but i like a lot of them don't know how much you that the but now tourists going to open up and out joc for me catalina and many like her other reason why hotel employees are pitching in and donating time and money cooking and serving food. they are helping 200 people today. look at that get elected many of these vendors are undocumented they're hit the hardest we're lucky to still get paid many others don't have this advantage in this city the physio all souvenir shops in acapulco a shuttered as are 60 hotels and restaurants those left open are waiting in vain for customers that's because not even the locals are out. many are staying home following advice from authorities those who are out have to explain themselves to a large contingent of police and national guard. in 2009 acapulco known as a pacific paradise was hit by a flu epidemic. it had only just recovered when the corona virus struck. the president and the local hotel and tourism authority remembers the losses and he fears more desperate times are to come. this is. we're seeing the lowest booking levels for many years. it's ju

these caves is the tiny island of cuba where cruise ships which are not allowed to land anywhere on joc anywhere are jocking in cuba being greeted by the population most all and are to be treated by the doctors and the cubans are so mean free medicines all over outstrip them now that is the more whereas in the west this didn't come to site move the to maintain sanctions against iran or venezuela which is still to be incomplete be discussed stick though this is still going on when those in the higher world is facing this crisis in fairness to morris johnson's foreign office and a stand that the british government have thanked the cuban government for taking the ship the braemar into port but certainly no condemnation from here about the u.s. sanctions on the island i want to get on to some of those other issues a bit later and today's anniversary of the iraq war but you're also a novelist and putting your novelist hat on how do you characterize near liberal culture and art given the fact that most people's cultural imagination of a pandemic is really from hollywood and from films that wh