11/18/16 11/18/16 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from marrakesh, morocco, at the united nations climate summit, this is democracy now! >> president-elect trump, i formally invite you to fiji and promise you the warmest of welcomes. we will show you how we are having to move entire communities out of the way of the rising seas and you can meet the families of the 44 fijians who were killed last february by the largest tropical cyclone that was to make landfall in the

southern hemisphere. amy: the prime minister of fiji makes a personal appeaeal to becometrump who may soon the only world leader who does not believe in climate change. we will get the latest on the u.n. climate summit and look at an issue that has barely received coverage here -- the moroccan occupation of the western sahara -- which many consider to be africa's last colony. that areemate talks thisis month, is an excellent king and theofor the community around him to whitewash the decline, the oppression, authoritarianism, and also make people forget about the occupation that has been ongoing for more than four decades in western sahara. amy: we will speak to a british-algerian activist who

was blocked from entering western sahara during the u.n. climate summit and we will go to , the streets of marrakesh to speak with syrian refugees who have fled here to escape war. >> i want to ask him why and they want to close the borders first. syria's have suffered very much. why should they close the border in our faces? they should help us because we have gone through a lot of suffering and lost everything. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from marrakesh, morocco, from the u.n. climate summit. back in the united states, donald trump has chosen alabama jeff sessions.

inwas elected the the senate 1990 six. as an alabama senator, he has consistently supported anti-immigration legislation. in 2010, he was a leading proponent of the effort to repeal the 14th amendment, which grant citizenship to everyone born in the united states. jeff sessions is also been a vocal opponent of the voting rights act. in 1986, president ronald reagan nominated sessions for a federal judgeship, but he was denied confirmation because of his history of racist comments, including reportedly saying he thought the ku klux klan was "ok, until i found out they smoked pot." he is also called the naacp and the aclu un-american and communist-inspired. in while, officials from donald trump's transition team have told multiple news outlets that trump has offered lt. general michael flynn the position of national security adviser.

flynn is well-known for his anti-muslim worldview, having called islam a cancer and saying "fear of muslims is rational." general flynn is also on the board of advisers for act for america, an anti-muslim organization that's been designated as a hate group by the southern poverty law center. this position of national security adviser does not require senate confirmation. flynn served as the director of the defense intelligence agency under president obama. during which time some of his subordinates invented the term " flyn facts." he was a key adviser for donald trump during the 2016 campaign, during which he refused to condemn trump's proposed use of torture. human rights watch said his pick shows "a deeply disturbing

disregard for human rights principles and the laws of war." another controversial military figure, former cia director and retired u.s. army general david petraeus, is reportedly in the running for secretary of state. in 2015, petraeus was sentenced to two years' probation and a $100,000 fine after pleading guilty to leaking highly classified information to his biographer and lover paula broadwell. this comes after trump spent months calling for hillary clinton to be jailed for her use of a private email server when she served as secretary of state, despite being cleared of wrongdoing by multiple fbi investigations. donald trump also met with president nixon's secretary of state henry kissinger on thursday at trump tower. director of national intelligence james clapper has submitted his resignation, sparking renewewed calls for him to face perjury prosecution for lying under oath to the senate in march 2013 when he was

questioned by senator ron wyden about the government's secret surveillance program. >> they collect any type of data at all, millions or hundreds of millions of americans. >> no, sir. >> i it does not? >> not w wittingly. there are cases s where they cod inadvertently, perhaps, collect but not wittingly. amy: clapper later defended himself by claiming he had answered the question in the "least untruthful manner." his resignation will be effective on inauguration day, january 20, 2017. "the new york times" is reporting donald trump's son-in-law jared kushner is weighing the possibility off joining trump said administration -- a move that may violate u.s. anti-nepotism laws. kushner is the husband of trump's daughter ivanka.

he's been a key adviser to donald trump's campaign and transition team. most recently, he orchestrated a purge of new jersey governor chris christie and his allies from the transition team. jared's father, charles kushner, was sent to prison by christie when christie was a new jersey's top prosecutor. meanwhile, the democratic party has elected new york senator chuck schumer to be the senate minority leader, despite opposition from protesters who say schumer's ties to wall street make him unfit to lead the democratic p party's opposition to donald trump. earlier this week, protesters held a sit-in inside schumer's office demanding he step aside and instead support vermont senator bernie sanders for the position of minority leader. instead, on wednesday, schumer was elected minority leader and then tapped bernie sanders as chair of outreach for the democraticic leadership team. a new position. meanwhile, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren has become the latest democratic party member to endorse minnesota congressman keith ellison as the next

chair of the democratic national committee. he is the first muslim member of congress and cochair of the congressional progressive caucus. in san diego, u.s. district judge gonzalo curiel will hold a hearing friday to consider a request by donald trump's lawyers to delay the class-action lawsuit against trump and his defunct for-profit trump university until after the inauguration in january. the university has been accused of defrauding students. trump is slated to testify at the trial, but his lawyers are trying to convince judge curiel to permit him to testify via a videotaped deposition. they're also trying to withhold from evidence everything trump has said, including in speeches and in tweets. during the campaign, trump attacked judge curiel, saying his mexican heritage makes him biased against trump. the largest bank in norway, dnb, has sold its assets in the companies behind the $3.8 billion dakota access pipeline

and it is considering whether to terminate three separate loans the bank has made to finance the project. the canceled assets were worth $3 million. the loans under consideration finance up to 10% of the pipeline's construcuction. relatedlus dnb is not to dnb first. this comes as energy transfer partners, the company behind the dakota access pipeline, is almost certain to miss the january 1, 2017, deadline by when it had promised oil companies it would have completed construction, opening up the possibility the pipeline may lose its contracts with oil companies. in recent court documents, energy transfer partners acknowledged that if the army corps of engineers does grant the final permit to drill underneath the missouri river, it would still take the company between three and four months to finish the project. it's still not clear whether the permit will ever be granted.

even if it is, missing the january 1 deadline means oil companies will have the right to renegotiate or even cancel their contracts to have oil shipped through the dakota access pipeline. these cancellations are likely given that bakken oil production has fallen by 20% since its peak in december 2014 -- the same year the contracts were first signed. energy transfer partners has acknowledged in court filings "loss of shippers to the project could effectively result in project cancellation." in iraq, a suicide car bomb has killed at least 30 people at a wedding thursday. the islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack south of fallujah. among the dead was the groom, seif jumaa maajal, who was the son of a local tribal leader who had been a vocal opponent of the islamic state. in china, workers have staged a series of strikes and protests against walmart, demanding

better pay and working conditions. at least 20,000 walmart workers in china have joined messaging groups, such as wechat, in order to coordinate organizing against the company. this comes amid a wave of labor organizing in china's service sector. since july, workers have organized more than 120 protests and strikes targeting service companies, including walmart. palestinians are condemning two pieces of legislation being pushed by israeli lawmakers. the first would ban mosque loudspeakers in efforts to silence the call to prayer, which sounds five times throughout the day. right-wing israeli lawmakers are claiming the call is noise pollution. the second piece of legislation would retroactively legalize jewish-only settlements on palestinian land in the israeli-occupied west bank. the measure violates international law. this is palestinian leader hanan ashrawi. >> we consider all settlements

and legal whether they are public or private land. extends the confiscation of territories to palestinian steal occupation can outright theft palestiniann land weatather for public palestinian use oor private p palestinian propererty in order to expand settlement project, destroyed the two state solutition, and at the same time, impose greater israel on historical palestine. amy: in guatemala, a judge has ruled former u.s.-backed dictator efrain rios montt will face trial on charges of genocide for a massacre in 1982 that killed 273 indigenous peoplele, nearly half of them children. on wednesday, the judge ruled he will be represented by his mont has beens

ruled mentally unfit for trial. rios montt was found guilty of genocide in 2013, but a court annulled his 80-year sentence less than two weeks later. britain says residents of the chagos islands in the indian ocean who were forcibly removed for the construction of a u.s. military base in the early 1970's will not be allowed to return home, despite four decades of organizing by the displaced residents who are demanding the right to return. in addition to serving as u.s. airbase, one of the islands, diego garcia, has also played a critical role in the u.s. extraordinary rendition program. this week the british foreign office minister said instead of the right to return home, the chagossians will be offered 40 millions pounds in compensation over the next decade. she also said the u.s. will be allowed to keep its military base on the island. back in the united states, the number of reported hate crimes continues to surge in the wake of donald trump's election last week. the southern poverty law center has now documented at least 437 verbal and physical attacks,

intimidation and harassment against muslims, immigrants, african americans, women, and people of color. the most commonly reported place where physical or verbal harassment occurred continues to be i in k-12 schchools. a for-profit family detention center in karnes county, texas, has banned migrant children held therere from having access to crayons while their mothers meet with lawyers. immigration authorities claim the ban is a response to children coloring on a table in the prison's visiting area which "caused damage to the contractor." the facility is operated by the private prison company geo group, which saw its stock price jump after donald trump won the presidential election. human rights advocates are calling for the obama administration to cut ties with the private prison industry and end family detention before the close of his term. and writer colson whitehead has won the national book award for "the underground railroad," a novel about a young enslaved girl who escapes from a georgia plantation. at the new york city awards

ceremony, whitehead said -- "we're happy in here. outside is the blasted hellhole wasteland of trumpland. be kind to everybody, make art and fight the power." and those are some of the headlines. "the washington post is reporting donald trump has miken kansas congressman cap the os cia director. he is opposed closing guantanamo bay prison. in 2013, he visited the notorious prison and set of the prisoners on hunger strike "it looked like to me that a lot of them have put on weight." he also is a vocal opponent of the iran nuclear deal. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the cop22 here in marrakesh, morocco. in what is seen by some as a direct response to the election of donald trump and his rejection of climate science,

nearly 200 nations have agreed on a proclamation here in marrakesh morocco declaring implementation of the paris climate accord to be a "urgent duty." this comes just over a week after trump was elected president. he has vowed to pull the united states out of the paris agreement and has called climate change a chinesese-created hoax. trump will soon become the only world leader who doesn't believe in climate change. this is aziz mekouar, morocco's head negotiator at the talks. >> we call for all parties to strengthen and support efforts to eradicate poverty, ensure food security, deal of climate change challenges in agriculture. we call for urgently raising ambition and strengthehening cooperatation amongst ourselveso close the gap between current emissions, project rees, and the pathway needed to meet the

long-term goals of the paris agreement. we call for an increase in the volume, flow, and access to finance for climate projects alongside improved capacity and technology, including through deveveloping countntries. views of $100r billion mobilization goal. call for further climate action and support well in advance of 2020, t taking ino account the specific needs and special status of developing countries, the least developed countries, and those particularly honorable to the adverse -- vulnerable to adverse impact of climate change. to the kyoto protocol anchorage the quantification. amy: aziz mekouar, morocco's head negotiator at the talks, speaking after nations here at cop22 signed on to what's known as marrakesh action proclamation.

tina johnson is policy director at the u.s. climate action network. opportunity is an is a know one country, no one person can control the outcome. i'm a change is real. we need to act. we're going to do everything we can. [indiscerniblele] amy: earlier this week, the prime minister of fiji appealed directly to president-elect donald trump. >> i want to make a special appeal to the president-elect of the united states donald trump for a personal change of heart in a public change of policy on the issue of climate change. sir, you have said you do not

believe that climate change is man-made and you intend as president t to cut off america's contribution to the global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. by thepecially alarmed intent to withdraw from the paris agreement, which would be disastrous for every person on earth. i appeal to you to show the leadership that the rest of the world expects the united states to take on this issue. please take ananother look at te overwhelming scientific content on the man-made effects of global warming. please come as a matter of urgency to see for yourself the devastating impact of rising sea levels and extreme weather events already having on our pupils in our way of life. president-elect trump, i formally invite you to fiji and promise you the warmest of welcomes. we will show you how we already

having to move entire communities out of the way of the rising seas, and you can meet the families of the 44 fijians who were killed last february by the biggest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall in the southern hemisphere. i repeat, the world looks to america for leadership as we work together to confront this challenge to our survival and the well-being of our planet. president-elect trump, i appeal to you for humanity's sake to show that leadership and to join our common cause. thank you. amy: that is the prime minister of fiji. he will be the president of the next cop, which will not be held in fiji, but germany. climate activists have staged a series of actions here at the u.n. summit calling on world leaders to do more to address the climate crisis.

>> i am from the marshall islands. in the north specific. right now my people are on the frontline. we are affected by climate change. we are feeling it right now. very -- barely two meters above sea level. i'm speaking to as a mother. i have two babies. where will we go if our island sinks? amy: on thursday, climate activists also staged protests here targeting corporate sponsors of the u.n. climate summit. they began by staging a die-in at the u.n. climate summit inside a pavilion sponsored by the moroccan phosphate giant ocp . the action was led by the indigenous youth caucus and sustainus to raise awareness about the economic and health impacts of the company's phosphates plant in the coastal moroccan town of safi. protesters then moved on to occupy the booth of the moroccan

mining company managem, a moroccan mining company which runs a massive silver mine that has been the targets of protests for years by the indigenous amazigh people of imider. >> this action symbolizes indigenous and nonindigenous groups from both inside and outside of morocco, coming together to show the similarities of environmental atrocities communities around the world face. we wish to show how corporate sponsors of the cop continued greenwashing while ignoring classism. at the same time, people who sadly pay withes their lives and livelihoods without ever expensing the privilege to walk into this space and draw attention to the injustices committed against them. i come from the navajo nation and i have been at standing rock. while we were attacked by dogs

and pepper spray. we are guests of the people of morocco. we thought it would be appropriate to draw attention to the corporate sponsors ocp and others who are also calling -- causing similar atrocities not far from the cop right now. actively polluting streams and .ivers and oceans people drop dead in the streets because they cannot breathe in the air. our brothers and sisters have been occupying [indiscernible] they're having their water drained in order to produce silver for an outside company. we would like everybody to please think of those people and think of their sovereignty and their rights. when we come back from the break, we will look at an issue that has barely received coverage here, the moroccan

occupation of the western sahara which many consider to be africa's last colony. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: musicians playing during a demonstration here at the cop22 climate summit. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from marrakesh, morocco, here at the u.n. climate talks one issue that is being largely ignored is morocco's 41-year occupation of the western sahara, a former spanish colony located south of morocco. last week, moroccan authorities barred the sahrawi political leadader suelma beirouk from

attending the climate summit, even though she serves as the vice president of the pan-african parliament. she was reportedly held by moroccan police for 75 hours without food or water. morocco also faced criticism after it briefly published a map on an official cop22 website that showed occupied western sahara to be a part of morocco. the image was later taken down from that website. the u.n. considers western sahara to be a non-self-governing territory. in march, morocco expelled u.n. staffers from western sahara after u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon referred to morocco's rule over the region as an "occupation" during a visit to the algerian town of tindouf, which has been the home for western saharan refugees for four decades. one half of the sahrawi population lives in the refugee camps while the other half lives , in the territory under occupation. moroccan authorities also continue to block many international journalists and human rights organizations from entering the occupied western sahara. this week i spoke to the

, brbritish-basased algerian activist hamzaza hamouchenene wo seserves a as the seninior progm offificer for north africa and west asia at the british organization war on want. >> i am here for the cop to organize events around the cop22 , but i am not participating officially for the cop22. so we organized different events in solidarity with communities that are being affected by environmental injustices, by the neoliberal policies of the moroccan monarchy. i have attempted to travel to the occupied territories of western sahara two days ago and have been denied entry. the wherehappened yet did you go and where were you stopped? >> i started my journey from a southern town in morocco. there.a bus ride from just before tindouf, just on the border between morocco and the

occupied zone, i have been orordered off of the bus. i've been informed there are specific structures coming from high all -- high up to not let me perceive. amy: what happened you then? >> basically, i waited for an hour and a heart attack seat for about sixix me back or seven hours away. they kept a close eye on me at every check point. stopped around five or sisix times, checking my passport, calling the driver. it felt a little bit unsafe. amy: so they drove you away five hours to where? >> i think they drove me more than six hours to a town three hours away or 3.5 hours away fromom marrakesh. and then i spent the night there. and i came back a day after. but for me, it is just an

example of how morocco, the moroccan monararchy, thinking ad ththe elite arounund him, does t want international people people coming for the cop22 to know about its occupation of western sahara. it h has been ongoing for more than four decades for now. amy: interestingly, ban ki-moon was here, actually met with thee king, , though it doesn't t lolk like the kining wantnted to loot him because he just recenently called the presence of morocco and western sahara and occupation. talks h have climate been how -- held in marrakesh, an excellent opportunity for the king and the ruling elite around him to whitewash their crimes, the repression, the authoritarianism, and also make

people forget about the occupation that has been ongoing for more than four decades and western sahara. it is also an opportunity to greenwash the environment all -- es amy: and that means? >> the king and the elite around him, basically, the ruling class in morocco. to greenwash the crimes. so i have been visiting different places in morocco recently where people are suffering from big huge environmental injustice. and one of them is the community that has been shuttling with the mine thatings of a has been grabbing the resources, grabbing their water -- amy: explain where that is. >> it is in the southeast morocco, around a 7 hour drive from marrakesh. so the community has been

struggling there for years against this silver mine that has been polluting and affecting their agriculture. this is in contradiction between the narrative that the monarchy is trying to give to outsiders that they are champions of renewable energy, that they are green, and all of that. but in reality, when you look deep down, you see lots of environmental destruction. town on the ocean, which is really a victim ofof te industrial policies of morocco, there is actually now a coal fire power station that is being built. that will be operational in 2017. so at the time they're saying we are building a coal-fired power station and that coal will be

brought from russia, poland, and south africa. but then if you look deeply into the details of the renewable plants, you see an important part of it is based on occupied territory. inwithout the approval taking the decisions and how those resources are being used. amy: the west the herons -- saharan's? >> yes. there is a report by the organization the just released a few weeksamy: the west the ago n the plunder, with a document all of those renewable plants, wind, and solar, and ththey mentionedn example of where a wind farm is powering a mine which is on occupied territory, so basically, powering that mine to plunder even further the resources of the people.

amy: how difficult is it for people to get to western sahara that do not already live there? >> i think the movements of the center are monitored -- sahara are monitored. they really monitor the movements of the people. for international delegations -- so the moments they detect those delegations were talking with the human rights activists and human rights organizations, they deport them. there have been many examples in the past with delegations from norway, from spain being detectd the moment they them working with human r rights activists. amy: what are they hiding? they'rey it briefly, hiding the reality of occupation, hiding the reality of repression, hiding the reality of the denial of the rights of the sahrawis.

amy: share the history of western sahara. .> itt was a spanish colony they werepanish left, invaded. moratoria retreated i think a year later. morocco still occupied that land and plundered the resources and fishing, just -- it is tomatoes, agriculture. sahrawis do not have any". this needs to be exposed. the cop22 should not have the opportunity for the kingdom and the elite around him to greenwash the crimes and to whitewash the occupation. amy: there are amazing parallels to indonesia's occupation of eaeast timor in 1975.

but in 1999, the u.n. wasas able to sponsor a r referendum for te people of east timor and they voted for their independence and now they're one of the newest nations in the world. >> i think that is what the sahara would wish to happen. they just want the right to self-determination. the u.n. is supportive of that, except that morocco has the support of some western powers, including france and the u.s. and spain. that diplomatic and international support allows it to continue the occupation. so i think we need to exercise the pressure on the moroccan monarchy as well as the multinationals that are complicit in the plunder of resources. amy: that was the british-based algerian activist hamza hamouchene, who serves as the senior program officer for north africa and west asia at the british organization war on want.

he recently attempted to enter the occupied western sahara, but was stopped by moroccan authorities on his way. on wednesday, i spoke to constancio pinto, the minister of commerce, industry, and environment of timor-leste or east timor. east timor was compared to western sahara for decades. both countries were occupied in 1975. timor by indonesia, western sahara by morocco. both populations supported u.n. security council resolutions calling for referenda for self determination. which timor got in 1999 and voted overwhelmingly to become independent. the people of western sahara are still calling for that referendum to take place. east timorese minister constancio pinto just came from east timor where on november 12, he was involved in the 25th anniversary observance of the santa cruz massacre where indonesian military attacked using u.s. weapons gunned down

, over 270 timorese. he was a lead organizer of the peaceful p processioion. i asked him his s thoughts on te anniversary. massacrethe santa cruz day.s was a national it was a turning point for the struggggle of my state. it took sonar over 20 years to get the world to know the suffering that we have endured here -- during the indonesian occupation. day,fore, we honor this the 25th anniversary of the where 270 lives were

inen by the indonesian army cold blood. ordertinue to do this in of our spiritame of nationalism and sentiment among the young people. because the young people, sometimes they think the independence was a gift given by the indonesians. ,o we have to tell them independence was a process. it took a longtime. ourmany of our family, titimorese citizens lost their

lives for this independence. continue toe, we celebrate this also in honor of the contributioion of the international community, especially the journalists -- people like yourself and others. who,ere the people although it was difficult to get into, you managed to go to timor and cover the stories and publish it abroad. worldt you, i think the what happenednown in timor. their independence of timorr may

also delay. that is why we continue to do this. and for us, 25 years is important day for us. amy: that is constancio pinto, the minister of commerce and history and environment of timor . this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. just tapped has alabama senator jeff sessions to bebe h attorneyy general and kansas congressman mike come pao to head the cia. as trump's civil his cabinet, we look at one of the communities that have been the target of his through hiseted immigration policy that he is talked about during the campaign, syrian refugees. over the course of the campaign, donald trump called them terrorists and incorrectly accused them of carrying out violent attacks in the united states.

trump has repeatedly said he would end all immigration to the u.s. by syrian refugees and others from what he called terror-prone nations. this is donald trump speaking last month. mr. trump: we are not going to take the risk when it comes to the safety of the american people no longer. so let me say as clearly as i can, if i'm elected president, i am going to keep radical islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. amy: the five year syrian conflict has displaced about half the prewar population, with more than 6 million syrians displaced inside syria and nearly 5 million syrian refugees outside its borders. close to half a million syrians have been killed in the ongoing war. here in morocco, according to some estimates, there are thousands of syrian refugees though exact figures are , difficult to determine. on thursday evening, democracy now! spoke to several syrian refugees here in marrakesh. a province in

syria. how did you come from syria to morocco? i came from syria, then i crossed into lebanon and i stayed for one year in lebanon. and i have prepared my passport before the war. when the war waged, it became very tough for me. and i have six daughters and three youths. i had to flee from there to .orocco i came from beirut, then came to algeria, then i crossed into morocco. >> what did you come to morocco? is this your final destination

or do you hope to go elsewhere afterwards? i have never left syria, and this is the first i've had to leave the country. we came here to morocco and we thought we would stay four or five months and then make it back to syria, but now i'm here for more than two years. we never thought we would be staying in morocco for so long. >> how is your life in syria -- how did it change? what is the situation there right now? >> my life in syria was very good. as a poor person, i had a very good life in syria i was working with people. but because of the war, i had to leave. now i came with no money and i'm out here sitting in the streets. >> how has this conflict impacted your children and what featured you hope for them -- future do you hope for them? yes, the war has affected us

all. it has impacted everything. no school, no money, no nothing. as i say, i have 10 children. they don't go to school now. this is catastrophic. >> after speaking to the refugee, we met a mother and daughter that fled to morocco from syria in 2012, a year after the conference began. they did not want to show their faces out of fear for their safety. syria. from idlib from >> and you are standing here next to your daughter. what is your name? and how old are you? >> 13. >> how did you get to morocco? >> we went first to beirut, then lebanon, then crossed to egypt all stop from egypt, to algeria.

syriat was life like in when you left? >> it was free difficult. people were killing each other. we were looking at world situatation in syria. we saw men who stood in front of us and said, enough, you have to get away, get away. >> do you have other children in syria? >> i have five children, three boys and two girls in syria. >> how long have you been in morocco since leaving syria? > four years. >> what is is a been likely to leave syria as a young child? me.t was very difficult for yes, we found we had very big problems. we had to cross the borders. we have a lot of hardship. >> you are a child. what you want to do when you grow up? >> i go to school.

i want to be a surgeon. >> in the united states, there is a leader who says that no more syrian refugees should come to our country. what is your message in response to people who are trying to close the borders off to people fleeing the situation in syria today? >> i want to ask him why they want to close the borders first. syrians have suffered very much. why should they close the borders in our faces? they should help us because we have gone through a lot of suffering and lost everything. syrians have suffered a lot, so enough suffering. >> they cannot close the borders because they were --there will be a lot of people coming. there are, parents, mothers, women. we have to go to europe and other countries. we have been disdained and things are very difficult for us during the years we have spent outside syria.

now we're undergoing a very difficult kind of life. >> what are some of the difficulties you face as a refugee? >> we don't have a home. we lost our home will stop we lost our belongings -- everything. we have lost a lot of people in syria. children. they are still dying there. >> what would it mean a foreign leaders made it more difficult for syrians to leave and get asylum abroad? >> it would be better to die of the rose the borders. amy: that report by democracy now! while interviewing the syrian refugees here in marrakesh, the democracy now! team was stopped numerous times by moroccan police. police forces repeatedly demanding to see press credentials, questioning the reporters about their reporting, and also followed the team from

the bustling center marrakesh to .he suburban outskirts after we finished interviews, police and follow the team back to the traditional moroccan house in the old city. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: that was hakan ozkan with a remix of marvin gaye's "mercy mercy me." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the cop22, the u.n. climate summit here in marrakesh, morocco. as aat is seen as some direct response to donald trump and his rejection of climate science, nearly 200 nations have

agreed on a proclamation declaring implementation of the paris climate accord to be "urgent duty." this comes just over a week after donald trump was elected president. he is about to pull the united states out of the paris agreement and is called climate change a chinese hoax. trump will soon become the only world leader who does not believe in climate change. meanwhile, a headline in "the washington post" read "the north pole is an insane 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends." the report says it is the second in a row that temperatures are the north pole have risen to freakishly warm levels. we're joined now by two guests. the climate justice and energy coordinator of friends of your international based in , thebique and vidya venkat senior assistant editor at the hindu based in india. her most recent piece is titled, "marrakech action proclamation sends out strong signal on climate." we welcome you both to democracy now!, the senior assistant up, what has wraps

been accomplished here? >> i think there's been a shadow cast over this entire two weeks here in marrakesh with the president-elect trump being elected in the u.s., and i think the global community here has really come together to give up a strong response to that. we have seen the country step up and they they are still in, they will move forward. but what we have not in here is those words being turned into action, and i think that has bid here atortunate cop because what we really needed to see here was a ramping up of ambition, a ramping up of the targets that developed countries especially put on the table in paris last year because those were absolutely not enough to stay under the 1.5 degrees. amy: what do you want to see in this period? >> i think john kerry made a very strong verbal commitment.

amy: he was just here. >> when he spoke at a press conference the other day, really committing the u.s. has taken some steps forward. i think those are really strong words. now it is time for the u.s. to turn those into action because the u.s. was one of the developed countries which was not meeting its fair share of targets. they did not pledge enough based on what is fair share historically should be. i think one of the things we would like to see from president obama and from the other developed countries isn't only about the u.s.. this is about all of the developed countries really needing to step up their emissions reductions targets and finance. because without that, the energy transformation in our country in the south is going to be very, very difficult. that is what is needed to stop this climate catastrophe. amy: vidya venkat, you are coming from a country -- do you live in new delhi? >> no. amy: talk about new delhi and

what is happening, the reports we're getting of the level of air pollution off the charts. >> ok. basically, my focus of coverage at cop22 is not just india, that i'm looking at the global reactions coming in. because in the true spirit of the paris agreement, everyone is supppposed to get together. i guess it is a bit unfair if you focus on just one country and talking about pollution in india, it is a big problem. greenpeace just recently came out with reports saying the number of pollution deaths in area -- deaths in india higher than in china. that is like one of the t tngs where we beat china. we kill more people from pollution. which is not a good story. elhi being thehe dk capital gets a disproportionate amount of press coverage. climate change has had a severe impact in india. the drought for the last two

went, poor rainfall, has huge amount of people -- has meant a huge amount of people have been affected. the numbers run into something like 330 million people affected by drought. that is a much larger number. i genuinely feel the issue of agriculture and farmers -- i am told agriculture has been dropped from the paris .egotiation deal at marrakesh so concerns about agriculture, -- hows about adaptation do countries like ours which are affected by climate change adapt? these have not been addressed. any go your response to donald trump's election to be the first major world leader to deny climate change? >> i really feel that given all of the scientific evidence that exists, is a world leader denies it doesn't exist, then there is something really wrong with him.

i mean, as journalist, we have been putting out one story after the other. the glaciers retreating, for example, in india. may.veled in the glacier has retreated by three kilometers. that is massive. that is evidence in front of you. amy: i want to thank you both for being with us, vidya venkat, senior assistant editor at the hindu, as well as dipti, climate justice and energy coordinator friends of the earth international. as we end today with a poet and activist from the marshall islands sharing a poem about climate change. >> i and from the marshall islands. i'm about to perform my: called "two degrees." the other night my one-year-old was a fever pressed against my chest. together we wrestled with a thermometer that read 99.8 degrees.

the doctor says technically 100.4 is a fever. but i can see her flushed face, how she drips across my lap listless. toddlerually a wobbling across the edge of the reef. i think, what a difference a few degrees can make. scientist say if humans warm the world more than two degrees in catastrophe will hit. imagine north america wildfires increasing by 400%, freshwater thousands,y 30%, millions left wondering, wondering what happened? at a climate change conference, a colleague tells me two degrees is just a benchmark for climate negotiations. i tell him to degrees is a gamble. at two degrees, the marshall islands is already underwater. for is why our leaders push 1.5. it seems small like .5 degree should not matter, like wi-fi degrees are just crumbs, like the marshall islands are a blip

on the map, dust off the table and wiped her hands clean up. today, my daughter is feeling better. she walks around our backyard, drops pebbles and leads into a plastic rocket. as i watch her, i think about the world making the same .istakes again and again in tilley island, the tides were underestimated. patient sleeping in a clinic with a nuclear history threaded into their bloodlines will to wild waterway, rushing rapid of salt, sewage, syringe and gau ze. later, they wield the hospital beds out, left them resting in the sun. so, so tired. wondering, wondering if the world will leave us out to dry in the sun where they does their hands of us, white and cleanan.

my father tells me that the marshallese word is the best time for fishing, maybe that is what i'm doing, fishing for recognition, writing the world, willing the world to find its balance. so that people remember beyond the discussions, be on the policy, statistics, there are faces all the way out here. there is a baby stomping, squeaky yellow light of shoes across the river reef, not yet underwater. amy: that was kathy jetnil-kijiner, of the marshall islands. that does it for our broadcast. a special things to our local crew here in marrakesh. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

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♪ narrator: in africa, south of the sahara, european colonization has had tremendous long-term impact on contemporary divisions of land. here, south africa's notorious legacy of race-based laws of apartheid profoundly affected the lives of the country's population. many people were removed from their ancestral lands

and relocated to less desirable areas called homelands. with the end of apartheid, south africa is taking remarkable steps toward a more positive and unified future. at the heart of the transformation, though, is the volatile issue of land reform. repatriating people to their land is a complex and difficult process. we will see how one geographer is using global positioning system-- or gps technology-- as one tool to study how the land resources in south africa are being distributed and utilized. ( choral group singing in native language ) in april 1994, south africans participated in their nation's first democratic elections and chose nelson mandela as their president. one of the greatest challenges

facing the new post-apartheid regime was to give the majority black population access to the land from which they had been forcibly removed. they just came in and tell us that we have to move out. we said, "we can't move out, because this land is... is ours. this land was bought by our grandfathers in 1905." but they just moved us, just on account of jealous. apartheid... apartheid wasted our time. narrator: under apartheid, south africa's black majority-- almost 90% of the population-- was moved onto less than 15% of the land. these so-called homelands were often marginal areas with little rainfall and minimal infrastructure. the white minority controlled 85% of the land, including the richest, most productive areas.

white commercial farmers who were heavily subsidized by the government prospered while black farmers struggled to eke out a living, practicing subsistence farming or as laborers for white concerns. man: people were not able to make a living in this economy, and that was the whole purpose of the economy. we saw a situation that necessarily undermined agricultural production and livelihood systems. why? because those areas of south africa designated as bantustans were in fact labor reserves. we see a compression of space. we see high-population densities on marginal lands, and proximity to johannesburg and pretoria-- the main industrial center of south africa. and so those areas served as effective labor reserves, meaning that if we can keep the people in those areas from garnering a real livelihood,

keep them structurally dependent on migration, then we have a large labor pool. narrator: there was a distinct geography of apartheid, a geography of separateness based upon race. as the gernment began to redress these injustices in 1994 and '95, land reform brought euphoric times. woman: so really today, i don't know. since this morning, i had one cup of tea. and i feel that i'm so strongly, i can even jump just because i'm going back to my land. ( singing in native language ) so the idea of a land-reform program is to try and set right some of the wrongs that were done under apartheid, and clearly that's not going to be done overnight, so it's a long-term program. mccusker: land reform essentially is a program

to redress the imbalances of the past. and one of the largest imbalances of the past was in land distribution versus population. it's the largest single, uh, imbalance created by apartheid. so there are three aspects of land-reform program-- the overarching program in south africa. there's land restitution, land reform and tenure-relations reform. now, these three are separate, but go hand-in-hand. land restitution says something that they did under the apartheid era to move someone off a piece of land was illegal, and because it was illegal, it has more standing in court today than just saying, "we want our land back." that's land restitution. usually land restitution either ends up that the farmer has to, uh, sell the land to the government or communities are compensated. the second instance of land reform under this big umbrella of land reform is tenure relations. tenure means the way that people interact with the land. what sort of right do they have to a piece of land?

under apartheid, it was deemed important to keep these relations confused because then the population was... was more influx, could be moved quicker and could be scrambled and confused. the second aspect of land reform is to straighten those relations out. what i'm focusing on is the third aspect of land reform, which is itself called land reform. it means redressing those imbalances through a willing-buyer/ willing-seller program. a farmer-- a white farmer-- is willing to sell his land to the government. the government helps a group of people purchase it, and they start some sort of agricultural project. that doesn't mean that someone's land is getting taken away. it doesn't mean there's a legal challenge. it just simply means land reform as a mechanism of redistributing land. interviewer: are you excited? man: yeah... ( laughs ): yes. interviewer: tell me some of your plans. my plans... let's see. this side is going to be herb, but there, the front is going to be the flowers.

yeah, it's going to be the flowers and the grass later, green grass... yeah. our houses are going to be built here. narrator: people's euphoria was soon tempered by the scale and complexity of land reform. man: when these people were removed, they didn't only lose land. they lost the buildings on the land; they lost cattle when they were removed through the removal; they lost furniture. some... there were even reports of some people dying. so they have already suffered. they will be getting much less than what they had lost when they were removed. the cases that can be the most difficult are those that, um... where there are claims to private land-- where white farmers, for example, have been saying, "we don't accept that these people have claims to our land. this land belongs to us." narrator: there are many conflicting claims to land

in south africa. the government has tried to work around this problem by underwriting the cost of black citizens purchasing land from white farmers who are willing to sell. this program aims to redress injustice but also to develop the rural economy, where the black population lives in conditions of dire poverty. man: our challenge is not just to give people land because there is a demand for land, but to... to... approaching this matter in a fair manner to ensure that people get access to that resource which they will then use to the benefit of the country as a whole. narrator: now, seven years after the transition to democracy, how is land reform in south africa progressing? what successes in securing justice and promoting rural economic development can the government and the people claim? so we are moving towards the westward, the kalahari. narrator: geographer brent mccusker

is studying a rural area in the northern province to analyze the impacts of reform. is this true scrub land or is it more savanna? narrator: during apartheid this was a large, white-owned commercial farm. in 1995, 396 black south africans purchased the land as the mashambalogu communal property association-- or cpa. mccusker: in south africa after 1994, there were a series of social projects. one of the projects was to give a social benefits grant because people had been materially and economically dispossessed in apartheid. so at 1994, each citizen who was previously classified as historically disadvantaged was allowed to apply for a 15,000 rand social grant, which is about a little under $2,000. they could use it for a child's education. they could use it for building a house-- buying a new house.

they could use it for upgrading their land, for fertilizers or they could purchase land with it. what we see on the mashambalogu cpa is a group of people who got together to obtain a farm. for this particular farm, it took 396 people pooling their social grant together to purchase this farm. so it's 396 times 15,000 rands. that white farmer made out like a bandit. narrator: today the cpa representatives meet monthly to pn ent of their land. brent joined them during one of his recent research trips. mccusker: and how are you moving forward? well, we've got cattles that... we know that if this cattle will go rightly... and then we're going to sell it and then we'll go forward. and we are producing some other things to plant a garden-- tomatoes and everything-- so we think those things, also, they are going to help us. ( speaking local language ) translator: for too long, those who could improve

living conditions for the people were denied access to land. but i think now that we have land, we can produce and make an income and create jobs for others. mccusker: do people come from maybe the government or the university to help you, to teach you how to plant? yes, they do, yes. mccusker: they do come. and how often do they come? they come once a week. narrator: brent takes the information he gathers from discussions and interviews and relates it to satellite images of the region, which vastly expands the scale of his study. mccusker: you look at a satellite image, and you see it's got a very broad perspective. it looks at very large swaths of the earth, and then you can relate that to an individual story about a piece of land. and then it makes sense. you begin to understand larger social processes that happen. narrator: brent confirms his interpretation of the satellite images through a process called "ground truthing." mccusker: one of the things that we have to do is we do have to empirically verify what we've done

and make sure it's right. and so what i did in south africa was to find a point on the satellite image that was particularly interesting to me from a landscape point of view. i drive to the place. i take my laptop computer with my satellite images already loaded. i already know where i need to go. and i record that with a gps unit. a gps unit is a global positioning system unit. it will tell me exactly on the earth's surface where i'm standing at that moment. i can then take a photograph of the landscape that i see, and i can look at what the photograph sees, versus what the satellite remote sensor sees, and compare the two. narrator: finally brent combines the information from the satellite images and his ground truthing to make a map of land use. mccusker: i generated this map by taking two satellite images--

one from the year 2000 and one from the year 1989. i then classified the vegetative cover on both images and then subtracted one from the other. basically, i said, "what was here in 1989, and now what's here?" what we see on the mashambalogu cpa is a lot of extensification. extensification means you're taking the same amount of land and you're using it less purposefully. narrator: all of the pink areas, for example, indicate land where there was agricultural production in 1989, but in the year 2000 was mostly grassland. there are a few areas of intensification. red and dark green areas were agricultural or grassland and are now residential. overall the cpa land was less agriculturally productive in 2000 than it had been in 1989. the owners of mashambalogu will need resources and support

if they are going to become successful farmers. ( speaking local language ) translator: it is good that the government has returned land to black people, but it is also very important that the government train the people who own the land now. only with training can we make a better future for our farm. it has been slow, but there are noticeable improvements in people's lives. one of the largest and most substantial areas of improvement or transformation is in that of women. women, for the first time, are being included in such projects. before, they were simply left out. so there have been substantial accomplishments in the land reform program. and it doesn't mean that just because we don't see a lot of change now that there won't be change in the future, and there may be a better program that will, in the future, affect people in a more substantial way. i grew up in the land like this. i stayed when i... i born in the e farm

where i used to work for a white person for nothing. but now, when we've got this land, to me, it's a big bargain. we thank god for that. if, really, this community here will be one and doing some things going forward will, in future... really, we're making a big fortune of future for us. narrator: in south africa, as in many african countries south of the sahara, the legacy of colonialism is still felt today. with the end of apartheid, the south african government made a commitment to redistribute lands to black residents who were forcibly relocated to homelands. but land reform is a complicated process that will continue for many years to come. for geographers, tools like global positioning system technology can help monitor progress and assess outcomes.

africa, south of the sahara, is a region of great natural beauty and great human potential, but it also confronts overwhelming challenges. multiple factors like poverty, underdevelopment, war and political instability collude to make life expectancy in this region the lost ithe world. in the east african country of kya, the hiv virus which causes aids, coupled with many of these factors, has created an epidemic of devastating proportions. here, medical geographers study disease diffusion-- how disease is distributed through populations in both space and time. in kenya, we find that diffusion has been accelerated through migration to urban areas, with further transmission along cross-continent trade routes. as the effects of the aids epidemic multiply throughout the nations of africa south of the sahara, the human and economic cost nd the gbe

will be felt for years to come. in this rural kenyan village, a man has died of aids. like so many others, he died young-- only 35 years old. he leaves three children and a widow. ( mourners singing in local language ) tragically, this family's experience is not unusual. the national ministry of health estimates that over two million people in kenya, including 100,000 children, are infected with the hiv/aids virus. ( people contie singing ) woman: future development of kenya is at risk as a result of hiv/aids. for example, child mortality rates had gone down over the years and are now starting to go up again.

hiv/aids is prevalent particularly among those in their mid-20s to their mid-40s. this is the labor force of kenya, the most productive people. these are the people earning the money and developing the nation, and they're dying. narrator: families are destroyed by the spread of aids. thousands of children have become orphans. ( boy speaking local language ) translator: there's my father and there's my two brothers. narrator: disease was devastating the societies of sub-saharan africa long before today's aids crisis. lethal tropical infections, widespread poverty, underdevelopment, war and political turmoil have all contributed to making life expectancy in the region the lowest on the planet. malaria, the most widespread disease, infects more than 300 million people on the continent, and new drug-resistant strains of the bacteria that cause malaria are spreading rapidly.

sleeping sickness, cholera and new killers like the ebola virus take proportionally more lives in sub-saharan africa than anywhere else. ( people singing in local language ) man: a lot of diseases that we have in our part of the world are preventable diseases-- diseases about which you can do a lot. if we had good housing, if we had ample room for people to live, if we had enough and good, appropriate food, if there was enough ample water, and if we were able to immunize all of the children under the age of five against the five immunizable diseases, and then be able to deal with the local, little epidemics, i'm... i'm sure we can actually look after between 75% to 80% of the diseases which are now prevalent in this part of the world.

narrator: in 1994, dr. bhachu was optimistic about future prospects for health care in africa, but in the last eight years, an aids epidemic of extraordinary magnitude has totally changed the landscape of medical concerns. sub-saharan africa is now the site of more than 28 million of the world's 40 million cases of aids. within sub-saharan africa, however, there is gat von from nation to nation in the rate of infection. some of the highest rates are in southern africa. a few nations have not been severely affected. kenya falls somewhere in between. as a geographer, i was interested in how aids had spread across kenya. i actually saw an article published in the paper about, um, the rate of new aids infections every year, and i said, "wow, there's all this information. i can... i can map this." narrator: the data veronica mapped documents a process

that geographers call "diffusion"-- the spread of a phenomenon over space and time. in 1986, which was before the government began collecting information on aids, there was a zero rate of reported infection across the country. in 1987, infection of the population by the hiv virus was reported only in the areas surrounding kenya's three major cities-- mombasa, nairobi and kisumu. but in 1990, the picture changed dramatically as rates of infection continued to rise in urban areas and also began climbing in rural areas. ouma: what's happening in the case of aids is that it tends to, um, diffuse, um, hierarchically-- large urban center, second largest urban center, like that. at the same time, you're also finding this contagious diffusion, which is really the spread from the source region-- be it nairobi or mombasa-- outward to the surrounding areas. narrator: in 1993, the rate of new infections

was approaching a saturation level, or equal rate of new infection throughout the entire country. as the number of adult aids victims grew, many women passed the disease on to their unborn children. man: that child, she's unfortunate. she was delivered by... delivered by a mother who was positive, and she acquired hiv intrauterine. and then since then, she was growing well, but now she's suffering aids, and from that, now she's suffering from tuberculosis. now she's on treatment. the spread of aids in kenya is greatly facilitated by a weak and deteriorating infrastructure that has promoted ill health, it has promoted migration, poverty. resources in rural areas are limited, so we have a culture of migration into urban areas. this mobility has facilitated the spread of the disease as well. narrator: veronica's diffusion maps

summarize the results of human activities: work, travel, migration and above all, sexual practices. in 1993, kenya's aids education strategy was tightly focused. man: we have targeted specific high-risk groups. we work with truck drivers on the trans-african route; we work with the sex partners of the truck drivers; we work with the, uh, hotelkeepers or hotel owners where the truckers stop overnight. we're expanding this high-risk program to include other highly mobile workers in east africa. narrator: but hiv/aids infection continued to mount, reaching 15% by the year 2000. average life expectancy in kenya dropped from 60 to 49 years. finally, in 1999, kenya's president declared hiv/aids a national disaster and looked to his african neighbors for a better approach.

in uganda, a broad-based, forthright public health campaign had made a big difference. man ( over loudspeaker ): .come to the health center today for hiv testing and unseling. to learn mor about this new svice... narrator: aggressive campaigns to get pe tested for aids, widespread publicity about the disease and even television dramas all raised awareness. well, it is true. i don't have aids, but i'm carrying the virus. i don't feel sick, but one day i'll become very sick and die. don't ever believe that you are safe. learn the facts about aids. man: ♪ out there somewhere, alone and frightened... ♪ narrator: reducing the hiv infections from 14% to eight percent,

uganda's example showed how important an aggressive public education campaign can be. but eight percent is still a disastrous epidemic. now a new strategy may provide the weapons to win the fight against hiv/aids in africa. until very recently, people fighting aids in africa have assumed that victims of the disease would not have access to effective drugs that patients in the u.s. and europe now receive. but in the last few years, health care advocates and political leaders including u.n. secretary-general kofi annan, have begun to campaign for low-priced drugs to treat the infected. the potential benefits are immense. drugs will slow the transmission of the disease. drugs will prevent deaths and help to preserve the labor force. and drugs mean that a generation of children will not grow up as orphans.

( playing upbeat tune ) if the anti-aids campaign in africa succeeds, it could be an inspiration to fighting other diseases that have long denied the people of africa an opportunity to reach their full potential. ( man singing upbeat tune in local language ) ( singing in local language ) narrator: in the developing world, infectious diseases are responsible for almost half of all deaths. the most prevalent: malaria, tuberculosis and hiv/aids. the highest concentration of hiv/aids is in africa, home to 13% of the world's population, but nearly 70% of all aids cases. medical geography provides greater understanding of disease diffusion through space and time.

in kenya, we see how human migration to urban areas promotes further transmission and proliferation of disease. medical geographers hope that their findings may help health workers bring disease under control.

annenberg media ♪ by: era la agente de bienes raíces. un empresario de los estados unidos está interesado en comprar la gavia. pero... todavía no está en venta, ¿verdad? narrador: bienvenidos a destinos: an introduction to spanish. primero vamos a ver algunas escenas de este episodio. aquí jaime. tengo muy buenas noticias. angela ha llamado desde el hospital. dice que roberto se despertó y que está muy bien. ibueno, qué alegría!

se te ve muy bien. por lo menos estás despierto. sí. la verdad es que sí me siento muy bien. y yo lo puedo comprobar. se comió dos desayunos. ay, a propósito ¿no queda algo por allí? veo que la recuperación ha sido completa y rápida. también vamos a hablar un poco sobre el ballet folclórico de méxico. fundado por amelia hernández el ballet folclórico incluye música y danzas de diferentes regiones del país. ( se toca el jarabe tapatío ) ¿y carlos se fue así? ¿no te dio ninguna explicación? no, ninguna. ¿no lo has visto esta mañana? no, no he visto ni a carlos ni a gloria.

captioning of this program is made possible by the annenberg/cpb project and the geraldine r. dodge foundation. en el episodio previo raquel y arturo regresaron al hotel después de una reunión en la casa de pedro. había un mensaje para raquel. ellos, alarmados, llamaron en seguida a pedro. acabo de recibir tu mensaje. ¿ocurre algo? no te alarmes, raquel. es que dejaste tu cartera en mi despacho... en el bar, arturo le preguntó a raquel si había pensado en ellos, en su futuro. entonces, ¿no pensaste en mí en absoluto?

claro que pensé en ti... y mucho. lo que no hice fue pensar en mí. mientras tanto, pedro, ramón y mercedes hablaban de los problemas económicos de la oficina en miami. pedro y los demás no sabían que carlos los escuchaba. en casa de ramón, carlos habló seriamente con gloria. es hora de corregir esta situación. no puedo ocultar más la verdad. carlos: ihola! más tarde, carlos descubrió que gloria había desaparecido.

ramón: ¿carlos? carlos, ¿adónde vas a estas horas? no te lo puedo decir ahora. ramón, ¿puedo usar tu carro? por supuesto, pero, ¿qué pasa con el tuyo? se lo ha llevado gloria. ¿gloria? ya te explicaré. no te lo puedo decir. bien, pero, ¿qué es lo que ocurre? yo sé que uds. saben todo de lo de las finanzas en miami. les debo a todos una explicación. pero ahorita necesito tu carro, por favor. está bien... pero me dejas confundido. ¿qué tiene que ver gloria en todo esto? te prometo que te lo explicaré más tarde. no te preocupes. hasta luego.

al día siguiente, roberto se siente mucho mejor. mientras desayuna, angela termina de contarle la historia de sus abuelos, rosario y fernando y de la búsqueda de raquel. ¿y todo eso pasó mientras yo estaba enterrado en la excavación? iparece una telenovela! es como un sueño, ¿no? y pensar que papá creyó toda su vida que su padre había muerto... así que tú tampoco lo conoces. no, el abuelo está muy enfermo y lo han llevado a un hospital. pero sí he conocido al tío arturo que ha venido desde la argentina. es muy simpático. ¿cómo es arturo?

¿se parece a papá? no tanto. acuérdate que tienen padres diferentes. sí, claro. cuéntame más de él. es muy simpático. y, ¿sabes qué? creo que él y raquel... como que... naturalmente. ino hay una telenovela completa sin un buen romance! oye, a propósito ¿no podrás conseguirme algo más de comer? ime muero de hambre! bueno, eso indica que ya estás bien. voy a llamar a raquel y a tío arturo para avisarles y veré qué puedo hacer por tu segundo desayuno. ¿no te dio ninguna explicación? no, ninguna. ¿no lo has visto esta mañana?

no, no he visto ni a carlos ni a gloria. habrá que esperar que aparezcan para saber qué ocurre. bueno, tío. yo tengo que ir a la gavia a atender unos asuntos. ( teléfono suena ) ¿bueno? sí, con ramón castillo... él mismo. ah... bueno, sí, podría ser. lo hemos pensado, pero todavía no lo hemos decidido. ajá... sí, yo tengo que salir esta misma tarde. voy a la gavia. como guste, podría verla allá. sí. el gusto es mío. buenos días.

era la agente de bienes raíces. un empresario de los estados unidos está interesado en comprar la gavia. pero... todavía no está en venta, ¿verdad? no... y no sabemos cómo saben que es posible que la vendamos. pero es bueno saber que hay alguien interesado en comprar la propiedad. creí que habíamos decidido esperar a que papá estuviera mejor. sí, mercedes, por supuesto. pero esta agente quiere ver la propiedad y me parece bien saber cuál puede ser el precio. es verdad, mercedes. eso nos ayudará a la hora de decidir. bueno, entonces, hagan lo que quieran. yo voy al hospital a ver a papá. ¿no desayunas? ya desayuné más temprano. yo tengo que ir a la gavia. voy contigo. ¿van a la gavia? me gustaría ir con uds. un poco de aire fresco me haría bien. mercedes, ¿has visto a carlos o a gloria esta mañana?

no. ¿por qué lo preguntas? bueno, es muy raro. anoche muy tarde... ¿no estás cansada? no has dormido. no, me siento bien. tal vez tú me puedas hacer un favor. sí, claro, dime. debo llamar a mi familia en puerto rico para decirles que roberto está bien. comprendo. ¿quieres que yo los llame? si no es mucha molestia... ipor supuesto que no! yo llamo. y luego, me encuentro con arturo para ir juntos al hospital. los esperamos. hasta luego. hasta luego.

¿bueno? habla raquel rodríguez desde méxico. iah, sí, sí, raquel! aquí jaime. tengo muy buenas noticias. angela ha llamado desde el hospital. dice que roberto se despertó y que está muy bien. ibueno, qué alegría! yo voy a verlo ahora. por favor, dígale que nos alegramos mucho de que esté bien. pregúntele si necesita algo. sí, se lo prometo. y dígale que le mando un abrazo. iah! y hay algo muy importante. el hombre interesado en el apartamento ha hecho una oferta. ¿para comprarlo? sí. es una buena oferta. angela debe decidir. pídale que se comunique conmigo. por supuesto, yo se lo digo. ah... y también hay que recordarle que lo hable con roberto. sí, por supuesto. angela, a veces, es un poco apresurada.

comprendo. adiós, jaime. ( suspira ) buenos días. habla raquel rodríguez. ah, licenciada rodríguez, ¿cómo está ud.? muy bien, gracias. ¿y ud.? también bien, gracias a dios. ¿se encuentra pedro? no, licenciada, él no se encuentra aquí ahora. ¿y ramón, o mercedes? tampoco están ellos. no hay nadie en la casa. bien, mire, tengo prisa. cuando se comuniquen, dígales por favor que roberto, su sobrino de puerto rico

está despierto, que se encuentra bien. dígales también que yo salgo para el hospital para verlo. sí, licenciada, no se preocupe. en cuanto ellos se comuniquen conmigo, se los diré. bien, se lo agradezco. hasta luego. ( sin sonido )

buenos días. buenos días señorita. me gustaría saber si me pueden conseguir boletos para el ballet folclórico. sí, señorita, ¿cómo no? el ballet folclórico de méxico es un espectáculo de fama internacional. fundado por amelia hernández el ballet folclórico incluye música y danzas de diferentes regiones del país. ( se toca el jarabe tapatío ) ( se tocan trompetas y guitarras ) el ballet folclórico ha actuado en muchos países del mundo. este famoso espectáculo se ha presentado

en los estados unidos,s, españa y otros lugares. la sede permanente del ballet es este bello edificio el palacio de bellas artes. todo está arreglado. puede ud. recoger los boletos en la entrada de bellas artes. muchas gracias. a sus órdenes, señorita. ya estoy listo. ¿vamos? yo también. vamos. aproveché para pedir boletos para el ballet folclórico para nosotros y mis padres. ¿qué te parece? sólo supe anoche que venían tus padres y me sorprendió. así es mi mamá. ya la vas a conocer.

iqué bueno que ya llegaron! ijuan! lupe, iqué gusto! ique bueno que llegaron! ahoritita me les preparo algo de comer. no gracias, lupita, todavía es temprano. sí deben tener hambre después de venir manejando desde méxico. no es para tanto si no es tan largo el camino. van a ver, tengo unos tamales unos chilaquiles y unas empanadas. ahorita mismo les sirvo, ¿eh? lupe, la misma de siempre. o mejor. ojalá que nunca cambie. ilo mismo digo yo! además, ya se me antojan esos chilaquiles. pues, la verdad ia mí también! nos conoce como si fuera nuestra propia madre. bueno, pues, ¿qué esperamos? arturo: ven que te quiero decir algo.

raquel, te quiero agradecer lo que has hecho. ¿cómo? encontrar a angela y a roberto. por fin podré resolver el conflicto. no con angel, pero sí con sus hijos. vamos. te estarán esperando. roberto... ya te hablé mucho de raquel. ella estuvo conmigo todo el tiempo que estuviste en esta horrible excavación. yo también te estoy muy agradecido, raquel. con todo lo que me ha contado angela es como si te conociera de hace tiempo. y yo a ti. y ya te imaginarás que él es nuestro tío arturo. ies increíble! ¿increíble? ¿qué cosa?

tenés la misma sonrisa de tu padre angel. de veras, la misma sonrisa. bueno, se te ve muy bien. por lo menos estás despierto. sí, eso sí. la verdad es que sí, me siento muy bien. y yo lo puedo comprobar. se comió dos desayunos. ay, a propósito ¿no queda algo por allí? veo que la recuperación ha sido completa y rápida. bueno, les he traído algunas cosas de buenos aires. pensé que les gustaría verlas.

arturo: fue terrible. yo era muy chico y me impresioné mucho. mi padre estaba furioso. yo nunca olvidé esa pelea. a la noche, a mi padre le dio un ataque cardíaco y angel se fue. le escribía a mi madre durante unos años pero cuando ella murió no supe más nada de él. pobre papá. se habría sentido culpable de la muerte de tu padre. sí. así le escribí en las cartas a mi madre. doctora: buenos días. buenos días. doctora: veo que el paciente ya está mucho mejor. sí, sí. ya me siento bien con ganas de salir de aquí. vamos a ver.

tal vez ya podamos enviarlo a su casa. si me permiten aprovecharé para llamar al hotel. tal vez pedro ya me haya enviado la cartera. es verdad. bien, muchas gracias. pasaré a recogerla en cuanto pueda. hasta luego. ( suspira ) bueno. por fin el tío y los sobrinos están juntos. y yo me siento muy contenta por ellos. recuerdo muy bien el humor de angela de esta mañana cuando me llamó desde el hospital. ¿recuerdan uds.? ¿estaba ella animada o parecía estar cansada? ¿no estás cansada? no has dormido. no, me siento bien. angela estaba muy animada, muy contenta.

¿y qué quería ella que yo hiciera? angela quería que yo llamara a su familia en san juan. entonces llamé y hablé con jaime. claro, él también estaba muy contento con la noticia de roberto. durante la conversación jaime me pidió un favor. el quería que yo le dijera algo a angela.

¿recuerdan qué quería que le dijera? el hombre interesado en el apartamento ha hecho una oferta. ¿para comprarlo? sí. es una buena oferta. angela debe decidir. pídale que se comunique conmigo. cuando bajé, le pedí al recepcionista que me ayudara en algo. ¿en qué quería yo que me ayudara?

buenos días. buenos días. me gustaría saber si me pueden conseguir boletos para el ballet folclórico. sí, señorita, ¿cómo no? finalmente arturo y yo vinimos aquí, al hospital y arturo conoció a roberto. no tardaron en hablar de angel. ies increíble! ¿increíble? ¿qué cosa?

tenés la misma sonrisa de tu padre angel. de veras, la misma sonrisa. yo los dejé un momento para llamar al hotel. quería saber si pedro había dejado allí mi cartera. y sí, allí está. bueno, debo regresar. se deben estar preguntando por qué tardo tanto. raquel regresa a la alegre reunión entre tío y sobrinos. ella no sabe lo que ha pasado en esta casa entre otro tío y sus sobrinos. pero uds. lo saben, ¿no? ¿y carlos se fue así? ¿no te dio ninguna explicación?

no, ninguna. ¿no lo has visto esta mañana? no, no he visto ni a carlos ni a gloria. era la agente de bienes raíces. un empresario de los estados unidos está interesado en comprar la gavia. ahora, ¿qué estará pasando en la casa de ramón?

¿encontró carlos a gloria? ¿adónde fue ell ipapá! hola. papá, ¿dónde está mamá? salió, carlitos. ¿tardará mucho en regresar? no, hijito. no tardará mucho. se fue otra vez de viaje, ¿verdad? sí, carlitos, está... de viaje. pero regresará pronto, ¿eh? ya les daré una explicación a todos. es hora de que sepan la verdad. ( suspira )

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