"He's the coolest world leader we've ever met", laughs Ralph Kaehler, a fourth generation farmer from Minnesota and father to brothers Seth and Cliff. He and his family fight back tears as they watch grainy footage of Fidel Castro delivering his historic 2002 speech. "We are already negotiating with the future generation of American farmers", says Castro as he reaches to his side and embraces the two young American boys. And indeed a deal was done with the boys' father, making the first US cattle trade with Cuba since Castro's Revolution. Thirteen years on and the entrepreneurial Kaehlers are returning to Cuba to crank up business again, as Cubans await the lift of the stifling trade ban. "We now see hope in showing our talent to the world", says one Cuban reveller, who hopes to benefit from the embargo lift.