of the exile community. chuck todd brought it up. i ve been at those dinner tables in miami, san juan new jersey and it s very important. that voice needs to be heard. i think within the context of what the exile community is saying and also the fact that what senator martinez said is i think people want the best for cuba. there s a love of cuba. it s so embedded in our psyche both as latinos, as americans. there s this global sense that, you know, water bigger than this now. it s time to really think about policy in a way, you know, that really hasn t worked for 55 years. julio thank you, my friend for being on. of course latino rebels go to check it out. it s an important voice you need to hear. thank you very much. let s hear many voices. that s really part and parcel of our mantra on this show. i want to go to a voice inside cuba. in 1990 when he was 25 years
u.s. businesses are closely following the obama plan e soing the huge opportunity to expand their market. travel zoo sent out the e-mail urgeing americans to visit cuba through the people-to-people tours allowed through the embargo embargo. we re live in havana. we ve seen a number of companies putsing out statements welcoming new developments. what kind of opportunities are we talking about? i think we re talking about billions and billions of dollars worth of opportunities. first of all, when it comes to the tourism industry we know the cruise industry has wanted to get in here for a long time. airlines for sure. remember what has happened here though. there isn t a wholesale allowance of americans being able to get on planes to go to cuba. they need to apply for a license through the treasury. they have to do that either through firm that specializes in doing this.
restaurant owner, to the poorest of the poor. this is good for the economy here normalize relations. they believe it will be a big economic boost in cuba. normalize relations, ideas, many people who have family in the united states they believe could believe to better and normalized relations. you don t get any disagreement wherever you go. the wealthy, the poor. some have imaginations of american businesses coming here of real tourism here. who wouldn t want to be right now an american business man looking for an opportunity like marriott, like jetblue, like coca-cola, for an opportunity to come here and really put something into the economy here. and those on this side cuba they welcome that. another issue of course is the internet. it is available. so limited here.
so it s still pretty difficult even though with the changes announced two days ago to make it easier and speedier to do that. it s probably going to be less costly as well because there s going to be some of the bureaucratic issues being removed. it s more likely going to be airlines that already do charter flights. a lot of americans don t realize there s a lot of planes that leave miami every day and fly directly into havana for the people traveling under the certain licenses. it f it became easier there might be other parts of the country. cruise ships they haven t changed anything when it comes to passenger ferry service. it s not clear they would be able to get in here right away. and, michelle talk to me about the infrastructure that exists there as far as employees, for example. if you are an american company and you want to invest in cuba, how does that work? how do you get the employees how do you set up shop there? so first of all, being able to put money into an invest
future invest in an island nation just 90 miles away from the united states? well, look, first of all, what happened a couple of days ago, the president announce is not good for the united states. it s not good for the cuban people. why? it s not good for business. why? cuba is a country there s no rule of law. there are no guarantees. there are no property rights. so who in the right mind would want to invest there to begin with? congressman, every single country except the united states has been investing to cuba. every single country except the united states has full and complete relations with that country. and they re still doing it. because until two days ago, jose, the united states had a policy of standing in solidarity with the cuban peoples. that all changed. many people specially in my generation. our generation jose of course we care about the cuban people. of course we care about the future of cuba, but we re americans.