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 you call the school of the assassins father roy 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 oppression you mean with god as you turn to their conscious maicon yours and other countries out there they're training to protect us economically just want to exploit 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 guatemalan nat

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

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

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

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

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

produced in latin america among other things by the kind of friedman esque chicago school politics and policies that this pope understands that if he's going to keep his institution viable and capitalism as a system that they've partnered with viable they better begin to do something for the mass of people or else the period of their survival is going to be shortened so i think yes it helps legitimate for the mass of people what the system itself is driving them to do richard wolffe thanks for joining us tonight. coming up conservatives always say that any quality motivates people and helps grow the economy so why now that america is the most unequal country in the developed world is our economy stagnate and what can we do to make sure that our economy works for everyone answer both those questions right after the break. it's pretty tough. as they were it's not story. it's just this guy like it should be here that guys stead of working for the people both issues the beech tree for each other right brooke as you. know. they did rather well. if the problem if it was a problem very hard t

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

hugo chavez was the biggest story of the year, and i think it will be of consequence in all of latin americaake a short break and we'll talk about how all the things happened. can you believe it all happened in 2013? this is inside story. stay with us. >> this is "inside story" wit with 2013 review. i'm ray suarez. everybody was talking about how now the groundwork was laid for immigration reform, big, big changes. both parties had got religion on this issue. now here some immigration reform. now that we're in the waning hours of 2013 what happened? >> i think the tide turned, but it didn't turn as radically as we thought it would. the result of the elections, the rejection of the republican self-deportation immigration policies made quite obvious this was not the way to go for the g.o.p. but the problem is the congress and the way the election is happening, all these districts that are conservative and regional that dominate. we have an election year coming up. we have a congress that is paralyzed. so even though we saw major advancement, the approval of the senate bill, and we saw differen

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

. >>> 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

she's very well known in latin america. here in germany she has up until now i look at any one small exhibition forced to quit showing large of the view of her artistic work spanning a period of fourteen years the exhibition titled denying this update is displaying about one hundred and fifty if they can sculpt says hans gets its opaque he can never pretend to have a crisis time that the city continued to snow and snow while. however a bowl of milk and coke and today have been displayed in russian and german. there are significant elements in a way which point to harare to see that you made your knee the funny things every gig i studied architecture from nineteen thirty two to nineteen thirty eight stocks eight s entry into the wild in venezuela when she experimented with lines knots on volume. it went on to inspire an entire generation of optics in latin america addison journal thanks for watching the learned chairman which teach. anytime anyplace. with the windchill jo and her friends. for sweet friends all over the war.

target in latin america and that includes a surveillance of communications for brazilian president dilma rousseff the revelations angered rousseff who earlier this year canceled an official visit to meet with president obama in washington this september she also spoke at the un general assembly where she pushed the united nations to give citizens more protections against unwarranted surveillance meddling in such a man there in the lawyers and the fears of other countries is a breach of international law it is an affront. to the principles the should otherwise govern relations among countries especially among friendly nations. a country's sovereignty can never affirm itself to the detriment of another country's sovereignty. the right to security of the country's citizens can never be. by violating the fundamental human rights and civil rights of another country's citizens brazilian senators have already asked for snowden's help during hearings about the n.s.a. is targeting of brazil and snowden is now asking for help in return right now the former government contractor is living and russi

generation but with united states is concerned about is the rise of the left wing governments in latin america and those governments are very friendly toward cuba so there is much more of an effort in the oas and other bodies to isolate the united states now safety united states doesn't change its policies toward cuba and these countries are just not going to go along with the united states has put it's symptomatic as part of a broader international lessening of u.s. influence we see what's happening in the middle east can really influence the situations are war making we've got this powerful military the most powerful military in the history of humanity and it doesn't work since world war two you look at korea you look at vietnam you look at afghanistan you look at iraq i mean we we can we can invade grenada and we can defeat a couple dozen cuban construction workers and reagan could go on television saying it's morning. and in america the united states is back and standing proud but this military solutions don't work to any of these problems even in libya situation there is falling apart we

lack of professionalism and journalistic integrity well like i said there were dirty wars across latin america and this film is like just looking at the corpses that had been thrown out of the planes by us back to taters there and saying we're trying to humanize the victims here but without understanding why were people being thrown out of planes why were nuns being slaughtered across central america why why was that happening the context of course would have been at the time i suppose conspiracy that you like dirty conspiracy theory that any corporations that they would have any interest. throwing people out of planes so you don't have to dress up like a soldier and play soldier games in afghanistan you know and spend a lot of money on plane tickets and harassing people to death just going to wall street i mean this is why i my number one journalist in america without a shadow of a doubt is matt taibbi because you understand the key problems and he writes about them in ways that people can understand that's why he's on our show often because he understands that were on the side of exploring a

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

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 happy to

said if any secretary of defense recommends the united states to any troops again and asia africa latin america he should have his head examined. and i knew that would be a quagmire you know. what peter says is partially true i mean if there were another terror attack on u.s. soil would we do people react over react as they did last time would go crazy again because we have. this military that's what scares me and we're putting in place this architecture that exists whether obama is a good manager of empires is not the issue the issue is what you have the ability to use this technology. you will use it it will be one president will come along will not have the restraint of an obama will be a george bush. and one right of course once his policies are enact and they never go away no matter who you start building the atomic bomb is true. he's a little boy out of toboggan according to leslie gross no one was going to stop that bomb from being dropped from the moment we started building that bomb russia was our main. you know you said in the in the film series that those who control the world techno

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 a fact that these two situations created in nineteen forty four began to lend on 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 driven both institutions have become instruments of oppression. and control over new sovereign countries in the immense. most typical way that economic hitman work is it will identify our 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 was the most powerful. one of the best examples the workings of the system since it was b

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

we were the second-most unequal country in the whole of latin america. after haiti. it was unacceptable to me and to our colombians. we said that we would break this trend, this perverse trend that we have had for so many years whereby the economy grew, but so did inequality. the rich became richer and the poor became poorer. he put in place specific actions , we broke this trend. we can also proudly say that in the last three years, columbia has lowered its inequality more than any other country except for ecuador. ecuador performed better than we did. but we are not any more than number two in the hemisphere. we are not on the average. -- we are on the average. of course, we still have tremendous inequalities. we still have almost 2 million people unemployed. of course, we still have about 30% of colombians living in poverty. but the progress has been tremendous. i hope is that if we reach a peace agreement, we can concentrate even more of our resources to achieve a better social indicator and more progress in that respect. in our international relations, we have a

and it is at this point that i'd like to call upon president of brazil, all the way from latin america, to come and address us. president maruso. [inaudible conversations] nelson mandela, president zuma, [inaudible] >> nelson mandela, president jacob zuma and the people of south africa to whom i would like to convey my condolences for the invaluable loss of nelson mandela. >> translator: ladies and gentlemen, heads of states and of government. dear friends. [speaking in foreign language] >> translator: i bring you here today the feelings of deep sorrow of the brazilian government and the people of brazil, and i'm sure of all south america, for the passing away of this great leader, nelson mandela. [speaking in foreign language] >> translator: the most outstanding personality of the 20th century, nelson mandela, led with passion and intelligence, one of the most processes of human emancipation in modern history, the end of apartheid in south africa. [speaking in foreign language] >> translator: mandela's fight became a paradigm, a model not only for this continent but for all those who

i want to break in the african and latin america and our businesses to be represented all over the world because our sdm dna is about being a national city. san francisco has always been a part of the conversation about immigration and this is a time of very unique opportunity time where congress has this one's in a lifetime ability to make the updated changes. we need to reflect what our business you demands are going forward to hopefully reflect the need to bring people out of the dictate area of undocumentation and into the lime light and have them fully participate and as mayors and major cities across the country we need that comprehensive immigration reform. we have other things to talk about on the aspects of that. but i'm pride to join our homeland security to make sure that we are talking about this and sending a message to congress and all our representatives. our country to be fully covered we have a lot to do with us passing reform immigration policies >> that was well said. just as jan napoleon said that but you led the catholic immigration programs in the country iowa why i

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

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they get half of their business from emerging markets and latin america.u ever take a vacation to latin america you see the bank of nova scotia. they report on friday. wait until after the quarter in the hope you can buy the stock into weakness. the canadian banks have not been reacting well to earnings so far, so take that as a warning. and bank of montreal, bmo, reported yesterday and they got slammed. even they were beat on the earnings and they announced a substantial buy back. they saw an increase in loan losses in canada and the united states, and the trading business was weaker. i think they made some mistakes in lending. right now the stock might be terrific after the week's over. we'll look through the ones that make the playoffs. for a big brand name franchise, go with royal bank of canada. it's kind of the goldman sachs or jp morgan of the great white north, but it's a bit riskier because it's focused on capital markets. here's the thing, they report tomorrow morning. so this is a case where you just have to wait and see what happens. maybe we'r