our guest is carlos garcia- perez, director of cuba broadcasting. he oversees radio and tv marti. >> this is week 3 of our look at government-sponsored broadcasting. this week, a look at radio and tv marti, with carlos garcia- perez, the director of the office of cuba broadcasting. matt lee of the associated press is our guest reporter. first, what is the purpose of radio and tv marti? >> thank you for inviting me here. our effort is to give the free flow of information to the people inside of cuba, and we did that on very broad terms, including programs, news, and we're very interactive with our audience. >> where are you based? how many employees, but it? >> we are based in at miami, approximately 126 employees. our budget this year is $28.5 million, broken down into different components. we are in miami. we also have reporters in washington, new york, we have stringers in different parts of atlanta, the content of countries that we deem relevant to our audience. >> how do you get the broadcasts into cuba, what method? >> radio, we use a.m. we hav

this week a look at radio and tv marti with carlos garcia-perez who is the director of the office of cuba broadcasting. matt lee of the associated press is our guest reporter. mr. garcia, first off, what is the mission of radio and tv marti? >> guest: first of all, thanks, thank you so much for inviting me here. our mission is to access the free flow of information to the people inside cuba. and we do that on very broad terms. including programs, news and very interactive with our audience. >> host: where are you based, how many employees, budget? >> guest: we are based out of miami, we have approximately 126 employees. our budget for this year is $28.5 million, and it's breaking down, obviously, in different parts. but we are out of miami, we also have a reporter in washington, new york, we are stringers in different parts of latin america or europe where the content of those cups we might -- those countries we might deem relevant to our audience. >> host: how do you get radio and tv marti broadcast into cuba? what method? >> guest: radio, we use am. we have a retransmission station

tonight we're honored to honor our superintendent of the san francisco unified school district, carlos garcia we're going to pause for a moment, because our selected designee to seek -- to receive the award on his behalf will be joining us shortly because another event is happening next door. so i would like to invite of ms. maggie for wells fargo. she can say a couple words on behalf of wells fargo, and we will like to thank her. thank you, maggie. [applause] >> thank you. good evening. i am so proud of presenting wells fargo and the 25,000 team members who live and work in the san francisco bay area here tonight with you. first of all, let me say salute to the council with generals, supervisors, district attorney, and treasurer. they're all here in the room tonight for this special event. i also want to extend my congratulations to all the awardees here tonight. your story is inspiring. your work in the community is excellent. it is really important for the community, so thank you so much for your great work. tonight, on behalf of wells fargo, we want to celebrate hispanic heritage month. t

i have had that great pleasure of working with the board president and carlos garcia.strators and superintendents, having a national conference on the very important topic of how we improve education for latino communities across the country. i want to thank him for working so closely with us. luis herera has done so much for the libraries. thank you for such wonderful leadership. we get so excited when we open up libraries and increase the performance of our kids in school. all the kids are increasing participation. i get very excited about the city even more when all of our services are accessible to all of our communities in all different languages. you should not be surprised the both of my daughters who graduated from public-school also speaks spanish fluently. [applause] that is our future. anita and i told our kids that they were lucky to live in a global city. the global. learn chinese and spanish. -- be global. learn chinese and spanish. i continue to be proud to work in the city. i am excited about all the programs. the challenges are to improve all of our co

[applause] >> we have a very special guest, carlos garcia is here to introduce our special guest. carlos. >> good afternoon. it is really a pleasure to move the schedule to accommodate this great man. truly a pleasure, because we have made him an honorary latino, even though he is the first asian member -- mayor of the city of san francisco. [applause] he is one of hours. honorable mayor lee was appointed to be the mayor and started his term in january, not too long ago. not too long ago he decided -- the community decided he was doing a good job, and everyone decided to push him -- he is a worker bee. he was an administrator in the city in three and a lot of different apartmendepartments aa great job. when the board of supervisors appointed him to be the interim mayor, little did we know he would do such a great job that there was a community out for. so be signed started to appear that said run, ed run. i am not taking sciensides becai work for everyone as a superintendent, but it has been a real honor and privilege working with the mayor who knows what work needs to happen to ge

. >> host: this is c-span's communicators program, our guest, carlos gar garcia-perez, and mat lee is our guest reporter. i just want to follow-up on the jamming. how sophisticated are our methods and the cuban methods to prevent prod cast reaching the island? >> guest: i'll answer the following way. when i got there, they knew they were going to pass the ball, but who was going to run the ball; right? i don't know they know that anymore. it's precisely one of the things we focused on. focus on transmissions. they try to jam us. there's still noise on some frequencies depending on the time of the day and atmosphere. for example, through text messages and e-mail, we know we can deliver a lot of news to our audience, and we do that, constantly. >> guest: what's the most popular programming that you have? is it sports? >> guest: sports is popular. the news, they really want to hear the news, but we have to put it into context or perspective. to listen or watch the marti is cuba is 5 crime. we would talk about this in our station all the time. we have to be damn good so somebody can take

yes was so honored to be here and to join you in giving this incredible award to superintendent carlos garcia. i have had the honor to work with him to launch an exciting program called kindergarten to college, which opens up automatically for every child entering the san francisco public schools at kindergarten a college savings account. it puts an initial deposit in for each and every one of those children. it is funded by the city. it is administered by the treasurer's office, and it is in a strong partnership with the school district. the reason we're doing this is that studies show that if a child grows up with a college savings account in the child's name, that child is seven times more likely to go to college than a child without a similar account. we want to bring that kind of success to every child here in san francisco. thank you to you all and to the san francisco public schools. [applause] >> and we will be certain that carlos receive his award. there's a special gift that all of us presented with the department of the environment. the bags the honorees will receive. i want to tha

superintendent carlos garcia. youth had the opportunity to ask questions to the panel as well as provide their thoughts and insights on what they feel about school and how it is here in the district. they did a good job putting this together. this is something we will actually continue with the program during the school year. this is just an outline of what they did each week. beginning week was outreach. then we started with the actual tutorial and presentation. a lot of learning activities and games to enhance the algebra and the english learning with the youth. then the outcomes, which is something we are really excited and pleased about. we started with 96. 85 actually finished the program and completed. out of that 85, 11 of them were from colbert and's recovery program -- from burton's recovery program. seven of them had failed their algebra and english classes during the school year. out of the 74 coming through participation, 70 of them actually passable their math and algebra -- math and english classes.

that local 22 recently sat down -- we had a very good conversation with school superintendent carlos garcia, and he was like,it was'g baby steps right now in implementing that. it is very important. even people say, why are we doing high school? i said, ok. it is a lot of work, but we can do it. again, it is baby steps. not everybody -- no, you can go to college. they do not want to go to college but that is it. i did it for two years. that was it for me. it is possible. we're looking at it. again, it is going to be baby steps. i am looking forward to that, and it is very important. i also want to stress, you know, on the apprenticeship program, my boss, mike brown, when he mentioned, you know, what is key to this split on the a condition is, like, we have our nine-week boot camp training. we stress the importance of safety. safety, safety, safety. and i am the market representative, and i deal with a lot of these contractors they said, you know, why join the union? well, you know what, we have the training. the training and the safety. that is key. that is important. tell me what you have.

. >> tonight carlos garcia as pariahs, director of the office of cuba broadcasting, which oversees radio and tv. >> we have done 23 focus groups, and i have been there a year in the week. what we found out is that people in cuba want news. they definitely want news. when they seek news, they mention the marquees. >> "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> a look now at the legality in the iraq and afghanistan wars. this is part of a series of debates started by ralph nader to highlight issues that are controversial and rarely discussed in public. this is about two hours. >> good day to all of you. today we are sponsoring through the center for the study -- the center for study of responsive law. we define taboos as it began subjects that are not often discussed in political electoral or mass media circles. the subject today is president george w. bush and president barack obama, war crimes were lawful wars? all societies have taboos. they are systemic forms of censorship. they often serve as the power brokers in any society, and in our country they are and difficult t

tonight, carlos garcia-press. a-perez. >> i have been there one year and one week.e have found that people in cuba really want news. they definitely want news. they mention the markets. >> the communicators, tonight at 8:00 on c-span2. >> the newly designed c- span.org website has views that make it easier to get our schedule, with new features so you can quickly scroll for all the programs and even receive an e-mail alert when your program is scheduled to air. there is a section to access our most popular series and programs like "washington journal,", and "the contenders." you can quickly find where to watch our c-span networks at the all new c-span.org. >> within 90 days of my inauguration, every american soldier and every american prisoner will be out of this jungle and out of their cells and back home in america where they belong. [applause] >> his pledge at the democratic convention came after almost one decade of being for senators to speak about the vietnam war. his groundbreaking campaign changed american politics and the democratic party. he is featured th

government-sponsored broadcasts to other countries tonight with carlos garcia-perez, director of theoffice of cuba broadcasting which oversees radio and tv marcy. >> we've done 23 focus groups since i've been at the martsi, and i've been there a year and a week. and what we found out is that people in cuba really look for -- they want news. they definitely want news. and when they seek news, relevant to the focus groups, they mention the martis. >> "the communicators" tonight at 8 on c-span2. >> earlier this month lord justice brian leveson began hearings on phone hacking and more broadly, the culture, practices and ethics of the british media. this portion of the hearing focuses on the victims of alleged phone hacking. earlier this year british prime minister david ram con appointed lord justice leveson to oversee a committee examining the relationship between the press and the police. that committee will make recommendations on the future of governance. this is just under two and a half hours. >> yes, mr. kaplan. >> before you begin to hear the evidence of those i think who have be

government sponsored broadcasts to other countries tonight with carlos garcia perez, director of the office of cuban broadcasting which oversees them. >> i have been there one year and one week. what we have a found out is that the people in cuba what news. they definitely want news. they want anything relevant to the focus groups. tonightcommunicator's" at 8:00 p.m. on c-span2. >> earlier today, the u.s. agency for international development unveiled a new global health strategy that will help agency strategies and the global health initiative which aims to address major health challenges world wide. held by the center for strategic international studies, this is one hour, 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. i am steve from csis and welcome to this very nice event. happy holidays to everyone. i am sure you are happy to be back at work. we are thrilled and honored to be able to host the assistant administrator from usaid at the center for international development. he has come here today, several months now into that post and the president nominated him back in market took its duties back

. >> carlos garcia-perez, director of the office of cuba broadcasting radio and tv marti. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> the newly designed c- span.org website has 11 video choices making it easy for you to watch today's events. it is easier for you to give our schedule, with a free network layouts are you can scroll through the program scheduled on the c-span network and receive an email alert when your program is scheduled to air. there is a section to access "washington journal", "book tv", american history tv, and the channel finder said you could quickly find where to watch our c-span networks on cable and satellite systems across the country at the all-new c- span.org. >> up next, a look at the legacy of gerald ford, the 38th president. we will hear from james baker who served as undersecretary of commerce. introducing mr. baker is gerald ford's daughter susan ford bales. this event is just under one hour. >> good afternoon, and welcome to the ford presidential museum. >> it is a ple