putin has viewed latin america of a logical link in a chain. reports by russian navy vessels and deployment of a long-range bomber highlights russia's efforts to strengthen its global reach in the new age of great power competition. just a couple weeks ago one of russia's most advanced warships was docked in havana harbor. finally, drivers of migration including violence, corruption, and poverty, place significant strain on regional governments and can engender regional instability impacting not only the southern border of the united states but providing additional flash points for china and russia to exploit at the expense of american soft power. all of this demonstrates clearly that the western hemisphere should be viewed as an important front in our efforts to compete with china and russia and implement the nds. i look forward to your input and your candid assessment of the involving security dynamics in this region. describe how the nda information is importantion and how you'll allocate south com's resources. as well as identifying challen

as a result, latin america has become a fixture for chinese ambitions. utilizing economic coercion to grow support for chinese follett policy objectives [indiscernible] and the exclusion of the u.s. and canada from regional discourse. trade and economic ties between the united states and latin america are changing with china surpassing the united states as the main destination for exports from several latin american countries. china is also deepening military and technological ties in the region. for example, we have seen space related cooperation in brazil, venezuela and argentina. china has increased arms sales in a manner that violations -- that violates u.s. and e.u. restrictions and hinders our , ability to integrate with our strategic partners. russia is also working to expand meanwhile its influence in the , region. the the putin regime seeks to erode u.s. influence, and has doubled down on its efforts to prop up corrupt authoritarian regimes. in venezuela, cuba, and nicaragua, through economic and military assistance. for many years, putin has vi

i didn't parents won't be able to help with the transition to the latin alphabet because they haven't allowed to themselves or children will only be able to manners in school we're worried that the main weight of this change will be on the teacher's shoulders. language is already a complicated question in kazakhstan even in this school and the village of kind as are across the country cousins and russian are both official languages here children choose which language they want to study and like many cause us most pupils are bilingual now the jump to a new alphabet awaits them as well. in the nearby city of new shop signs are already being written in the latin alphabet but soon the government will have to swap street signs and translate official documents and textbooks i'm not much change. several new. brain central asian countries switched alphabet soon after the fall of the soviet union but in kazakhstan an independent survey shows most causes are critical of the move because they speak a stance which a long time ago as a country cost honest trying to keep up with the west and with e

i don't want to leave latin america just yet. in a second we are zooming out and look at hezbollah outside of the region. miguel i wanted to come back to you, and just summarize what are the key sort of lessons learned from the attacks and what things still need to be inside argentina in the fight against terrorism? real briefly? >> yes, thank you, toby. well there have been many lessons. the first and most painful is that terrorism can hide every questioner which in the early 90s was not so well assumed. and that's why the first years of the investigations were of quite solitary for the investigators and the jewish community. then different attacks around the world took place and they started to look back what happened in argentina in a different way. that was one of the first lessons. another lesson is that hezbollah is very present in the region as well iran. there was an indictment in 2013 in the case that showed and followed all the ways iran had infiltrated the whole country. i think that's why all the work on hezbollah and

russia's economic influence in latin america is much smaller than china's. but its intentions are much more pernicious. russia's propaganda machine as been active in latin america with efforts to raise doubts about the democratic process and to sow discord in the region. russia's state controlled spanish language television station spreads misinformation throughout the region and seeks to undermine u.s. influence in the region. russia has also used cyberattacks to attack democratic institutions. the center for strategy and international studies reported, for example, there have been 50,000 cyberattacks against colombia's national voter registry during the 2018 legislative elections. we have seen russia covertly deploy kremlin lynn linked paramilitary groups to latin america. repeating the pattern of using these forces to advance their strategic interest abrood without having to admit they deployed any military personnel to a specific country. russia's intervention in venezuela have propped up the disastrous maduro regime and helped deny the transition to the

he's currently on a 15-city tour with his solo play, "latin history for morons."where you are, you. john leguizamo, nice to see you again, john. >> great to be here. look at all the love. it's nice. >> stephen: it is nice. welcome to the love shack ♪ love shack baby >> stephen: how has your summer been? >> it's good, turning around. >> stephen: you only get so many summers in your life. >> that's depressing. >> stephen: i like to start low and we get happier as we go along. >> i just turned 55. >> stephen: what! >> if i was in "logan's run" i would be gone. >> stephen: here's a happy summer news. last week you were nominated for an emmy for raymond santina sr. in "as they see us" which is about the central park five. what is it like to work-- to be an actual a character, a real person from this harrowing story that in some ways still haunts us? >> such a painful story. and i got a chance to hang out with the dad, raymond santana sr. and the son. >> stephen: just for the few people out there who may not know. there was a horrific attack in central park. >> 1988-- 1

no amount of security assistance dollars to latin america will be helpful. president trump's stated rationale to punish these countries for the migrant crisis is ill considered and totally counter productive to reducing forced migration numbers. ultimately it undermines our national security in the region. unless we support civil societies in these countries and help improve economic conditions, we will never get a handle on the illicit drugs that flow through these countries and into the united states. one final note and i think it's critical for us to discuss is that corruption in central and south america not only destabilizes the region but it also provides china and russia with a foothold into these countries as well. corrupt governments are more likely to take loans from china that allow them to skim millions off of the top and leave their treasuries empty. the more we focus on combatting corruption, the more successful we will be in implementing the national defense strategy in the regi region. >> thank you for those opening comments. admiral faller w

and return for lucrative construction projects this scandal has brought down politicians throughout latin america including brazil ecuador and colombia for proving presidents have been tainted that includes a man garcia who committed suicide in april us police came to arrest him over bribery allegations he had denied any wrongdoing. has admitted paying almost $13000000.00 in bribes and peruse since 2004 well eric farnsworth is the vice president of the council of the americas and joins us now live from washington thank you for your time so can you explain to us how far reaching we've had a quick run through but how far reaching the scandal is and how much it exposes the kind of corruption there is in latin american governments. well thanks very much for having me on again you know the tentacles of the of the british investigation and scandals have really literally reached throughout latin america you named any number of countries there are others you could have named as well then as well as certainly cuba there have been allegations in mexico about some of these issues and they go right t

communication installation in the panama canal zone which covers all of latin america obviously this is the condo network which all of us have heard about over the last few years this cia did such a great job ensuring control of latin america through operation corndog that in 1977 just 2 years into its official phase europe took notes representatives of west german french and british intelligence services had visited the condo organization secretary it's important harry's during the month of september $977.00 in order to discuss methods for establishment of an anti subversion organization simulate a condo due to their view that the terrorists aversive threats had reached such dangerous levels in europe as kissinger was well aware the cia knew all about this state department knew all about this and in fact the united states helped facilitate communications between the 6 countries that were involved in this people are getting some small measure of justice and it's much too late many of the perpetrators have already died you have to realize this was a vast operation thousands and thousa

latin x, 70,000. and blacks, 46,000. blacks resident experience poverty three times the overall poverty rate in san francisco, 46% of black children living in poverty in comparison to 27% of pacific islanders children, 15% latin x, 10% of asian, and 3% of white children. nearly 40% of san francisco households that bring in less than 30% of a.m.i., or asian american, or pacific islander. the majority of latin x households in san francisco make less than 100% of area median income with the largest population latin x households falling in the 30 to 50% a.m.i. designation. between 1990 and 2014 and 15, decrease of low income workers living in san francisco, 30% increase in median rent associated with 21% decrease in low income households of color. correlation not seen for low income white house holds. as housing prices rose, the share of low income black households in san francisco living in high poverty rose 41% in 2000 to 65% in 2015. in comparison to low income asian, 27% latin x, 19% and white house holds 12%. when peopl

. >> the pioneer cracking hollywood's glass ceiling, leading a powerhouse crews of latin and queer crew members on and off the screen. >>> grandma couldn't come to the wedding. so one couple got creative. this is one walk to remember. >>> but first, the "nightline" 5. >>> number one in just 60 itit's crepe day.day for our family at denny's. a family tradition we started about 22 minutes ago and now we can continue that tradition at home with denny's delivery. see you at denny's or dennys.com >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. rarely do we see the inner workings of the russian justice system. a machine shrouded in secrecy and where it's reported fewer than 1% of criminal trials end in not guilty verdicts. now one american's two-year odyssey in a moscow jail after an online order changed his life forever. moscow's detention center 3. >> according to him, it's worse than hell. >> reporter: few americans have ever seen inside it. but for one texas man because of a product he ordered online it has been home for almost two years. >> he's been severely beaten twice. right now i'm just

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are joining us now from our latin america desk is jennifer. jennifer good evening to use so. the the u.n. report it's accusing. regime of murder torture repression i mean that's a long list year. what's the reality here about the situation. well the report vindicates what observers n.g.o.s and independent media has already been announced for months and basically what this is is a special forces that maduro has deployed to the poorest areas of caracas and what they do is they come house to house they knock on and they basically take members of the family away male members of the family and they as as it has been alleged they had they killed them and so this is something that they have done to crack down this scent in venice those poor areas because these are the areas where the government has traditionally been strong and if they lose these areas they know that that would probably spell the end and so for the opposition this is this is something that's very satisfying to finally have confirmation from the un the highest human rights organ that that this is true that this is ha

tell us, what is a marshall plan for latin america? t means partnering, investing in a mutually beneficial way so that people cafind opportunity there and be safe there so they don't meve to desperately to the united states trying to find those things. of course, it means, are therean ways that weee investment that create opportity for the people there that also benefit the united states? as you know, we have foreign aid that we deliver to t central american countries. we have the central american regionalecurity initiative. i think we need to amp that up and that we need to focus, as well, on economic opportunity. >> the economy has essentially been climbing in those three countries for the last couple of years and crime has gone down in those three countries, as well. how do you square that with the influx of immigration at the southern border? >> i don't know that in those t countries tht has been evenly distributed. just like the united states, right? if you took a look at where economic opportunity happens in the united states,e t

well the scandal has brought time politicians throughout latin america including in brazil ecuador and colombia at farnsworth is vice presidents of the council of the americas he says the potential implications of toledo's arrest are huge. the tentacles of the other brushed investigation and scandal really literally reached throughout latin america you named any number of countries there are others you could have named as well venezuela certainly cuba there have been allegations in mexico about some of these issues and they go right to the top of some of these countries and what it's done is that it's not just impacted the people who have been accused of corruption obviously but it is also impacted the willingness of the people the voters to continue to support many of their elected officials and some would say have led directly through recent elections to the election of outsider candidate who are elected based on their claims to be not corrupt that is something that i think voters have increasingly been sympathetic to and it is driving elections now across the region so the implicati

how about some spectacular images from latin america.undred's of thousands of f peoe were plungeded into dararess in chile and argentina for a solar eclipse. >> in the middle of tuesday afternoon, northern chile was plunged into darkness. onlookers cheered and applauded in all of the solar clips. thousands traveled here to experience the event, which lasted a few short minutes before daylight returns. >> overwhelms. i h have never experienced something like this. it is incredible. is the most beautiful moment of this journey. >> you become overwhelmed because, even with the technology, we cannot copy that. something mystical. witneness athered to papartial eclipse with 92% of te sun covered by the moon. it was visible in argentina and bolivia. solar clips is happen when the moon passes between the earth and the sun, allowing the moon to cast its shadow on earth. on tuesday, it created a band of total darkness 150 kilometers wide. in northernws were chile,e, where a total solar eclipse had not occurred since 1592. the next time, the south

the scandal has brought down politicians throughout latin america including in brazil ecuador and colombia eric fons worth vice president of the council of the americas he says the potential implications of tomatoes arrest and the why the case are huge the tentacles of the other british investigation and scandals have really literally reached throughout latin america you named and any number of countries there are others you could have named as well venezuela certainly cuba there have been allegations in mexico about some of these issues and they go right to the top of some of these countries and what it's done is that it's not just impacted the people who have been accused of corruption obviously but it is also impacted the willingness of the people the voters to continue to support many of their elected officials and some would say have led directly through recent elections to the election of outsider candidate who are elected based on their claims to be not corrupt that is something that i think voters have increasingly been sympathetic to and it is driving elections now across the regi

students who call themselves latin x.trying to explain it as an historian, there are all kinds of complications and that is why i do not hang too much meaning on any one the terms. i try to see them holistically. maybe i am just confused about my own ethnic or political identity. half white, half mexican, half latino. beancle called me green when i was growing up. maybe i am wrestling with these things on my own. i do not think these kinds of name considerations are unique to latinos or hispanics. african-american, black, all kinds of self identification that black people have used over time. there is also anglo and white and caucasian. those terms present their own challenges. i do think this question of naming and identity is often posed as one of the challenges to writing latino political history or the political history of hispanics in one of the questions i often get, is there such a thing as the latino vote? the hispanic vote? i do not know that there is a thing called the latino vote or the hispanic vote. there are

david: what about latin america? you are cooperating on some things. i came into the industry two years ago, i learned ford in latin america which did very well. it stopped. i think the difference this time is the nature of the products we are working on and the kind of issues we are addressing happen to be ford investments. that is the better kind of challenge because it causes a win-win for both sides and a higher engagement because we are on deadlines to try to meet targets. so, i have more optimism with this phase of what has been a good relationship between vw and fort over the years. david: joint ventures offer certain opportunities but also offer some challenges. a total integration. how did you take two fierce competitors in volkswagen and ford and have them cooperate some of the time and compete some of the time? herbert: we have a good track record. in america and europe, we shared some plants and technologies. i think we share some values. we have a quite synchronized view and what is going to happen in our industry. we are really complement

referred to wellness centres due to the model minority narrative and mental-health stigmatization, latinx. and african-american students feel they receive higher levels of referrals as a disciplinary measure. additionally, lack of awareness, outreach, low rates of referrals to services and cultural barriers serve as very barriers for students, especially for asian-americans and students who prime -- whose primary language is not english. middle eastern students also reported additional barriers to not using mental health services therefore, be it resolved that the san francisco unified school district board of education will commit to extend the development , procedures, structures, and funding infrastructure to invest in staff, valued -- value student voices, and create relationship building spaces for parents, community members, staff and students to support wellness and mental health across the district, and further be it resolved that the school district will develop and implement plans, processes and protocols to, number 1, increase funding to support preventative wellness services

in the united states for extradition on corruption charges he's the latest politician caught up in latin america's largest ever corruption scandal centered on brazilian construction company of the wrecked toledo is wanted for allegedly taking $20000000.00 in bribes in exchange for lucrative public works contracts the 73 year old has denied any wrongdoing. the scandal has brought down politicians throughout latin america including in brazil ecuador and colombia eric fons worth vice president of the council of the americas he says the potential implications of toledo's arrest and the why the case are huge the tentacles of the other british investigation and scandals have really literally reached throughout latin america you named and any number of countries there are others you could have named as well venezuela certainly cuba there have been.

now via skype is sameena on the tomato why is care involved in this one we're talking about mostly latin american and mexicnn migrants. >>well, actually mean people who are undocumented it doesn't necessarily mean that you are from the latin american countries is also there are people who are undocumented who are from the asian pacific islander communities as well so. this effects people globally and it's a civil rights issue we want to make sure that people know their rights we want to make sure that people are prepared if they are encountered with ice agents. >>so some you know there's what to do to beat hair and then there's what to do if in fact who are detained one of the key points on both those issues. >>i mean well but the thing to do to be prepared to just. >>make sure that you know who have like a an attorney have information attorneys available have the power of attorney available of let your. relatives and loved ones of have that information make sure you have a conversation with your family is well equipped to do is. you might be a. detained, but your children at school who'

is a increase in pres action of all known types of drugs i mean opium and opiates in afghanistan in latin america synthetic drugs everywhere in the rural but this process is a little bit of set but i didn't present seizures by more efficient work of local floor enforcement to prevent illicit drug traffic and. and that's why the overall statistics. more or less stable some says he doesn't want oregon why was legalizing weed you've said that wasn't the answer now some years have passed larry juana has been made legal in canada is spreading across the united states is this legalization wave hindering the work of your organization. i must say that so far the absolute majority of member states states but is to direct them to open the bensons i firmly against legalization of drugs that is a position which has been confirmed recently in march ministerial meeting here in vienna and there will be ministerial meeting don't determine the state of declare ation and the firm has it ever been so full city direct control can then sense it should his arrest some exceptions canada. you're away and some st

not in some asian semi democracy or latin america or something like that. so we have a very serious problem. and, when you-and of course look at what they are doing to penetrate the universities of the united states, not just the confucius institutes, more than 150 of them in the united states, where the chinese communist party ministry of education is write in the curriculum and appointing the instructors to teach chinese language in the united states. something that i find inexplicable that we are letting happen in the united states of america. and that i think we could end very simply, by simply adding a new, national defense education act that provides federal government funding of chinese language instruction in the united states which is an important national security object that. let me add, neil, that we engaged to build on hr's point about overconfidence and complacency. we engaged in the late 1990s, in a bipartisan act of unilateral disarmament. jesse helms wanted to shrink the international affairs budget. the clinton administration wasn't ready

>> a north bay casino's latin dance night had a special dance. >> the message he was there to spread to the i'm maepd del castillo any san jose. this weekend will bring extreme heat. its weather prompting warnings from emergency management officials. >> i'm cornell bernard. a north bay casino step up to protect immigrant rights. why the sheriff is here with a special message. >> i'm in san francisco where young people are learning to fix and code computers. abc7 news starts right now. >> now news to build a better bay area from abc7. >> and let's start with a live look at the view from our mount diablo camera. dark and cool. but sunrise tomorrow will kickw >> several bay area cities could see triple digit temperatures this weekend prompting warnings from emergency officials. let's get right to the a look at the weather with spencer christian. >> we'll start with a look at current temperatures. cool near the coast. look how warm it still is at this hour in the inland areas. 73 in brentwood. many i don't remember locations have readings in the mid to upper 60s at 11:02 p.m. we have a h

for over two centuries our black, latin x and native american and asian and pacific island communitiesave not had what they needed to be successful. this is not accidental or mistake. this is a structural and institutional racism in housing, education, employment, healthcare, causing real racial harm. by harm i just don't mean our feelings are hurt or trauma. i mean devastating impact on community of color. ongoing segregation and displacement, voter suppression and lack of representation, bad health outcomes and educational achievement gaps and mass incarceration. lastly, this inequity is deeply rooted in the land we stand on. this land we stand on. throughout this country and including california, it has had a violent history with native and indigenous community including genocide, loss of land. this history was made possible by the state's laws and polici policies. this city was built on that history and those policies. for years, the city we have done reports, we have had working groups, commissions and policies to try to address this harm. we have made some strides. it really is n

in the public knows about our washington correspondent alexander limo reports the league of united latin american citizens is offering a cash reward for information leading to the conviction of us immigration immigrant agents, the league of united latin american citizens known as lulac. >>is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the more patrol agent or ice agent engaged in criminal activity child abuse child neglect, lex national president domingo garcia decided to offer the reward after visiting a migrant detention center in clint taxes and after a propublica story revealed a secret facebook group. >>that appears to have as members nearly 10,000 current and former border patrol and ice agents. the group's postmarked refugees and joke about migrant deaths these rogue border, patrol agents ice ages. >>that are demonizing them calling them maxine go happy honey you know basically saying when we kill them all members of the facebook group also posted derogatory and threatening means about latina members of congress. >>garcia says we know about th

i want to talk a bit about countries like latin america where farmers turn to growing drop crops out of economic interest because nothing else brings them as much money as coca leaves for instance or in afghanistan where people depend on the poppy to survive how do you do tell them to stop growing drugs because well it's really bad but when they have to choose between that and hunger they always will choose doing that. election in america treated the rest of the major coca produces a lot bureau and what we're doing with have important programs multi 1000000 programs self-supporting discounters in developing president if livelihoods. in the cottage and farmers to produce note. but rather. food like. like. like. trees and many other useful things of course it is less attractive to them but it is more predictable for them for their families for their future just as special is that if they have lent it will sit difficult stick and. a few more free. to leave and they said to produce legal livelihoods for them for themselves but also for their families and would have good examples includin

severe threats that we're facing in latin america. the election of jair bolsonaro in brazil put in power the most extreme, most outrageous of the right-wing ultrananationalisis who are now plaguing the hemisphere. yesterdaday, lenin morenoo of ecuador t took a strong step towawards joinining the e far-right alliance by expelliling julian asassane from the embassy. he's picked up quickly by the u.s., will face a very dangerous future unless there's a significant popular protest. mexico is one of the rare exceptions in latin america to these developments. this has happened -- in western europe, the right-wing parties are growing, some of them very frightening in character. there is a counter-development. yanis varoufakis, the former finance minister of greece, a very significant, important individual, along with bernie sanders, have urgeded the formation of the progressive international to counter the right-wing international that's developing. at the level of states, the balance e looks overerwhelmy inin the wrongng direction. but stat

opiates in afghanistan in latin america synthetic drugs everywhere in the road but this process is a little bit of set but i didn't reason seizures by more efficient work of local floor and force meant to prevent illicit dr rafiq and. that's why the overall statistics. more or less stable says it doesn't what oregon why was legalizing weed you've said that wasn't the answer now sammy or some past larry why has been made legal in canada is spreading across the united states is this legalization wave hindering the work of your organization. i must say that so far the absolute majority of members to. a states but is the direct control conventions i firmly against legalization of drugs that is their position which has been confirmed recently in march ministerial meeting here in vienna and that will mean the state of media got built at their mini state of the collaboration and the firm has it ever been so full city drug control can then sense actually is there are some exceptions candidate. you're away and some states of the united states but so far this thread is not developing and it's