having to do with latin america, mesh towards latin america.also manual orozco who remittances and development and writes as an expert on immigration issues and will share thoughts about that and other questions, and margaret myers who directs the program on china and latin america. china is also going through añ&r transition, and also china's economy's extremely important for many latin american countries increasingly so, and she's going to share thoughts about what that relationship might look like. we're delighted to have margaret with us as realm. she just came back from about a month in china m i think we'll have some fresh perspective and insight about the situation there, and, obviously, people are increasingly interested in latin america, what's happening in china, and the united states, the two very important players. let begin with a few comments before turning it8/á#i to any colleagues and them opening it up to all of you. last april, the dialogue produced a policy report that reflected the analysis and recommendations of the member

and latin america. these issues were drugs, cuba, and immigration. the first two issues were important at the summit of the americas. the report was released right before the summit of the americas. the first two issues were raised at the summit. the presidents get a mandate to the american states to study the drug issue and the president made it clear there would not be another summit or unlikely another summit unless there was cuban participation in the summit. those issues certain were prominent. i think the election results had interesting implications for all three of these. perhaps the most important is the last one, immigration, which was not on the summit agenda. i think it has raised some expectations that this may be a real opportunity and moment to pursue more serious reform on the immigration system, largely thanks to the significant latino vote, which i guess is the big story coming out of the election and how crucial it was nationally, especially in the real critical swing states, which made the difference in the election. clearly, it is

policy in latin america. there is an opportunity perhaps greater than we thought we wrote this report in april to make some progress on these issues. there's more space, a little more pressure, but it's also at the same time probably smart to keep expectations in check and under control. president obama has been shown to be pretty cautious when it comes to foreign policy and we still have a divided government and we also have to take care of this fiscal cliff for swimming and that's not making any predictions, but it's just useful to see where we are and the election results do have implications for some of the concerns we outlined in this report. i think i'll turn it over to computer for remarks. >> michael, good introduction. let me start -- in fact, i went to showcase the end of this month. it will really be the first major opportunity to see the extent to which the election really has had any kind of impact on the way the u.s. is thinking about that america was the way that lack america is thinking about

how the world looks from latin america as nicaragua's president talks to what. the judge is waiting fifteen goats. two counts. kilograms of rights one thousand flatbreads. and. one is the bride in a bad mood. to tell the groom the lawn. is a done deal. we speak your language not a damn. good news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles keaton's stories. that try all te spanish find out more visit. i'm in sochi but know your city in europe come the hosts of the twenty fourteen winter olympics. sunset. thank you for the. saucy. thank you to some. dog days of. the bride days it. makes it come in the. sun it's so true. i love. more news today volunteers once again flared up. and these are the images that world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. well the president there was as much as i think you missed the president for taking the time recently chavez won the presidential election in venezuela and stayed in office a year ago the people of nicaragua we elected you for

after the break how the world looks from latin america regular its president talks to r.t. . the sun rises over what seems like analyst forest to hear in the new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of life while stalking as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. of. bloggers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy lager set up trucks making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve were only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illega

but this isn't true in all of latin america although u.s. bases and command posts have doubled in the last few years some leaders are refusing to grant the u.s. a foothold in their countries like ecuadorian president rafael quite a few leave me the last thing on is anti american because if i will always a spade a spade and if there are international u.s. policies as i saw it detrimental to our country or even to that to relax in america will but i will denounce them strongly and i will never allow my country's sovereignty to be affected by the. president put out a closed down the u.s. military base in ecuador and it's frustrating to share with many other latin american leaders although they may not be ready to remove u.s. bases because that would mean an end to u.s. funds but there is now a dialogue exploring alternatives to fighting this failed drug war for u.s. interests now the people of latin america have always been opposed to u.s. dominance in their regions but finally we are starting to see the leaders of these countries stand up agai

is latin america headed the same way? let's take a look.orld bank cites a number of reasons behind the region's rise. 70 million women joined the labor market in recent years contributing to a reduction in extreme poverty. education boosted poverty. they spend three years more in school than a decade ago thanks to targeted initiatives. of course, there's been a rise in exports. brazil has enjoyed a rapid growth fueled by commodities. the question is whether the rise is sustainable. the world bank cautions that class remains a major opportunity to latin america. you are likely to spend the same number of years in school as your parents. the economist points out that the difference in the quality of school ace tended by those at the top and bottom income groups is bigger than anywhere else in the world. the growth of a latin america meddle class is obviously good news but there's reason to worry about its economic future. wre cently reported how brazil's growth rate closely tracked the dmod prices. if those prices drop as a result of a slowdo

we're currently inflicting on young people in these 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 ok 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 related to the 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 that 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 from human trafficking from

the problem is that you have in latin america today a enormous level of violence and killing 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 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 numbers of people in jail the use of our police forces going to a criminal court in any small town and they were in the united states and a big majority of cases are drug related cases the damage is enormous one cannot talk about. either so any solution without looking at what damage it

immigrants from latin america are leaving spain in droves. this year, up to 80,000 people from ecuador have packed their bags and gone home. the crisis shows no sign of abating, and many ecuadorian immigrants have fallen victim to shady banking practices. for many, the dream of a better life here in spain has turned into a nightmare. >> we offer legal advice, and help them find lawyers who will represent them and help with the difficult negotiations with the banks. >> hipatia condor is also here for advice. like so many ecuadorians, she came here during the building boom, in the late 1990s. now she feels betrayed. >> back then, spain welcomed us as cheap labor. now that there's a crisis, we've been abandoned. the spanish authorities won't do anything to help the immigrants here. >> the local ecuadorian soccer league has gathered for a festive kickoff. during soccer season, more than 50 teams compete each weekend. it is a slice of latin america, right in the middle of madrid. before the starting whistle, there's also a beauty contest -- but th

goes about dealing with the drug problem drug issues in latin america is similar to the way it was done thirty years ago look at the us in honduras recently it's just so similar to the way we dealt with bolivia and peru thirty years ago that's just and the latin americans have never been able to get the attention of the united states to look at alternatives carol and i agree that read it a little ization is not opposed thumbprints a little but they're not looking at no the u.s. has simply refused any idea of a debate discussion and now they're ringing the alarm bells in the only way to get washington's attention i think there is to be used i mean i think they're going to say i shouldn't of alternatives that. right there well peter you're right only there then shouldn't i was a legalisation to talk about reforms i know but you know how and why i was going to say do that in order to talk about reforms. yeah i worry so well but the issue organization the reason why you have always right we don't know why you're right gentlemen i'm to jump in we're going to we're short break and after that

and latin america. these issues were drugs, cuba, and immigration. the first two issues were important at the summit of the americas. the report was released right before the summit of the americas. the first two issues were raised at the summit. the presidents gave a mandate to the organization of american states to study the drug issue. and also the president made it clear there would not be another summit or unlikely another summit unless there was cuban participation in the summit. those issues certain were prominent. i think the election results had interesting implications for all three of these. perhaps the most important is the last one, immigration, which was not on the summit agenda. i think it has raised some expectations that this may be a real opportunity and moment to pursue more serious reform on the immigration system, largely thanks to the significant latino vote, which i guess is the big story coming out of the election and how crucial it was nationally, especially in the real critical swing states, which made the difference in the e

narrator: in the subregion of latin america called "southern south america," the country of chile isvolcanoes and earthquakes. but here, pacific rim dynamism is more about economics than plate tectonics. 2,500 miles long and averaging just 90 miles wide, this elongated state spans a diverse range of natural environments. each of those environments offers opportunities for primary econom activy. each of those environments based on those activities, chile has grown a dynamic export economy. that growth has brought numero changes tohile's hum geography, incling gend rol and settlent patterns. chile's capil,antiago, is the cenof tountry's service sector, the largest partf its economy. ers inoun amic santthe resultingeupe populn tof mostly spanish colonization over several centuries. but more recently, chile'sthe prary stant foreign connecto the osideorwith europe. are best seen here, in valparaíso, chile's largest port. foreign trade is a cornerstone of the new economy, and most of it is with pacific rim countries, including the united states. man: chile has become one of the most rapidl

interest or in latin america in the same period john's right that in the arab world the united states face spaces mixed interests on the other hand he didn't mention libya where the united states joined a military intervention that did help lead to what's probably pro-democratic change for the arab world does present a mixed picture but i think it's actually sectional compared to how the united states has approached democratic change in most of the regions in the last twenty years ok tom if i could stay to stay with you do you think that the nato intervention in libya was in the name in the purpose for democracy or just geo political interest the un resolution yes the u.n. resolution was about humanitarian intervention in france and britain in the united states ended up taking further in and carrying out an intervention that helped lead to regime change i don't think it was due to sort of deep sinister economic interests i think the united states france and britain actually had the best interests of the b. and actually in their minds and helped contribute to an outcome which will prob

rural--urban migraon is a key regional feature in latin america.s siblings face the same problems. poquito nos tocó a cada uno y por eso que cada uno... naatorsince we eacht very little land, each one has to move to suprt one's family. that is why we are scaeredaloe narrator: the same forces at push indians out of tighlanalso le. what a those forces, aha are the prospects for change? e orse will grow out for a historical geographer, the past is fertile ground. george lovell is researching patterns in both time and space explain t collapse-- and now the explosion-- of maya population aftethe conquest in the6th ceury, the spaniards had little interest in highland resources. they saw something in the hills more valuable than land. as labor the spaniards saved mayas' souls and forced their bodies to work silver mines and lowland plantations. lovell: to supply them with ready pools of labor, ator: anis... and toive forced in compact tow like is.uild the w settlements, called congregaciones, were laid out in classic spanish-american grids and located in

only people in latin america can read the street names, that's one thing. but anyway, that -- and once i was here i knew so little, but i had a lot of friends including the mayor and chief of police john timiny. that's not a bad way to start. i say start at the top. [laughter] >> of course, when you were down here, we both told you that you had the mayor and the chief of police who had both immigrated to the united states in the same year, 1961, and both from an island, though an ocean apart. >> you know, i didn't realize it was the same year. that was, john was born in dublin, and i don't know how many of you really remember john's -- you probably do -- his faith. he is the ultra irishman. and when you look at him, you know you're talking to a tough irishman. and one of his colleagues today today -- told me, he said john only had to draw his pistol twice, and those were shootouts. he said the rest of them he just looked at 'em. [laughter] anyway, that's how i got started, and what a great way to start. john immediately put me on a safe boat, which i'd neve

only people in latin america can read the street names, that's one thing. but anyway, that -- and once i was here i knew so little, but i had a lot of friends including the mayor and chief of police john timiny. that's not a bad way to start. i say start at the top. [laughter] >> of course, when you were down here, we both told you that you had the mayor and the chief of police who had both immigrated to the united states in the same year, 1961, and both from an island, though an ocean apart. >> you know, i didn't realize it was the same year. that was, john was born in dublin, and i don't know how many of you really remember john's -- you probably do -- his faith. he is the ultra irishman. and when you look at him, you know you're talking to a tough irishman. and one of his colleagues today today -- told me, he said john only had to draw his pistol twice, and those were shootouts. he said the rest of them he just looked at 'em. [laughter] anyway, that's how i got started, and what a great way to start. john immediately put me on a safe boat, which i'd neve

do you think the same for the latin america armed conflicts that are already in the past. looking at the history of. manatee i think they are in the past we have so many other tools which we didn't have before we now have a better understanding of things unfolding around us there are new ways of engaging in this kind of fighting historically only the ruling powers in the financial moguls could use these means i'm talking about the media which could be a very effective weapon in political conflict other governments don't bother to study the reasons for terrorism and order to have a successful war on terror we need to know why terrorism exists and the reasons a social isolation unemployment conflicts between different ethnicities and other minority groups that feel neglected by their governments and are often attacked it's important to make sure that all people have access to information where new technologies so that countries can develop what we need to create opportunities for people and this will eliminate risks and break destructive patterns which put humanity in jeopar

and also with iran —— out of latin america.n the libor rate fixing scandal after to state attorney—general‘s launched investigations. barclays, lloyds tsb and rbs have all faced similar fines to hsbc. and the mounting charges faced by hsbc have overshadowed stronger underlying performance. the problem of pp! mis—selling is not limited to hsbc. to be fair, hsbc are the most exposed on that issue. lloyds tsb has by far taken higher provision than the rest, 5.3 billion to date. to put it into context, if you look over the last five or six years, ppi provision exceeds the aggregate of all other issues that they need to think about, be it libor, money laundering, interest rates, mis— selling, pensions, endowment. ppi, in terms of the cost to the industry, has exceeded those issues simply because of the scale of mis— selling and the regulatory approach to customer redress. it is a crucial week for greece as the government attempts to drive through the savings and reforms that will keep its international lenders happy. today a new aus

it was a dirty war. >> and you went back years later and told the story of the change in latin america in the 1990's. that comes out of the economics of ronald reagan. south america is decimated by the international monetary fund and world bank. the people turned against it. these are democratically elected new leaders in the 21st century. they came in because of the disastrous policies of ronald reagan. >> i want to get to president obama. in the last chapter of your book, it is called "obama: managing and wounded empire." you are fiercely critical of him, but he also supports him. >> i support him because the military was more frightening. it is a limited choice americans have. we no longer live in a national security state. i think it is a global security state. obama has made it clear, as did romney, it is about american power. we are the "indispensable" nation in the world. it is a form of american exceptionalism. he made it clear he was going to take trips and so forth out of afghanistan and iraq, but committed on a full spectrum dominance to a containment of china. he said it. h

. >> leaders in latin america are calling for a mexico, honduras, and in countries leaders say that had legalization of marijuana in washington and colorado will have critical implications in international efforts to end drug smuggling. >>> well, forget the iphone five, apple's workers are already starting trial production of the iphone 5-s. a new ipad will come out in the second quarter of 2013. but boy, they generate a lot of talk among apple followers. a. >>> a leading british medical is questioning the effectiveness of a flu drug. bmj says that there's no evidence for the effectiveness of tamiflu, last year why can tamiflu was organized. i couldn't. >> defending himself, against accusations he had sex with an underaged boy. kevin clash says that he did have a relationship with his accuser, but both of them were over the age of 18 at a time. his confuser says that the relationship started when he was 16 accuse the nights has believed arrived for the fans of the twilight saga. many have been camping out since last week outside the nokia theatre in down the los angeles for a chance to

annenberg media ♪ captioning sponsored enberg/cpb narrator: since 19, latin america has been one of eost rapidly urbanizing regions on eart nowhere are the sults more dramatic than in sao paulo, brazil, the third largest city in the world. in this anatomy of a mega-city, we'll explore: the urban geography of immigration and ethnic diversity, thsquatter settlements and self-construction. sao paulo, brazil. with its crowded boulevards and massive skyscrapers, it seems awealthy as any city in the world. sao paulo is unique among latin american cities. in the early part of t, when places like rio de janeiro copied traditional european styles of construction, sao paulo was following a distinctly american model of urbanism. imitating the forms of chicago and new york, sao paulo built upward,gro. but in a huge ring around ty slies a very different,gro. urban environment. here, stretchingoriles, is a city of self-built structures in various stages of completion. they line hillsides and rocky streets where some of sao paulo's newest immigrants struggo build mes om brick and cen where some of s

about 2/3 of our business is in latin america. most of the latin american countries in the mid-single digits. we see better category growth in general. category growth in the u.s. is picking up, however. we saw about almost 1.5% to 2% category growth in the u.s. that's a big reversal from where it was two years ago where it was down 2%. we're starting to see the consumer stabilize in the u.s. we're certainly seeing better growth in latin america in particular. >> let me ask you about the implications of hurricane sandy. first off, these gas lines in new york. the story has been just horrible with people unable to get gasoline because these gas stations do not have power. has this impacted your business? >> it hasn't yet, maria. we have one major manufacturing facility in the path of the storm. that was in aberdeen, maryland. our folk there is had the plant shut down for about 24 hours from midday monday to midday tuesday. big issue has been getting truckers. the rail hasn't been shut down. i'd say by today we're getting fairly bac

they've been growing in excess of 15% to 20% a year, and in latin america where they've been growingn excess of 30%, this really gives us a leg up in geographic areas where we didn't have operating platforms. so you combine that with our $1.5 billion platform in europe and our $4 billion platform in north america, it really gives us a leg up on most of the other apparel. and competitors. >> we have steve tanger on. tanger factory outlet today. great partner of the calvin klein brand. you're going to keep that strategy, right? >> oh, absolutely continue to grow that business. we see ourselves with the jeans and underwear business in north america really being able to enhance that business. warnaco is a large company, but about $800 million in sales in north america. us with about four billion. clearly gives scale and leverage to the calvin klein jeans and underwear business. >> you have a heritage business. in their call they talked about a heritage business. i would have thought that you would have had no interest in speedo, but totally wrong. you're going to blow it out, aren't you?

latin america's third biggest economy could be headed for another debt crisis. >> they certainly have the power to send the financial markets into a tailspin. we are, of course, talking about the ratings agencies. >> after years of dithering and delays, brussels has agreed to a set of controls designed to limit their influence, but critics call it a miniature reform that misses the mark. >> weather it is greece, spain, portugal, or italy, eurozone crisis countries have had credit ratings consistently downgraded by the major ratings agencies. a lower credit rating usually means countries have to pay higher interest on any loans they take out. they can also cause turbulence in financial markets. the european union has introduced new rules to limit their effect. other agencies will have to publish their ratings outside of stock exchange opening hours. i also have to disclose the criteria by which they make decisions, and the rules should make it easier for agencies to be sued if they have made errors when reading a country's credit worthiness. new rules should come into force early next

. >> addressing the assembly on behalf of latin america and caribbean states, the chilean envoy said overwhelmingly u.n. opposition to the embargo reflects the consensus of virtually the entire world. >> we emphasize the consistency between the application of the unilateral measures which has no backing international law and the spirit of principles and purposes of the charter of the united nations. we urge the u.s. to make the necessary adjustments in this regard, allowing this legislation with the charter of the united nations, the resolutions of the united nations, and the views of countries of latin america and the caribbean in general of all the regions of the world. >> the united nations is warning that haiti's upcoming march harvest may already have been destroyed by the flooding of hurricane sandy. it left haiti overrun with devastating floods, causing widespread damage and adding thousands of people to the massive numbers already displaced by previous floods and the devastating earthquake of january 2010. on tuesday, the u.n. relief official said in addition to potentially d