Cuba on the Move

The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Will Grant takes a ride in Cuba to discover how people get around and whether the thaw in relations with the United States will make any difference to their lives.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC podcast. You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCWorldservice.com
0:06.8	slash podcasts.
0:10.6	Hello, I'm Will Grant and welcome to this week's edition of assignment.
0:15.0	Alice!
0:16.0	O' There are times in Cuba when you could be forgiven for wondering if anything has changed since the
0:34.7	Revolutionaries rolled into Havana in January 1959. It's been kept in a time walk by a trade embargo imposed.
0:48.6	It's been kept in a time walk by a trade embargo imposed
0:51.5	by the United States for more than 50 years,
0:54.8	which is why there are so many classic cars here.
0:57.8	Nearly a third of all those on the road,
1:00.0	like props in a 1950s film set.
1:03.0	These things that we can see on the streets of the moment,
1:10.0	they're called
1:13.6	Almondrones. That basically means a big almond. So an almond is an almond and
1:19.2	an almond is a big almond, So they're basically the big 1950s gas gazaslers,
1:26.1	like this blue one coming in front of us at the moment.
1:29.0	It's a catch-all turn that you're only finding Cuba,
1:31.8	meaning big outdated 1950s Chevy or Canada. While Motrists, the world over are urged to buy the latest model, Cubans have had to make
1:51.8	do with the old one. But now with the thaw
1:55.2	between Washington and Havana gathering pace there's talk of the embargo being
1:59.2	lifted. In this week's assignment we ask if this could be the start of a new revolution,
2:07.6	one which could change Cubans' lives forever.
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