Airline passengers arriving in Miami from Havana speculate about the future of Cuba

Record ID: 77296

  • Title: Airline passengers arriving in Miami from Havana speculate about the future of Cuba
  • Date: 26th November 2016
  • Summary: MIAMI, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 26, 2016) (REUTERS) PEOPLE LOOKING AT FLIGHT BOARD CLOSE OF FLIGHT BOARD SHOWING FLIGHTS FROM HAVANA PASSENGERS WALKING THROUGH INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS GATE (SOUNDBITE) (English) PASSENGER FROM CUBA, YOSVANNY, SAYING: "When I got on, he say, 'You know what is going on here?' I said, 'No.' He said, 'Castro died last night.' I said, 'What?' He said, 'Ok, but be quiet. I didn't told you nothing, ok?’ I said, 'ok.' He said, 'When you go inside, you are going to hear the news.'" YOSVANNY SPEAKING TO JOURNALISTS, PEOPLE ARRIVING (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PASSENGER FROM CUBA, MERCEDES BORREGO, SAYING: "I think it will be better for them, I think. No one is eternal. It's going to be better for them, maybe they'll change a bit." BORREGO AND HER DAUGHTER KISSING GRANDSON PASSENGERS ARRIVING BOY PLAYING WITH LITTLE BROTHER WHO IS SITTING IN STROLLER (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PASSENGER FROM CUBA, FERNANDO ORAMAS SAYING: "Well, as a human being, I'm sorry, but luckily there is one less tyrant living. If there will be a change or not, I don't know because there is a system. But maybe things can be smoother in changes that can take place. We hope, God willing." PASSENGERS ARRIVING (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CUBAN PASSENGER IN MIAMI VISITING HIS DAUGHTER, VLADIMIR LLEONART, SAYING: "No, nothing in Cuba will change until the Castro dynasty is finished. Now comes Raul, then Raul's grandson, then the great-grandson, and the dynasty goes on until the people get tired of it. They say, nothing bad lasts 100 years, the Soviet Union was 60, 70 years and for us it will be the same." PASSENGERS ARRIVING (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) NERCY (NO LAST NAME PROVIDED), SAYING: "He died, it's death, it's natural. To be born, age, get sick, and die. All human beings will go through that." MAN AND WOMAN WALKING AWAY, MAN SAYS "IT'S HISTORY"
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  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0015A2ZXVR
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  • Story Text: Thoughts about the future of Cuba from those who really know the country -- and who also have an outside perspective.
    These travelers arrived from Cuba to Miami's International Airport Saturday morning (November 26). Some are predicting change for the communist island nation, following the death of Fidel Castro.
    "I think it will be better for them, I think. No one is eternal. It's going to be better for them, maybe they'll change a bit," Mercedes Borrego said.
    "Well, as a human being I'm sorry, but luckily there is one less tyrant living. If there will be a change or not, I don't know because that there is a system. But maybe things can be more smooth in changes that can take place. We hope, god-willing," Fernando Oramas said.
    But others said the system Castro built is bigger than just one man.
    "No, nothing in Cuba will change until the Castro dynasty is finished. Now comes Raul, then Raul's grandson, then the great-grandson, and the dynasty goes on until the people get tired of it. They say, nothing bad lasts 100 years, the Soviet Union was 60, 70 years and for us it will be the same," Vladimir Lleonart said.
    Fidel Castro died at the age of 90. After leading a revolution in Cuba in 1959, Castro ruled the country until 2006, when he was forced to step aside due to poor health. He formally handed over power to his younger brother Raul Castro in 2008.
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