but, i mean, how many dominicans remember that, you know, the dominican republic was almost annexed by the united states? i mean, you walk around the street and ask the average dominican, and say, "when was the american... first american occupation?" you know, i think that history in the new world has a way of eluding even the people who were victimized by it. and, you know, one of the things that happens when you're a storyteller is that you face every day the fact that stories, unless they're powerfully told, and the people who are keeping these stories alive have a lot invested in them, stories have a way of fading. they're ephemeral, just like we are. i mean, that's why we are so connected to our stories. >> hinojosa: one of the things, though, that you bring out in this book is a really difficult time in the dominican republic, that, you know, whether or not young dominicans are actually walking around talking about what it was like to live under a dictator like trujillo, you write about that. you make it kind of clear that there was a dictator who was very close in proximity to t

dominican father david o arourke. >> thank you for inviting me. >> tell us about your film red terror on the amber coast. >> i ended up in 1999 being recruited to work there, rebuilding the church after the collapse of the soviet system. i was living in the dominican house right across the street from the old kgb headquarters, i'm a writer and one morning i was out walking, actually i got in early from california, i was dying for some coffee with a 10 hour time difference. i was looking for coffee walked by the building, knew sort of what it was. the sun is up very early that far north. i looked in the window, pulled the door it was unlocked. i walked inside there was a brown door over at the end of the foyer. the building itself is a big czarist, neo- classical building. >>> anyone in history scream at you? >> indeed. there was nothing there, i went down stairs, saw the door, opened it walked down the stairs and found myself in the old kgb prison which a few years earlier had people in it. for the next two hours, in absolute silence and all alone i walked from cell to cell to cell. t

. >> hinojosa: ...about the dominican reality-- dominican republic, immigrants... >> right. >> hinojosapopular book. people love that book. i don't know, but when somebody gives you a book like that and says, "make this into a movie," i mean, i would be like... >> yeah. it's... you know, it's become my craft. you know, it's the thing that i've learned to do. i try to do it as well as i can, and it's fun. it's like a big puzzle, you know? it's trying to decide what is cinematic in a novel, and enhancing that and bringing that out is the big trick. >> hinojosa: do you find yourself... i mean, how do you get to that place where you learn to trust, "okay, this is the voice, this is the centerpiece, this is the through-line"? >> yeah, it takes doing, you know? i mean, you ask yourself basic questions: who is this about, what do they want, and what's standing in their way? and when you answer those three questions, you pretty much cover a lot of what a movie is. and you ask yourself... >> hinojosa: hmm. just those three questions. >> just... yeah. >> hinojosa: you make it sound so simple! >>

>> >> hispaniola is the dominican republic and haiti. >> cuba. all of these are places where sugar is now being planted. so what is this now the beginning of in terms of world history? >> now, to be clear, there has always been slavery everywhere in the world. slavery is as old as world history, it has existed in every part of the world. however, asthma arena was saying -- as marina was saying, christopher columbus brings sugar over on his second voyage, what do you need to have a lot of sugar? you need fertile soil, you need wind or water power to run the mill, you need to be near water so you can ship it, you need a lot of wood, right? because you need to keep the fires burning because you're going to be bubbling vats of sugar. but you need one more thing to produce sugar. what do can you need? >> hard workers. >> you need hard, cheap workers. you need people who you can get to work for very little because the more they work, the cheaper they are what happens to the price of sugar? >> it goes higher? >> or more likely it -- >> it goes lower. >>

the germany refugee question and asked if it was better for jews to go to the philippines or the dominican republic. pius 11th was buried. the discover of king tut's tomb also died. the italians called a call to arms to war babies the first time around. when i visited the draft board i noticed my card was filed with a crease at it's corner. farther's laughter was louder than ever. clients who decided to buy had their paintings shipped to houses in the country. i noticed lucie hiding bags of sugar in the closet where i kept my tennis racket. to mother he repeated. don't worry, she replied, i do. i wonder if they rrmed they had a son at all. yet that month seemed to pass more slowly than others. rose's presence was fleeting. i passed by father's office as she sat by the type writer in a green sweater with a hole in the elbow. i found her in the bathroom once with a black tongue as a pen had burst when she licked it's anybody. i handed her a towel and said, just ruin the cloth. to the light in the courtyard i sang along with my new american record. there is a hungry yearning burning inside of

my dad came from the dominican republic. my mom came from panama. they met in a supermarket in the mission. i love this city. as a videographer, for the past year and a half these events have become a source of income for me. i have gained a great amount of experience, exposure, and have met a lot of great people. this community is a very welcoming place. filmmaking and music is my passion and my career. these events and this city to allow me to express my passion and share it with the world. i hope this opportunity stays for the future youth of california and we can allow san francisco to continue to be the diverse and amazing city is known to be around the world. i just want to make a point. the gentleman for me said most people at these events are on ecstasy. i for one do not take drugs. i know a lot of people who go to these events just for the music, because we love the music. thank you for your time. >> i am a san francisco native of 25 years. thank you for having me tonight. i heard about this a while ago and felt it very important to come do

since we have legislation that was adopted in 2007 and 2008 put them eight the dominican governorship of the losses have been largely stand, that we were dealing with the situation in which they were very different than they were before and that it bought us some time to think about what to do. but that was a position which last year when they were in the minority was rejected by the others died. indeed there was a bill filed in march i believe by the gentleman from texas, mr. heckerling. again, were told that should've been included in financial reform at the conference committee meeting. that bill was offered and bill was ready last year. what i guess is we have this question of what does the president know and when did he know it? my question is, what is the minority know something last year that they don't know this year? they knew last year was to do. they were very critical of us for not doing it. they talked about the urgency. lo and behold, been in the majority has appeared in just a form of legislative forget ernest. they say the power corrupts. apparently in this case it has

. >> reporter: father bruno shah, a dominican friar, is a close friend who has written about karr's work. >> in the catholic church above, the altar, one sees the cross with the body on it. the body is there. the corpus of christ is there bleeding, still in the midst of the world, and that's i think really what got to her, her experience of being a sinner, her experience of being a sinner and recognizing that this does not distinguish her from anybody else in the world. >> reporter: many of her recent poems reimagine the life of christ. she sees in poetry a form of prayer. >> poetry is, for me, eucharistic. you take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. >> reporter: karr has been sober for 20 years, but she still prays to keep her demons at bay. >> i don't have very much virtue now. it's really all of it is grace for me, all of it is given. i'm a very venal, i want to eat all of the chocolate and snort all of the cocaine and kiss all the boys. >> the fact that this

. >> hinojosa: ...and have a hard time saying, "well, this person is mexican, or "this person is dominicanand "this person is chilean." there's a kind of homogeneity that people would like to see in the latino community, but in fact, i always like to say we're at the tip of the iceberg in terms of understanding the complexity of latino reality in this country. i mean, there's... how can you possibly... well, i mean, this is a good question for you. how can you possibly be a museum of latino art? >> well... >> hinojosa: what is latino art? >> i think that you're touching the most complex question of all, of course, and let me tell you how we try to address that at el museo. first of all, the important thing is to recognize that yes, if there is a big label called "latino," the label is to be made so we can define it-- so it's an active process of defining. >> hinojosa: and it's always changing. >> and it's... it will change. and... >> hinojosa: and we should be open to that change? >> to explore it, at least. and on the other side, we have a tremendous respect for the history, for the artis

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i think from the dominican side there is a tendency to view canada through the lens of the case, the l.a.x. bomber. in 1999, the u.s. immigration law is one of terribly tight off, 19 of the hijackers came on illegal visas so there was a lot of holes in the united states and canada and we somehow imagine they haven't made progress in the last ten years and we have a date made a tremendous amount of progress and there is a lot of cooperation now between the two governments to try to keep out people out of the space we are concerned about it from the canadian side, the problem continues to be missed, stuffing to do with information sharing with the united states. they are quite reluctant to cooperate under the real time basis with the united states, say for instance in sharing information on people coming into canada and those the u.s. government know anything about the individuals getting the government and perhaps turned person around, and it goes back in part to the case where the government shared a lot of misinformation with the united states and they send them back to be tortured.

i tracked down the military master sergeant who comes up with a list, the dominican and the agency came up with a list of names. willhite was among them he remembered reagan may have been an actor in westerns and he didn't get to act in as many westerns as he would have liked and like jack warner always was putting me in a suit, not a cowboy hat with a shooter and was disappointed by that he did have a ranch mentality to cut would and he picked rawhide and chose the name and reagan liked it so much he made him keep it for the 1980 campaign and he kicked in when he was president. >> .. >> did the hospital have it on file? or did the secret service inform you? >> yes, they knew the blood type. they know that, the hospital has it. they know the president could go to the hospital, they are notified about that. >> what -- there were -- yes, go ahead. >> i have two questions actually. the first is for dell. did you try and were you successful at all in interviewing jodie foster. and did you get a sense of -- because i remember this i was in freshman in college. it was only three months after