U.S. Embargo On Cuba Will Inevitably End, Says Expert

Steve Clemons with the New America Foundation says it is in the best interests of the United States to work with Cuba in helping bring relief to the devastated island of Haiti. Clemons says that as fewer nations show support for the U.S.'s embargo on Cuba, it is inevitable that our country will someday soon engage that nation politically. (:28)
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Dominican Republic Should Want To See Haiti Stabilized

Steve Clemons with the New America Foundation says that although the Dominican Republic has historically frosty relations with Haiti, the D.R. has a lot to gain by helping stabilize the crisis that currently exists within its island neighbor. (:17)
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U.S. Should Use Haiti Crisis As A Chance To Engage Cuba

Steve Clemons with the New America Foundation says contrary to folks in the U.S. who believe that establishing a relationship with Cuba would undermine the work of human rights activists as well as others who support isolationism, the U.S. should view the catastrophe in Haiti as an opportunity to work with and engage Cuba. (:32)
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Haiti Crisis Could Provide Cuba, U.S. Chance To Build New Relationship

Steve Clemons with the New America Foundation says that the crisis in Haiti caused by a massive earthquake last week could provide the U.S. with an opportunity to start growing a new relationship with Cuba. (:37)
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Spring Break in Cuba?

By Courtney Ann Jackson-Talk Radio News Service

U.S. Representative James McGovern (D-MA) explains the need for a change in the travel laws in regards to the U.S.- Cuba Policy. He also acknowledges that Cuba cannot be as oppressive when Americans are present but that we need to move forward in our policy making on the subject of Cuba.(1:31)
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Seeking Freedom From A Failed System

by Candyce Torres, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service. Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ) asking General Barry McCaffrey, U.S. Army (Retired) Adjunct Professor of International Affairs a question about state sponsored terrorism in Cuba.
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Bush laments victims of tyranny

At a speech in front of the United States Agency for International Development, President Bush reflects on the victims of tyrannical governments he has met, among them: Blanca González, whose son Normando Hernández González is a political prisoner in Cuba, and Olga Kuzulina, whose father Alexander Kozulin is imprisoned in Belarus for running for president. (1:50)
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US still needs oil

Vice President Dick Cheney says that the United States’s dependence on oil will not fade overnight and that an increase in domestic supply would lower prices and create jobs. Cheney also notes that China is working with Cuba to drill for oil off the coast of Florida. (1:08)

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An interview with Cristina Khuly, director of "Shoot Down" at the Museum of Women and the Arts in Washington D.C.

Talk Radio News Service Bureau Chief Ellen Ratner interviews Cristina Khuly director of "Shoot Down"a documentary film about the Cuban government's authorization of the downing of two U.S. civilian aircraft in 1996. 
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An interview with Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez at the premier of "Shoot Down" at the Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.

Talk Radio News Bureau Chief Ellen Ratner interviews the Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez at the Washington D.C. at a showing of "Shoot Down," a documentary film about the Cuban government's authorization of the downing of two U.S. civilian aircraft in 1996. 
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