CubaOne Video Together Recreates Obamas Cuba Speech With Voices from Both Countries

MAR 28 2017, 12:07 PM ET
by NICOLE ACEVEDO


Young Cubans and Cuban Americans have come together in a video to commemorate the one-year anniversary of former President Barack Obama's historic visit to Cuba in a call to continue cultivating ties between the two countries.

CubaOne released a video featuring 20 mostly young Cubans from the island and Cuban Americans in the U.S. who take turns reciting the lines from Obama's historic speech in Cuba.

"I realized that the one-year anniversary was coming up and it's such a historic occasion. His speech was very popular between Cubans in the island and in the U.S.," said Giancarlo Sopo, one of the founders of CubaOne who spearheaded the concept behind the video.

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Lissette Calveiro was one of the young Cuban Americans who met her grandmother for the first time. "It just all hit me that there's this complete different part of my culture and my roots that I had never connected with and she was one of those missing pieces," said Lissette Calveiro, one of the young Cuban Americans who connected with her grandmother for the first time.

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