or is around this diverse geography and climb. it is attractive. pressure is a vast country, geographically, box, in terms of whether it has an old most uniform climate compared to russia around is smaller in area, but has a more diverse climate so that they can experience different seasons in different parts of the country. what have we that tourism has become the center piece of the wrong spot for us to diversify its economy away from crudo and rubbing noise. their policy is also meant to offset the backs of us sanctions. the running government is now seeking to expand this visa waiver program to cover visitors for more than 60 new countries. it's also doubling down in his efforts to attract for an investment . do you need this rate to purchase tours and revenue from the current $6000000000.00? dry project to $25000000000.00 in the long run. down by the western sanctions, yvonne and rochelle have taken their own ruddy strategic alliance to another level . this cools, partnership now seems to be blossoming and the tourism sector with or want becoming

a new loan to discover for tourists from its neighbor across the caspian sea. they're wanting official se if all goes as planned, iran could one day replace here. as a top tourist destination for russian travelers. he was it was that on the r t yeah. on the food is to die for it to i can say with all honesty, all right, time for another visit to the direct impacts to do next on today. rick sanchez asked, what's lost in america's problem, which you've prayed. that's right to the pay. i'm rick sanchez. i've been doing news for 30 years and 2 languages all over the world in here in the united states interviewed port president's work and for the u. s. has major television networks and been fired by a bunch. i believe new should be honest and direct and impactful,

and this is direct impact. the so brazilian president, luis not she'll let us silva. suddenly all over them is his anger made headlines when he criticized ukrainian president vladimir zalinski for not bothering to show up for a meeting with him. well, as he's come to be known, says he waited and waited and waited. and the lens believe is a lensky simply just never showed up. it is mark, tried to measure their calls. we may ask, ask the chance. as you know, here's, they've been with who has tried to use a list of i thought that you, i think it will push it then to do it. you know, the model was what they meant to do period with in the it is a back was their lives can oh very this is not

a good look for mr. soleski, who seems to represent what has become the western mentality, really of treating latin american and latin america itself like an inferior step child. for example. so lensky has seemed ready and willing at all times to meet with any of the western leaders, especially the ones who come with money and or weapons. but what a prominent latin american leader a latino wants to meet with him to discuss a piece proposal. he doesn't show up why that took place by the way or didn't really, i guess at the g 7 summit in japan. but since then, lola has been on a rampage with all kinds of stuff. he's pushing for a new water and latin america, or as he puts it, reaching out to those,

the west can't stand. think about that. he's reaching out to those. the west can't stand his words and he's doing so by criticizing the supremacy of the us dollar. i mean, out, in public traveling to china to meet with using, paying hosting rushes for administer, but it's what lula is doing to unite latin america that has part of the world impressed that another part of the world perturbed for starters, leader wants to push out the us dollar by creating that latin american currency. he made the recommendations after inviting the regions presidents to meet in brazil for the 1st regional summit in 9 years. the question is, can latin america assert itself? can it unite ken and find its identity? alas, after historic waves in the past, i'm swinging to the right and then swinging to the left and now apparently moving back more toward the kind of the left. by the way, in that vein,

the brazilian summit began with controversy when little embrace left us was that as well and president, because my door and that caused several leaders, including little guys more right of center president louise lakaya pile and she lives left of center president gabrielle boric, to criticize the embrace and to criticize my dural direct number that like given this will or that the for the games. do it on the bus you is on the say this one of the problem i, you know, going the glad i see on us in the for them. and then we'll have to come on who are hold, seen him, but look where he needs. he got the phone, but it was at least the defense that they might give them a photo. somebody see, go ahead and put them there. you money for food. but if it also meant that given human, he could both have will continue to present the yes. so yes, there is once again a move toward the ideological left in latin america,

the defeat of the government in bolivia, the election of shamar, castro in the home. during the rise of address monro at lopez open up the order in mexico, the historic collection of gustavo pet, throw in columbia, now the return of lima. in brazil suggest a new pink tide is daunting. but is this really about audiology? is it really about ideology, or is there more to this than that? because that's what you're gonna read and all out of the newspaper headlines. here's the point. here's the point. latin america seems to be more about unity and integration these days than it is about who's the less the and who's the right. but they seem to be more interested in is moving away from a dependency on the united states. why? wow, because 200 years of monroe doctrine has gotten them very little in return and it may be time to look elsewhere. and that is why this new integration or this move toward unity and cooperation. latin america is different from the former. oh yes,

the bottle, or even the more recent buena sure models. one from the right one from the left. why? because it may be less about left and right. maybe shouldn't be less about left and right and more about what's practical. in other words, what lula. another line, american leaders seem to be looking for our alliances and not just any alliances, what they want our relationships based on, based on mutual respect, relationships with all countries, including the big ones, russia, china, the us, iran, spain, india, among others. here's a problem for some of those countries, like elephants, many in latin america, never forget, you know, what they say about elements, never forgetting, right? they're not gonna forget their spanish routes, which is tied to their language in music and the culture in general mind. however, it's also tied to the slaughter and abuse and that's indigenous population. not to

mention, the average young latino american is much more at these days to listen to me or i get home and hang out in a multi cultural or multi racial setting. then identify with a country that is still represented by my my best. i mean, look at this picture. do you think this is a back? is what i read them. identify with queen latisha spain, $47.00 looking riggle, and a recycled down by caroline herrera for galler portraits with king philippe taking it to such swell palace in madrid as the royal family released as their new official portraits. not exactly a good match. latin american millennials don't exactly look at that and say i, yes, that's be and then there's the u. s. you know, it's hard for latino americans to forget the and the incident with the c. i a removed the president. they simply didn't like more than 100000 who died in guatemala, simply because the president there suggested land reforms,

or what the us did in columbia or argentina, or the assassination attempts in cuba. or even more recently, the crews are cool attempts and men as well in bolivia, in ecuador. so maybe for latin american leaders, it's not about being, it's gotta be stuff elastic, or that it chief stuff, a writing. it's more about being practical. it's more about discerning when it comes to choosing with whom to partner. and then there's the countries that they may have traditionally, not known, maybe even feared or just been on familiar with countries like russia, china, india, and others who are now engaging in latin america and say, well at least in some measure, some measure to be making positive impressions and joining us out a talk about this is still one company, you know, he's a ecuadorian journalist who is really covered stories all over the world, but he's in particularly keen on latin america. let me start by asking for,

this is the one. what do you think of this interview? with this meeting that luna was supposed to recently have with mister sa lensky of ukraine. mister zalinski never even showed up. he just didn't show up. what does it say? what does it tell you as well, it says to me that uh that uh they understand the ways the landscape particular he understands that she's not going to get much from luna who are not currently standing. and he, he's leading the way, you know, way to, to these new multi paul, our world that we are witnessing for me front of our very eyes. so of course, polanski would have found him off, of course, the landscape would play that card. you know, a why, why fact to him, why do you see the point anymore? they've trifocal airs. nothing. america says i, i think of it. i see it a little differently than you do. and maybe i'm wrong and you're correct. but maybe it's because i'm very sensitive because i am a latino american right. and i've grown up in

a world that always has seen me and the confidence that i come from as an inferior step child. we just don't matter to most of these big countries along the west, and i think the landscape feels like he's not who you know latin america about worthy for him. i mean, he's getting is, but just by great britain, the united states, every country in the world is coming to pay him homage. why would he meet with a latin american country? that's what i think. maybe i'm wrong. i say you're fine. i see your fine thing. uh, if did was i few years ago i would, i would completely agree with you, but now i feel things have changed and i feel because um, you know, your credit, the situation with the, with the web funds over there, we'd like to know that there was basically, depleting their arsenals just uh, just so that with your credit has come, uh, keep up the 5. is that just, you know, it shows you that, uh, that is not going the way they want it to go. they need the help of the other countries. they need the help of the global south, but they,

they're not getting it anymore. they're not getting it or they won't get it. that was the only reason i mentioned that is not so much to talk about your claim. but i, i'm, i'm particularly interested in how latin america research itself, because i feel like latin america's trying to reassert itself right now find its identity. and what is, is it, what it is? it's identity because it seems like we've been playing this game for 2 decades. in latin america, where is latin america's to the left, latin americans to the right. latin america's to a left. and after a while it just seems stupid. it's like the only thing that anybody ever talks about. the only story that comes out a lot of americans always is it to the left or is it to the right? let me check. you know what i mean? yeah. i understand completely where you're coming from, you know, and i think that is a w, but the people who pay attention, you know, i think if you ask and one of the us, what is nothing america, i knew suddenly, bass is going to be. ease are back, there is a place that does what we tell them to do,

and that has been the history of loving america for too long. and now we're seeing . gotcha, is we're seeing a change and uh and uh, and it is other time and with the less these are coming to power it. i'll always, i think it goes beyond that. i don't agree with you. i do think it goes beyond just, you know, i left them right. i think this is the question of north and south. well, that's interesting because what, what i believe is happening is that it has for tell me if i'm wrong, but for latin america to find itself, it has to worry less about its political ideology and more about the relationships that it's for just the relationships that it forges because it seems to me that for the past 200 years, it really has only had 2 fundamental relationships, spain and the united states. that's a true, true enough of that. what we're seeing china, you know, china, such as drunk prices, and maybe a few years ago and had a stronger presence as he does now. in actuality,

both china has been expanding everywhere. and again, to go back to noon, i have to go back. what i see, we're saying is with brakes with brakes listing it with a new development. but we're saying these alliances not so much form us consolidate as, as gain weight. and you know, nothing. america is a huge part of that. uh, it says last month of the south from commander is usa. and that actually was the main thing. how much you know onto a place for me or are there, sorry, is there easy? nothing, america you particular and what is it called a alisium triangle, you know, a which is cheat i believe. yeah. and i believe i could do you know about a wire. i made a mistake, but this is just say they do not just set it all right. we don't know what our other stars are doing here, and this is such an important reason because they called 60 percent of the words meet the soft scars, you know, they kind of loose and they kind of loose like reaping these reason. but they are, because this is what is happening across the world is not, there is nothing america you're seeing it in southeast asia,

we're seeing across the are of world we're seeing it in uh, in the nation just it's on. so how about, yeah, well, you know what, let, let's do this. i wanna, i want to take a break and i want to come back and i want to ask you a little bit about something that is guttural. something that's in the so a lot in americans and many of us grew up with that word. community stuff and uh, you know, on things a young young via style. yeah. whatever, you know, and there's these, there's these big mos that we still have in our mind. that we have to get over, because even though we hate what the united states has done in our hemisphere in our continents, we also still look at the united states like the ones that are different then supposed to be more correct. and when we see china and russia, we're still in our minds, look back to what they used to be in. what's in our head to me overcome that in china and russia overcome that?

are getting the people a lot of work growing up now they don't even care anymore. they just want somebody who's going to do a big deal for, we're going to talk about this when we come back with a stay one kind of the door in germany. the the watching is why is why in this country, what if i give borrowed money and the store in this shed and i showed order for not imagine just the last name scans when i knew what the subject georgia style session on the shiny or just in the funds you bought is going you sit on what's in the,

the near the the bell in our, in case you visited file. we couldn't help, but notice that not too long ago ukraine sent a new ambassador to present. first the follow up. as we have reported here previously, presidents a lensky failed to show up for a meeting with brazil's president le let himself, as we mentioned earlier, and seemed to be just interested in hearing his piece plan ideas lute a lot, as we mentioned, did not take the sitting down and he lashed out of the landscape for this an upright. well, recently soleski had to name a new and basset or to brazil, i guess who we picked. this is kind of interesting. um, he chose a, a dude named uh, andrey melnik. andrey melnik's,

who used to be in cranes envoy to germany. why is his appointment not where the you ask? well, because during his time in berlin, melnick hurled some angry tirades and customs job in may of 2022. he labeled german chancellor. busy of uh, shoals on a funded liver sausage for not visiting t of and then he went on a twitter and told a lot must to f off for suggesting a piece plan with russia wasn't found. so diplomatic about that. anyway, this is going to be an interesting terry bunch of think, lula melnick. now let's get back to our and so we're back with the stay long kind of video to talk about this and, and by the way, um, we apologize for the connection with a step on it's a little fuzzy. he's coming to us today cuz he's in 11 on and not exactly the best

technical setup there, but it's more important to be able to understand what you have to say because you are such an experienced journalist and you know a lot about this particular topic. so let's go back to that real quick as i've been thinking of, i'm a latino american and i think there may be a lot of people like me out there that when they think of russia and china, the 1st thing they think about is, you know, going east and they were told that if you're a part of that system or rush or they don't believe in don, and they'll take your children away. you know, all those missed that are out there. how. how much will that interfere in latin america's relationship to forge these relationships with countries like china and russia and iran in india and whoever, but seems maybe a little more foreign to them instead of uh, yes, uh, well, i guess i think uh, well 1st to ask your question, you know, like i think we need to, to, to highlight that. uh, i don't think uh, china can truly because cedar a communist agent already has, is capitalize and we,

chinese characteristics are the same as rush. i rush size, the furnace thing from companies and you know, is this is, this is from uh how long ago this is to like, you know, more about a century ago. this is uh, this, your mom very has been ongoing. and i, but i think that uh saw me and nothing america, we're still up people that are very and misled by our media by or off all the pieces, you know, and there is a narrative that exceeds you. 9, of course, like like you said before the break, the united states has all the no reason always being, you know, that the place that you need to be the place you know, that you need to be call as well. you know about may have, is married to may or may not. but i think this is the find, you know, because he becomes, is uh like a monolithic uh way of speaking and you don't see anything else. you just see the one thing that has to be just shut down your throat every single day. and now to, to bring in china to bring in russia. i think it's, uh, i think it's gonna be less difficult, especially now in, in, in our modern era. you know, where we live, where everybody has netflix,

where everybody has. uh, so uh, the talk you know, like, uh, we are more connected on that or, and that means not just that you guys, i'm used to the east as well, you know, and uh, in, you know, and like we see china going into media so hard now the same is happening everywhere . yeah. but you know, we don't take this the wrong way, but you're an intellectual. so you're very caught up. i wasn't talking about reality. i was talking about perception. and i get your point, and by the way, i think and, and, and i made note of this in my intro. i think there's a huge movement in latin america. a lot of america is being led by a very young, very young population, unlike by the way, the united states and china and russia and, and those folks have less. and then the, i would believe you tell me, because you're the expert. i would leave the young latin americans have less of a tendency to think that way to have a thoughts. so for example, when they see spain, they probably laugh at these pictures of this king and his queen with their royalty

and their crowns. and all this crap, it's like who the hell are you right. there's a disconnect between young latinos today and both the united states and spain, for example, or any of those european countries. yeah, i think so. i agree with you completely and where there's a completely new generation. this is the globalizing, the race. and this is uh, we don't know what's going to happen. it's very difficult to, to predict that. but the only thing i will for date is that uh, we're no longer gonna leave under a single system in the single day that us system and yes, like of our young people, when people are ready to accept, they may be more welcome. you know, of all of these and also a, you can not forget about nothing america. the, the goal is not just to be, you know, like, uh, be able to be friends with ross or be able to be friends with china is to be call ourselves into an on, on, you know, you cannot make it energy, productive power. you know, a like of a you, why they, they,

you owe us farm. why can't we form an alliance like that we, we have so many resources just to go back to the lithium that i was talking about. tell me why new law is or is not the right person to help forge the new identity of latin america. i think luna is uh, what are the people that are supposed to be? he's a mom that he can see it at a table with anyone to discuss anything. he has shown it before. he's, i'm on the flies, has gone to jail for his release. he's not mind that. uh, what's the most recent, you know, he's most is uh uh, his wife in jail. if he like, he may have so many of us for the past year. think he still came back, is still going back to power the vascular, the 1st thing he did, he says, i see these back, but i seen his back and we are going to take our spot because we are, we are the biggest economy and nothing america. and we are, you know, part of briggs and we are going to develop a new car as it is, is that the from new law and you know, when you, you asked me of the beginning,

why didn't soleski said with he thinks about the cause of us unless you know what type of man keys that he only wants that company. and if he doesn't want to have a conversation, you know. so of course i think it might be my own personal belief. i think luna is a perfect person to boost this forward because even though the only other staff they necessity, he understands how the process needs to be conducted. and he has a goal. and his goal is for south america to be a capable of, of conducting deals in a common courtesy to be capable, to not be subservient to anyone, not even brush. i'm not even china, we welcome that we will welcome them. but that doesn't mean that we're going about, we're not going to fall down today. we're going to work. we're going to have a respectful relationship, but that's has to be. and that's why i think no is the perfect person to do is because he's the, he's showing that he's shown it before and he's gone a couple of the far as long as he lives. he's going to continue to show a visa, visa drive for change, for change of benefits. every one,

most of the people that believe what he believes are not just the people that you know, this is in a circle. do you think the problem in the past was that latin americans who tried to read that new way that new identity as we were calling it were always either scape goaded as a lefty or a righty, or 2 tied to one side or the other, or maybe i should ask you the question this way. what good, what is lula doing now? that wasn't done in the past. why didn't somebody come along 10 years ago and do and say the things that lula is now saying and doing, or did a. and we just missed i think we were doing it. i think that i'm sorry they were going to be not like where they are when that when i sort of west farm i think uh on the challenges we saw a lot of changes like these and nothing america. and they weren't follow through

the harmony reasons. you know, this is not the fault of all of you know, of a single unable entity. this is, uh, this is uh, you know, mistakes that were made along the way. and now they said these programs were abandoned. and now they're being um, you know, trying to be uh, reformed revive. but the difference now what the real difference now is, and i need to go back to the breaks, is the size of the economy of these countries. you know, like, uh, i was seeing a report recently that shows a brief, eh, their g d p is, is larger than the g 7. you know, there's the 7 that are being held for so long as, as these like, you know, like this close exclusive cloth. this group of $5.00 submission does not have a bigger judy peterson. what do you think? and i don't mean to interrupt you, but this doc came to my head and i just have to say it because you just did a comparison between lula and the other to learn american liter. from the past that you mentioned, i think were chavez. and it came to mind that since chavez is kind of a take off on fidel castro. so in the past you had fidel castro and low chavez as

the defacto leaders of the identity of latin america. and i think, and i'll just talk to you as an american latino, and i know that makes you and i different both of them had serious credibility problems almost because they were too far to one side. is lula not also faced with that same problem? is he not too far to what, what makes little difference? well, i think the light is different. i think the stands on a different platform. he has the same, the staff for the same uh, the same believes that see then and as i sat as a balloon from his 1st or mean office, he was never, he never called somebody made a power out of himself. he always had, you know, a bureau government contract to work with everyone, you know, sometimes that works since he's on the instrument, but you did it. and now we're seeing it the same, like i said, uh rationally is not a company's going through changes that are coming to the country. this is not about political ideology anymore. this is about working together. this is of respect

a most already made so that that's something that new life postal parts and just chatting city to us. the ability to they express that in different ways they, they built their systems in different ways, but it will not be not and do not i not even think it's possible. i think 1st of all, because i feel there is also a very, very, very, very strong i'd like for me to send through methods you saw uh when they, when there was a test drive to take over the, the 1st of the try. they did take all their you know, so we saw no, no, this is a country that is, this is going to happen easily. you know, this is uh, so i was, i think that's what makes sense then different a particular luna well said by from if the and got a video, ecuador, and journal is delightful conversation about the future of one of the most important regions in the world. it's never ever really been treated nonetheless. thank you again. would you let us? yes, thank you eric. nice to be see. before we go, i want to remind you of our mission. it's simple. really decided to the world

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