President Obama

President Obama arrived in Cuba March 20th, the first visit by a U.S. leader since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. Last spring I [spoke:speak] to Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology researcher Eduardo Inigo-Elias about what improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba could mean for science. "For the last 12 years, the lab of [ornithology:circumstancially] has been involved in research and conservation and training, building local capacity with biologists and scientists from Cuba. So you can imagine the amount of work that we have on the back from our lawyers from Cornell University to get the permits to work, to the fund'[treasury:s] department and the state department here in the U.S. But also been a lot of paperwork to do the things that we want to do [collaborating:collaboration] with Cuban scientists. And our Cuban scientists have to [deal:decline] also with their restrictions that they have..."