00:00Cuba's in bad shape. Cuba relied on Venezuela for oil and for money and nobody really knows what's
00:07going to happen with Cuba. They're doing very poorly. They're really a third world all the way
00:12and we have a lot of great Cuban-Americans and I would say Marco fits very solidly into that
00:18category and I might ask you to say a few words about we were discussing it before Cuba is a
00:23very different they don't have energy they don't have oil but they would live off of the oil from
00:29Venezuela and they what they do have is very strong people and very powerful people militarily
00:36and they would protect the people running Venezuela and they would take in a lot of money
00:41from Venezuela and now they don't have that they won't be taking in any money so Marco what do you
00:46think? Well I mean the fundamental problem in Cuba is that it's run by incompetent people that don't
00:50know what an economy looks like much less a functioning one they've made a choice and that
00:54is they would rather have political control over the people than they would have an economy that
00:58functions and they've gotten away with it for 60 something years because they've had donors the
01:02Soviet Union and now most recently Venezuela but that's now gone so the people in control in Cuba
01:08have a choice to make they can either have a real country with a real economy where their people
01:11can prosper or they can continue with their failing dictatorship that's going to lead to systemic
01:16and societal collapse that's a very stark and dramatic choice and it's one we hope to make the right
01:20one we don't have an interest in a destabilized Cuba but that would be their fault because they
01:24refuse to allow the people of Cuba to have either economic or political freedom for that matter
01:29and you have a you have Holly you have a lot of people in this country that want to go
01:34back to Cuba
01:35and help Cuba a lot of people have left you know they came in penniless they didn't have anything and
01:40they've become very rich people in our country and they want to very much go back and help Cuba so
01:45that's something that Cuba has a lot of other places don't have
