amy: allan nairn, thank you for being with us, reporting from guatemala city.as covered guatemala since the 1980's. you can follow him on twitter @allannairn14 for the latest news. later in the broadcast, we are .oing to oxford, mississippi university of mississippi has taken down the confederate flag. well, it is the mississippi flag with the confederate battle flag within it. students protested and the university has just complied. the first, we will be speaking with a nobel prize-winning economist joe stiglitz. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "stay strong." the young woman who took down the flag in south carolina off the flagpole on the statehouse grounds before the state legislature voted to take it down. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on saturday, leading democratic presidential contenders addressed the iowa democratic party gathering known as the jefferson-jackson dinner. the high-profile party dinner has been a defining moment on the campaign calendar since 1975. this is former secretary of state h