america and this is because we have to look at latin america kind of very broadly to really to really address this because each country is going to be different but for the most part latin american countries are doing is that they're investing heavily in secondary education and investing heavily in these kind of social welfare programs point more money into pensions pouring money into into these they're called conditional cash transfers and in brazil what they do is that it's an incentive program so that kids so that more kids are going to school and these kids are staying in school longer what this is doing alternately is having a positive economic outcome and it's reducing the wealth gap and that's that's happening almost across the board in latin america and you compare the united states where wealth inequality is going up so you can tend to see what's going on in latin america where literally in the growth really be sustained i mean i do think that these programs will inevitably have some sort of backlash sure and i think that that's kind of an interesting way to put it whether or

that is very, very important context of latin america and his latin american relations. bush administration policies under connelly's the rise was to inoculate from a venezuela -- under condoleezza rice was to inoculate from venezuela. the obama administration promised a lot, but delivered little. we've seen very much a continuity between bush and obama. one is heartened to hear in november the u.s. and venezuela opened up back channels and began a conversation about the possibility of establishing new relationships and exchanging ambassadors. i think that is positive. >> miguel tinker salas, in the next few days and weeks, what will you be looking for in terms of signs of what is going to happen in venezuela? clearly, the government has taken the position only if president chÁvez is out of commission for 90 days and then they can renew that for another 90 days, so basically 180 dayperiod for he to be incapacitated where it would then be forced to take action in terms of new elections. talk about what you're looking for. >> i think we will see the opposition continue the

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 find answers to this. >> the people of the czech republic have been going to the polls today for the second round of a pre

the problem is that you have in latin america today a norm miss level of violence and killing at that people believe is related to the drug war whether it is or not whether kevin is right that legalizing marijuana in a few states is not going to have any effect i think he's probably right but the fact is that the latin americans for a long time have been calling for a real conversation with the united states to talk about how drugs are for now how we frame and implemented anti drug policies and there's been very little response from washington in the united states. it's we seem to have brought the problem under control by basically. cocaine use is down marijuana use is increasing heroin use is down but the violence associated with drugs has been controlled now the costs are very very high. the drug violations the number of people in jail the use of our police forces going to a criminal court in any small town anywhere in the united states and i big majority of cases are drug related cases the damage is enormous one cannot talk about. either so any solution without looking at what dama

in the united states, they don't know what to do about all the latin americans.those were precisely the former colonies of those in pyres. with the ending of world war ii and with the independence movements that developed throughout asia and africa and latin america, the peoples of those former colonial countries are coming to the metropolis, and they're changing, transforming the very composition of this nation's. and so that, for us, the u.s., it's not even -- were not dealing with this immigration "problem" alone. england has an immigration problem. france and germany have immigration problems. it is the harvest of the empire's that made those countries so wealthy. the capital came, but now the people are coming as well. >> the last clip we played was of archbishop romero, march 24, 1980. yourself are from el salvador, an immigrant here in the united states. >> this is one of the reasons why we produced this film and why we feel so strongly about it. as one points out in his book and in the film, el salvador is maybe the latest and one of the clearest examples

we're currently inflicting on young people in the it's this country the damage that's going on in latin america that i don't think that i think kevin is absolutely right this is the beginning of a conversation i very much hope that the united states will look at its drug war overseas and open up that conversation with the latin americans in a very serious way to look at the current policy and the alternatives look i would have voted for legalization ok how do you react to that kevin because i mean the war on drugs as people call it do you think it's a success i mean we go through a lot of the issues really. you know the only people who use that right right the only people that use the term war on drugs are not the government anymore frankly it's people who want to use it as a rhetorical tool to advance legalization it's not a good analogy we don't have a war on our own people the issue is legalizing marijuana in a few states frankly even if you did it in the united states is not going to stop the criminal cartels and the transnational criminal organizations they're making their money fr

will give me necessary 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

later on, we will talk to a latin-american expert to talk about chavez and his government, but right now, a car bomb has exploded close to the defense ministry in tel aviv. at least four people have been injured. police believe the bombing is a criminal act and not one linked to palestinian militants. >> it is thought the target was the head of a notorious israeli mob. a motorcyclist was seen attaching an explosive device to a vehicle in which the man was believed to be sitting. he has already survived eight previous assassination attempts. the irish government has called on the european union to ease terms on its multi-billion euro bailout loan. the irish prime minister has told eu officials that solving his country's debt crisis is his top priority. >> the eu commission president was in dublin on thursday for a meeting to coincide with ireland taking over the rotating presidency. he also praised the irish government's efforts to bring its debt down. >> the irish prime minister and his deputy are looking ahead to six months at the helm of europe. it is a chance to tout ireland as pr

that's where the latin rock came from. >> the book that started these events, "voices of latin rock,"ctually chronicles how the music started, you know, with the santanas, the mahlos, in the mission district, you know. and how they came about. >> amazing. >> it's going to be great. a great show. the r&b, soul, you've got latin rock, and then you've also got rucutan. good bands. >> are we going to have a mixed club with everybody on the same stage? you never know. i guess we'll find out. >> that's right. >> the song suavacito, and of course how much does jorge santana and his rhythm add to what that song meant? >> i think everybody had a little bit into it, you know. the melody was basically mine. and i think once you put the melody on then everybody kind of puts a little taste into it. so it was an evolvement of just about everybody in the band. but the words, melody, all that was strictly mine. abel helped with musical arrangement. pablo tevez. it was a collection. that's what happens. >> is it hard to get all those names together and do it all over again? >> i don't know. i mean, it

later on, we will talk to a latin-american expert to talk about chavez and his government, but right now, a car bomb has exploded close to the defense ministry in tel aviv. at least four people have been injured. police believe the bombing is a criminal act and not one linked to palestinian militants. >> it is thought the target was the head of a notorious israeli mob. a motorcyclist was seen attaching an explosive device to a vehicle in which the man was believed to be sitting. he has already survived eight previous assassination attempts. the irish government has called on the european union to ease terms on its multi-billion euro bailout loan. the irish prime minister has told eu officials that solving his country's debt crisis is his top priority. >> the eu commission president was in dublin on thursday for a meeting to coincide with ireland taking over the rotating presidency. he also praised the irish government's efforts to bring its debt down. >> the irish prime minister and his deputy are looking ahead to six months at the helm of europe. it is a chance to tout ireland as pr

later on, we will talk to a latin-american expert to talk about chavez and his government, but right now, a car bomb has exploded close to the defense ministry in tel aviv. at least four people have been injured. police believe the bombing is a criminal act and not one linked to palestinian militants. >> it is thought the target was the head of a notorious israeli mob. a motorcyclist was seen attaching an explosive device to a vehicle in which the man was believed to be sitting. he has already survived eight previous assassination attempts. the irish government has called on the european union to ease terms on its multi-billion euro bailout loan. the irish prime minister has told eu officials that solving his country's debt crisis is his top priority. >> the eu commission president was in dublin on thursday for a meeting to coincide with ireland taking over the rotating presidency. he also praised the irish government's efforts to bring its debt down. >> the irish prime minister and his deputy are looking ahead to six months at the helm of europe. it is a chance to tout ireland as pr

they are changing governments in latin america. they never know if they are going to have so they want to try to grow coca in the united states. so they could have better access to it and also to get i think the code was the one to have greater agricultural knowledge of the plant basically to be able to tinker with levels of cocaine, with the different flavors so they asked the federal government after this convention as retired from the commission he retired at the end nd and we had a new commissioner and the coca-cola company asked him we wanted to grow in the united states now can we work something out here? and so as long allies for the coca-cola company they said yeah, sure, what do you want? what you think of the u.s. virgin islands? yeah, sounds great so they went to the university of hawaii and contacted the president and the university of hawaii and said we want to start a pilot program to grow on the u.s. soil. we worked out of the legalities even though it is technically not legal this is a matter of scientific research.

so i think the idea of getting the private sector involved early on, and we showed this both in latin america and asia, the asian financial crisis, korea being a good example, i think it's very, very, i think, important. so those are the lessons learned from elsewhere that the europeans are now just starting to utilize into the fourth year. but what needs to be done going forward? because that's what really is, i think, important. i think three things need to be dope. first of all, you need to get this banking union that's been talked about most of last year actually accomplished. because you need to break the tie between the sovereign and banks. and you've got to get the banks back lending. and we still don't see that sufficiently in europe. and so you need to get this banking union arranged. originally it was supposed to be -- and i was a questioner on july 26th when mario draghi made the famous historic statement now that he would do everything possible at the ecb to make sure the euro got through this problem. and i was designated as a questioner to ask him about the banking union

i think they now -- the eurozone was made up of so-called developed countries, unlike latin america in the '80s and '90s, and asia in the asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, that any of the lessons a lot of people in this audience learned, you know, from those two crises, and other ones, turkey, i could run on, were not valid for them. because they were so-called developed economies. and so what i thought i would do here is just run through some of the lessons that we learned there that i think, unfortunately, shut up and looked at by the europeans. and they are only now starting to realize that they could have cut down the present negative situation because let's face it, europe as a whole, with a few exceptions, is in either a recession or stagnation. first, each country is unique. this is something they didn't want to see. greece adding the situation by longtime mismanagement on the fiscal side and raid the banks. in the case of ireland, it was the banks the drag the sovereign is -- sovereign as. in the case of portugal, with some portuguese in the audience here, it was basica

that is a significant change, latin america is more confident, independent. they just contributed to that. >> hundreds of thousands of supporters rallied today, the first such gathering since day ousted forces 5 1/2 years ago. we have this report. >> tens of thousands of supporters came for the unprecedented rally in the heart of the city. it has been years since anything like this was allowed to be staged, some injured in the crush. they traveled for the first time since they were violently ousted in 2007. addressing the crowd through a video link, the president said there could be no substitute for national unity. >> we should work together in unity to reach the national goals and reach a victory. >> status for the palestinian authority, they say reconciliation is essential. the goal of a palestinian state is to be realized. since the recent conflict between israel and her boss, there has been allegiances revealed between the factions. the western nations are wary of the group. many countries regard that as a terrorist organization. earlier this week, the i

this is an issue i work a lot on in latin america. we have created a system where we put in jail primarily small scale drug dealers, the guys -- the girls and boys selling the drugs on the street corner or running drugs back and forth or the people in the andean countries who are transporting drugs. these people aren't making a lot of money off of it, and the day you arrest them, they are replaced by the drug trafficking organizations. yet they go to jail, and in this country and in particularly in latin america which has adopted across-the-board in many countries harsh u.s. drug laws, they can end up with 20 years in jail. just one example, ecuador which really has, you know, is a minor player in international drug trafficking networks. the maximum sentence for murder in that country is 16 years. the sentence for drug trafficking is a minimum of 12, maximum of 25 years, and it doesn't distinguish between your level of involvement in the drug trade. so you go to jails in ecuador, and you find people who were selling drugs on the stree

that is a significant change, latin america is more confident, independent. they just contributed to that. >> hundreds of thousands of supporters rallied today, the first such gathering since day ousted forces 5 1/2 years ago. we have this report. >> tens of thousands of supporters came for the unprecedented rally in the heart of the city. it has been years since anything like this was allowed to be staged, some injured in the crush. they traveled for the first time since they were violently ousted in 2007. addressing the crowd through a video link, the president said there could be no substitute for national unity. >> we should work together in unity to reach the national goals and reach a victory. >> status for the palestinian authority, they say reconciliation is essential. the goal of a palestinian state is to be realized. since the recent conflict between israel and her boss, there has been allegiances revealed between the factions. the western nations are wary of the group. many countries regard that as a terrorist organization. earlier this week, the i

where's poverty dropping in latin america? and if you, if you do a overlay of the map of latin america and the caribbean, between which countries have investment, are investment grade and which countries follow sound economic policy, i mean, it's a complete overlap. it's a one for one correlation. and so people have to be looking and say, oh, my gosh. look at what's happening in brazil and peru with left-of-center governments, chile with a right-of-center government. you know, mexico is on the verge of a huge takeoff. and so do you want to be stuck arguing about these issues of the past and looking for charismatic leaders, the same ones -- some are less charismatic than others, the ones who gathered in caracas, or do you want to figure out how to move your countries and your political system and your economic system forward? and i think that's the real issue. and i think that's where it serbs the united states to be playing -- it serves the united states to be playing in that field n that argument. >> well said. i know chris m

latin immigrants no longer make up the majority of the state's immigrant population. instead, it's immigrants from asia. 42% of immigrants coming to the state were from latin america, 37 from asia. a decade later, 57% from asia, more than two times the 22% that come from latin america. >>> well, it's green and a bit extreme. a new garbage collection program may be in store for palo alto, with fewer bins and more sorting for residents. cbs 5 reporter elissa harrington explains how it all works. >> reporter: it's garbage day in this palo alto neighborhood. in front of every house, these three bins. the blue bin for recyclables, green for garden trimmings and black for waste. but taking out the trash in this city could soon change. assistant public works director tells us about a pilot program voted on by the city council and starting in april. it will eliminate the black garbage can. >> trying to head towards zero waste. >> reporter: compostable items will be mixed two in this two- bin system. >> on a pilot basis, we'll have residents bag their kitchen scraps and put th

i call them the latin-american, european latin-american, equivalent to latin-americans.any of your decisions but i liked you. i think you're honest. >> president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. to the friends of the san francisco public library, who killed pope john paul ii, the king of pop, michael jackson, president barack h. obama, mayor willie h. brown, dr. robert c. scott at ucs sf, academic dean keith c. wingate, assistant academic dean seana marshall, legal counsel -- leop adviser jan jamison and mammoth -- a circumcised foreign student from instandbull turkey at golden gate university. between november 2008 and december 2012, was it these hands? was it alcohol? was it drinking alcohol? was it brewing alcohol? or was it tobacco? i would like to use the rest of my time to pay tribute to the fallen. >> supervisor elsbernd: thank you very much. next speaker please. >> hey, ron austin, executive haven't -- workers union, it's been a long day. we're here to say a few words for the record to the board we received corresp

>> yeah, i mean, you know, i've seen this not just in latin america. i teach creative writing classes. and in the past i've sometimes seen, you know, all the work i have to do to get the female students in the class to speak up, while the kind of boys sit there and sort of dominate with their... you know, it's funny with their raunchy jokes and everything. but often the most talented girls in the class, they'll sit over there in a row, they're doing the best writing, and they're terrified, right? and it's somehow... i don't know why it is, but so often, like every... so many young male students who decide they want to write think they're geniuses the minute they write, like, their first sentence. and fiction... >> hinojosa: i've never expericed that, ever. >> and the women, you know, are just sometimes the most, you know... something... are much shyer about their voice, and much more insecure about their voice, and much more... and it's especially compounded, i think, sometimes for latin american women, especially from a culture like mexico. and so...

america, particularly in latin america that was not the case a few years ago. it is a no-brainer. absolutely no reason it should be prohibited in international law. no reason that countries like bolivia, peru, and columbia should not be allowed to market coca products internationally. there is no reason that coca-cola should not be allowed to use their flavoring. of course, other countries should be allowed to do the same the amount of cocaine alkaloids in the coca leaf is minuscule, tiny. it is very small. it does not pose any kind of danger when used in its natural form. i do think that there is an issue with the people who grow coca, some of the poorest people and let america. these are poor farmers with small plots of land. i think we have an obligation to help those countries bring those people out of poverty. that means comprehensive equitable, liberal developed economic development programs in areas like the bolivian shikari. with regard to cocaine at think that is where it is trickier. there are people who would advocate for complete legalization of dru

. >> vice president joe biden at a ceremony to welcome the largest members of latin members, ever.d help efforts to pass sweeping changes to immigration. >> we need to seize the moment. >> this is a top priority for the president who received a 70% of the latin vote. john boehner. >> i'm not talking about a 3000 page bill. i am talking about is this a common sense to secure our borders. have and fix a broken immigration the system. >> the immigration task force for the latin caucus is don't buy this representative. >> take a look at this analogy. the guns and immigration, are much closer. >> we've all signed on the dotted line there is a lot of work to be done but the commitment is there to getting the work done. >> what could comprehensive legislation to look like? it could be for up border security, and punish companies that hire undocumented workers and undocumented workers could gain legal status. however, people are skeptical. >> how on earth is congress ever want to be convinced to pass a package the kind of he is talking about. when nothing is made for the public. >> this co

we're doing a project with six editors in latin america to look at how wikileaks has played a role in their politics. >> the media got distracted by the personality issues with julian assange. it is a fascinating, dark, twisted story, whatever is true. " people got obsessed with it. >> that is what happens. >> we have a cover story on the kim kardashian wedding now. [laughter] >> you have to pay the bills. the serious side of kim kardashian. >> i do think it is a problem. we are undertaking a project next year, the kind of project inspired by the works project to have the team across the country of writers, artists, documentarians, photographers to document poverty in this country. it is the 40th anniversary of the book "the other america." we have this human-resources, people who want to do the project. they can do it in a way to tell the human stories. human stories are key. we can use the human stories to tell the story about the structural problems of poverty in the country so it has more than just a human interest quality. it could lead to change. it could lead to hearings. polit

and last but not least, i like what i'm seeing in latin america. the hard core anti-capitalist chavez regime seems to be on its last legs. even mexico is a good place to invest. cartel violence seems to be dying down. a deal between the president and the cartels. if you believe in a mexican resurgence, go with the i-shares msci, mexican investable market index. that's the eww. 12-1 ratio to the dollar. 11-1, let's talk about brazil. my favorite brazilian etf is the ewz. i am more sanguine on america's prospects than most, i can see you need to get some international diversification. given the political gridlock that strangling our economy. japan, europe, china, india, latin america, i think they could all be better places to invest for the next year than the united states, if washington doesn't get its act together. and i fear that alas -- they just might not be able to do so. "mad money" is back after the break. >>> you know what didn't work in 2012? some silly gobbledygook called risk on risk off. as hard as i tried to stamp out this ridiculous b

bolero with the latin sound. the second was chico, we like always to put these little names to people. my name is carlotta but my real name was charlotte and they called me carlotica, little charlotte. he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chic

and sevenning the latin community this past year and so i'm grateful to my supporter and is grateful to the residents of district five and i love the city and happy to have had the opportunity to serve on this board. a. (applause). . >> thank you supervisor olague. our final accommodation of the day will be to our second colleague local be leaving us today although he know he is not going far sean i have to say when i read the resolution that was draft of the to you today i was honestly blown away by how much you have done over the whereas and supervisor elsburnd has served for the past 12 years to supervisor tone aye hall and as well as belong to this board of supervisor and is for two terms as a member of this board and he has attended 502 of 505 board meetings held since 2,000 one missing three meeting for his honey moon and the birth of his son and among the many bits of legislation he has passed i has worked on the planning commission and adopting capital planning for our city for years to come and spear headed reform in our community and we know his leadership when it comes to