing in places like miami. there are many people who hated fidel castro, who call him a dictator, who call him a person who murdered families, imprisoned people. >> yes, i think if you look at fidel castro through the lens of miami, you see it through a very distorted lens. there's one simple statistic i give to people, which is 7.3 billion people on planet earth and 3 or 12% live in the west and 88% live outside the west. for the 88% who live outside the west, who watch the story of cuba and this amazing small country that was able to stand up for decades to the most powerful country in the world, it was a david and goliath fight and everyone expected david to be crushed and david kept surviving. that why there's a lot of global admiration for fidel castro even among

policy toward cuba. i just want to make sure that those changes are reciprocal, that they're reciprocated by the cuban government. that was not part of what president obama did. and i want to make sure they're the kinds of things that help create a pathway toward democracy in cuba because while fidel castro was 90 years old his brother's 85. there is going to be a generational leadership change in cuba over the next five to foreign policy toward cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. >>> when the "overnight news" returns we'll look back at the life and legacy of fidel castro. rid-x helps break down waste. avoid a septic disaster with rid-x. ?living well? rise above joint discomfort with move free ultra's triple action joint support for improved mobility and flexibility, and 20% better comfort from one tiny, mighty pill... get move free ultra, and enjoy living well. ? rooms come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. with eight times more fragrance control, the air wick?

from viva cuba. in bolivia to here in brazil, the center right president, calling fidel castro a man of conviction. of course, in venezuela, nicolas maduro declaring that it's our turn, we'll keep the revolution alive. of course, that's a bigger challenge as latin america shifts further to the right and away from fidel castro's memory. shasta darlington, cnn, rio de janeiro. >>> when it comes to cuba and the catholic church, fidel castro saw it as an enemy during the early days of his rule. a breakthrough came when pope john paul ii met with castro and relations more last year when pope francis visited the island nation. ben wedeman has more on the vatican's reaction on castro's death. >> he sent condolences to raul cass tree on the death of his brother. fidel castro had a complicated relationship with the catholic church in 1961 when cuba declared itself a socialist country and shut down the catholic university there, closed 350 catholic schools and ex appropriated hundreds of catholic churches. non

>> while he transformed cuba. cue bans transformed tampa by running the cigar fact ris. >> the connection between tampa and cuba is direct and long. it's based on families as well as tradition. >> okay. that was adam goodman and this is adam here with us onset. traveled with us to cuba back in march. where do we start? >> let's talk about the embargo. cuba. when do you think and do you think this should be lifted? >> first of all, thank god we're moving into another period in cuba's history. that's one we want to turn the page on. what's interesting is to see what the president elect does. the master deal maker. i'm sure he looked at the cuba deal as lousy and wants to redo it. the question is how? looking at the evidence of an embargo that frankly has not with this a couple of weeks ago talking about predictions for cab nechlt do you see anything else in the future here in the near future? >> well the greatest cabinet post is secretary of state. i'm on record as having reservations object romney. not only bitter

the death in cuba. after this moment, many things are going to change in cuba. >> let's bring in ed laugvander. the crowd is still very full. what are people say sing? >> reporter: people have been pouring out into the streets in little havana since the news of his death was first announced. the streets have been festive. many people celebrating the death of fidel castro. gloria estefan said, the death of a human being is rarely cause for celebration, she tried to explain why these people out here are celebrating today. the grip of castro's regime will not loosen overnight, the demise of a leader that oversaw the annihilation of those with an opposing view, the discripple nat jailing of innocents, the separation of families and the censure of his people's freedom to speak, state sanctioned terrorism and the economic destruction of a once thriving and successful country. people know that his death will not have an immediate impact on life in cuba. many people see it as the beginning of the possibility of

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-cuba relations now? >> i would like to see more of a democratic opening on the island of cuba, free press stop putting people in jail because they do not agree with you and stop helping nort north korea. and a lou the parties to be able to function. the things that you find in the country in the western hemisphere except for cuba and increasingly venezuela. and i would like to see our foreign policy geared towards that. >> president-elect trump has called fidel castro a brutal dictator. and then he did not renew his promise to reverse president obama's executive order reopening relations. he did not talk about an embargo. was that a sufficient response by your likes? >> it's no different than the one i put out. what we need to do is understand our number one obligation is to act in the national interest of the united states of america. i believe it is in our national interest to see democracy take hold on the island of cuba. all the changes that president obama made, in that lens and through that lens. >

no hay derechos humanos en cuba. si tenemos la libertad de ir, pero no ha cambiado en nada. >> estÁbamos esperando esto, que este intercambio de culturas y. >> ahÍ yo voy a ver a mi familia, que es lo principal. >> el pueblo es el que estÁ sufriendo y ahÍ que ir a aling. >> y para poner en perspectiva lo que significa dentro y fuera de cuba la muerte de fidel castro, estamos con el embajador de venezuela. >> stachls viendo 20 mil pasajeros semanales a cuba de estados unidos, la reanudaciÓn de las relaciones diplomÁticas desde diciembre de 2014, ¿ cambia algo o puede cambiar algo con la muerte de fidel castro?. >> bueno, el objetivo de la a apertura segÚn el propio presidente obama en su discurso de diciembre de 2014 era de darle mÁs poder al pueblo cubano, desafortunadamente lo que ha resultado toda esa, ya tenemos es que le le ha dado mÁs fuerza, poder al gobierno de cuba. >> ¿cÓmo?. >> toda la industria turÍstica estÁ en manos de la industria militar en cuba, de una compaÑÍa que es un grupo de admin

alex was born in cuba. came to the u.s. shortly after whose family fled cuba years ago. you were raised among cuban expats in this country. alex, let me start with you. you have a story, a very powerful story of being in school as a child under a newly empowered fidel castro. what was that like? >> well, that's one of the reasons my parents left cuba, took us out of cuba to the united states. i would -- when fidel castro took over, i would bring home from school the coloring pictures of the brave cuban soldier bayonetting the cowardly american soldier brainwashing the kids and one day at school our teachers said, all right, kid, pray to god for ice cream. and we closed our eyes, no ice cream, and then the teacher says, well, let's ask fidel for ice cream, and, yay, we got ice cream. at first the castro regime tried to undermine the church before they decided it was easier to co-opt it, but that's the story and 60 years of socialism and communism and failure. >> alex, you told us your parents got you out of cuba in 1961. you left with $11 and 2 suitcases. do you think aft

union, cuba's economy imploded. on makeshift boats, thousands fled the regime. >> his legacy is a complicated one. there is no for getting how many cubans left the island under duress. >> reporter: in the 1990s, a ruler courted business men and court tourists. he welcomed john paul ii in cuban trained doctors and exporting medicine. in 1999, a custody battle over 6-year-old elian gonzalez. months later, a federal court ordered the child removed from miami. elian returned to his father and h hero's welcome in havana. l exhaustion in 2001. tripped and broke his knee and arm three years later. the bush administration tightened sanctions cutting off travel. castro arrested hundreds of dissidents. cu cuba's econo was pumped up by oil from venezuela. turned over power to his brother raul in 2008. then he???g commemorated the revolution and had a celebration of the 80th birthday. fidel castro did not attend. two years later, he stepped down. he wrote columns about his life experience emerging for a pope benedict visit in 2

but fidel castro changed the course of cuba. he changed the way cuba was. in 1959, 1958, cuba was pretty much a satellite of the united states. run by the united states. run by the united states mafia. all those casinos, all that lively dance footage we see of cuba, that was all run by the mafia. the united states cleaned that out. and not only did he do that, he's revered in his country, in cuba, for changing the class system. there was a huge class system in cuba up until then. and the peasant class didn't know how to read or write. most of the people in cuba didn't know how to read and write in 1960. and in fact, they didn't have medical care of any kind. and they didn't have electricity outside of havana.

hay dos cubas. la cuba real que anda a pie... haciendo las colas, tomandose la cerveza en el vasito --barcito de la esquina y estÁ la cuba de los medios de comunicaciÓn masiva, estÁ la cuba de miami, la de europa, pero desde que raÚl castro ruz, tomÓ el poder, ha empezado en mi opiniÓn a desandar una serie de vicios y problemas graves que habÍan cuba. a mi me detuvieron por ejemplo por andar con cinco dÓlares! no podÍamos salir y ya se puede. alan: se pueden comprar divisas, viajar. roberto: el problema es que la mayorÍa de estas personas que son los que se incorporaron despuÉs del 1 de enero... me refiero a ministros... karla: roberto, tenemos aquÍ a cinco personas que estÁn en desacuerdo contigo. juan: hola soy juan almeida. me encantarÍa coincidir contigo o disentir, el tema es que no te entiendo lo que quieres decir. que hay muchas cubas, si, yo las vivÍ todas caí del cielo al suelo sin paracaÍdas. alan: para concluir, cada uno un sÍ o un no. habrÁ un cambio despuÉs de la muerte de fidel castro? maria elen

desde cuba tenemos el sentir del pueblo. reportera: continÚa la consternaciÓn y sin poder creer esta gran noticia del fallecimiento de fidel castro. se puede sentir la rigidez en la comunidad cubana. tuve oportunidad de hablar con varias personas que con lÁgrimas en los ojos expresaron la gran partida del lÍder polÍtico. tambiÉn hable con muchos jÓvenes, es impresionante como la juventud tambiÉn quiere conservar el nombre de fidel castro y las memorias que dejÓ para generaciones futuras. >> muy valioso, una pÉrdida irreparable. reportera: hoy y maÑana estarÁn los familiares despidiendo se de Él, para dar inicio a todas las actividades que se estarÁn conmemorando a fidel castro, y para dar su despedida. en general las calles estÁn vacÍas. las personas tratan de seguir con sus actividades normales, pero con la tristeza que no dejan de sentir. fÉlix: el regimen castrista ha organizado una jornada para homenajear a su mÁximo lÍder durante dÉcadas. recorriend -- recordando el reo triunfal que hizo hace aÑos,

entero sigue de cerca la muerte de fidel castro y todos los ojos estÁn puestos lo que pase ahora en cuba, la isla vive hoy su primer dÍa sin el hombre que dirigiÓ su destino durante casi 50 aÑos. y las informaciones que llegan desde allÍ escasas y con cuenta gotas, hablan de un paÍs en relativa calma pero en espera a pesar que la televisiÓn oficial muestra desde hace horas, poco mÁs que documentales las redes sociales dieron su propia realidad y han podido captar en directo el pulso de las calles de la habana. estas son de hecho imÁgenes de esta maÑana poco despuÉs que se conociera la noticia. las cÁmaras de la web cyber cuba noticias nos muestra cÓmo la vida cotidiana sigue su curso, gente paseando, alguna cÁmara de televisiÓn. la policÍa por las calles, las crÓnicas de jovenes que tienen la fortuna de poder ver la realidad a travÉs de sus celulares. vamos a estar transmitiendo un rato aquÍ del boulevard san rafael y estÁn haciendo preguntas cÓmo estÁ la habana en estos momentos desde que salÍ he estado pasando por varios establecimientos y varios lugares aquÍ en

president to visit cuba since 1928. obama took steps to reopen economic ties with cuba. will president-elect trump toss president obama's cuba initiatives out the window? we'll talk it over with josh rogan. what do we know about trump's stance about cuba? >> sure. trump has said a lot about what he would do about cuba. the vast majority of the time he said that president obama's opening to cuba was a bad deal. he's not opposed to bring cuba back into the fold, but he thinks cuba must do more in order to receive the social and economic benefits that come with a normalized relationship with the united states. what more, you may ask? what we've seen is that the u.s. trade embargo in cuba has not proved to move the castro away from its admittedly brutal and repressive policies. the question will be for donald trump when he takes office, does he want to roll back those policies? he will have the ability to do so, they're mostly executive orders. congress has not lifted the embargo. the question is does he see any benefit to taking those relationships away, taking u.s. busines

to isolate cuba again. i think isolation is simply not worked and cubans will tell you that. >> we'll see what happens under president trump. peter turnley, thank you for coming on the show. >>> coming up, long distance. melania trump, surprises with decision to delay moving into the white house but without precedent? we'll talk about it up next. >>> so many things about the election of donald trump as president have been unprecedented but the decision to delay one of them? we found an expert. center for congressional and presidential studies, also chief of staff to laura bush when she was first lady. anita, thank you so much for coming on. we've heard a lot about donald trump's transition but melania trump has her own staff to hire and her own transition to take care of. what is she likely doing ahead of the inauguration in january? >> well, we know she's already made one very important decision which is sets the tone for how she'll start her tenure as first lady, not coming down here right away. she'll wa

i was born in cuba. i was in one of cuba's most prominent schools when i made a joke about president fidel castro. i was a teenager. the kid that slept on the bunk bed on top of me recorded our conversation and i was expelled from school. my mom said the only choice is for us to leave cuba. i've lived in miami 35 years. it's my home base. i come back and forth it cuba. i've been coming to cuba for over 20 years. cuba is a communist country in economic transition. >> fidel castro allowed cubans to establish more businesses, there are people that are making money, there are people that have created a tremendous amount of wealth. >> people with family connections to the states, people tied to the exploding tourist industry, small businessowners, taxi drivers, people operating in ever-changing gray areas of what is permissible. how's it work right now? if you're cuban, you can sell your property to -- >> another cuban from cuba. that's what's happening right now. a lot of cuban-americans, a lot of cubans liv

at the airport there, direct flights to and from cuba. reporter: it seems like a number of passengers we spoke with returning from cuba this morning had mixed emotions. since tampa international began charter to cuba, more than 300 people have traveled to the island nation. on saturday morning, two flights arrived from cuba. kisses, and conversation. what will the future hold for cuba now that fidel castro has passed. patty rodrigez was there when news broke. >> it was very emotional. we didn't -- i mean, its like, i don't know how to say it. like we were is there when this happened, its really nice. reporter: reaction to castro's death seem >> they're like happy. [inaudible] he was a bad man. reporter: younger cubans like michael don't recall what life was like back then. >> my family, i saw it on the news, i was like surprised. i was like woe, he died and people were like, some people were like shocked. majority of cuban americans now have hope that life will improve in their homeland. >> all right, thank you. >>> president barack obama

cuba. >> who had to leave their country and often leave family members behind, and really blaming fidel castro for the split, for the loss of property and for the loss of memories and for the loss of family. so there's an incredible bitterness towards fidel castro, especially among the older generation of cuban americans in south florida where most of them have settled and become a post-political force. among the younger generation of cubans, that bitterness is much less though and i think there's more support among younger cuban americans for more normalized relations an more travel back and forth to cuba. so there's really a generational split. as you mention, there have been false alarms in the past. this is not a false alarm. cuban state television has con dpirm his death at 90. he has been ailing for a number of years and actually gave up formal power ten years ago. it is not a hoax. but for some cubans fidel castro has been sidelined. one man told me this evening, i thought he was alr

and cuba. just last march, closer ties were marked with the president's visit here. since then, u.s. tourism has increased. hotels, airlines, stepping up their plans. jim avila on what's at stake right now. >> reporter: a sunday afternoon game of dominoes on the porch in havana. bars and nightclubs are closed for the cubans until after the funeral. the visitors have noticed. >> missing all the music which we know is such a big part of the culture. >> reporter: tourism up 12% in starting monday, american airlines flies from miami, united from newark and delta from atlanta. bringing the total number of direct flights to more than 100. fidel's death unlikely to cool the warming relationship between the u.s. and cuba. but the freeze could come from the north if president-elect donald trump follows through on that campaign warning. >> we will cancel obama's one-sided cuban deal made by executive order if we don't get the deal we want and the deal that people living in cuba and here deserve. >> repor

hasta el momento cuba no figuraba en los primeros 100 dÍas del presidente electo. pero cabe mencionar que en el equipo de trump, Él incluyÓ figurvor de mantener el econÓmico contra la isla. >> fidel castro llegÓ vivir el deseo de su revoluciÓn. pero muriÓ con la incertidumbre de lo que podrÍa venir con la elecciÓn de trump, dicen que es un escuadrÓn de rechazo a los derechos humanos y harÍa de todo para que el pueblo cubano empiece la campaÑa por la libertad. >> a menos que hallan cambios en materia de derechos humanos. >> es fundamental que la polÍtica de estados unidos sea una polÍtica de absoluta solidaridad con el pueblo de cuba. >> necesitamos suspender la lÍnea de vida econÓmica que la administraciÓn obama le ha dado al rÉgimen de castro a traves de inundaciÓn de dolares. >> pero la casa blanca apuesta por las relaciones diplomÁticas. eso ahora vÍnculos comerciales. >>> yo creo que es muy difÍcil revertir porque muchos inversionistas americanos que invirtieron dinero en cuba. la situaciÓn de latinoamÉrica en dÓnde aplaude sobre todo el

writing, trying to be the conscience of cuba more than the ruler of cuba. but he remains, to his death, a very important figure. while he was -- because of his nationalism, because of what he meant to the people, he meant that cuba would not be dominated by the united states even though the united states is so big and so close. >> so jim, looking at this, we're looking at the historic footage of fidel castro. you can't help but think about his legacy after all these years. what do you think will be the word of historians when they look back at the life of fidel castro? >> well, i think he'll be the most prominent figure in cuba. perhaps only overshadowed a about cuba becoming free. but fidel castro changed the course of cuba. he changed the way cuba was. in 1959, 1958, cuba was pretty much a satellite of the united states. run by the united states. run by the united states mafia. all those casinos, all that lively dance footage we see of cuba, that was all run by the mafia. the united states and castro came in and he cleaned that out. and not only did he do

many chanting cuba libre, meaning cuba this morning is free. >> very interesting. this hour, nine days of cuba is beginning. this hour. nine days. on the local radio there there can't be any happy music it has to be about the state. a reminder for what is a sad day for some in cuba but also the boot on the throat that fidel castro led with for so long. you know, you can't have any freedoms, basically, so i have been watching some other channels the last little while that say there is no side to this. a lot of people adored him. give me a break. freedom lovers around the globe today are celebrating because a dictator is dead, yes, his brother raoul still rules with an iron fist. but fidel castro was a revolutionary turned despot and dictator who oppressed his own people for decades. communist cause that set his country back for decades. it's okay to be honest about that. >> our own bret baier covered all of the bases on an incredible life. >> in the end, his speeches had grown shorter, his appearances for rare, but fidel castro's tone remained defiant as ever. >> so

what is required for cuba is freedom. let's keep in mind that the actors for freedom are the heros in every town and village. the pro-democracy activists, they deserve our attention and our solidarity. >> we will take a look at that and see what we can do with that. thank you very much. >> interview him. thank you. >> appreciate that. >>> we will get to more politics. new reaction from bernie sanders on who should be the democrats next leader. they are seeking to oust nancy pelosi on the heels of the party's election loss. >> do you think it's time to replace nancy pelosi? >> i will leave that to the -- i was in the house for 16 years. i'm not in the house right now. i will leave that to the members of the house. nancy a friend of mine. i think she has done a very good job. i think that is an issue of the people of the house will have to decide. >> one of the president-elect's top advise sers is ramping up h criticism of jill stein's election recount effort. >> this recount by jill stein and now the hillary people is just