85a Cuba - What's Next?

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🗓️ 29 July 2007

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Now that Fidel Castro no longer heads the Cuban government, questions are emerging about whether Cuban authorities might start to relax control of its society, and how soon the US government might rescind its economic embargo on Cuba. On the next Travel with Rick Steves, we examine some of the anxieties, possibilities and realities regarding Americans and Cuba. Rick welcomes Cuba expert Christopher P Baker for a discussion of what's next for Cuba in these days of political limbo, and what it means for American travelers who want to go there. We're going to Cuba -- sort of -- on the next Travel with Rick Steves. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	Travel with 4,000 flights to 250 cities in some 40 countries around the world every day.
0:09.0	It's easy to book your next flight at AA.com.
0:12.0	American Airlines knows why you fly.
0:15.0	I'm Rick Steeves, this is Travel with Rick Steeves. Right now it's time for a little Cuban
0:26.7	culture and to do that we're talking with Brendan Seansbury. Brendan writes The Lonely Planet
0:31.3	Guides to Cuba and to Havana.
0:33.6	Brendan, thanks for joining us.
0:35.4	Hi.
0:36.4	Hi.
0:37.0	How did you get into Cuban culture?
0:40.2	Well, I first went to Cuba in 1997 just on a whim really I think the music attracted me first of all
0:47.5	But many other things as well I'd heard a lot about Cuba. I went for a couple of weeks and had a very good time but then kind of left it for a long time
0:55.7	Then later on in 2001 I believe I was working in Angola as a teacher a country in Africa and many of my fellow teachers,
1:03.6	Angolans, had been educated in Cuba so I was very fascinated
1:06.4	to find out how and why that happened. So I went back to Cuba
1:10.0	as a travel guide, got lucky with a British travel company and I was a guide there for about 18 months
1:16.9	So that's when I first got involved with Cuba and its culture
1:19.8	It's interesting. There's sort of a fraternity of countries that are former Soviet
1:25.6	Block allies and it's an interesting sort of connection that way, isn't it?
1:29.5	Yeah, and I think it's one that a lot of people don't know about really particularly in Angola a country which is not so well known in the world but the connection with Cuba is very strong yeah absolutely
1:39.2	yeah I mean up for a long time the only Angolans and Cubans I'd ever met were in Bulgaria.
1:44.0	Yeah.
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