back to what it used to be but we are optimistic but a time when we have demi steps we believe latin america is changing and if we keep on going down that path of change the change will gain momentum. no it is not just a time of change we are witnessing a change in latin american history we have to go on with these policies to introduce economic policies where society rules the market and not the other way around when society life and people turn into merchandise to continue to pursue justice and social equality overcoming the many injustices of previous centuries respecting our indigenous peoples and afro descendants and other minority groups yes they see if we remain committed to all this latin america will have a great future and it is the region of the future we have everything it takes to be the most prosperous region in the future if we haven't achieved it yet. because of bad leaders bad policies and bad governments. and this is what is changing in our america not here to look at that. thank you president correa that's what we're going to measure is really a pleasure to meet you julian

people think about the united states and its involvement in latin america and in ecuador. well as ever says the only country that can be sure never to have a coup d'etat is the united states because it hasn't got a us embassy. in any event i'd like to say one of the reasons that led to police discontent it was the fact that we cut all the funding the us embassy provided to the police. for and even a year after we took office we took a while to correct this before there were whole police units key units fully funded by the us embassy his offices in command were chosen by the us ambassador and paid by the us and so we have increased considerably the police's pay however as their salaries were coming from somewhere else they didn't even notice we did away with all that but there are some who still long for those times which will never come back although relating to the us has always been a relationship based on affection and friendship you know but in the framework of mutual respect and sovereignty yes i lived in the us for four years have two academic degrees from there i lo

this is hardly ever seen in latin america it's. these are just myths please bear in mind that here the media power was and it probably is in the greater than the political power. in fact it usually has a self-serving political economic social power and above all informative power this political moment. and it is the big voters the powerful legislators see the mighty judges the have set the media agenda this this way they have subdued governments presidents and courts. let's stop a train this image of poor and courageous journalists is saying like media trying to tell the truth and tyrants autocrats and dictators trying to hinder that when it isn't true is the other way round the governments trying to do something for the majority of the people are persecuted by journalists who think that by having a pen and a microphone log they can direct even their resentment against you so much they often insult and slander out of sheer dislike but they don't these are mass media serving someone's private interests. so look up and get back here

is also waging war and latin america last saturday d.h. shot and killed a drug suspect in a remote area of honduras this happened only weeks after hundreds of police advised by the da called for innocent civilians traveling by boat it's all part of an aggressive drug enforcement strategy called operation and bill in which a team of dea agents along with six u.s. state department helicopters are working with the honduran police to fight the drug war the u.s. tonight is responsibility for the latter but the incident has raised concerns about u.s. involvement in the region we know that the u.s. has handed a lot of countries around the world but you know there are currently a ton of bases in latin america and there's still more developing so should the u.s. be interfering with these countries to fight the drug war talk more about this now i'm joined by adrian keene professor at american university thanks so much for coming in so let's take a look really quickly at the violence happening in hundreds right now some say that it's the most dangero

is also waging war and latin america last saturday the d.h. shot and killed a drug suspect in a remote area of honduras this happened only weeks after hundreds of police advised by the da killed four civilians traveling by boat it's all part of a new aggressive drug enforcement strategy called operation and bill in which a team of d.n.a. agents along with six u.s. state department helicopters are working with the police to fight the drug war now the u.s. tonight has responsibility for the latter but the incident has raised concerns about u.s. involvement in the region so should the u.s. be interfering with these countries to fight the drug war talk more about this i was joined earlier by adrian pyne a professor at american university your first discussed increasingly high homicide rate in honduras. in particular its jump since the coup in two thousand and nine which the us supported by basically by funding and approving fraudulent and violent elections carried out by the same military that carried out the coup and and then continuing the farce

engages latin america countries, it's often in the military. one of the challenges and missed opportunities is a lot of that discussion is based around a market and demand for a product that's here in the united states. it's really kind of inefficient to deal with that demand only by engaging latin america and we see the trafficking problem has gone from the south and is getting closer and closer to the north. i would encourage more strategic aid. again, i look at brazil as a wonderful example of that. i would love to hear a conversation here in the united states about how to eliminate extreme poverty in our country. i think these are bold plans and bold models. i see these as two things that have to go together. when i started working in international development, my father is a social woerk. my family said why are you working oversaes. there's so many problems right here in the united states. why do you have to go somewhere else? i said it's the fact that i understand the situation and the problems and the grassroots perspective. i can use th

latin america is doing very well right now. it's one of the few reasons that is growing and weathered the economic storm and created innovative policy models. i want to give you one example. that's brazil. brazil is the only brick that has decreased in equality over the past five years. many of you may be familiar with u the brazil traditional cash tran fer program. in brazil, it started out as a program, and it's now grown significantly. they have launched a new component of it that. behind the program it's to target the poorest of the poor in the country. so the previous conditional cash transfer programs essentially took people who are very -- who are lower income and moved many of them into the middle class. interestingly, when we think about development, out comes many of the middle class, these newly middle class brazilians. their first investment items, they are investing first in education for their children and then second they are investing in personal computers for education for their children. when you are giving pe

in many respects and so we have the exact same situation that we had in the united states and latin america nights and seventies and eighties the problem of course is that in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine ninety eight the latin american countries were a small fraction of global g.d.p. you know about ten percent that's right now europe of course g.d.p. of well i think it's seventeen trillion dollars last year eight hundred billion dollars last year that has roughly twenty percent of the global economy if europe goes bankrupt we're going to have a serious serious problem worldwide and the atlantic is not going to be any kind of insulation to the united states yet it is going to be severely affected by european collapse and this is what we are about to experience because these countries that have pegged their currency to the euro cannot pay they have depleted their foreign current their or their hard currency reserves they are and we are seeing it of course you are mentioning that the spanish banks tomorrow want to are supposed to get a bailout maybe from the e.c.b. you remember it do

he was born in latin america like many of the communities members he spent most of his life there . leads in the community because he is the oldest of his siblings who came to russia with him there was a falling out with his younger brother over how their children should be educated. we're not against education. learning makes people why. is darkness we always teach our children how to read and write. this is the school attended by the children of the old believers classes are still taught the way they were at the time of the schism. church back in the seventeenth century children gather in the home of the teacher to learn to read religious books written in the old language the teacher is one of the younes brothers. and that the children start with the a.b.c.'s. first they learn texts by heart and only then do they learn the letters. we learn how to pray we pray in the morning when we wake up and in the evening when we go to bed oh the rules are here . the pupils are not divided into groups their progress depends on the set of religious books they read. nothing but. if the teacher i

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latin america is doing very well right now. as many of you know, latin america is one of few regions that's growing, that's weathered the economic storm. it's created innovative policy models. i want to give you one example and that's brazil. brazil is the only brick that has decreased in equality over the past five years. many you have may be familiar with the brazil conditional cash transfer program. in brazil it started out as a program. it's growing. they have launched a new component. the idea behind the program is to target the poorest of the poor in the country. the previous conditional cash transfer programs took people who were very, who were lower income and moved many of them into the middle class. interestingly when we think about development outcome, many of these middle class, they're first investment items, they are investing first in education for their children and second they are investing in personal computers for education use for their children. when you're giving people an opportunity to access financial r

if you look at the sort of technological adoption in latin america it's somewhere like the us force in the nineteenth seventy's. and it is this is the political and social interaction that is a terry in the states as a result of the technological interactions that are occurring so perhaps it is simply not possible for more industrialized countries to adopt a model or listen to country would we have to throw away the industrialisation to do it i don't think so i mean most of these western states a very happily become dean dust realized and made china into de dominant economic bar in the world like the british were in the nineteenth century and china is the workshop of the world there's been a huge increase the actual workforce while declining in the way it's has trebled from one billion in the seventy's and eighty's to over three billion today because of what's happening in china india bouts of south america so i think the so-called advance about was have a lot to learn from the good things that have been happening in south america why not is there a model a practical thing model tha

and latin america. it will be interesting to see. out for military aid to paraguay army will continue. the u.s. is a supplier of much to the security forces but and two, take advantage of the crisis to go forward with a long sought military base in the region. i think those are the two things to look out for. >> greg grandin, thank you for being with us, teaches latin american history at new york university and author of "empire's workshop: latin america, the united states, and the rise of the new imperialism." we will be back in 30 seconds. ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the u.n., it's a sustainable to a felon known as the rio plus 20 earth summit has concluded with few successes to report. negotiators unveiled an agreement that sets the development goals and lays the groundwork for future talks. many groups have criticized the agreement for being too weak. greenpeace called it "an epic failure." politicians called a "incident." some protester

west a new hope coming from latin america that's the modern world in the eyes of noam chomsky and tarik ali two prominent thinkers and now guest on telling us all just show here in archie. welcome to the. point is the magic of transforming airplanes into jet trains dirty diesels into greedy rail dreams double down the profits by building instead of out in the germans will you please east for the summer no job here on r.g.p. . you've got to. time julian assange. yes yes. it is true what you read. is the secret these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn.

global security interests plug authoritarian regimes and latin america who are critical u.s. partners. denouncing human rights violate fors we had to call out violat r violators by anti-month communistic -- that was not a popular policy, but it was an important attempt to put us on the right side of history. only a couple of decades later, most people in the americas live under leaders they elected with increased respect for their rights and freedoms, greater inclusion to populations too long overlooked and a middle class that now numbers over 275 millio million. today dr -- but the goal is not to chastise, it is to change behavior. during the clinton administration, we established the human rights dialogue with china. today we hold these dialogues with many countries with which we have important relationships but deep differences on issues of rights and freedoms such as russia and vietnam. we have frank conversations grounded in our principals and we help elements in governments put in place better practices, solve problems in their own societies and become more accountable

but this particular bug and the way it spreads infections is only found in latin america, not here in america. >> okay, we saw a lot of alarm today when people read that headline. thanks so much, rich. >>> and coming up right here, we know the dangers of texting and driving like this. a million of us admit to it every day. but why one texting driver tonight is on trial for homicide. ike a red rash... very sore looking kinda blistery. like somebody had set a bag of hot charcoal on my neck. i was a firefighter for 24 years. but, i have never encountered such a burning sensation until i had the shingles. i remember it well. i was in the back yard doing yard work. i had this irritation going on in my lower neck. i changed shirts because i thought there was something in the collar of the shirt irritating my neck. and i couldn't figure out what was going on. i had no idea it came from chickenpox. i always thought shingles was associated with people... a lot older than myself. i can tell you from experience, it is bad. it's something you never want to encounter. for more of the inside story,

because he shrank the size of the globe and knew nothing about north america or latin america it seemed to him perfectly -- here it was confirmed. i'm here, i'm here. this is my favorite, of course. here is columbus with all the pink flamingos flying around, and by the way, here he is in -- he looks don quioxe to me. you catch the flavor of all the depictions of this really phenomenal moment. here's one that's mystical, the mystery of christopher columbus. well, columbus on his first voyage now sails about. he goes from island to island now, and every place he goes he does encounter native peoples. as he encounters these native people, he inquires of them. you can imagine the difficulty in communication. many of these native peoples have small, gold ornaments. just trifling little things. when the spaniards see gold, it immediately flashing into their minds that we have discovered this immense potential rich civilization. truth the matter was that the gold they saw among the natives were gold traded from the mainland frshgs the mexican platts toe, but it took generations for the gold tr

do you know that latinas come from latin america or where our families have come from latin america, where banks have defaulted, where we live in cash societies. where someone like me could not grow up to be like me. i could never be an entrepreneur in some other latin-american country. so we come here in gratitude and hard work. when we hear things about poverty, and our relation to poverty, it's a little shocking because we don't live in a state of mind of poverty, we think it's a transitional thing. we have been in and out of poverty for generations and it doesn't mean we're stuck there. i think that's very important. latinos do not see ourselves as stuck in poverty, ever. we are working toward the american dream and that's why we came here and we will do whatever it takes. and latin women, the reason wall street is so after latin moms is they took the same staticstics about policy. where was the good number? that's very important. and the number they found is that in the middle of the worst economy in the united states, when everything was horrible. when latinos were in the worst

no country is immune to what happens in the eurozone, but many believe that latin america can better withstand the shockwaves from europe now, than they did from the u.s. in 2008. erika miller, "n.b.r.," new york. >> tom: whether we're talking about spain, italy or greece, the term "systemic risk" has a way of creeping into the story. it's any threat that can bring down the entire financial system. sheila bair is the former head of the federal deposit insurance corporation, it was her job to help protect banks and their depositors from systemic risk during the financial crisis, and now she's back on watch. darren gersh reports. >> reporter: as f.d.i.c. chairman sheila bair rubbed many people the wrong way. critics complained she was too outspoken, wanted to go to far when it came to policing risky banks. now out of government, bair is back in the fight once again she's taking on risks that threaten to bring the entire financial system crashing down. >> i define systemic risk is a practice or an institution that, if there is a sudden, unexpected loss, that the stakeholders, those who

. >>> millions of people are infected and it's a leading kilner latin america.ery tough to treat. so does this scary parasitic disease face a growing threat in the united states? brian todd has been digging into this important story for us. what are you learning? >> there is new concern about this disease because of the number of people infected. there is debate over whether it's a growing threat in the u.s. in some circles, it's drawing comparisons to another disease. aids. the scourge of the post-war era, killing more than 25 million people over the past three decades. is there a new aids on the horizon? experts now worry about a disease affecting millions in latin america. >> i like to call shargas disease the most important infection you've never heard about it. it almost exclusively affects people living in extreme povrtism. >> a parasitic infection prevalent in poor areas of central and south america. health authorities say roughly ten million people are infected with s with chagas. it kills nearly 20 million people a year. >> is it impossible to cure? >>

so that we maintain a presence in latin america, in africa, in europe, and elsewhere. fourth, we have to ensure that we have a force that can confront and defeat aggression from any adversary any time, anywhere. lastly, this can't just be about cutting the budget. it also has to be about investments. investments in new technology and new capabilities as well as our capacity to grow, adapt and mobilize as needed. in shaping this strategy, we did not want to repeat the mistakes of the past. our goals were the following. number one, maintain the strongest military in the world. that's what we have now. that's what we want to have in the future. secondly, we do not want to hollow out the force, where you maintain a large force, less spending and the result is that we weaken everything at the defense department by our failure to be able to address the needs of that kind of force, and that was a mistake that's been made in the past. we don't want to make that mistake again today or in the future. that means we have to take a balanced approach to budget cuts. we have to look

turns to 1980's latin america to look for a solution to the crisis that's in a program from washingtonthe updates on today's top stories. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism honest we thought. we wanted to present. something else. i felt. good speech. but. there. are. very little. live from the russian capital with you. top stories now moscow says there's no alternative to the un envoy peace plan in syria stressing it will not allow a military intervention with both sides to blame for the violence russia has proposed an international conference to resolve the conflict. demonstrators breaking the law now face fines here in russia this claim to protest movement support numbers are dwindling. a recent europe correspondent investigates why is security police blacklisted in a series of reports about some of the country's policies. i don't. reporting that russian tennis star maria sharapova wins the french open crown twenty five year old has become the new the woman in the world to concl

when with going back to the years with marx, where if you look at where latin america was in the '70s they were almost all military governments. today there are very few military governments. if you look at the nations of eastern europe and the soviet union in the '80s, was there the sense that it would never change. it did change. you look at south africa. you look at what happened in northern ireland. we are now, this panel and these years they're dealing with the places that have been the most intractable, countries in the middle east and countries in asia where you have not had a tradition of civil society and you haven't had the noings of free press and where women have been held down for decades or centuries and we're now in the process in the early stage of trying to figure out how those things change. change is a messy business and it's not a linear process. we can't force it to happen, but we can help empower people who are the agents of change. that's, to me, the message of this day and it's the message of what drl is about. we can't do it alone and we are not always going t

that's part of the reason why it's really easy it for latin america basically you don't have to have a lot of policy changes to make sure that the targets are met. because in countries and regions where you have inequality, it's really the gaps between the groups that are most important, not necessarily that growth is moving and things are moving in the right direction. we know the historic case of brazil where you had huge income inequality, yet you still had kind of brazil was moving towards targets. which is what is making this kind of development so interesting in brazil is that brazil is saying it's not acceptable for us to meet targets when we have such levels of inequality and poverty in our inner country. so again i think some discussion on racial and ethnic equality or cultural difference, cultural values and maybe who are discussion i don't understand the averages with the commitments by the individual governments because then you have something to work for. it doesn't become an exercise for just certain parts of the world and not others. >> and i think they are what they w

africa and latin america these places want to replicate but the numbers don't add up. we need another five planets like this one without human beings. it won't happen. is a failed economic model. we must realize that and we must change it. this economic model is one based on something else that is new in history. if you look back a few hundred years at global geopolitics you look at a place where an earth driven by religious organizations and later country's bleaker still governments took control. some were totalitarian and some were democracies. now a time when the big corporations have taken control. this is a new year and the big corporations are calling the shots. no politician gets elected to a major post in the united states or other democracies without huge amounts of corporate financing and support. obama made that clear to us. even if a politician were to get elected. say ron paul doesn't take any money from big corporations, it is a long shot but let's assume that happened. he still has to face a congress filled with people at the mercy of big corporations. h

in the government of ecuador or ecuador to know that point people in the street in ecuador in latin america to know that they're subjected. often to right wing private media that attack the president and other progressive governments in the region. making it seem like you know it's something like this that ecuador would be defying the world acted to protect the innocent who were. very different reality which is to support . the joining us roger i mean i met you in the position of the embassy. that he is actually still that because we haven't seen any sign of him whatsoever how do we know he hasn't actually fled sometime. i met with him i met with him personally when i was you know i delivered the. letter and the petitions to the consul in ecuador and then after meeting with the consul i met with julian of saddam in the in the embassy so i personally testify that he is there or at least he was there a couple days ago when i was in the embassy and he's also been interviewed to some of the press from the embassy and for the or anyone who visits the embassy can see been surrounded by british po

we had panels this morning talking about, you know, latin america. latin america change didn't occur overnight. it occurred because civil society grew. many of them tied to the catholic church. built up a constituency that basically challenged governments that were behaving badly. we heard in the last panel about what happened throughout eastern europe in the soviet union. dick shifter and dan freed and others worked with the dissident community there that for years everybody ignored and they thought these people are really, you know, it's a fool's errand. they're not going to get anywhere. so where are we in the middle east? we're in the early stage of a very imperfect set of political transitions. women are -- and other vulnerable groups are clearly marginalized. you hear from women all the time. you know, we were standing in the streets. we were arm in arm. and then when the political process starts, we're ignored. >> right. >> and so the question of political empowerment of women is a critical piece of building sustainable democracies in the midd