Following an appearance on an IPA news release last week, James Early and Alexander Main spoke to The Real News about President Obama’s visit to Cuba and the effects of open Cuban-American discourse. “Cubans are rightly proceeding very cautiously with this opening” vis-a-vis U.S. private interest, said Main, senior associate on international policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Early is the former director of cultural heritage policy at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.