Cuba - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Cuba Index / Locations Transcripts (25) Nancy Nielsen ...I didn't think the glorification of Cuba was perhaps the best approach to take... Sylvia Burwell ...work was important too. I went to Cuba . I met with my counterpart in Chin... Todd Stern ...away, that's a good thing. I went to Cuba in the fall. And that wasn'... ...change, but very useful as well. Cuba was part of the so-called ALB... ...that is Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba , Ecuador. So countries who have quit... ...paved a way when you had Bolivia and Cuba now, both hard-liners in this hard-lin... ...hard-line group saying—plus, going to Cuba is a message to all the other ones too... ...that the US didn't have relations with Cuba , so all of those things were reall... Show more... Jim Houser ...while I was studying abroad in Cuba , which is why we were laughing earlie... ...college when I started doing work with Cuba , where it wasn't something that wa... ...working for a study-abroad program in Cuba and moved there in 2011, where I wa... ...have health insurance through living in Cuba , a country with free healthcare. Jim... ...a study-abroad program in Havana, Cuba , which a lot of my activism pivote... ...normalize relations between the US and Cuba . I was there from 2011 until 2015, s... ...normalize relations between the US and Cuba . I was very fortunate to have had s... ...work there that when I moved back from Cuba in 2015, I got a job working for ... ...years running a study-abroad program in Havana , Cuba, which a lot of my activis... ...Obama's first cultural delegation to Havana ; then, through that, got to meet Mrs... Show more... Robert Trapp ...you and your parents took a trip to Cuba in 2008. Yes, yes. Which is before ... ...been to Haiti with them. I've been to Cuba twice. They did some river trip throug... ...or whatever they're called in Cuba . I can't remember now. You go t... ...all these different things that make Cuba work. I'm telling you, when you com... ...you have about the state of media in Cuba at that time, just because I know tha... ...are great. Things are fantastic in Cuba .” [Laughs] Thanks for that. We'r... ...you see is, there is no graffiti in Havana . Because you can't buy spray paint... Show more... Related Topics go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy Middle East Coming soon Atlantic Relations Coming soon Financial Reform and Regulation Coming soon