Synopsis
Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution and asks if the new economic openness could lead to political liberalisation.
- Programme: This World
- Episode: Cuba with Simon Reeve
- Channel: BBC HD
- Broadcast year: 2012
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