canada and latin america who have one clear message. to shut it down september eleventh nine hundred seventy three there was a military dictatorship that was funded by the cia funded by the us and part of that dictatorship was you know having people tortured and disappeared and incarcerated as a political prisoners and the folks that did that torture were trained here at the school of the americas called the school of the assassins father roy was a witness to killings in central america founded the school of the americas watch in one thousand nine hundred and has been putting on this annual event for the last twenty three years it's about how the pressure mean with the office you turn to their countries why contours of other countries out to their training are there to protect us economically just. want to exploit the cheap labor or we have a natural resource. over the years this demonstration has only grown attracting people from all walks of life but for some it's a very personal and emotional experience this is adriano barto a guatem

canada and latin america who have one clear message. to shut it down september eleventh nine hundred seventy three there was a military dictatorship that was funded by the cia funded by the us and part of that dictatorship was you know having people tortured and disappeared and incarcerated as a political prisoners and the folks that did that torture were trained here at the school of the americas will be called the school of the assassins father roy a witness to killings in central america founded the school of the americas watch in one nine hundred ninety and has been putting on this annual event for the last twenty three years it's about how the pressure mean with the office you turn to their conscious maicon yours and other countries out to their training to protect us economically just want to exploit the cheap labor and the natural resources. over the years this demonstration has only grown attracting people from all walks of life but for some it's a very personal and emotional experience this is adriano barto a guatemalan native

the first latin american leader of the church . the market plunged and then soared at the end of the year when the the fed announced a taper. many made headlines in 2013. could you have predicted any of it? let's take a quick look back at a year about to end. >> obama: you and i as citizens have the power to set this country's course. you and i as citizens have the obligation to shape the debates of our time. [ cheering ] >> the taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. they thought the bullet would sal lensilence us, but they fai. . [ explosion ] >> the tornado will find the path of least resistence. there is the low ground. there is the water treatment plant on the southeast side. still headed west. let me zoom in here. >> obama: the same progress that gives us the technology to strike a half world away also demands the discipline to constrain that power or risk abusing it. we have worked vigorously that establishes our force against terrorism. clear guidelines, oversight and accountability that is now c codified that i si

yes indeed it's a trend three being in many parts of the world whether it's the united states or latin america or europe poll after poll shows that the majority of people are not happy with the inequality that has been developing for decades in many parts of the world and instead of being reversed when those inequality decades produced a crisis in fact the crisis is continuing to build more inequality people everywhere are angry the only question is whether the wealthy are in another control of the politics to simply move forward notwithstanding the massive people's feeling otherwise in chile they could vote for someone in many other countries it doesn't matter who you vote for because the entire political establishment is committed to austerity and other policies that worsen inequality well and that's where i want to go that it seems that in south and central america people are actually voting in quote leftists but people are demanding the same across north america look at the i. by movement or europe look at the pitchfork movement in italy just this week do you see this as the future

according to a leak on the document, some european and latin america policies want drug treatment to take precedent over punishment and prohibition. that what could that mean for the drug war in the united states. for more, i'm joined by the executive director with the drug policy alliance and from rio, the director of the open society drug policy program, advocating for change in global drug poses. great to have you both with us tonight. ethan, your organization advocates and i quote for drug policies that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. i know you're focused on marijuana in the united states now, but in the end, does that mean trying to get legalization of drugs across the board? >> no, no, what i would say is about a third or a little more of our work focuses on ending marijuana prohibition in the u.s. and around the world. that began with medical marijuana, now legal in 20 states, also decriminalizization. with 50% of americans saying lets regulate and tax marijuana like alcohol, that's a focus. with other drugs, some of our membership is saying lega

we are seeing in latin america the violence that is increasing significantly over the last number of years. so i think on those continents there's increased unrest and disappointment with the counter policies as they stand. those are being articulated more clearly. there's a number of countries, switzerland and others, that have implemented sensible drug policies, and we have much to others. >> hasn't the international experience been buried in some places. in some places it works well, portugal which has the most liberal policies. it seems it's working there that drug use is down. mixed? >> not really. the bottom line is that any country that made a commitment to a public health approach has buy and large seen positive results. in the netherlands with a retail sale of marijuana has been legal, the rates used are roughly the same, maybe a little lower. they are less in the u.s., which has a harsh prohibition policy. the percentage much dutch young people that start with marijuana going on to harder drugs is lower, because the dutch separated the marijuana market from the other drug m

when i think of experiences in argentina and other places in latin america, what he says is true.there is almost no movement for the poor. there is not the upward mobility that my family experienced, that most americans that come out of poor beginnings. that does not happen it argentina. >> why have so many conservatives in america so harsh about him or so skeptical or worried? >> some of it has to do with what he had to do about economics. that was the weakest part of his address and he seemed surprised by that. bishops are not trained to do economic analysis. he kept saying that is not what i was doing. it is not extemporized them, but i wish he did not say something to simple things he said. the main thing is that he has his focus right. the main job for christians today in the next 20 years, the underlying job is raise the mass of people out of poverty. we have made tremendous progress over the last 20 years, over one billion. we have our work cut out for us. >> i'm going to get to that in a minute. just to stay on the pope of for a second, do you think his economic theories w

in latin america. china is very interested in latin america is energy biodiversity.our they want to invest in latin america. they are welcome. >> thank you. we are almost out of time. one less question -- and it couple of housekeeping matters. i want to remind you about our upcoming speakers. december 10, we have the mayor of houston, texas. december 16, the chairman and ceo of general motors. december 19, a grammy award winner and bluegrass legend. second, i would like to present our guest with the traditional national press club coffee mug coakley to be filled with colombian coffee. [laughter] >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] and for the final question, you mentioned the prospect of colombia's national soccer team. the prospect of our two countries in the world cup? >> i wish our teams would not meet in the first round. it would be very disrespectful to eliminate the u.s. so quickly. [laughter] diplomatic. thank you. [laughter] thank you for coming today here and i would also like to thank the

pager arc called for a data latin patriarch of for a peaceful resolution. -- that latin patriarch calledor a peaceful resolution. crowd even after darkness fell and temperatures dropped, waiting for the midnight mass to be led by the head of the catholic church in the 1700- year-old inativity church. we have been entertained by musicians, singing traditional christmas carols in english and in arabic. we had a band passing through earlier. it was the arrival of the patriarch from jerusalem, this 10 kilometer journey he made to get here, where he met the christian communities on the way and was met by residents of bethlehem as he entered into their city, coming through barrier, theration concrete wall that surrounds bethlehem. he made his way the same route mary and joseph are said to have taken to come into the city and was greeted by a huge crowd of people in the square behind me. i have met people from all the continents of the world than this has been a very good day for the local palestinian economy with the restaurants, souvenir shops packed. thejust like in times of bible when we we

in latin america. how can we use that infrastructure and technology to better combat poverty, to take the benefits of technology. those are the types of challenges that the u.s. could help us a lot. you have the know-how. you have the universities. you have the software industries and there we can really create a lot of synergies. so, i come here full of optimism and full of good intentions, good intentions that are becoming realities. the facts are there. i don't say the international monetary fund says colombia's one of the best performing in the world and the social indicators. i'm not saying it. it's the human development or graham of oxford university that assaying colombia has a model that should be replicated worldwide. i am proud that this is happening in my country and that is the success story of that i wanted to share with you. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. we have lots of questions on lots of topics. starting out the u.s. has had to limit its military presence in south america due to

china has two point five trillion dollars in currency reserves and china is now present in africa latin america and in other asian countries where it offers extremely high sums for new loans. china has committed to invest six billion euros in projects in the democratic republic of congo these are aimed at the development of road infrastructure schools hospitals as well as the revival of the mining sector. in exchange the chinese will have access to six and a half million tons of refined copper two thousand tons of cobalt and three hundred seventy two tons of gold this minerals for projects barter agreement to surprised western countries and the i.m.f. and the world bank in particular both of whom were on the verge of cancelling the democratic republic of congo's debt these two institutions have set as a precondition that the contract be reviewed downwards. and so negotiations have been extremely hard with it has to be said with key being blackmailed by representatives presidents of european countries have told us. here cheney's contracts we get treated you don't give them up. so we're h

this is the same thing as manuscript transmission of latin text. since the roman period, the printing press was invented and printers get ahold of the list and say, people want to hear about this. so they print 1,000 pieces piecd people take them to other towns and printers make other copies. so the reason things that lead to the debate, they spread throughout whole of germany in two weeks and the whole of western europe within four week. luther is amazed and everybody is. luther senses an opportunity. if he wants to take his message of reform to the public, he can have his message distributed without having to do much. so he follows up with a series of pamphlets written in german, rather than latin so more people could understand them. and he writes in straightforward german so people in the different parts of the german speaking land would be able too understand him. and he gives the text to the printer in his town directly. no money changes hands. he says, here you go. the printer prints a thousand copies. they go to the nearby town, another one

in latin america. of course, china is always very interested in latin america's energy resources, in our water, in our biodiversity, and if they want to invest, latin america will welcome it. so be it. >> thank you. we are almost out of time, but before asking one last question, a couple housekeeping matters. we have our upcoming speakers. december 10, we have the honorable anna parker, mayor of houston, texas, dan acerson, chairman and ceo of general motors, and on december 19th, skaggs, bluegrass ledge. second, i want to present the guest with a press club coffee mug to be filled with colombia coffee. [laughter] >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] and -- [applause] and for the time question, you mentioned the property pegs, 5 enthe u.s. team is looking for a change. how do you see the prospects in the world cup? >> well, i told president obama this morning that i wish our teams not meet in the first round because it would be very disrespectful to eliminate the u.s. soccer. [laughter] diplomatic, t

i'll take latin words & phrases for $200, please. jon. what is the truth? that's it. latin, $400.n. what is alma mater? yes. latin, $600. larry. what is after war? yes.

. >>> marijuana is also legal for the first time in latin america. in one country, uruguay.. so the people there can grow a limited number of plants, keep a limited amount of marijuana for their personal use. it is all regulated and overseen by the government. so we want to the bring in rafael romo, senior latin affairs editor to talk about how did this happen? we've been following this throughout the year. it's finally there. >> today is the if first day anywhere in the world in uruguay that you can actually legally grow marijuana, and it's completely legal but people don't get any ideas. it's only uruguayan citizens. if anybody's thinking about flying to uruguay to start growing their own, that's not going to be allowed. it's part of a movement that has happened and grown in latin america over the last ten years. three latin america presidents have all spoken publicly about the need to legalize marijuana. let's listen to what president have i sent fox told us last year about this issue. >> i'm absolutely convinced public opinion is totally in favor of legalizing separating

countries in latin america.nd they began to study spanish. she apparently stuck with it. they would read the bible with each other at the end of the day. and they would take turns sometimes reading bible verses to each other in spanish. >> then, of course, the important role as the hostess for the camp david summit between antagonistic parties as they were trying to reach an agreement. what role did she play during that. and following the last clip, what was the public acceptance of the countries as the first lady coming to represent the u.s.? >> first on latin america, i think that trip was somewhat misunderstood both in this country and abroad. that was a very substantive trip because president carter is trying to send message, this is a new day for human rights. because you're an ally doesn't mean you can lock up political prisoners. you can't deliver it, so to have her deliver it, it was more effective. in camp david, the feeling -- president carter got the cia to develop these very fine profiles of the part

enormously learned, he was concerned with latin and greek and studied hebrew mysticism. here, jan van eyck depicts the most powerful figure at the burgundian court-- chancellor rolin-- kneeling before the madonna. in such works, a saint usually presented the donor-- the person paying for the painting-- to the virgin and child, but rolin decided to appear before the madonna without benefit of introduction. so van eyck linked the figures with romanesque architecture and a view of the heavenly city and landscape beyond, realized by the almost magical glow of the oil medium. nicholas rolin was the chief minister of duke philip of burgundy for nearly 40 years. he became one of the most powerful men in europe. at the height of his career, he made a spectacular donation to charity. [bell ringing] the hotel-dieu, or god's hostel, a hospital for the poor, was founded by chancellor rolin in beaune, close to the duke's capital at dijon. the initials of nicholas rolin and his wife guigone de salins and their coats of arms appear in the stained glass and the floor tiles of the buildi

. >> he is the first pope from latin america. the first pope from outside europe in 1300 years.urse he is the first pope to utter the word gay. >> so we have the first jesuit pope. it seems kind of strange that a pope would be a jesuit, because the jesuits take a vow to do what the pope tells them. >> reporter: but even more stunning to many was the name he chose. rita is a life-long catholic and writer for a catholic magazine. >> first pope to be named after francis of assisi. francis of assisi was a rebel and someone deeply committed to the poor and to prayer and a radical vision of living out krigs yan i christianity. this is the first pope to take that name, and it's not an accident. >> it's the most iconic name in the catholic imagination, because it used to be believed that no pope could take the name francis, because there was only one francis, and the fact that this pope did it told me two things right away, one, this was going to be a maverick pope, a guy who was not going to be shackled by convention, and two, it told me that this is going to be a very franciscan pope,

that is the literary latin word in the street latin use a different form, which is how we got our work. the etymologist went on to say that obviously this captures the sound and i said, this is my kind of work. first welcome all the best words come from the street and then they also sound like this. but then it hit me that this doesn't sound like that. it actually starts out and then it becomes a very bodily world. but that is technically more fun to read about than to talk about. so going off into the stories about writing that i have done. i wrote a story with wilt chamberlain who has been gone for quite a few years now, but he was a huge man and he was going to announce his retirement from basketball and i was standing next to him in the elevator once and he said something and i turned to answer him i was looking right at his elbow and there was as much room above is below. he was great to work with. i don't want to shatter any illusions here, but not every athlete is all that literate. [laughter] >> someone was interviewing key roads and said how many books have you read in your li

it was written in latin and had a lot of technical latin terms. she had studied latin and they used a translator. that book won an award and it was the first award given by the association for mining and metallurgy. herbert was a member of that association, but lou was not. lou gave the remarks and accepted the metal. >> let's get a call from david. david is from chicago. >> hi. i just want to ask about the relationship with the white house staff. i read lillian park's book when it came out. it did not torture a -- it did mrs. hoover as a very nice person. apparently, she and the president wanted the white house staff to disappear. they were jumping into closets and hiding behind curtains. they did not speak to the staff. in addition, i read that mrs. hoover would communicate using hand signals and that drove the white house staff crazy. they did not understand which was asking for. on one hand, a compassionate woman. on the other hand, not very nice to the white house staff. >> thank you. let's find out how she approached the white house staff an

the film from latin america, but the cinema are expecting to see the best movies from europe and north america too. >> or they choose to badly maintained cinemas. but it is a different story when the happen have film festival comes around. >> this pass port gets you in to see 20 films, we have great expectations in cuba when december comes around. but people are very excited especially in havana. >> it's a party where we don't just see latin american films, which is why this has grown to more than just a festival. >> 450 films and 35 countries. short documentary and animations cinemas across savannah. lit be a cuban emigration of the arts that will bring the city to a near stand still. >> cuban cinema has survived sometimes even thrived through very difficult times. for the past 35 years this festival has been a contact source of passion and inspiration. this is about more than just showing great films. it has become a demonstration of survival and creativity. does that reputation match the reality. we report. he leaves his comfortable home. and eats putar technology enterprise zone, w

but they knew absolutely nothing about asia or latin america or africa. and they were not able to distinguish domestic nationalism from subversion in the rest of the world. how did you did you cover in your book how they responded to that? what possibilities or challenge in this case thought they were facing? >> i'm going answer that by telling you i think the brothers, as we look back in the conflict way in history made three huge miscalculations. a first one had to do with their relationship with the soviet union particularly after stalin died. right after stalin died, the new leader of the soviet soviet union asked the western leaders far summit. he wanted to meet with the western leaders. the prime minister of france loved the idea. winston churchill loved it. foster was absolutely opposed. he believed there should never be any contact with the soviet union. because just a sit down at the table with them would suggest they were a deal might be possible. once you start believing that the entire edifice of the cold war could collapse. the first huge mis

for thirty years all african and latin american economies have been or untainted towards. reimbursing this debt and this is completely shattered their economies in other words the ones that we have specialized in farming which represents eighty percent of the economy in countries like mali products such as cotton cocoa for export to west african countries. behind that is the neglect of food production and the exposure of these countries to famines and malnutrition and it's no coincidence that today if eighty percent of the world's population who are dying of hunger in fact has exactly. agriculture with its current production rates could easily feed twelve billion human beings which is almost double the world's population in other words the. cannibals is that dictatorship of globalized financial capital has imposed on this planet is both murderous but at the same time. it is a figure speak for themselves i could take. victims of polluted water etc up you. in the d.r. see they are asking us today to produce more products for export to make more money especially to pay back t

foreign exchange weakness in brazil and latin america, russia , but also the cooperation with general motors is not meeting the savings they are expected. if they are the wearing their estimates, down goes the stock. >> we'll keep an eye on peugeot and rbs. we have macro news. mario draghi is about to speak at parliament. >> we are pretty sure he will reaffirm what he said in rome. we are doing our bit, get on with it. deutsche bank says tapering is a 50-50 possibility. over three be percent. asia closes at the lowest in two months. the first back-to-back drop in the s&p in almost two months. we will wait for a little bit of data in terms of inflation. we don't really have inflation in europe. we have got it in germany, but you don't have it around the rest of europe. equity markets open a little bit lower. -- stephen joined us and going into 2014 for the bank of japan, for the fed, the european central bank. equities are coming lower. the first back-to-back losses in the u.s. we have seen in some time. wait for retail sales later today. industrial production is expected to turn aroun

africa should seek inspiration from the example of ecuador in two thousand and seven eight this latin american country proceeded with the audit of its debts to determine the illegitimate and odious debts there is a whole series of contracts and we see it in the african case. absolutely unacceptable including from the point of view of international and national law. particularly rendered void. the purpose of the audit is to identify what must not be paid and it's on the basis of an order that the government of ecuador decided to no longer pay illegitimate debt. a and i believe that if we don't want to be a martyr it's true. but the time has come for us to take action the congolese have to understand that it doesn't have to be like this i'm sitting on a gold mine and diamonds on wood and coal to. an electrical energy like being a say and despite it all we have no electricity. i am standing alongside an oil palm and despite that we import palm oil and i'm in a country where there are thinned leaders who have spoken out the lakes simon combine grew kimbo. and loom. but the problem is that

china has two point five trillion dollars in currency reserves and china is now present in africa latin america and in other asian countries where it offers extremely high sums for new loans. china has committed to invest six billion euros in projects in the democratic republic of congo these are aimed at the development of road infrastructure schools hospitals as well as the revival of the mining sector. in exchange the chinese will have access to six and a half million tons of refined copper two thousand tons of cobalt and three hundred seventy two tons of gold this minerals for project barter agreement are surprised western countries and the i.m.f. and the world bank in particular both of whom are on the verge of cancelling the democratic republic of congo's debt these two institutions have set as a precondition that the contract be reviewed downwards. and so negotiations have been extremely hard with it has to be said with being blackmailed by representatives presidents of european countries who have told us. here cheney's contracts we get treated well you don't give them up. to mak

china has two point five trillion dollars in currency reserves and china is now present in africa latin america and in other asian countries where it offers extremely high sums for new loans. china has committed to invest six billion euros in projects in the democratic republic of congo these are aimed at the development of road infrastructure schools hospitals as well as the revival of the mining sector. in exchange the chinese will have access to six and a half million tons of refined copper two thousand tons of cobalt and three hundred seventy two tons of gold this minerals for project barter agreement are surprised western countries and the i.m.f. and the world bank in particular both of whom were on the verge of cancelling the democratic republic of congo's debt these two institutions have set as a precondition that the contract be reviewed downwards. even so negotiations have been extremely hard with it has to be said with being blackmailed by representatives presidents of european countries have told us. here cheney's contracts we get treated at death you don't give them up. to m

that's a failure it's not a model it's not something that can be replicated in africa or india or latin america so it's a failed system we know that it's a failed system. like the world bank and the international monetary fund play a crucial role in the entire history of the debt crisis the fact that these two situations created in nineteen forty four began to lend on the large scale developing countries in the sixty's. they had actually started in the fifty's. the real surge in loans explores in the sixty's. the roles of the i.m.f. and the world bank have changed radically since then it's all different both institutions have become instruments of oppression they do have control over new sovereign countries in the. hemisphere. the most typical way that economic hitman work is that we'll identify a country that has resources our corporations covet like oil for example and then arrange a huge loan to that country. from the world bank or one of its sisters. actually go to the country and to our own. in the democratic republic of congo is the most powerful. one of the best examples the work