More clear-cut – and usually held up as the unambiguously golden part of his legacy – is Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
When tourists hear it, it's a connector, it's a positive thing getting them to appreciate Cuban music, and the job has been done well".
I don't think I can describe how Cuban percussion affects me in words but it's a feeling, deep in my solar plexus".
Even when Yasiel Puig is wrong he makes things right almost instantaneously – such is the charmed life of the Cuban wunderkind who is blowing the minds of baseball fans daily.
A Cuban government spokesman did not return calls seeking comment on Wednesday, but Josefina Vidal, Cuba's top diplomat for US affairs, recently ruled out any return of political refugees.
For Cubans, the terrorism list was a particularly charged issue because of the US history of supporting exile groups responsible for attacks on the island, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger flight from Barbados that killed 73 passengers.
The Americans performed as brilliantly as the Cuban people had hoped.
Although Washington lifted restrictions on remittances and travel for Cuban Americans, US citizens still cannot visit the Caribbean island and the trade blockade is still in place.
The Cuban Picassos, he told me, have not developed relationships with their European cousins, despite the fact that his own father went to Spain in 2000 for the premiere of the documentary and the European branch of the family, which has its own contentious ties, was present.
Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, was a driver behind comprehensive immigration reform that faltered in Congress but has since retreated from that position.
But the spectacular success story is city farming, which produces 60% of Cuban vegetables and provides more than the UN's recommended health quota of the 300 grams per day per person.
