only when fidel castro s state funeral will be carried out, where he could be buried, and then get some sense in the weeks ahead of how this will change cuba. i think people are digesting this news. my del castro always said after all the false reports of his deaths over all the years nobody would believe it when it actually happened. i think there is something of a stunned silence when i ve encountered people who have heard this news the news is still breaking here tonight because people don t have access to information sources. i m watching cuban tv right now it is not being announced. it is an old documentary being played right now. unless people happen to see a u.s. newscast, has access to internet, a small slice of the population, they don t know. they won t know perhaps until they read grandma in the morning that they learn of the death of this leader who really touched
it also is a very big plaza, and there s usually there s a lot of people there protesting or in this case manifesting their happiness about what happened in cuba, because fidel castro was not just the leader of the revolution or of the dictatorship, was also a permanent figure in the mind of the cubans inside and outside the island. and that s that s a very important what happened, even though he s 90 years old, even though everybody was waiting for this news from things many years ago, anyway, this is a very
this, if i can put it that way, is that raoul castro himself is in a position at a juncture where he is preparing his succession. so do you think that this might influence things in his plans for that succession in any way? i don t know enough about his plans. in fact, i don t think any of us do, to speculate with any intelligence as to whether he s going to pick different people, you know, now, or he is going to change or alter the direction of his, you know, next successor. i will say this. my guess, and you re watching, you know, your coverage of the streets of miami and the folks that are celebrating, and your correspondent in cuba who is reporting that nothing is going on except perhaps, you know, the rolling of military. you know, that s a contrast. that s a wonderful contrast of
important news for the cuban society. and now raoul castro has the opportunity to, if he wants to transform the society, if he wants to change the society in a faster way, he has now he has the opportunity to do it. this is not the end of an era. this is just the end, the logical end of the dictator, but the era and the revolution and the government is still in the same hands, of the same people that made the revolution close to 60 years ago. carlos, if i could get you to talk a little bit more about that, what do you foresee for cuba now? it is very interesting because at the same time you
long since fled their homeland. fidel castro and his rule oifr the country remain charged issues. ed levin dara sat down with two generations to get their take. reporter: it s dinner time for the family. we asked them to sit down for a conversation about fidel castro in cuba to capture how cuban-american families have evolved more than 50 years after castro rose to power. when jorge ga receipto came to the united states in 1960 at age 19 he had hopes of crushing fidel castro s dictatorship. i was adamant at that time. now, you know, i guess everybody s tired. reporter: everybody s tired? everyone is tired because nothing has been done. or we lost a lot of opportunities. reporter: jorge and his wife lore des have now lived in the united states long hear the than they ever lived in a. fidel castro is a figure that