Since the 1960s, the U.S. embargo on Cuba has prevented American businesses from conducting trade with Cuban interests. Travel by U.S. citizens to the island has also been significantly limited.
Earlier this year, a young West Virginian member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation traveled to Cuba on a humanitarian mission.
Reporter Chris Schulz sat down with Jack Tensley to talk about his trip.
The transcript below has been lightly edited for clarity.
Schulz: Obviously socialism is in the name of the party that you’re affiliated with, the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Can you give me just a brief definition, or what you understand that movement to be?
Tensley: The definition really is workers controlling the means of production. We are advocating for workers, working class people, which is the majority of Americans. Those are the people who don’t…
