julio borges is here to share as his perspective. right now the only washington today is about north korea. well, this story is just as important. this has the same focus and i'm so grateful julio, that you are here for us because we need to bring this bright spotlight in washington on this tragedy in full to you, so i want to say thank you for coming. to get started, michael, i will turn to you and you will offer plenary remarks. he will get us started for real. i just had to get it off my chest. we are so glad you're here. michael, but it you cannot up and get this program started for real? julio, thank you for being here. 's connect doctor henry, thank you for those words. it's important that you are with us this morning to open this event, which is really one of the most important events we have done in venezuela over these last two years. our venezuela project is one of the top priorities at the americas program here. together with him whose been here from the beginning. use the first person i hired. we have really tried to shine