As talks with the US begin again, is the Revolution over in Cuba?

Today the historic talks got underway on normalising relations between Cuba and the US.

The diplomats are trying to bury over fifty years of enmity and re-establish diplomatic relations. It will happen quickly, even if the trade embargo will remain in place.

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But scratch the surface of Cuban society and you soon discover a generational divide about the wisdom of this deal.

Young Cubans are desperate for change. They want economic opportunity, easier access to the internet, the ability to travel and study overseas.

We spoke to a young Cuban called Ivan Sanchez. He is excited about reform. He wants to study online, earn more money, and to see more trade with the US. As he puts it, his generation needs more oxygen.

Ivan's only frustration is that it has taken this long to do something so overdue.

Another young man we interviewed is a chef and he wants to study in France. Almost everyone here who is under the age of 50 has something they want to achieve. Diplomatic isolation and poverty were the obstacles.

Now there is hope for both a rapprochement with the United States and an economic boost from tourism and trade.

For older Cubans, for the cadre of revolutionaries who established communism on the island, there is less enthusiasm and more anxiety.

Many worry that America will now begin a new economic colonisation of Cuba.

Change always creates fear as well as hope. So it is in Cuba, because this island nation has no clear idea what the future holds.

Is the Revolution of 1959 still intact? Or as Cuba comes in from the cold, has the Revolution been abandoned in favour of limited capitalism?