higgins corresponded with bolivar.they didn't really have too much in common, but i think bolivar new that he owed people like san martin and all higgins that part, that liberation, that part of the continent. and was very respected very, very much. >> final question if i may. the united states had a number of agents in latin america while this is going on and there was correspondence between those agents and our secretary of state and our president. could you comment on the extent to which that correspondence contributed to misconceptions on the part of north american? >> absolutely. bolivar was in the middle of a very rough campaign. he was not only, i mean, he was if i may say, suffering from amber rudd, come carbuncles, from any number of things while he was doing the 75,000 miles on horseback. and into this moment when he is trying to tame the plains, and the plains of venezuela, the tremendous force, huge expeditionary force under the spaniards who were fighting to keep their grip on the colony, in calm the ameri

this place has been serving chocolate completo to the politicians of the nearby plaza bolivar for a couplemales. >> beautiful. it is a thing of beauty, isn't it? >> let's see if it tastes like my mother's. >> oh, well, that's a high standard. >> i suppose it is. >> i was just in milaflores yesterday. what economy there was, was entirely drug-based economy. now that the drugs are gone, there is no economy. it's a ghost town, a military and people sitting there staring at the space waiting for the beer to arrive. best i can understand. tell me something hopeful. >> i think we are becoming more and more conscious that this past decade of violence has been absolutely useless and that we have to change many, many things >> um-hmm. >> and so -- i think -- it's not as good as my mother's. i'm sorry. >> well, it never is. if you removed cocaine from the equation, removed the drug trade as a financial engine, you would still have serious division over ideology here. is that improving? >> things are changing in a good direction, but very slowly, i think. you know, ten years ago in medellin they kill

bolivar 12 to 15 years. thinking about having the fleet turnover in our times to get every vehicle will take some time. >> let me ask another question a little more specific about the five gigahertz band. the fcc has recently talked about unlicensed use of five figures bands, et cetera. can you tell us how you work with the sec to make sure everybody's on the same page here and understand what the future five gigahertz may be? >> we provided comments to ntia this week about the work in a test and evaluation of compatibility for sharing the spectrum. i will say the deputy secretary in a statement during a roundtablequestions we have at e department of transportation that the sec is initiating this proposed rulemaking before the ntia is that the opportunity to use the word. these processes should have informed the process before it went forward and we made note of that in our comment. >> in other words, it may be concerned some of the new technology in vehicles may have interference issues with wi-fi and other