Two governments. Two peoples. One story.
How policy, politics, and immigration shaped the relationship between Cuba and the United States — and what it cost the families on both shores.
For more than sixty years, decisions made in Washington and Havana — embargoes, expropriations, migration accords, travel bans — have written the script of daily life for millions of people who never signed up for the conflict. This channel examines the policy choices of both governments with facts, dates, and documents.
The embargo, the Platt Amendment, nationalizations, sanctions, the terrorism list — how each government's choices hardened the divide, decade after decade.
Freedom Flights, Mariel, the rafter crisis, wet-foot/dry-foot, family reunification — how migration policy became the battlefield where ordinary people paid the price.
Two million Cuban-Americans. Eleven million Cubans. Grandmothers, cousins, and children separated by 90 miles of ocean — and the bridges they keep building anyway.
The moments where policy changed millions of lives.
The U.S. enters Cuba's independence war. The Platt Amendment gives Washington the right to intervene — and Guantánamo Bay.
Revolution, nationalizations, broken relations, embargo. Two governments stop talking; two peoples start drifting apart.
The Missile Crisis: thirteen days when the whole world paid attention to those 90 miles.
Mariel and the rafter crisis: migration becomes the pressure valve — and the human cost becomes impossible to ignore.
The thaw: embassies reopen, a U.S. president walks Havana. Then the door closes again.
New crisis, new exodus, same question: how much longer can a dispute last where nobody wins?
"Governments build walls. People build bridges. After sixty years, the bridges are still standing."— 90 Miles Apart
New videos weekly. Every episode ends with a question — and the real show happens in the comments.
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