strengthen the union of south american nations and promote a community of latin american and caribbean states that has been set out but you know it was goal of those dream and we brought it to lie in caracas and just cemetery at eleven one of the internationally we need to bolster our strategic alliances with the kind of place that play a key role both locally and globally in this new multi-part all world that submerging so the strategic alliance between our region and russia china and india is growing stronger thanks to our active interaction and through economic and political projects with breaks and then complains that there are a lot of opportunities to create a new world order which will be a result of a continuous and an arduous struggle against imperialist and concepts in world politics out. of that number of us are now could you tell us a little bit about your domestic policy and your ministration has just gone down to work in a stew thousand and thirteen two thousand nine hundred turbo what issues are still outstanding we don't want to see it going to come. up in the social sector we

instructions and messages to be announced at the summit of the community of latin american and caribbean states so you could say that president chavez is in the south. is there any hope that he may return to venezuela anytime soon but if someone were to meet that it's a bit of flavor may not to mistake but there are too many factors at play we need to talk to the doctors and president chavez himself to choose the best moment. as we've repeatedly told mr chavez and the venezuelan people know it well the most important thing now is his recovery everybody knows how president chavez has invested all his efforts and energy into his country into fighting for the independence of latin america how he has persevered in his and he in perilous struggle for social justice worldwide it was president chavez who went vocal about global warming so that everyone could find out the truth it was he who championed the struggle against global plunder and the neoliberal policies that it killing europe it was president chavez who adamantly raised the banner of protecting the palestinian people when they were attacked

seal a free-trade agreement between the european union and the community of latin america and caribbean states. >> many hoped the summit will go beyond issues of trade. it is a chance for latin america and caribbean to work together. host country chile also says developing closer ties to the european union would benefit both sides. >> europe's higher level of development can be a huge boon to latin america, and latin america can help european countries and companies. >> there's pressure on europeans to ensure that deals are socially and ecologically responsible. >> i know this is a very important summit, particularly because there are big issues around sustainable development, economic growth. >> the latin american and caribbean countries came to present a road map for future cooperation. many are pushing for agreement but will also provide protection for indigenous peoples and environmental safeguards and help produce income inequality in the region. >> latin america wants more balance to relations, and it wants to be part of the solution of the problem. in santiago, the european union has to

. >> reporter: the daughter after caribbean mother and father from the state of georgia, how i will says she agrees. >> when i see the same thing happening to my latin brothers or sisters in this union, stirs my memory of what my own family had to go lou. >> reporter: meanwhile, organizations like help saved maryland tail mate the princi l principals are quick amnesty. reminiscent of that of the bush era in 2007. that there needs to be more emphasis onboarder protection before granting a path to citizenship. this dreamer still has doubts. >> how much is dashboarders secure for them to actually give a path to citizenship. >> reporter: republicans or democrats, what's agreed upon is that the process won't be fast but it will be fair. a comprehensive immigrati reform plan that brings more than 11 million undocumented immigrants out of the shadows. >>> a superstar in the winter x games fighting for his life tonight after this dramatic snowmobile accident. his family releases new details about his prognosis. >> plus in a news4 exclusive report. new details about the future of street cars in d

last fall, it got this e-mail complaint from a new jersey republican state senator asking for an investigation into those caribbeanrips. the e-mail complaint questions whether menendez violated the code by quote repeatedly flying on a jet to the dominican republic and other locations and soliciting prostitution. last month, a watchdog group received an allegation he was partying with -- in the dominican republic. the group referred it to the fbi. more recently, a conservative blog published a link to videos it started with the police chief talking about the problem being violence in our society and then moved on to the parents that lost their beloved son and daughters. scarlett lewis and what she said, describing her 6-year-old son jesse. >> i wanted to take just a few minutes to introduce you to jesse. jesse was 6 years old. he had really soft skin and i used to grab him and pinch him every chance i got. he was getting pretty heavy at 61 pounds but i still carried him when he was tired. i think about kissing his sleeping cheek all the time. how soft it was, and how glad i am that i took the opportunity when i cou

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point whe he is probably going to have to either move to another state income-tax state or have to move to the caribbeanut of the estates. gerri: what is that? >> essentially, any place where an athlete place, within their jurisdiction they have to file taxes. so across all sports respectively they have to file in the state where they actually play in the game. any type of income that they receive based of their contract they have to file. the government wants their money. gerri: you were mentioning where he might go. take a look at the high state and local income taxes on a million dollars' worth of income . in this the usual suspects. los angeles, portland, new york. do you think that professional athletes are going to tart using these higher taxes as bargaining tools when they are renegotiating contracts? >> 100 percent. i think as long as the players have the right team of people around them in terms of their agent or an accountant and lawyer, marketing professionals, that is where a lot of the diligence and you almost have to look at the economics. of course, you have to look at the salary cap. mor

last fall, it got this e-mail complaint from a new jersey republican state senator asking for an investigation into those caribbeanrips. the e-mail complaint questions whether menendez violated the code by quote repeatedly flying on a jet to the dominican republic and other locations and solisitting prostitution. last month, a watchdog group received an allegation he was partying with -- in the dominican republic. the group referred it to the fbi. more recently, a conservative blog published a link to videos of alleged prostitutes making claims against the senator. neither the fbi nor the ethics committee will say whether they are investigating senator menendez. >> very quickly, has he said anything about it? has he outright denied it? what's the headline? >> he's issued a statement calling the doctor a friend and supporter and says he's been on the private jet three times, but maintains he paid his way for the trips. as for the pros coutitutioprosts this -- by a politically motivated right wing blog and are false. but here's what we don't know. when the senator disclosed his trips as required and what the trips w

vittorio missoni made that iconic brand accessible here in the united states and now with the weather worsening in the caribbeanout search you mentioned for him is turning frantic. about 100 searchers in planes, helicopters and boats scouring the caribbean for any sign of had is plane. so far not a trace. vittorio missoni, the heir to one of the world's most recognizable design houses, vanished into the caribbean friday. this tiny twin prop apparently dropping into the sapphire waters 30 minutes after taking off and over 100 miles from the mainland. on board missoni who managed his family's fashion empire, his wife and two pilots. it is near los roques fame for its clear water. on january 4th another small plane dropped from the radar, all 14 aboard were killed earlier. as abc news recently learned getting to these remote islands in the caribbean often requires taking these puddle jumpers. missoni made his father a tallian fashion house international. >> trained in special part -- really missoni like my parents did, you know. >> reporter: expanding into asia and the biggest market of all, the u.s. for the launc

caribbean. the three they came up with the idea that the united states, the arsenal of democracy would supply the countries fighting germany with more material that they needed and they wouldn't have to pay until after the war was over. i'm the last day of 1940, london was burning. the citizens of london had an air of the point for straight month of almost night a bombing raid by fleetcenter offers, bombing on restrictively over the city of london. thousands of civilians have been killed. hitler's army searches to press the channel, 20 miles across the channel, ready to the briton broke. i miss summer 29, 1940, the largest single attack took place when hundreds of bombers vectored the radio beam onto a post cathedral in a shocked millions of his theories around the old cathedral in the city. new year's eve, and the city was burning and churchill attracted a cable to roosevelt. dear mr. president, i do not know what is in your mind and i do not know what america played to do, but we are fighting for our lives. 10 days later, january 10, 1941, hopkins found himself in the face of a number 10 downin

the caribbean region and the island's large and small, without any exclusion, will emerge one day as a genuine union of independent states and will drive the full benefits conferred upon it due to its strategic position. this is the price to pay for stability and, indeed, for peace in the world. these are new incentives for development in a context where all the stakeholders must contribute with regularity in where justice prevails. the european union, in the context of its assistance to the countries of africa, the caribbean, and the pacific makes a major contribution, and the financial wherewithal in the european development fund, they are becoming more substantive and part and parcel of this initiative. the haiti of today signs up to that is conscious of its place, its weight, its cloud, its role in the region, but also the deficiencies, the gaps. we have the lucidity to realize that we must stop the self flagellation, and we must work to fill the gap, which is what we are doing. every day, we feel more of those gaps. this is not going to be a sprint. it will be the long haul. and, here again, europe is a source of in

the third largest cruise market operator here in the united states, after world caribbean and carnivalami. they're raising just under half a billion dollars through this process. a huge amount of stock put on the market in order to pay down debt. big ships arriving in new york. 4,000 passenger ships. big question there, have they actually paid for them yet. more on that with the interview with the ceo as we move through the show. back to you, guys. >>> as the earnings parade marches on, morgan stanley out with a beat. mary thompson has a read-through on some of the numbers including what ge said in the conference call this morning. >> morgan stanley's investment banking business, upsetting disappointing results in its fixed income unit. reversing a year-ago loss, morgan stanley earned 45 cents a share from continuing operations. renew rose to a higher than expected $11.5 billion. james gorman saying the firm's restructuring efforts are set to pay off. >> i believe we've done it. i feel very comfortable with where we are as an organization. we'll obviously -- if the markets completely c

intervention in latin america and the caribbean forced millions of people to leave their homes to migrate to the united states. we will play an excerpt of a conversation that i had with juan as well as the film's co- director. i want to encourage you to call in as we go to clips of the film in the interview because the faster you call in, the more of the interview we can play. the number to call, at the bottom of your screen drought the show, 866-359-4334. 866-359-4334. if you would like to get a copy of this remarkable film that is opening all over the country in march, call in right now and pledged $100. "harvested in higher" is yours. if you pledge $100, you can also get the book of juan gonzalez, which the film is booked on. at holiday time, just a few weeks ago, the curators of the smithsonian recommended reading his book, which is required reading in classrooms across the country. it is an amazing book, "harvest of the entire." if you want to get both, what an incredible educational resource. the book and dvd are yours for contribution of $150. think about that as he watched recall in. let us know you a

caribbean. that's why they came up with the idea of, the idea that the united states, the arsenal of democracy, it would supply the countries fighting germany with war materials that they needed, and they wouldn't have to pay until after the war was over. on the last day of 1940, london was burning. the citizens of london had endured that point for straight months of almost nightly bombing raids by fleets of german bombers, bombing unrestricted late over the city of london. thousands of civilians had been killed. hitler's armies were just across the channel, 20 miles across the channel, ready to invade when britain broke. on december 29, 1940, the largest single attack of the blitz, when hundreds of bombers, german bombers, vectored by radio beam onto st. paul's cathedral. they dropped millions of incendiaries around the old cathedral in the city. on new year's eve, the city was burning and churchill drafted the cable to roosevelt. dear mr. president, i do not know what is in your mind, and i do not know what america plans to do. but we are fighting for our lives. 10 days later, january 10, 194

parts of central america and other parts of the caribbean, which were expected to be turned into slave-holding territories and slave-holding eventually states. if lincoln did not agree to do this, they said, they would very likely move to join the confederacy as well. well, lincoln and his party refused to these demands and when in april of 1861, the confederacy's bombardment, sparked all-out war, these four upper south states did choose sides. they connect this war between a slave labor confederacy and free labor union was going to eventually and inevitably evolve into a war over slavery itself, and in a war like that, the leaders of these four slave states decided, they would stand with their sister slave states in defense of what they liked to call their peculiar institution. and so it was that a conflict over slavery expanded into a conflict over the territorial integrity of the nation itself. lincoln's government considered the attempt to break up the federal union to be illegal, to be treasonous, and by badly weakening the u.s., utterly unseasonable. and on that question, preservation of the union, the need to defend the state's of th

states." >> i want to ask about president reagan. you have a chapter titled death squads for democracy. >> the caribbean is our lifeline to the outside world. two-thirds of foreign trade and petroleum pass through the panama canal and the caribbean. in the european crisis, nearly half would go through these areas by sea. >> talk to us about ronald reagan's central american policy. >> he sent it back about 20 years. he took the cold war to a new level. he almost took it to the edge of world war again. he said constantly that the soviet union was the head of the united states in every military capacity. we were always ahead. a a but we were always the underdog in our own mind. central america, in regin's mine, becomes the bulwarks of communism. -- in ronald reagan's mind, becomes the bulwark of communism. they are going to come up. he is worried about what mollah, honduras, going read. central american molla countries going read. i saw soldiers there the reminded me of my own experience in vietnam, young, walking around, lost, white skin and all of that. i said do you remember vietnam? they said we do not want to talk about it. there w

this resentment of the united states but beyond that the drone expansion goes you know border taken care of you know watching the border and counter-narcotics in the caribbean and central america domestic drones from. regress or drones but i think that on top of just the removal from really being and involved in the act of warfare i think we know that there counterintuitive there counterproductive because more hostility more terrorism more radicalization of these of the grounds that we're bombing out of ninety eight percent failure rate for god's sake i mean why are we using and it's just amazing you know these pioneered these as the new way to go and all this is setting is setting a really dangerous precedent for all these countries that the few countries left in the world that do see the united states as a shining beacon of democracy on top of on top of a hill and the precedent that this sets that the united states is using these drones to kill people indiscriminately with no due process you know there's an arms race building up right now and it's all around drone bush were to kill someone without due process we would never be hearing the end of it's kind

caribbean island of st. john and exploring one of the few national parks outside the united states the virgin islands nationalela and i got things started with a fun paddle on round bay with the help of a local guide. after heading back to our island base camp at the concordia island resort and navigating the narrow road ways with our over powered rental truck it was time to hit one of the top hikes in the park along reef bay trail. what is our plan for the adventure today. the plan for the adventure today is we finally get to hike today and really get our sweat on. oh good, i needed to sweat. i know you did and you probably needed to right when you stepped off the airplane. now did you have, when you heard you were coming to the virgin island did you have vision of hanging out on white sand beach and umbrella drinks and stuff. absolutely several. you don't get to do that. our job is to show as much of the island as we can so people can decide what part of the island they want to go sip umbrella drinks. were here for the people, were a service here. if we do really good can we get a drink at the end of the da

parts of central america and other part of the caribbean, which were expected to be turned in to slave-holding territories and slave-holding eventually states. as lincoln did not agree to do this, they said, they would very likely move to join the confederacy as well. well, lincoln about party refused to exceed these demands. sparked all-out war, these four upper south states did choose sides. they concluded that this war between a slave labor confederacy and free labor union was going to eventually and inbelie involve to a war over slavery itself. in a war like that the leader of the four slave states decided they stand with the sister slave state in the defense behalf they like to call their pee peculiar institution. it was a conflict over slavery expanded to conflict of the integrity of the nation itself. lincoln and the government considered attempt to break up the federal union to be illegal and treasonnist. unacceptable. on that particular question, the preservation of the union, the need to defend the state of the united states from an armed attempt to destroy it as a nation the vast majority of those who lived in the free state repu

the ethics committee was sent this complaint from a new jersey state senator asking for an investigation into those caribbeancomplaint questions whether men nen necklace violated the ethics code by repeatedly flying on a private jet to the dominican republic and other locations and soliciting prostitution. after being unable to substantiate the claims, the group referred the allegation to the fbi. more recently, a conservative blog, the the daily caller, published links to videos of alleged prostitutes. it also shows e-mails that suggest the fbi is investigating but the fbi isn't commenting. the senator says, quote, any allegations of engaging with prostitutes are manufactured by a politically motivated right-wing blog and are false. >> susan, what else do we know about this relationship between senator menendez and dr. melgan? >> wolf, senator menendez issued a statement calling the doctor a friend and supporter. federal election documents indicate that he and his family have contributed $30,000 to senator menendez alone. they are not required to disclose those trips. >> susan candiotti, thanks very much. l

states because, remember, he gives a lot of it away. hundreds of thousands of barrels per day to other caribbean national -- excuse me, latin american countrieshas bilateral agreements with china, et cetera. >>> joe, i saved this video for you. the other reason why americans would care, hollywood will be very upset. there is chavez with oliver stone at the venice film festival. there is danny glover campaigning with him in the last election. sean penn flew down in support in december. and has given speeches to chavez supporters, trying to get them to buck up and, you know, stand together as they wait to see what happens with hugo chavez. so that's the story. we're waiting to see what unfolds at this point. i think expect a period of volatility and chaos for sure. >> you said no proof of life for 30 days? >> close to, it yeah. the opposition's been demanding, you know, show -- holding up the newspaper. >> i know. like they did with castro a couple of months ago. >> the blogosphere's been rife with -- >> he's already dead. no, hughes in cuba. cuba has -- he's in cuba. cuba has every incentive to keep him alive. they get hundreds of thousands of

caribbean community. i think it's a unique opportunity to demonstrate the ability and political terms. you are capable of leading a 14-15 member state group of [inaudible] to highlight the opportunity that are there. the opportunities which they feel need to be emphasized. i have looked at haiti not as a country of a crisis but country of opportunity. my perspective is an opt -- every country has problems. we need to be very optimistic and positive about haiti. having said this, i don't want to go if to what was my second point is to speak about -- [inaudible] what they have been doing. let me highlight where we have been active. ly limit the detail to that. let me observe it was no -- [inaudible] in my view no other period in the relationship with haiti and [inaudible] with the high level of commitment. politically in term of solidarity and haiti has never experienced such a strong eximent. i always talk about it's not going to be an unlimited opportunity of -- making good using of the window is something which we have emphasized. i think we come to an end of that window. of opportunity. they have their own difficulties. i'm realis

the caribbean region and the islands, large and small, without any exclusion will manage one thing, as a genuine union of statesand will drive the full benefits -- by its extraordinary view. this is the price to pay for civility and, indeed, for peace in the world. but there is not -- because these are new incentives for developments in a context where all the stakeholders must contribute to make sure that regularity and justice prevail. in the context of it, assistance to the countries of africa, the caribbean and pacific makes a major contribution. and the financial wherewithal in the european development fund under the heading regional integration are becoming more substantive, and part and parcel of this initiative. the haiti of today stands up to that, and is conscious of its place, its weight, its clout, it's roll in the region. but also the deficiencies, the gaps. we have realized that we are going to catch up. we must stop the process of -- and we must work to overcome to fill those gaps and that is precisely what we're doing. every day we fill more of those gaps. this is not going to be a sprint. this