Irony of the Financial Crisis

Published December 3, 2008

Last week, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Trade Raul de la Nuez Ramirez paid a visit to Ottawa, appealing for increased trade with Canada and marking the first time in some five years that a Cuban trade minister has made an official visit to Canada.

As this edited transcript reveals, Cuba is hurting due to the global economic slowdown and a spate of hurricanes that devastated the country's agricultural sector....