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Chicago Tonight | President Obama Makes Historic Trip to Cuba | Season 2016 | PBSPresident Barack Obama addressed the Cuban people early Tuesday.

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March 22, 2016 7:51 pm Video

María de Los Angeles Torres, the director and professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said Obama’s push for re-establishing relations with Cuba came at the right time. Torres said that a year and a half ago, the country was on the brink of chaos and many Cubans were growing frustrated.

Dean Martinez, president of the Cuban American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois, said that the circumstances of the re-established relations aren’t perfect.

Christina Perez, associate professor of sociology and the director of Women and Gender Studies at Dominican University, leads educational trips to Cuba for her students. “Dialogue and engagement is the only way forward, especially when the isolation has seen to be such a total failure,” Perez said.

President Obama’s Historic Trip To CubaWhen President Obama touched down in Havana yesterday, it began the first U.S. presidential visit to Cuba since Calvin Coolidge came in 1928. Many observers hail the visit as the start of a new era of openness for Cuba, but critics have attacked President Obama. They accuse him of rewarding Cuba’s bad behavior. We get analysis on the historic trip from Elena Diaz, social economics professor at the University of Havana and founding director of the Latin American School of Social Sciences-Cuba. Joining Diaz is Christina Perez, associate professor of sociology at Dominican University. She’s author of the book Caring for Them From Birth to Death: The Practice of Community-Based Cuban Medicine. Perez is an expert on the Cuban health system and has led academic trips to Cuba.

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Mar. 21, 2016 Audio

Christina Perez and Dr. Elena Díaz, Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Cuba)

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May 13, 2015. Christina Perez and Tom Hayden. Audio

The future of US-Cuban relationsFormer California State Senator and famed liberal activist Tom Hayden joins us to discuss his new book Listen, Yankee!: Why Cuba Matters. Hayden has had a decades-long relationship with Cuba. He collaborated with his friend and Cuban politician Ricardo Alarcon. In the book they talk about their shared experiences and the U.S./Cuba relationship. Christina Perez, associate professor of sociology at Dominican University and author of the book Caring for Them From Birth to Death: The Practice of Community-Based Cuban Medicine, also joins us in studio. She’s an expert on the Cuban health system and has led academic trips to Cuba. (Photo: Flickr/KCET Departures)

ABC7 travels to Mexico, Cuba for pope's historic trip | ABC30 Fresno | abc30.comPope Benedict XVI is about to begin a historic trip to Mexico and Cuba. ABC 7 will be with him along the way as our news team covers both parts of the trip.

Return to CubaIn wake of eased restrictions, international educators discuss the merits of restarting academic programs in Cuba.

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