there are people making money, people that created a tremendous amount of wealth. people with family connections to the states, small business owners, taxi drivers, people operating in ever-changing gray areas of what is permissible. how does it work right now? if you re cuban you can sell your property. to another cuban. that s what is happening. a lot of cuban-americans and those living abroad are coming back and through relatives are buying property. obviously somebody has touched this building with some kind of investment. it is renovated. it seems to be like a hotel. somebody bought the building and turned it into a little hotel. however you feel about the government, however you feel about the last 55 years, there aren t any places in the world that look like this. i mean it is utterly enchanting. it is very seductive. there is no doubt in my mind somewhere like the four seasons hotel chain, they re looking at
ruled the street. this was where those musical styles were born, after all. now it s reggaeton and, of course, hip hop. alen garcia is the leader of the santiago based hip top trio tnt. we ve been making hip hop for 15 years. which is quite difficult here in cuba. we ve been in jail three days once just for make hip hop. definitely it s a change in cuba, but i don t think it s because the relaons with the united states are getting better. it s because the people just realize we need change. we still want a kind of society where everyone participates, everyone s the future of society.
dive for the already difficult quality of life on the island. there was one place where we could buy food which was a soviet-style place with food that was flown in. quite bad food. under fidel s rule, that s the way it was. it s like a cargo cult version of chinese food here. dumplings. the szechuan chicken dish that s about as szechuan as, well, i am. what s going to happen? what s next? the uptick in tourism after the september 17th announcement, raul and obama, said we decided to make friends again. the surge in tourism and american interests in cuba is like this. you now have an island where every room is for rent because you can make $30 or $40 a day. that s more than a state employee makes in three months. there will be wealthy hipsters, women in tiny black dresses drinking ironic rifts on
the mojito. lobby of the spanking new w hotel with [ bass ] in the background and it s in five years. yeah, i would say so. will every cuban have an unalienable right to education and health care? that s what they re worried about. the last time i was here in 2013, i counted 8 to 10 homeless garbage-eating people in the street. i thought, wow, i ve never seen that in cuba. that s something that the old cuba, the socialist cuba that could look after all of its citizens would never have allowed. it s allowing it now. this period we re here in, it s the lull before it all hits. the train is coming. it s either going to roar by and they re going to be able to jump on and go with it, or it s going to derail and it will be a mess. all of it s possible.
unfortunately. i don t hear a lot of female voices in the halls of business. i m surprised there aren t more shows about women talking about who they are. directing seems to be an area that is almost impossible the breakthrough. i think the 80s were the era when women were being looked at with a little scepticism, but definitely with more accept ability. you could see the door opening, but it wasn t wide open. cagney and lacy was huge, they would be two women solving crimes and they were on the street and that was emblem attic and out in front a little of what was happening in the country. so we re a terrific team. this is true. we re so terrific. there had been by that point hundreds of cop shows, but these buddies were women. it was never done before. i didn t go after this job