There was another PBS story about Cuba aired in the days shortly after the Buena Vista Social Club. P.O.V.: Our House in Havana Silvia Morini returns with her son on a trip to Cuba. She revisits where she lived in Havana, and, as you can read at the link I provided, she changes her mind about the embargo after she returns home. The end of the film shows her back in the US on the phone to Jesse Helms office, as she began a crusade to convince congress to lift the embargo. I posted my experiences with Cuban refugee children living with my family when we had the Elian thread. This is more complicated than rich against poor, because not all the people who left Cuba when Castro took over were rich. None of the families I knew who were refugees were rich. The history isn't that black/white. But, It's true, that just as in Saigon, the US mafia had plenty of business going on in Havana. Getting the corruption of the casinos, prostitution, drugs, etc., out of Cuba was good. Castro wasn't/isn't all a good guy, though. He is just as fanatically opposed to the US as the Miami old guard Cubans are fanatically opposed to him. The younger generations are not as solidified in that fanaticism. Hopefully, that is what will help to end the embargo, as well as the outspoken efforts of people like Silvia Morini.