09/26/16 09/26/16 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> don't you do it. don't you do it. [cleep] did you shoot him? did you u shoot him? debt.t.r not be [bleep] i know thahat much. amy: afterer the release of f te gutwrerenching cell l phone vidf the e wife of k keith lamont t t

witntnessing her husbaband shotd killed b bcharlotte mecklenburg police, ththe charloe e police theief has vowededo demandd days of protests and releasese t police videos, dashcam andody cam footage, of scott's killing. we will get response from journalists marc lamont hill co-author of, -- author of, "nobody: casualties of america's war on the vulnerablble, from ferguson to flint and beyond." then tonight, 100 million people are expected to watch the first presidential debate. among the topics, foreign policy and terrorism. today in a democracy now! exclusive, we speak with the former guantanamo prisoner who was cleared to leave under president bush and obama, but remained at guantanamo for over 12 years. his name is jihad abu wa'el dhiab. states saysunited

in the media, human rights, human rights, humanan rights. i never had human rights. never, never, never. amy: released to uruguay, he is currently on a hunger strike to push for his demand to be allowed to leave uruguay in order to reunite with his family. we will also speak with his lawyer, with a lawyer, ramzi kassem, who helped negotiate the deal to get dhiab and others released to uruguay. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in north carolina, charlotte-mecklenburg police have released two videos of tuesday's police shooting of 43-year-old african-american keith lamont scott. one of the videos is from a police dashboard camera and the otheher from an offic's body cacamera. the dashboard camera video shows scott exiting his vehicle and taking steps backwards with his arms at his sides.

police fire four shots at scott and he falls to ththe groundnd. the e body camera video showss scscott on the groround after bg shot. the e charlotte popolice have ao released picreres of a handgdgun , marijuana cigarette, and an ankle holstster they say y was n scott's possessision. it does the pice say nonot show he is clearly holdina gun. north carolina is an open -carry state. scott's family responded to the footage sunday. >> what we see will we look at the video, mr. scott steps out of the vehicle. he doesn't appear to be acting aggressive towards any of the law enforcement officers on the scene. he doesn't appear to be making gestures or motions as though he is arguing with anybody. he doesn't want at the officers -- lunge a at the officecers.

it appppears he has hisis handsy his side. amy: on frididay, nbc newsws obobtained cell l phone videoo capturing ththe shooting, , fild and narratated by scott't's wife rarakeyia scott.t. the video, she t tls officers that her husband is unard d and ffers from a traraumatic brain injury, or tbi. >> he doesn't t have a gun.. he has a tbibi. he is not goining to do anythin. he just took his medicine. quite drop the gugun! >> keith, get out of the car. don't you do it. don't you do it. keep. don't you do it. did you shoot him? did you shoot him? amy: that was cell phone video filmed and nararrated by scott's wife rakeyia scott. meanwhile, charlotte police have arrested a man they accused of

shooting and killing a protester during demonstrations over keith lamont scott step. 26 are all justin carr was apparently shot in the head near a line of riot police during protests wednesday in uptown charlotte. he died in the hospital on thursday. on friday, officers arrested rayquan borum and charged him with carr's murder. charlotte police chief kerr putney said extensive video evidence was used to identify borum, though the department has not made those videos public. several eyewitnesses dispute the police's explanation. charlotte public defender eddie thomas told the guardian he believes the protester was shot by a tear gas canister, pepper ball or other police projectile , that caused him to stumble back and hit his head on the brick sidewalk. but daily beast reporter ryan james says he witnessed a civilian firiring a pistotol ina crowd leaving carr layaying on e , grouound in a pool of blblood. meanwhile, hundreds contininuedo protest for a sixth straight day in charlotte. uniformed national guard soldiers carrying rifles were deployed outside a carolina

panthers football game, while police in riot gear surrounded about 100 demonstrators who were chanting "black lives matter." on sunday evening, charlotte mayor jennifer roberts lifted the curfew that had been in place since thursday. in tulsasa, oklahoma, hundreds packed the antioch baptist church saturday for the funeral of terence crutcher, a 40-year-old african american man shot d dead by police on septemr 16. crutcher was remembered by his cousin, shea seals. >>'s death is being mourned by an entire city. he was that special. that terencee is loved everyone. he had the incredible gift of putting others before himself. amy: p pole video shshowed crutcher a and shot dead while s hands s were in the air. his family says his suv stalled as he was driving home from m a music appreciation class.. the killing sparked protests acacross the country.

officecer betty shelby w was bod and released last week on felony mamanslaughter charges f for crutcher's death. if convicted, shelby faces between fofour years and lififin prison. we will l have a discucussion oe videos of keith lamont plus killing after headlines. in washington, d.c., thousands gathered on the national mall saturday as the country's first black president helped dedicate the national museum of african american history and culture. president barack obama and first lady michelle obama joined the daughter of a slave, 99-year-old ruth bonner, ringing a bell to signal the opening of the museum. [bell tolls] the 400,000 square-foot museum will house some 37,000 artifacts, including relics from a slave ship, a shawl l owned by harriet tubman, emmett till's

casket, shards of glass from the 1963 birmingham church bombing, a dress owned by rosa parks, louiuis armstrong's trumpet, and muhammad ali's boxing gloves. president obama said the museum helps to teach a richer and fuller story of who americans are. pres. obama: by knowing this bettertory, we understand ourselves and each other. it binds us together. it reaffirms that all of us are americans, that african-american history is not somehow separate from our larger american story -- it is not the underside off the american story. it is central to the amemecan story. amy: in news from ththe campaign trail, donald trump and hillary clinton are set to face off tonight in what's expected to be

the most-watched presidential debate in u.s. history. some tv network executives predict as many as 100 million people will tune in. third party candidates, including libertarian gary johnson and the green party's dr. jill stein, will be excluded under stringent rules set by the commission on presidential debates, which is controlled by the democratic and republican parties. tonight's 90-minute debate will be held at hofstra university on long island. nbc nightly news anchor lester holt will serve as moderator. ahead of the debate, hillary clinton's campaign said holt should act as a fact-checker and call out trump's lies and false statements. this is clinton campaign manager, robby mook, speaking sunday on abc's "the week." ifall that t we are asking is donald trump lies, that it is pointed out. it is unfair to ask for hillary both to play traffic cop with trump, make sure his lies are

corrected, and for her also to present her vision.. amy: trump campaign manager kellyanne conway fired back, telling abc -- "i really don't appreciate campaigns thinking it is the job of the media to go and be these virtual fact-checkers and that these debate moderators should somehow do their bidding." the head of the commission on presidential debates later agreed that moderators should not fact-check during debates. this is the commission's executive director, janet brown, speaking on cnn. >> if you start getting into fat checking, i'm not sure -- what is a big fact? what is a little fact? if you and i have different sources of information, does your source about the unemployed it rate agree with my source? i don't think it is a great idea to get the moderator into essentially y serving as the encyclopaedia britannica. saiddonald trump had lester holt is a democrat and in fact he is a registered republican.

meanwhile, donald trump said on saturday he might bring gennifer flowers to sit in the front row of tonight's debate. flowers had an affair with bill clinton in the 1970's. the trump campaign later said it had not extended an invitation to flowers and that she would not attend. democracy now! will have -- be broadcasting the debate with, to her afterwards. you can tune in tonight from 8:30 to 11:30 eastern standard time. texas senator ted cruz has endorsed donald trump for president. friday's endorsement came despite a bitttter primary seasn that saw the pair hurl invective at one another. during the campaign, trump suggested cruz's wife was not as attractive as his own, and linked ted cruz's father to the plot to assassinate president john f. kennedy. cruz previously called trump a a " pathological liar, a narcissist, a bully, utterly amoral, and someone who lies practically every word that

comes out of his mouth care go in july, cruz was booed off the stage after telling delegates to the republican national convention to vote your conscience rather than voice support for trump. but on friday, senator cruz said prayer and careful consideration led him to an endorsement, citing trump's likely supreme court nonominees. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu met with hillary clinton and donald trump on sunday in closed-door meetings. trump hosted netanyahu at his new york penthouse, where his campaign said trump compared israel's separation wall favorably with his proposed wall along the mexican border. netanyahu met with the clinton who said -- whose campaign said she expressed support for a new u.s. military aid package to israel of $38 billion over 10 years. new york governor andrew cuomo seeking to distance himself from a corrtion scacandal backs all two of his closest eight indicted last week on federal corruption charges. prosecutors say they took bribes using the positions to help

companies received hundreds of millions of dollars in new york state contracts and other official state benefits. both are claiming their innocent not in cuomo said he was charge of the contracts involved and that he at no idea about the alleged bribery and contract reading laid out by prosecutors. brazil's supreme court has opened a corruption investigation into newly installed president michel temer. the inquiry stems from allegations that temer solicited bribes in return for contracts with the brazilian oil company petrobras. temer was sworn in just three weeks ago after lawmakers voted to impeach his predecessor, president dilma rousseff. on thursday, temer told business and foreign policy leaders in new york that he worked to impeach rousseff after she refused to implement his party's economic plan, which included cuts to health, education and welfare spending. that contradicts the official reason for her impeachment -- accusations she tampered with government accounts to hide a budget deficit. in britain, jeremy corbyn will remain head of the labour party after winning 62% of the vote in a leadership contest.

the win strengthens corbyn's position as head of labour, which has grown dramatically under his leadership to more than 500,000 members. in washington state, 20-year-old arkan cetin will be arraigned on murder charges today after a shooting spree in a burlington shopping mall friday left five people dead. cetin used a rifle to fatally shoot four women and a man at a macy's department store, leaving the weapon at the crime scene. he was arrested on saturday after police identified him from surveillance video. there's no known motive for the killings. inin southeastern iowa, twelve activists were arrested saturday as they disrupted efforts by the dakota access pipeline company to drill under the mississippi river, fearing a possible oil spill could contaminate the water. three of the protesters chained themselves to a backhoe just before the start of the work day, delaying construction at the site for several hours. they were charged with criminal trespass and interference with

official acts. and in news from the berks family detention center in pennsylvania, a woman from el salvador who has been detained fofor over 400 days reportedly fainted last week after she suffered headaches, dizziness, and vomiting. she was taken to a hosospital thursday to undergo gall bladder surgery, only to be returned to detention on friday. her fellow berks detainees issued a statemement saturday tt the woman had no nurse to tend to her in her room, and was relying on her two teenage daughters who are detained with her. they say the woman's prescribed medical diet has yet to be approved and that she wasn't allowed a visit with her sister because she was in too much pain to walk down stairs to the visiting room. women at the berks jail have called for the mother to be "immediately let go so that she can be taken care of by acactual trained and prprofessional staf" officials have so far refused to release the mother and the two girls while their asylum claim is being appealed in federal court.

to see all of our coverage o of the berks jail, go to democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in north carolina, where charlotte-mecklenbnburg police have yielded to pressure and released two videos of last tuesday's fatal police shooting of 43-year-old african-american, keith lamont scott. one video is from a police dashboard camera and the other from an officer's body camera. police say they also have more video that they have not released. the scott family is asking the police to release all of the videos. the dashboboard camera v video s scott exitining his vehicle and taking steteps backwardsds withs arms at his sides. police firire four shots a at st and he fallsls to the grouound. ththe body camamera video showos scott t on the ground d after bg shot..

scott family attorney justin bamberg responded to the f foote on sunday. >> what we see will we look at this dashcam video is mr. scott steps out of the vehicle, he doesn't appear to be acting aggressive towards any of the law enforcement officers on the scene. he doesn't appear to be making gestures emotions as though he is arguing with anybody. he doesnsn't lunchch at the offs .. it appearsrs he has his s handsy hihis side. agagain, there is no definitive evidence i in this video as to whwhether or nott t there is an object in his hand. and if there is, what that object is. that question still remains. but what we do know is the moment mr. scott is shot, it appears as though he is not aggressively moving toward law enforcement. he is actually doing the opposite. he is passably stepping back.

amy: : the charlotte police have also released pictures of a handgun as well as an ankle holster and a marijuana joint they say was in scott's possession. they did n not say where theyy found the gun. north carolina is an open carry state. this came after nbc news obtainined gutwrenchining cell e video captpturing the shshootin, filmed a and narrated d by sco's wife r rakeyia scotttt. nbc c released thehe video on friday.. in i it, scott telells officersr sbanand is s unarmed and suffers from a somatic brain injury, or. >> don't shoot him. he has no weapon. yes no weapon. dodon't shoot hihim. don't shoot him. don't shoot him. he did not do anything. >> drorop the gun. >> he doesn'n't have a a gun.

he has a tbi. he just took his medicinine. > drop the gun. keithth,, on out ththe car. >> drop the gugun. >> keith, don't do it. keith, get out of the car. keep, don't you do it. don't you do it. keith. keith. don't you do it. [gun shohots] did you u shoot him? did you u shoot him? he better r not be [bleep] dead. he better not be [bleep] dead. i know that [bleleep] much.h. i'm going to record you. i'm not coming near you. he better be alive. hehe better be a alive. a a 9450 threere lexington court.

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police claim they tased and then shot scott because he was armed, but scott's family says he was not armed -- except with a book in hand. they say scott, the father of seven children, had been sitting in his car, waiting to pick up his son after school. meanwhile, on sunday, hundreds continued to protest for a sixth straight day in charlotte. uniformed national guard soldiers carrying rifles deployed outside a carolina panthers football game, while police in riot gear surrounded about 100 demonstrators chanting, "black lives matter." inside, carolina panthers quarterback cam newton signaled his support during his pre-game workout by wearing a t-shirt with a martin luther king, quote "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." also on sunday, charlotte mayor jennifer roberts lifted the curfew that had been in place since thursday. well, for more, we are joined by

marc lamont hill, journalist and distinguished professor of african american studies at morehouse collllege. his book has just been published titled, "nobody: casualties of america's war on the vulnerable, from ferguson to flint and beyond." welcome back to democracy now! a lot has happened since our show on friday. these three videotapes released. the shocking, horrifying video of a wife watching as s her husband is sht by p police. respond to that. quite it is heart-wrenching. we saw the same thing with philando castile a few months ago where a wife has to watch state violence take place in real time against their spouse. she was trying to explain to the police that he had traumatic brain injury. she was saying he did not have a weapon. she was trying to do what police somehow could not do, de-escalate the situation, offer

information that would get them to back off. was trying time, she to encourage her husbandnd as ty were he was supposed to be in the car so he would not be -- it was remarkable clear headedness by his wife. police and the be completely unresponsive to her instruction, to her insight. amy: they would not even let her near him as he lay dying and they are h handcuffing him. >> that was the other part. we watched this over and over again. throughout history, black women in history watching her spouses killed at the state and then been thoroughly disrespected even in real time. she could not talk to him. they're more worried about telling her to stay away. the same thing happen with full end of castile. itt kind of attitude makes difficult to believe the police were invested in de-escalation at any point that day. amy: unlike in tulsa where they released, to say the least, actually damming footage,

damning to the tulsa police, of the police shooting, here in charlotte, it took days of protests and then finally, it seemed that the release of definitelytt's video force the hand of the police chief and releasing, i don't know why they have released all because you assume they're going to release the videotape that vindicates them the most, but they released to videotapes. one a body cam and one dashcam. >> the lesson is, organizing works. too often people say, why are they out there? if there wereren't a spectacle,f therweweren't dramat proteststs, we wonon't see the video c come. ththe state was commmmitted to t releasing the videde they said it obobstructs and underminines the process of justice. ththat is unimaginable to meowow that could be possible. that was the a argumen

they also said once you see this tapepe -- i okoke to picee ofcers i in the police department. they said, when you see this tape, you llll complelyy understata t t protesters were wrong and we were complelyly in e riright. to your pot, amy, if they had anytytng e eulpatory, thewould ha offered it. they w wld have offered the m mt posititi representations of themselves on tape. at b bt, they could offer a tape th w was widy y inconcsiveve. thisn just a aissue rticular case. the stateegislatutu iputting for legislation to sp these tapes from being released. they have no commitment to doing this. amy: i heard on the networks repeatedly wrong last week saying a law is right now in place that prevents the police chief frfrom releasing the vide. in fact, it is going into effect ----t was signgned into law by e governor on october 1. it is not in place right now. what they could release this video right now. the fact they have one in the future suggegest they have no

intention of releasing such a video but they do not leave that is the right thing to do. amy: it is frightening this law that is going into effect because the point of the body cam and the dashcam that the police departments have gotten millions of dollars to equip themselves with is to make them more publicly accountable. but now if that information is kept by the police, it only empowers the police further. they are the only ones that will have this information. >> that is exactly right. again, that law would presume police always act in the public interest, that there's a level and lack ofncy corruption. we see repeatedly that is not the case. often times when you follow report against bullies, whether there is a citizen complaint review board or go through a normal internal affairs process, the police take your report and look at it and then right there report in response to what youou wrote.

if the video comes in and they're able to re-watched the video, they can construct a narrative to respond to what they saw as opposed to what happened. amy: and the fact that along with the video cam and body cam tape, they released these three pictures. thata gun that they say scottt had in his possession -- they're not saying how and it is an open carry state. the other an ankle holster. could it have been an ankle holster? and the other is a marijuana blunt. i mean, showing the marijuana cigarette seems to show how desperate the police are to implicate them in any way they could. what does that have to do with anything? >> did is a bizarre thing. they're trying to shape public opinion. there is the idea there's a

thatnal class out there deserves to be imprisonment deserves to be on the other end of state violence. if we can show this is a guy with a criminal recocord who is smoking weed in a car that he must've done something wrong. the idea he was in his car rolling a blunt and still somehow holding a weapon is somewhat implausible to me anyway. amy: let's talk about the statement the police put out saying they had come to execute an arrest warrant, not for him, but for someone else. here is this man in his car privately and they say they see him rolling a marijuana cigarette and they see that he has a gun. so they leave this aim, decide not to execute the arrest warrant at that moment was that they dress themselves up -- i don't know if it is putting on the bullet-proof vest -- >> in identifying best. amamy: so now w they must be t g a supervisor, not doing what we plan to do, we're going to do this other thing, not clear what was wrong, even if he had a gun.

they come back and then they go after mr. scott. you have, interestingly, though the dashcam and the body cam tape does not show the moment he , his you do here rakeyia wife, so that means they can hear her because it is on their bodies. you hear her shouting not to shoot her husband. >> of course an officer with that, just because she tells us not to shoot, we cannot shoot if there is a threat. but when you look at the video, it is hard to root -- to imagine there is a legal threat. it opening the door with his right hand, and he is right-handed. he is backing away and there's so indication he is making an aggressive move. we watched white citizens with guns be subdued and d arrested without any gunfire, yet somehow a black person with or without a gun always seems to end up --

amy: you have the charlotte protester who said, you have a man who set off a bomb in new york who you call a terrorist. he then is caught by police in new jersey and he shoots two of them. and even him they do not kill. they bring in for questioning. and she says, we're not worth even asking a question of? >> this is where we have to get into a deeper level of analysis. a sisimple response from some people is, these cops did not put on their vest this morning, get dressed and say we're going to go execute some guy. i agree. that is that the issue. the issue is, there's something about black audience, particularly in public phase, that make thehem viewed as more violence, that make them more prone to violelence, a heightend threat than other people. the police officer intuitively thinks this person needs a greater level of aggressiveness. even as you said in an open carry state, they see a guy with the gun -- they did not see a

guy with a gun, they saw black person with a gun. with a holster, you have it legally, simply caring of. maybe this is a citizen that has a gun. they say, this must be a criminal. that have a presumption goes to a psychological level of racism. it may not be at the level of intent, we're going to go arrest or suit of black guy, but it is a level of racism that says would we see this person, we presume their violent and criminal and we cannot see any other way out of this than lethal force. the dangerous thing is, they will then go into courtroom at some point and a jury of cures will invoke a reasonable man's dan or even a statute now, reasonable officer statute -- standard and say, what would i do under the same circumstance? because so many of us have a kind of narrative of your black bodies and our psyche, we will say, you know what gecko i would have done the same thing.

not because it is ethical or moral or because it is the only way out, but we have codified dn a rational and unacceptable fear of black bodies. that is what is so terrifying. that is why they keep eating off. amy: i want to bring in what republican presidential candidate donald trump responded to a question about violence in the black community during a townwnhall m mting in a black church in cleveland hosted by fox news. >> i want to know what would you do to help stop thahat violence, black on black crime? and trump:: i would d do stop frisk. ii think you have toto. we did it in new york. it worked incredibly well. you have to be proactive. amy: there you have donald trump's response. before we wrap up tonight, 100 million people are expected to watch the first presidential debate. can you talk about, first his

response and what you want to hear him and hillary have to say on these issues? >> i think donald trump has made his position clear. at the convention in july and also last week, he repeatedly has said more police officers were, stop and frisk works. brokenen windows policing works. that is his approach. -- i'mhillary clinton hoping hillary clinton c can sa, look, thisis is not trtrue. stop and frisk did not work unless your goal is to stop like people from smokining weed. momost people who stopped were black. most did not have drones or go -- guns or joints. we just keep adding more people to find nothing. still managed to have crime reductions. a messy mixture of things from the rise of const that in new expandedh is a more investe

-- all of these things, environment of factors, there are a range of things that cause crime to go down, not stop and frisk and not broken windows policing. i think donald trump's s narrate is wrong and his approach is wrong. we cannot arrest our way out of the problem of state v violence. amy: north carolina's an open carry state. who does it apply to? >> not to the vulnerable, black people, latinos. maybe on paper. wereon as black people freed, there's been an attempt to disarm them. as soon as black people were freed from the sort of legal restrictions and places like illinois and in the south as well, there are thenen attemptso say, hey, we need to keep a grip on these people in terms of gugn access. we have always try to disarm black people. as a practical matter going

through the world, because black people are read as criminal, the assumption is if a black person as a gun, they probably don't have a legal weapon. they are a felon. they are about to demand a crime. people will say, this guy did lose his right to access a weapon because in 2005 yet a felony conviction. that is true. however, the police did not know that. they had no idea who this man was. they assumed who and what he was because that plays into the mix with alton sterling, philando castile. after the fact they say, this person had a permit, this person was a cririminal. and the moment, police do nothing except this was a man in his own car mining his own business, not bothering anyone -- armed, that we know for sure, with some weed. weed forg i know about my empirical investigation and from reading about it is weed doesn't charge people up and make them want to go shoe police. if anything, it makes them want to ease some nachos.

we have to have a different tactical approach. if this guys really sitting in a car with a gun, why do want to bash the window in? the same thing with tamir rise in cleveland. if the kid is allegedly holding a gun, why do you jump out and start shooting within seconds? and they thought it was 20, even though he was 12. there is this narrative that the police did all they could to protect themselves but tactically, it doesn't make sense. recently, doesn't make sense. yet we keep believing it because it is black bodies. we have to have a different approach. amy: marc lamont hill, thank you for being with us journalist and , distinguished professor of african american studies at morehouse college. this book "nobody: casualties of , america's war on the vulnerable, from ferguson to flint and beyond." when we come back, a democracy now! exclusive. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

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democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. tonight 100 billion people are expected to watch the first presidential debate will stop among the topics, foreign-policy and terrorism. was not expected to still be an issue with these debates, but eight years after president obama vowed to close the prison during his first term in office, a remains open. meanwhile, republican presidential candidate donald trump has called for expansion of guantanamo. today was big withth a former guantanamo prisoner who was cleared under president bush and obama but remained at guantanamo for over 12 years. his name is jihad abu wa'el dhiab. he has never been charged with a crime. at guantanamo, he launched a series of hunger strikes to demand his freedom. he was among a group of prisoners subjected to force-feeding. the obama administration is refusing to release video of the force-feeding to the public. but after a judge ordered it, the obama administration did give the redacted videotape to the court, which reportedly shows graphic images of guards

restraining dhiab and feeding him against his will. the case is currently on appeal. human rights groups have long said the force-feeding of guantanamo prisoners amounts to torture. dhiab is currently on a hunger strike to push for his demand to be allowed to leave uruguay in order to reunite with his family in turkey or in an arabic-speaking country. dhiab's supporters say he has temporarily resumed drinking liquids and is gaining strength, but he plans to return to a thirst and hunger strike as soon as tuesday if there is no solution to his longstanding request to rejoin he family. earlier this month, dhiab slipped into a coma for nine hours while he was on a hunger and thirst fast, revived only by a hydrating iv while he was in that coma. a few hours after he came out of the coma, i was able to speak to him in an exclusive democracy now! interview. he was exhausted. he was lying on his bed in montevideo, uruguay. i asked him to begin by talking about how he felt.

really worse.ly, all of my y body hurts m me. my kidney, my headadache, mymy stomach,h, my right side really bad. many things. but i feel all my body hurt me. amy: there's a battle in court in the united states to release the videotape of your force-feeding in guantanamo. can you describe what that force-feeding was like for you? >> like the united states always say in the media, "human rights, human rights, human rights." there's never in guantanamo, don't have any human rights. never, never, , never. he took the video from f first time go to m me in my cell to me me to chair and gigive me the te for r give mforced feediding.

but ifif you see this vivideo ad see the guguard, how treatment wiwith me, how beat me, how make with me, that's not human. amy: dhiab, in guantanamo, one nurse refusesed to force-feed te prisoners. can you talk about thahat nurse? >> t this nurse, from first tite come into guantanamo, me and my brotother spoke with him many time. "why you comome in here? this your job, this human right job, a good job. why come in here for torture the person, the detainee?" he think, think, think too much. after that, he said, "give me couple days. i take decision for that." he, after two days o or three dadays, come and tell me, "j"ji, there i don't leave anyone tell me my number, because i am not number, i have name."

he tell me, "jihad, i take decision." i tellll him, "what?" he s said, "nonow i stop g givey force-feed for anyone. i refufuse to gigive any. and i spoke with the government in the guantananamo about this." i tell him, "me and all my brothers said for you, thank you very m much for that," because i respect this person very -- he helped m me, and he a gentle ma. he treatment with us there -- only him, treatment with us frfm first t day coming thehere. i see him always, , he not all right. and he treatment with us very, very w well. and after that, i tell himim "t"thank you very mumuch about this."." he saiaid, "what's h happened ar ththat, i don't care, but i i dt -- i refuse e give any force-feeding." and after r that, he move frfrom there. and i hehear afterer that in the

news they want to take him t to court abouout he refused -- bebecause he refused the army order. but i respect t this pererson. i need all the person make like him and trtreatment like him, because this all right idea. amy: president obama says he wants to close guantanamo. do you believe that will happen? >> if hehe wants to close guantananamo, he can. he can now. now. he can give order, c close guantanamo. he can close guantanamamo. but he coward. he can't take this d decision,n, because he scared.d. but t guantanamo supposed to closose, should be closed, guantanamo, because guantanamo, that's not good d r the uneded states. never. amy: that's jihad abu wa'el dhiab syrian prisoner att

guantanamo for more than 12 years. he was released to uruguay speaking to us in english from .is bed, on a hunger strike at the time of o our interview,e just come out of a nine-hour coma after refusing water as well. throughout our interview, which we did just after he revived, he was very tired and weak. he would sometimes switch to arabic from the english, the language of course he felt were comforortable in. thisis is dhiab speakiking abouy the u.s. wouldn't want to release the video of his force-feedininat guantananamo ad more. cocourts the u.s. does not w wat the world toto see the truth abt what happens in n guantanamo. they want to keep the black bobx closed and to show instead that the black box is f full. but it is indedeed actually empy and a lie. ththey can't't let the world see video and know the truth, because the truth will contradict the reasons the u.s. is holding the prisoners.

for example, i have papers shshowing to be innocent since 2006, since the time of george bush, yet they kept me in guantanamo. and again, i had papers proving my innocence in 2009 with obama now president, but they still kept me in guantanamo. i ended up staying until december 2014. and even the media started t to report on me, saying thahat i ws a victim and that i was an innocent man that didn't do anything wrong. in guantanamo, they said i will not get out until i admit a crime. this is the fact of f america. you have to admit to any crime. why? i said i will not admit to anything. i didn't do anything. that is number one. but they will not say up front to their people, "we caught innocent people e who didn't commit any crime." they h had to create anything. they must force usus to admit anything. theyey offered multiple choices for us to admit something. is thahat justice? the issue is, ththe uniteded sts knows it's wrong and implicated in guantanamo, but the u.s. does not want to apologize and go

back and stop p this injustice d solve this problem. with this,s, want to s send a memessage to the american people about ththe american governments policy, with muslims and nonon-muslims, becausese their policicies wh h muslims wiwill g a lot of p problems. america a is who createses enems for themselves. america is whoho createses terrm and hostility toward themselelv. amy: dhiab, , are you willing to die on this hunger strike? >> i can o only see two solutio: either i a am reunited with my family or i will have to pay with my life. i want to reach my family, that i have not seen for 15 years. i didn't seeee any of them -- my mother, father or brothers and sisters. i lost my son in war in syria, and 28 others of my family died, as well. my entire family is spread out

in different countries, leaving no one with my parents. this is a very complicatated issue. i want my right to live a good life and to be free. amy: that't's jihad ababu wa'el dhiab. he was held at guantanamo for more than 12 years, has not seen his family for between 15 and 20 years, speaking to us exhausted from his bed and ururuguay. he a just come out of a coma after refusing water and had been hydrated through an iv. less than a week ago, he lifted his dry fast at the behest of his support g group. he says he will go back to a thirst and hunger strike if he cannot reunite with his family. all we come back, we will speak with one of the lawyers who helped negotiate his release tou. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. just right you are exclusive interview with former guantanamo prisoner who was cleared to leave under both presidents bush and obama, but remained at guantanamo for over 12 years. his name, jihad abu wa'el dhiab he has never been charged with a crime. last week, democracy now! spoke to ramzi kassem, professor of law at city university of new york school of law -- that's the cuny law school -- where he directs the immigrant & non-citizen rights clinic, has represented many guantanamo prisoners. he has been to guantanamo about

50 times and was one of the lawyers who represented the six guantanamo prisoners who the u.s. government released to uruguay. i began by asking ramzi kassem to tell us about dhiab's case, why he hasn't been able to see his family, what he is asking for, what he was promised, and what the situation is overall at guantanamo. >> i'm among the people who negotiated obviously, there were . u.s. government officials involved, uruguayan government officials involved. and then on the defense lawyer side, i was one of those who partook in that negotiation, primarily on behalf of my client, abdelhadi faraj, who's another syrian who was resettled in uruguay, just like dhiab. ultimately, what happened was that four syrians, one palestinian, one tunisian -- all guantanamo refugees -- were resettled in uruguay. and, you know, i have to stress that the uruguayan government's attitude towards these men was commendable. they viewed them and treated them as refugees under international law.

they resisted, you know, the united states' insistence that their movement be restricted, that they be treated as something else, that they be placed under surveillance, for example. all of these things, according to public media reports, are standard when it comes to how the united states negotiates these repatriations or resettlements from guantanamo. and to their credit, the uruguayan government said, in large part because the rulers of uruguay at the time, the president and his cabinet, were themselves former political prisoners -- amy: president mujica. >> president mujica had spent over a decade in prison under that very label, as a terrorist, in solitary confinement, so he understood and the men in his cabinet understood what that meant. and so to their credit, they treated these men like refugees. and they said -- they said that they would allow them to reunite with their families in uruguay, that they would facilitate family reunification. so all of the right things were said. unfortunately, the problem was in the implementation. when the men arrived in uruguay,

you know, less preparation had been done than what we had expected and what we had hoped. and one of the main shortcomings is on this front -- family reunification. in other words, you know, the government of uruguay, with the help of the red cross, is offering families of men like dhiab and men like my client to come from places like syria or refugee camps in turkey. but they're only offering temporary visits, and they're not giving the men the means to actually support those families in uruguay. so the net result, and i'll tell you the case that i -- i'll tell you about the case that i know best, my client, mr. abdelhadi faraj. his family is in war-torn syria. he would love to see his parents. he hasn't seen them in 15 years. if he were to agree to have the red cross somehow try to bring them, make that very dangerous journey out of syria and to uruguay, he can only k keep them there for a couple of weeks. his parents are elderly. they live in a very dangerous place. the trip itself would be life-threatening. so he doesn't want to subject them to that risk, unless he has

the ability to actually have them live with him in uruguay. so that's where the shortcoming has been. no one, not the uruguayan government and certainly not the united states, has stepped up to make that happen. and i mention the united states because i think the uruguayans have gone above and beyond the call, in many ways, despite the shortcomings of in preparation for the arrival of these men as refugees from guantanamo. they have gone above and beyond the call. the bulk, the lion's share of responsibility still rests with our country. it still rests with the united states. our country is responsible for what happened to men like dhiab. they're the ones -- the united states took dhiab and put him at guantanamo and subjected him to torture there of different forms. and the united states is the one that -- amy: and he was put at bagram first. >> and he was at bagram first. and that's common. the majority of guantanamo prisoners, or r a large nunumbef them, at least, went through bagram or other sites before arriving at t guantanamo.

so the primary share of responsibility still rests with the united states. i believe that our country has a moral and historical duty to try to make these men whole. other countries have. canada has paid compensation. the united kingdom has paid compensation. the united states has not accepted responsibility or compensated these men for what they have been through. and they continue to suffer from it -- for it, and their families continue to suffer. and dhiab is just one example among many. amy: dhiab was -- wanted to be at his daughter's wedding. i mean, he hasn't seen his children and his parents in between 15 and 20 years. could he leave uruguay? i mean, he actually attempted to. he went to venezuela. he was taken by the secret police of venezuela and he was deported back to uruguay. i mean, it's not a crime for him to leave uruguay, but he was deported back. what can he do?? i mean, he is just using the only thing he has, which is his body, to try to demand, by going on a hunger strike, which he did

for so long at guantanamo, to demand some kind of action. he says, "if i am free, why cannot i see my family?" >> and it's especially tragic that he's had to revert to that mode of communication, the mode of communication that he had when he was at guantanamo. in other words, the only form of expression and protest available to many of the prisoners is to go on hunger strike, is to refuse food and sustenance from their captors. and thatat isn't a crime, right? it's a form of peaceful protest. and it is tragicic that now that hehe's in uruguay, supposedly a free man, he feels that he has no choice but to do that in order to be heard, because, you know, he's been clamoring for a while. they've been in uruguay for almost two years. and for that entire time, mr. dhiab and the other prisoners have been asking this question. you know, when are we going to see our families? is that going to happen? how is that going to happen? the uruguayans, when these men arrived, because they were considering them refugees, the uruguayan government issued them what's called a cedula, which is basically a national id card, which alallows thehem to traveln certain countries in south america and some countries in central america, perhaps.

so that's how dhiab, earlier in his tenure in uruguay, went to argentina, for example, and gave a press conference there. and that's probably part of the explanation of how he eventually got to venezuela and was then sent back to uruguay. the rub is in that for him to go to turkey, the turkish government would have to acquiesce. someone would have to facilitate that travel. he'd have to be issued travel papers, which obviously he's not going to get from the syrian government, given what's going on in syria right now. and ultimately, the united states government, whether or not they're going to publicly recognize it, my view, my opinion, is that the united states government probably has a say as well. now, still, the right thing to do here is to find some way to reunite mr. dhiab with his family. and it's either by bringing his family over from that refugee camp in turkey to uruguay in a sustainable fashion, where they can live with him in uruguay and make a life for themselves there, or the other solution would be for him to go to turkey

and join his family there. it is -- it's compounding the injury that these men have suffered to keep them apart from their families after everything that they've been through. and again, this doesn't just hold for mr. dhiab. he is being vocal, vocal and brave, in expressing his protest in that way. but i can tell you that my client, mr. faraj, who does not want to be in the media limelight, feels the same way. and the other prisoners that he's still in touch with in uruguay, former guantanamo prisoners, they feel the same way as well. and it's really -- it shouldn't be shocking to anyone that these men, after all of these years, wish to see their families. guantanamo is not a prison where families can visit. it's not like a facility here in the united states where there are visitation privileges and people can come e over the weekend. these men have literally not seen their families for over a decade and a half. amy: have some of the men seen their families brought to uruguay and then they have to leave? >> you know, i'm not familiar with the cases of all six of the guantanamo refugees in uruguay.

i can say if -- i can tell you that for mr. dhiab that hasn't happened, and i can tell you that for my client, mr. faraj, that has not happened, for the reason that i explained earlier. amy: so you have been to guantanamo for, what like 50 , times now, representing your clients. how many do you represent? >> at this point, i have three clients remaining at guantanamo. over time, since 2005, i've represented over a dozen guantanamo prisoners. amy: that, what, y you added itp to being how much time at guantanamo that you've spent? >> sadly, i did that math last time i was at guantanamo a couple of months ago. it adds up to, i think, over a year at this point. amamy: you'v've spent over a yet guantanamo. >> yeah, which obviously pales in comparison to what my clients have spent, what they have gone through. but it was still shocking to me. i mean, if you told me 10 years ago in when i made my first trip 2006 to guantanamo, that a decade later i'd still be traveling there, i would have called you crazy. amy: president obama just said, once again, he wants it closed by the end of his term. do you think this will happen? what is happening at guantanamo right now? >> you know, president obama,

unfortunately, has been saying that since he was candidate obama in 2007. you know, i agree with mr. dhiab on this. i believe e that, unfortunately, our president has had that authority. he was elected, actually, on that basis. he had a mandate coming into office in 2009 to close that prprison. for political reasons, not policy reasons, but for political reasons, he chose not to make it a priority. he gave the opposition time to mobilize and make it more difficult for him. still, despite those obstacles, ultimately, he has the authority to close that prison. when president bush opened guantanamo o on january 11, 200, he didn't seek conongressional approval, he just did it unilaterally as a president of the united states. president obama could do the same. he is choosing not to do it. he's choosing not to take what he believes is a political risk. amy: to see the full interview with ramzi kassem, go to democracynow.org. a special thanks. tune in tonight, democracy now!

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annenberg media ♪ ¿y es muy difícil ser actor en puerto rico? es difícil en cualquier parte del mundo. y dime algo de ti. ¿estás casada? no. narrador: bienvenidos al episodio 24 de destinos: an introduction to spanish.

en este episodio raquel empieza a dudar de las relaciones entre jorge y angela. ¿mamá? durante una llamada por teléfono raquel le cuenta a su mamá del problema con jorge. en este episodio no hay nuevo vocabulario que aprender. presten atención a la historia y a los personajes. ¿pasa algo? vámonos, jorge. hay muchas cosas que hacer. hasta luego, raquel. te llamo más tarde. angela... hablaremos más tarde, raquel. captioning of this program is made possible

by the annenberg/cpb project and the geraldine r. dodge foundation. al final de su estancia en san germán la abuela, doña carmen, le da a angela un objeto muy especial un regalo de su padre. desde el hotel, raquel hace una llamada a buenos aires. le cuenta a arturo que angel ya murió y que angel tenía dos hijos. angela y raquel hablan con la supervisora del banco donde angela trabaja. le pide dos semanas libres para ir a méxico a visitar a su abuelo, don fernando. don fernando está muy enfermo

y angela le explica a la supervisora que es urgente. raquel y angela hacen los preparativos para salir mañana para méxico. luego, van a la universidad para ver a jorge, el novio de angela. en un patio de la universidad angela y jorge hablan de la copa. es la copa de bodas de mi abuela, rosario. ella se la dio a mi padre. claro, de padre a hijo. tengo una idea. cuando nos casemos podemos brindar con esta copa. ¿me estás proponiendo matrimonio? bueno... ( coro canta )

esta historia de la familia de angela en méxico... no sé. interesante, ¿no? ¿interesante? es como... como una obra de teatro. basada en una historia increíble. increíble pero cierta. ( siguen cantando ) raquel: este coro es excelente. es el coro de la universidad de puerto rico.

¿te gusta la canción? sí, es muy bonita. me gustaría comprar un cassette. podemos ir a río piedras. allí hay varias tiendas donde venden cassettes, discos... ¿queda lejos río piedras? bueno. la universidad queda en el pueblo de río piedras. las tiendas de discos están muy cerca. ¿vamos? esperen un momento. tengo que hacer un mandado de urgencia. está bien. mientras tanto conversaré con raquel. bien.

¿y salen mañana para méxico? sí, mañana. ¿y ud. estudió aquí en la universidad? me puedes tutear. el tuteo es... más íntimo, ¿no? nunca he visto un "oscar" de cerca. ¿quién lo ganó? josé ferrer. por su actuación en la película "cyrano de bergerac". ¿y es difícil ser actor en puerto rico? es difícil en cualquier parte del mundo. y dime algo de ti. ¿estás casada? no.

¿y tú, viajas con frecuencia a nueva york? sí. en nueva york tengo... bueno... tengo más oportunidades que aquí en puerto rico. sí, me imagino. bueno. estoy seguro de que angela te habrá hablado mucho de mí. ¿qué más quieres saber? gracias, jorge. pero creo que ya sé lo suficiente por ahora. pero no te parece que... bueno, ¿qué te parece jorge? ¿te está tratando bien? sí, angela. tu novio es... un encanto. ¿quieres ver un poco la universidad antes de volver? sí, ¿cómo no? jorge, ¿por qué no la llevamos a ver la colección de oller? llévala tú, amor. acabo de recordar que un estudiante quería verme en la oficina.

las busco luego. pero... ¿no quieres a acompañarnos a río piedras? no puedo. vayan uds. las buscaré más tarde. hasta luego. iqué raro! hace un momento quería acompañarnos y luego... ise evaporó! sí, es muy raro. entonces, angela lleva a raquel a ver las obras de francisco oller un pintor puertorriqueño de mucha importancia. el velorio. ¿es esto el velorio de un niño? pero si parece una fiesta. están celebrando el hecho de que el niño va directamente al cielo pues no ha pecado. qué interesante.

pues, ¿qué me cuentas? yo creí que estabas en una cita con una estudiante. no apareció. así que vine a buscarlas. jorge, ¿hay algo que quieras decirme? ¿por qué me preguntas eso? porque estás actuando muy raro. eso es lo que tú imaginas. angela, debemos volver al hotel. quiero recoger los boletos. ay, es cierto. y yo tengo que empacar y llamar a roberto otra vez. raquel, ¿no quieres comprar ese cassette? pues, sí, si la tienda está cerca. bien. vamos.

raquel, angela y jorge van al paseo de diego en río piedras. es un lugar de mucha actividad donde muchas personas van de compras. déme tres piraguas, por favor. ¿de qué sabor las quiere? frambuesa, tamarindo, coco, vainilla y anís. yo la quiero de frambuesa. ¿y tú? raquel: yo también la quiero de frambuesa. jorge: yo quiero la mía de tamarindo. gracias. ¿quieres comprar ese cassette ahora?

sí, pero ya no tengo mucho tiempo. pues, por aquí... y ese cassette te va a gustar mucho. ay, se hace tarde. ¿por qué no regresamos al hotel? después de recoger los boletos podemos descansar, tomar el sol nadar, si quieres. me parece bien. ¿pasamos por mi casa a recoger mi traje de baño? sí. nos podemos encontrar en el hotel dentro de una hora. de acuerdo. gracias. gracias. angela: iay! me encanta esta isla...

la playa... el mar... el sol... ¿dónde está jorge? quiero nadar. ijorge! ivamos! jorge: ya voy. iay! iqué lentitud! idios mío! ita ta ta ta! pues, ¿qué te parece mi nuevo traje de baño? iqué colores más chillones! si quieren hacer esnorqueling necesitan presentar la llave al encargado. ¿vienes? más tarde. tengo que hacer unas llamadas importantes. bueno... vamos. que lo pasen bien.

¿mamá? ah, sí, raquel. ¿dónde estás? en san juan, mamá. ¿cómo están? por aquí muy bien. tu papá acaba de salir. tengo buenas noticias, mamá. a ver. mañana salgo para méxico y después para los angeles. iay, qué bien! ¿y para eso llamaste o te sucede algo? nada, mamá. pues... esta chica, angela, la nieta de don fernando... tiene un novio mujeriego y parece que ella no lo sabe. no te metas en las vidas privadas de los demás. ya lo sé, mamá, pero... la pobre me parece tan inocente, no sabe lo que ocurre. ¿cuánto tiempo hace que la conoces?

unos días. ¿unos días? pues no es tu mejor amiga, ¿eh? olvídate de ese asunto. no sé si pueda. mamá, llamé para decirles que voy a méxico. realmente no tengo tiempo para seguir conversando. bueno, es una lástima que tu papá no esté aquí. dale un beso de mi parte. te llamo desde méxico para decirte cuándo voy a regresar a los angeles. está bien. cuando regreses, te voy a hacer unos tamales porque me imagino que ya estás cansada de comer la comida de allá. está bien, mamá. voy a colgar. hablaremos en unos días. cuídate, hija. una chica sola por allí... una mujer. ah, sí, sí, se me olvidaba. nosotras las madres no debemos preocuparnos cuando nuestros hijos están grandes. adiós, mamá. adiós, hija.

arturo. ¿sí? arturo, ¿me oyes? sí, raquel, te oigo perfectamente. ¿cómo estás? qué pasa? estoy muy bien. acabo de confirmar las reservaciones. pues sí, dame los datos.

sí, perfectamente. ya casi termina mi viaje. y entonces, nuestro viaje puede comenzar. arturo, eres imposible. lo sé. pero es parte de mi encanto, ¿no? tengo que colgar. pero te llamo desde la capital. chau, querida. chau, arturo. ¿se divirtieron? ay, el agua estaba muy sabrosa. lo pasamos muy bien. vengo ahora. ¿quieres comer piña? está muy rica. iqué deliciosa! en nueva york, no hay piñas frescas como aquí. la extraño mucho. pero lo que más extrañas es a tu adorada novia.

¿por qué no nos vamos a vivir a nueva york? no, gracias. me gusta visitar esa ciudad, pero ¿vivir? no. además... ¿no vas formar una compañía de teatro acá en san juan? hay en san juan un cine que puede funcionar como teatro. tiene que ser caro. sí, lo es. pero es el mejor sitio. perdónenme, voy a cambiar. tengo un plan. ¿cuál es? cuando venda mi casa voy a darle a jorge una parte del dinero. así podrá abrir su teatro. pues... yo podría trabajar allí también. pero tú ya trabajas en un banco. trabajaría en el teatro de noche.

has pensado en todo. ahora tengo que convencer a jorge. angela... ¿no crees que es mejor que él mismo compre el cine? hablas como mi abuela. bueno, tu abuela tiene mucha experiencia. ha vivido muchos años. ¿y qué? ¿por qué todo el mundo se opone a mis relaciones con jorge? angela, no es que yo quiera oponerme. sólo digo que... no me digas más. ¿por qué no te gusta jorge a ti? angela, no te enfades conmigo. no he dicho nada. pues dime entonces por qué te opones a eso del teatro. ibasta con eso de oponerme! no te pongas tan defensiva. mira, si quieres que te diga la verdad... iajái lo sabía. igual que mi abuela. iolvídalo!

mi madre tiene razón. no me deben importar los asuntos de otros. ¿pasa algo? vámonos, jorge. hay muchas cosas que hacer. hasta luego, raquel. te llamo más tarde. angela... hablaremos más tarde, raquel. bueno. tengo muchas cosas de que hablar. hoy fui con angela a la universidad. y allí conocí a su novio, jorge. iy qué sorpresa para mí! jorge en seguida quería tutearme.

¿recuerdan? ¿y ud. estudió aquí en la universidad? me puedes tutear. el tuteo es... más íntimo, ¿no? bueno. por sus acciones, yo pensé que jorge era un mujeriego o sea un don juan. raquel: y más tarde, cuando angela quería llevarme al museo ¿quería acompañarnos jorge o no? ¿quieres ver un poco la universidad antes de volver? sí, ¿cómo no? jorge, ¿por qué no la llevamos a ver la colección de oller? llévala tú, amor. acabo de recordar que un estudiante quería verme en la oficina. jorge no quería acompañarnos. dijo que un estudiante lo esperaba en su oficina.

para decir la verdad, yo creo que era una excusa... una excusa porque se sentía incómodo. bueno, angela y yo fuimos solas al museo. ¿y quién nos esperaba cuando salimos de allí? yo creí que estabas en una cita con un estudiante. no apareció. así que vine a buscarlas. jorge nos esperaba. ¿ven uds.? ningún estudiante lo esperaba en su oficina. era sólo una excusa. por fin, fuimos a unas tiendas cerca de la universidad

porque yo quería comprar unos cassettes. luego vinimos aquí al hotel porque yo había invitado a jorge y a angela a nadar. pero yo no nadé con ellos. ¿qué hacía yo mientras ellos nadaban? ¿mamá? raquel: mientras ellos nadaban yo hablaba por teléfono. primero, llamé a mi madre. yo le conté de mi opinión sobre jorge y angela. ¿y qué me dijo ella? así es mi mamá.

y tenía razón. cuando yo intenté hablar con angela sobre lo del teatro ¿qué pasó? se enfadó conmigo. ¿por qué no te gusta jorge a ti? angela, no te enfades conmigo. no he dicho nada. pues dime entonces por qué te opones a eso del teatro. ibasta con eso de oponerme! no te pongas tan defensiva. mira, si quieres que te diga la verdad... iajái lo sabía. igual que mi abuela. iolvídalo! mi madre tiene razón. no me deben importar los asuntos de otros. bueno, tendré que hablar con ella más tarde. también tuve una conversación con arturo. ¿y qué creen uds.? ¿estaba arturo contento durante la conversación?

arturo, eres imposible. lo sé. pero es parte de mi encanto, ¿no? yo creo que sí. creo que arturo estaba muy contento. y yo en este momento también estoy contenta. arturo va a visitar méxico dentro de dos días. bueno. sólo hay un problema ahora. no podemos comunicarnos por teléfono con el hermano de angela. nunca está en casa. ¿dónde estará este roberto castillo? al día siguiente raquel y angela se van de la bella isla de puerto rico. jorge y angela vienen al hotel para recoger a raquel.

angela... yo sé que nos acabamos de conocer. ojalá me perdones por lo de ayer. raquel, tienes que comprender. todo el mundo dice cosas de jorge que me irritan. mi abuela, mis amigas en el banco y ahora tú. ¿hay algo que yo no vea? eso es todo. debemos irnos. hombre: iangela! angela... me alegro mucho de encontrarte. ¿qué pasa, tío? estás muy preocupado. tienes que ir directamente a ver a tu hermano cuando llegues a méxico. ¿cómo? no comprendo. sucedió un accidente... en la excavación. ¿qué pasó? su hermano tuvo un accidente

en la excavación. captioned by the caption center wgbh educational foundation

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