Nick Shirley

And so he's going to call me stupid.

Meanwhile, he's seeing what I'm seeing.

I'm seeing people suffer.

I'm seeing a civilization that is depressed, has no hope left in their eyes, and yet he's still advocating for more of that.

Yeah, so you're going to see how people really don't have freedom of speech inside of this country and how the buildings are eroding, how these children aren't going to school, how there's no hope in the eyes of these people.

That's one thing that shocked me the most is I've spent a lot of time with Latinos.

I lived amongst them for two years.

And even in poor circumstances, these people are some of the most happy people I've ever spent time with.

And so I've spent a lot of time with Latinos inside South and Central America as well.

And these people are just, there's no hope left in their eyes, which is something you don't see even in poor circumstances in Chile, for instance.

People may not have that much money or they might not have all the food they would like, but they're still happy.

And that's something I didn't see in Cuba, which was different.

No, a lot of them, I would ask him about that.

And a lot of them are ready for change.

There was only one lady who, who was supporting the regime actually.

And she was one of the ladies at the university who was trying to cover up for the mess of the university.

And, uh, all the young people I spoke to, they're all ready for a change.

A lot of them even said like, communist is the worst thing that can possibly happen.

Maybe I was surprised because I had filled out all the required paperwork.

It said my visa said journalistic activities, yet they seized all of that.