i was born and raised in bolivia. it is also significant because it signals a direction that we are trying to move in. we are really looking to government efforts to forge new paths in addressing foreign- policy of this country, not only in this region but throughout the world. the global engagement is not only about government to government. it also involves the private sector and it involves civil society. and the many complex problems that i certainly have been a portfolio that i am dealing with cannot be done at all unless you work with so many people, many of you here in the room that are engaged in trying to address them as well. the secretary mentioned the alliance for youth movement. i had the pleasure of attending that may make -- that meeting in mexico, an example partnership. she also mentioned that we brought all of our techno savvy people to the meeting. people with quite a young average age. i think when i walked into the room, i raise the average age by about 20 years, because everyone there was around

a particular note is his being declared persona nongrata by bolivia president in september of 2008. the committee has looked at this but members may have a few questions but it's pretty clear to me that ambassador goldberg had no blame in this matter. ms. wagner by contrast is an intelligence professional beginning as a army signet officer and rising to the level of captain. after three years on the house intelligence committee, ms. wagner joined the senior ranks of the dia before becoming director of intelligence community management staff and subsequently the assistant deputy dni and chief financial officer. she returned to the house intelligence committee as budget director and is now a faculty member of the intelligence and security academy llc. she's being nominated to head the office of intelligence and analysis at the department of homeland security, which unlike inr is a young intelligence organization and one that has struggled to identify a clear mission and bring together an appropriate work force. we have discussed that earlier. the committee's report accompanying the fy

the next stage, you had fidel castro, without mentioning her name, criticized for in a book about bolivia. that was the next few months, from march to august 2008. then, there are two stages that are quite interesting. one is called from cyberspace to public space, at least i call it that, and that started with her and her crew, her friends, a group of bloggers protesting a group of people, and this was an august of 2008, and this was a public protest. also, they camped out of the police headquarters where he was being held, and then he was released, and this began a series over the next six months of increasingly public activities that were leaving, strictly defined, the blogosphere and entering the public sphere, and then, something going on from december of last year, so this is about one year old, and i would call this a movement from individual catharsis to group solidarity, and the last thing i will say is just to mention a little bit about some of the details of this group solidarity. to her credit, sanchez uses her own popularity to spread the power, effectiveness, of the blogosph

be i am interested to hear how you expect your experiences and bolivia and other diplomatic posts will help you head and analytic shop. i've had the pleasure of sitting next to a former mi5 official who shared insights on the importance in this war on terror of forging selig and productive relationships among federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. his point to me was that what the brits do and we do not do is use the contacts we have, the continuing contacts we have come up with state and local officials to task them to bring information up the chain of command. weiss then information down but local police department or a local sheriff's office is far more likely to know when the board here when something is amiss going on in their community, and report that back up the chain, so we have talked about that, and i think that while it is very important, not enough intelligence is being pushed downstream, there may not be enough intelligence coming upstream from thousands of communities and we hope that he will pursue that. we can make fusion centers were but there's a lot of i

what you're seeing in bolivia is, for the first time, indigenous populations using this process. we need to look and that phenomenon. in my first trip to bolivia, i was stunned and all you saw on walls were pictures of bearded white men. in congress, which is so overwhelmingly done, it allows for the empowerment of excluded sectors. minority should not be neglected. there is a danger that majorities will neglect minorities. that is something we need to work on. contact us through the state department and see how we might be able to work more specifically to address those concerns. when i reflect on the americas as a whole, this is an exciting time because many of them are setting up. they're beginning to set up the anniversary of the independence of the americas. this is an extraordinary process. we in the united states share a common history with much of america. the common history is the fragments of europe are coming to a continent where there are significant populations, but also the slave trade with these massive flows of people creating these multi-ethnic, multi racial nati

, which is why bolivia is no longer eligible for benefits. administration also noted several concerns about ecuador. in particular, the administration cited ecuador's withdraw from the international convention on the settlement disputes anding with a door's decision is above the w.t.o. findings. since the administration's report, there have been further troubling developments in ecuador. the investment climate continues to be of concern. and korea has talked about ecuador. together with many other members, i remain extremely concerned about the situation in ecuador. therefore, i'm disappointed the bill before us today does not retain the requirement in current law that the president report to congress on the situation in ecuador. i believe that this report provides us an opportunity to keep careful eye on ecuador and its compliance with the eligibility criteria. but just as important is the fact that the reporting requirement is enormously important as a signal to ecuador. a message that this congress is watching ecuador closely. mr. camp: i

and the area remain so on explored that peru, bolivia and brazil didn't even know where their borders were in the interior of the amazon so they needed somebody to come in and try to figure out where they were, so they ask the royal geographical society of the heather representative, and they sent percy fawcett. fawcett quickly agreed saying it was his destiny and of the went to this area. for the next several years, he mapped rather an enormous amount of space and hopefully this can give you some sense of the area in which he was exploring. this traces various expeditions. over here is the livia. peru is up here and over here is brazil and this is just a vast territory. his first expedition, what they would do is take pack animals and come over the andes, often their pack animals with a falloff of the ravines. they would come from severe cold. they would go to 17,000 feet up and slowly descend deeper into the jungle. the first exhibition heading out from la paz went all the way up here. here is a picture of him from 1908. he was still a rather young man at the time. that was one of h

most contentious moments at the end, with a handful of countries including venezuela, sudan, cuba, boliviaed to the very weak accord that countries were agreed to in terms of addressing climate change internationally. there are a number of reasons for that, including the fact that a number of those countries are oil producers, so they would stand to lose from a global cap on greenhouse gas emissions. several of these nations who are opposed to what the united states does -- hugo chavez from venezuela basically compared bush -- compared obama to bush in his speech and implied that obama was as much as the devil as bush was. so i do the know to what extent the administration will be able to bring those countries into the fold. it underscores the challenge you have when you are working internationally trying to get a consensus agreement with 193 countries. that is a hard thing to do. host: what does on the agenda for 2010? is there another level meeting? guest: -- is there another global meeting? guest: there is another meeting. that is really going to be one of the top issues, and in some se

most contentious moments at the end, with a handful of countries including venezuela, sudan, cuba, boliviad to the very weak accord that countries were agreed to in terms of addressing climate change internationally. there are a number of reasons for that, including the fact that a number of those countries are oil producers, so they would stand to lose from a global cap on greenhouse gas emissions. several of these nations who are opposed to what the united states does -- hugo chavez from venezuela basically compared bush -- compared obama to bush in his speech and implied that obama was as much as the devil as bush was. so i do the know to what extent the administration will be able to bring those countries into the fold. it underscores the challenge you have when you are working internationally trying to get a consensus agreement with 193 countries. that is a hard thing to do. host: what does on the agenda for 2010? is there another level meeting? guest: -- is there another global meeting? guest: there is another meeting. that is really going to be one of the top issues, and in some sen

this is what happens with hugo chavez in bolivia. the indians are in the forefront of poverty. lives. what we want to do is give them back their land. guest: my view of this is that, we take these things as they come in litigation. this is one case, and in some ways, this is a very important and significant case because this is affecting so many people. they want to resolve by -- standing problem. there are many other issues. this is not to say that that they have taken everything in the past to resolve everything. i am happy we have made a priority to reach out to ind. countries through the president, to build the bridges and repair the relationship between the federal government and the native american people. from my vantage, we are on an upward trajectory and i hope that more people -- more presence and less invisibility here in washington. this will be critical to meeting some of the needs. host: we have a republican from south dakota. caller: i will go from another angle and i want you to talk about this. nobody is talking about this side of the situation. we live in the

the atmosphere doesn't give a whether the greenhouse emissions come from boston, or bolivia.ed a human approach, a global approach, global carvin price and it sounds like conceptually it sounds right. where is the reality? >> i'm optimistic. i want to be optimistic but let's be realistic as well. we are in an age with president obama now heralding the united states into a new position of leadership where i think we are now in the debate of the politics of what is possible versus the politics of what is necessary and those of us in this room are obviously thinking very much about what is necessary and giving less to what's possible but that is of course the world that president obama, congress and the nations have to delve in and if you are looking at the intersection of the two, the politics of what is possible and politics of what's necessary there are too worrying trends i see and one is i think the mentality of people who are predisposed evolutionary disposed to thinking near-term security threats and that is physical harm, security, terrorism, you mentioned it and it's ha