Frances Robles

had to play a key role in helping topple the Castro government.

Well, when you lose your sugar daddy, you got to get yourself another one.

So when the Soviet Union fell, they started relying on Venezuela.

Venezuela kept them afloat for almost 25 years.

The other thing they did was open to tourism.

So if you'll allow me to jump forward in time a little bit, President Obama decides that he's going to try the exact opposite of what everybody else tried.

So everybody else is trying to suffocate Cuba to get them to fold.

He's like, you know what?

We're going to do the opposite.

We're going to let people visit.

We're going to let private businesses get licenses to do business there.

They were hoping that the opening of Cuba will allow it to fall.

Right.

We'll get all the Cubans on the island to say, wait a second.

You mean there's an internet?

There's cell phones?

You know, I want a piece of that.

Right.

And so from about, let's say, 2015, 16, 17, you see this big boom in tourism.

And that's another point where people think, oh, yeah, now the Cuban government is really going to end because there's no way that people in Cuba will see how the rest of the world lives and be able to stick it out with this government.