Hi, everybody. Cheryl Ackison here. I hope you enjoy this special from the archives edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Hi, everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure after hours.

You know Cuba is America's closest adversary in terms of sheer proximity, today a visit to the

communist island nation to hear their government's view of the longstanding U.S. embargo,

how it really came about, Cuba's relationship with China, threats to the U.S., and what

happens next.

San Francisco. U.S. and what happens next. Sunday, November 19th is my cover story on Cuba post-Castro and the rocky relationship between

Cuba and the U.S. and what it's done to Cuba and the Cuban people.

Why is it we still have an embargo against Cuba that cripples the communist island

and the people who live there?

Why do they get the tough treatment that we don't give to communist China or communist Vietnam,

even after Castro is long gone from Cuba?

In today's podcast, you're going to get to hear the modern

Cuban government viewpoint from Carlos Fernando DeCosio, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.

I begin by asking him what's his understanding of what the U.S. says would have to change in Cuba

for the embargo to be lifted or for there to be a different

economic relationship. Here is Carlos Fernando DeCosio.

The U.S. has had a changing goalpost during the years. Many years ago, it was our presence in Africa and solidarity with the peoples

of Africa, then that we supported countries in Central America. At another moment that we had a

relationship with the Soviet Union that doesn't exist, it has been changing the goals post.

Then because we didn't have enough internet, then because we didn't have enough of a private

sector.

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