Meet The Family Behind Cuba's Trade Revolution

• published: 24 Aug 2015
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Trade Revolution: With an end to the US trade embargo, how will life change in Cuba? The Cuban Rappers Fighting For Freedom With Hip-Hop - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUqnknr6F0Y How Cuba's Socialist Dream Failed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdUST2KVnyM Exclusive Tour Inside Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Z5nKJ-S0o Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/68994/short-films/trade-revolution-hd.html Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews As the US looks towards lifting its trade embargo on Cuba, two American farmers return to where they befriended Fidel Castro over a decade ago. How did the brothers, aged 11 and 13, break the 40-year-old freeze? "He's the coolest world leader we've ever met", laughs Ralph Kaehler, a fourth generation farmer from Minnesota and father to brothers Seth and Cliff. He and his family fight back tears as they watch grainy footage of Fidel Castro delivering his historic 2002 speech. "We are already negotiating with the future generation of American farmers", says Castro as he reaches to his side and embraces the two young American boys. And indeed a deal was done with the boys' father, making the first US cattle trade with Cuba since Castro's Revolution. Thirteen years on and the entrepreneurial Kaehlers are returning to Cuba to crank up business again, as Cubans await the lift of the stifling trade ban. "We now see hope in showing our talent to the world", says one Cuban reveller, who hopes to benefit from the embargo lift. ABC Australia – Ref. 6545 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.