you could not travel from one area of latin america to another. you could not do commerce, you were prevented as a colony of spain from doing any manufacturing at all. you were prevented from owning a mine, you were prevented from any kind of commerce whatsoever and it was punishable by execution. so you see, a the whole business of putting together a revolution in a place so isolated was a difficult thing and this is when bolivar came up against. it wasn't automatic that countries would welcome him to liberate them even though they wanted to be liberated. it wasn't automatic that the races with all pay -- the races kept shifting. in the beginning of the blacks on whom so much of a revolution depended were aligning themselves because they knew what that meant. they didn't know what the revolution would bring but feeling that they already knew the evil that existed in the colonial system they could deal with that but they didn't know what was coming with the white aristocrats of latin america and so they were very hesitant. it wasn't until simon bo

what they do have in common is this, dreaming of unifying all of latin america. he wanted a unified america because he felt that it would be stronger and more influential, a greater, shall we say, a counterpoint to the united states which was growing very strong. a dream, and he has the bulgarian nation which is queuador and bolivia. he thought they all had very little to do. the key for thereaduestion. >> a two-part question. as a by cultural person, could you enumerate several other, what you would consider to be gross misconceptions on the part of north americans, how we misperceive his legacy and then and secondly, any truth to this story i have heard about the locket that george washington had? [a yes. let me sta mh with that first. george washington, the grandson -- grandnephew really of washine hion wanted to send a medallion with a clipping of george washington's hair inside to "bolivar" bquebease he felt that george washington himself would have wanted to be associated with his namhave t at of the people, of all the pdidpe in the world that gdidbefe wash

president jose mohica promoted legalization as the best way to curb the violence that has plagued latin americae war on drugs. other latin american countries may follow suit, notably, bailees, chili, columbia, guatemala and mexico. >> if marijuana is legalized widely where does that leave the notorious drug cartels. i ask you guys. >> i think it presents challenges for drug cartels that make money trafficking marijuana into the united states, but i don't necessarily think that it affects the landscape of illegal drug crime. i mean, look, this is marijuana. we're not talking about the biggest most profitable thing for the cartels which is cocaine, heroin, for a harder drugs that aren't about to be legalized anytime soon. a point on uruguay as well, having been around montevideo and down there covering the story in the last decade, you are gay uruguay has led the narrative that a u.s. policy had created what they called a balloon effect, and all it did was control columbian cartels but the problem of drug violence spread, so their policies in uruguay are -- >> uruguay had one of the lowest crime

. >> thewell gap has managed to shrink inment some latin america countries.nything nay are doing that could be applicable here in the united states? >> that's true, we have seen some success stories in brazil, argentina and some countries in latin america. the big story seems to be about the use of conditional cash transfers to pull the extreme poor out of poverty, but it's also about investment in health and education and skills training that is having a payoff. >> and the wealthy are exerting more and more political power and able to influence political decisions? >> that's absolutely true. and honestly that's the crux of the paper. what we're trying to argue here is that a healthy economy should have some inequality. if you work hard, go to school and get good skills, you should be rewarded. but we're seeing such high levels of inequality around the world, and that is then used to influence the political process to use legislation that benefit the rich at the expense of everyone else. >> nick who is a research and policy advise for ox-fam thank you for com

in terms of a country, certainly we do see different trends within latin america. mexico is certainly a positive story. it's oftentimes confounded, the mexican peso is being used as a hedging tool, but we still like the peso. our equity analysts are still recommending overweight in mexican stocks, and brazil is a little bit in the opposite side. i think that brazil is going to provide a very good entry point sometime later this year. we're not seeing the policy response we would like to and this is because, again, elections happening in october. i think brazil is a country that investors should be watching to enter at the right time in the next two to three quarters. >> bit of a brief discussion but we got to go. we went around the world in five minutes. give us credit there. see you again. thank you very much. >>> still ahead, will yellen be screaming -- sorry. about emerging markets? steve liesman on ben bernanke's final fed meeting this week. >> later on, apple reporting earnings after the bell. we will tell you the three key things to watch, when they report. p

countries in latin america. and they began to study spanish. she apparently stuck with it. one of the things they would do is 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 deliver that message publicly because people react against it, so having her delivery was more effective. david, the feeling -- president carter

for oil and gas, latin america is an important hub. the largest investment bank to focus on this business. that is the roots of our commodity investment. we intensified that in the last 18 months given the international landscape for this asset class is getting favorable for us. >> are you a bidder for the jpmorgan commodities business? >> we are not. >> how come? >> the bulk of the business is concentrated in the u.s. energy business. that is not our core target for commodities. that is the simple reason. >> did you take a look? >> we know the business from outside, but we did not do that. >> how about morgan stanley's commodity business? >> it has the same characteristics i mentioned so probably we are not a player. >> how much of an opportunity is thee for your bank with withdrawal of u.s. and european banks from certain markets because of the new regulations? opportunity. is an very strong regulated jurisdiction which means we suffer from negative arbitrary arbitrage. >> the rest of the world has caught up to brazil? >> we are more

andemerging markets are up the key driver is latin america and china for growth. the growth is easing and that was put forward to me by the chief executive of unilever. they say it will be more sustainable growth in the emerging markets and what will not have growth is the developing world. there is weakness there. fiveso saw, in europe, years ago, it would take 10 years for europe to recover and to expect another few years of slow and sluggish growth. -- happy onnt on the whole. forward ate looking the opportunities and the alternatives. and ourve a purpose sustainable living plan. it has an environmental impact. it is planning to work for us. the challenges will be the it isic challenges and being challenged. >> they innovate and improve the margins. they are improving profitability and coming up with new and clever ways of doing it by unleashing new products and the types that they love over there. clearly, this is a company that they feel is winning once again. view on theis emerging markets and when will that improvements come through? >> in terms of the fore

it is focusing on latin america, colombia, greece. latin america is in a currency movement.maintaining low prices food in france. it is stocking more non-branded goods on the shelves. it has pick up points for online orders. year.ig news last earnings jumped 25% for the first half. earlier, the company is slowly french around its key operations that accounts for 46% of its sales. that is in america. the rest of europe, 27%. fourth-quarter sales were back in line with estimates, 22.2 billion euros. >> jobless rates rose to record high in november. economic outlook is making some companies unwilling to higher. italy still better off than it was a year ago. -- weto buy a portfolio are joined by a portfolio manager. let's talk about the government and italy and where the next move will come from. about the reform for the labor market. >> that is a good news in italy. act. called a jobs it is a proposal for labor reform in italy good they're doing it for two reasons. i do not think that he expects to get these reforms passed by this government. this is a strategic move for the ne

libya i said if any secretary of defense recommends that i send in troops again and asia africa latin america they should have his head examined. you know. what peter says is partially true i mean if there were another terror attack on u.s. soil. would people react over react as they did last time would go crazy again because we have the power 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 again and one right of course once his policies are an act and they go away no matter who you start building the atomic bomb as truman found out he's a little boy and 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 technologically it's almo

it's the most welcoming country in latin america where i've been. >> salud, salud, salud. ♪ >>> i leaves. riohacha is a city 600 miles northeast of cali on the la caribbean borders the venezuela. it's home to the natives called the wayuu. the wayuu are a tough tribe that's never taken a side with the government, the farc or the paramilitaries. as a result they remain independent politically and live pretty much by their own code. i'm meeting juan pablo majorca, a chef that comes to this spot regularly. >> it's a very different part of colombia. >> it's rugged terrain, there's not that much water, so that's part of why the spanish weren't able to colonize it. >> you've been coming here for some time. >> i became interested, because i began dealing with fresh fish, fresh lobster, fresh shrimp and for me to take back to bogota. >> is it good? >> it's very good. >> goats are important to the wayuu, they're used for food, bartering, even for dowry payments. rancho owners come to the old market in riohacha to sell, barter and cook goat in the mornings. today we're having frichi. >> it's a tra

it's an honor to be here to moderate our latin america panel we've got 15 minutes. i'm recordings this because i'm going to a share it. but i'm going to start with you mayor ed lee. the board of supervisors designated mission bay as a development district in 1998. if you came here you would have seen parking lots and train tracks. the transformation has been credible. for a long time there wasn't a call place. how does the transformation here fit into our vision so far the high tech in san francisco and how did the health incubator fit into the plan >> first of all, i wish everybody a happy new year. it's a wonderful time to be here in 0 san francisco. to personally congratulate haley and joel for your wonderful work. there's one more site missing when willie brown offered the site and my predecessors naumd took over and put stem down here in signaled some hard things there's one more vision besides the railroads that was my driving rank rage you i range you would have seen me there i'm imperfect my golf shot. willie came and said we've got to change mission bay you

generation but with united states is concerned about the rise of the left wing governments of 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 safe the 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 is part of a broader international lesson. if u.s. influence we see what's happening in the middle east and i say 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 can go on television saying it's morning again in america at the united states is back and standing proud but this the military solutions don't work to any of these problems even in libya situation there is f

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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's much more of an effort in the oh yes in 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 again in america the united states is back that stand proud but this military solutions don't work to any of these problems even in libya situation there is falling apart. we

>> you founded the expert in latin america. i don't think anybody else would know that that is in my book. let me get a little background at the same time that it was emerging in guatemala, the regime what was actually more radical was emerging in bolivia. and that came to power as a result of a violent movement supported by communists not in an election like guatemala. and it was a fiery speech made by the new president whose nationalizing the industry by many standards a was a more will militant regime. i think that this was the reason there's no coastline we couldn't invade to be of no country next door that would allow you to set up the bases for which you could invade bolivia. also, i think they felt that they didn't have a group within bolivia that they could use. they found the groups in the church and in the military that became. to overthrow the government in bolivia. bolivia suffered more than a century because they don't have a coast line. you're absolutely right this is an interesting contrast and i will mention one

it was latin america. the rite of spring by igor's event ski. the third one was charlie parker.hree directions. i took that final test. i was the first one to get up. i thought i did something wrong. when you get up, leave the classroom. i was opening the door to leave and she said, class, i want to show you something. she had on the front, 100. i want you to think about this because a lot of them have not studied -- had been studying since they were six years old. this is a perfect test paper and i want you to think about it. i was walking down the hall and thinking about it, too. >> there is a lot in that story that i could unpack that tickles me and turns me on. the part i am most moved by is that when you were skipping today, if that happened i literally just months ago did a primetime special called education under arrest and it was about how we are criminalizing kids in society. people don't take the time to the child how gifted is and why they might be skipping school. you arrested me with that. someone was interested enough to find out what mattered to you and what you'r

they didn't want latin america destabilized by communism. there was a big faction in the administration that felt it strongly. mr. reagan was trying to sort of strike the balance, if he could. and he would have liked, of course, a deal rather than actual combat. and mrs. thatcher was determined not have a deal. yet, as i shoe -- show in the book she made big concessions along the way. making the calculation she had to do that in order satisfy world opinion and hoping against hope that the times wouldn't be clever enough to accept it. that hope proved correct. it came late that the united states as they put tilted to britain. and it was always a struggle. it was rarl confusing. and i think without extremely close relationship it would have been harder. she was able to get on the phone to him and talk him through it. and because of her more active grasp for detail which was the big thing. he was a bit of a disadvantage when it was a direct phone conversation. because she would have ever fact sitting in her head. and sometimes his age would dis

in latin america we have some amazing startups.reflect the loco ecosystem and specifically we have one or two that are in agricultural technology which reflects the local market that they operate in. we now have 14 acadnymies in 12 countries. we really have that global network which brings huge value to all of the startups, particularly in europe. as you know, the compless still growing prolivically. we have startups in europe benefiting from that. >> thank you very much for joining us. guy, over to you. more talking tech. >> yes. that is absolutely right. let's focus on food tech now. when whales are a little bit hungry, they like nothing more than a few large mouthfuls of critical. it is apparently a -- of cril. it is a source of omega 3. it is also a rich source of profits. elliott gotkine now reports. >> from tiny crustaceans grow mighty companies, at least they hope so. here in the factory floor, you can smell the crill. it has been shipped in from the southern ocean. the lipids are extracted and eventually sold on and turned

latin america, which is been the cash cow for so long, has been struggling.ery well. it would have done better if they brought cherokee to market when they said they would. it was late 2 months. >> he needs to focus on growing the business and getting the right models out there. >> they are in investment stage. a couple of weeks ago at the detroit show, looking at the new chrysler 200, they invested $1 billion into that plan. it is a game changer for chrysler. they're looking to do the same in may. we will see the combined architecture for offer on mail rd chrysler -- a r -- alfa omeo and chrysler. it will be where the future is decided in terms of product. >> for sergio marchionne, how much does it have to do with his personality? he is aggressive, no-nonsense. >> if they can pull off the brand strategy with the new platforms, investment, technology and the right ways -- they have the brands. it can also go the other way. it is entirely how they can invest it and if they can pull it together. then it will survive. >> how much time are we giving him? 6-8 mont

then as i continued to travel and to speak with many experts all over in the united states and latin americaor europe, i found out that health care is something so complex that it depends on madison even though we generally assume the idea that the issue is health care insurance. so it was a project in my life which i dedicated completely to this project, and i am very glad that i have the opportunity to share this knowledge not only what scientists and physicians but also the general population in that way. i think that is what a book should be about. it should be about informing the general population and defining things because those are the ones that are generally affected by the promise of health care. and with that i would like to start my lecture. so what we are finding right now is that characteristics of the new consumer are very different. in previous years general patients were in a very docile position compared to the doctor. and now it is quite different because people now are fighting for their right and they are informing themselves and i think that is the internet has done a

all through africa and latin america and asia and europe and america.all have very similar problems. some of them are different magnitudes. some involve different diseases. you don't have to go very far from where we are sitting. just go to haiti and look at the terrible tragedy that has taken place. the world pledged all this money and yet they are still there with diseases that i thought were ironic it. they are still living in tents and not having the ability to be in charge of their own destiny and feed their families. we have to get together and do things about it. >> many people watching this interview are big admirers of your work. i am curious to know who you admire. are there leaders that you look up to? >> we learn from each other. we are both really members of a group called the giving pledge. we share mistakes. there are people like george soros who has done really innovative work. we get to meet the scientists working on this stuff. maybe the most amazing other people out in the field who spend big parts of their life in africa taking these

my favorite line in the whirlpool release was latin america.hey got a big business in latin america, and everyone thought they should close, and fourth quarter sales $1.4 billion compared to $1.3 billion and 8% increase, i thought that latin america -- i thought it was disappearing. i don't know. maybe it's disappearing but they got a lot of clean clothes. a spin cycle down there to beat the band. >> two names that may not be moving big in the premarket visa beats by four cents and payment volume up 11 and 3m stayed and boring as it is meets at 162, organic local currency up 34. >> i know the stock doesn't have the momentum, it's 3m but it has a huge asian business and you compare that with corning which reported the other day and 3m is doing so much in safety and not just what i regard as being their glass business so to speak. 3m is doing a lot of stuff organic products once again really taking -- stealing the show. visa last quarter people didn't like. and visa's a very competitive company. they put up fantastic numbers. unlike apple they we

, a friend who gave his entire life for the liberation of the venezuelan people, the people of latin america and all anti-imperialist and anti- capitalists of the world. >> more than 100 detainees held in the u.s. military prison at guantÁnamo bay cuba are reportedly entering their fifth week of a hunger strike against deteriorating conditions. >> we have heard reports of people losing over 20, 30, 40 pounds and today we are in day 36 or so of the strike. by day 42, 45, you start seeing things like loss of vision, loss of hearing, and eventually death. >> a papal conclave has selected the new pope. he is viewed as a theological conservative who staunchly opposed abortion, same-sex marriage, and the ordination of women. in argentina has long been dogged to reports he aided the military dictatorship in the 1970s. >> he really does live a life identified with the poor. he lives in a simple apartment, cooks his own meals, and is really been identified with a very, very strong social justice in latin america. he uses language about the inequalities between countries and talks about argentina as o

joining us onset, juan, policy on latin america, and sylvia, cofounder, an incubator for entrepreneurs, and the american teacher's federation, working to amend pension reforms. we also reached out to several members of puerto rico's government, including the president, and he and others declined to appear on the program. so welcome to "the stream." a lot of interesting parallels between detroit. when you look at what's going on, you have five times the population, and five times the detect. what's happening in puerto rico and how does it compare to these cities like sacramento and detroit in the u.s.? >> you have a broken government. and the government in puerto rico is overin debted. 90% of the debt. and this is a crisis than been brewing for a while. and it exploded in 2006. it has been eight years since puerto rico has been contracting it. it has been discouraging, and one-tenth of the population has left the island in the last eight years. only 41% of the population are working, and the unemployment is the highest in the united states. let's remember that puerto rico is part of the

in latin america where many people don't have access to bank accounts they may be able to use bit coin to exchange money. all they need is a smart phone. >> last year one bit coin was worth $13. today, morgan, it is worth 800. >> oh, right, natasha, live from miami beach. thank you for being with us. and breaking news, three people are confirmed dead after a shooting at a mall in baltimore. this word comes from the howard county police. witnesses report hearing multiple shots at the mall's food court. we'll update you with the information as we get it. >>> the best surfs, with what mep call the olympics call sheriffing. in the village the deputy mayor remembers him and wond >> welcome back to al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm morgan radford, and here are today's headphones. two new explosions were set off in cairo where police say a bomb was thrown at the wall of the police institute. seven people have within killed iall throughout the country. it comes on the anniversary of the revolution that ended hosni mubarak's 30-year rain. >>> syria's government and opposition lead

. >> leaders from across latin america and the caribbean are meeting in the cuban capital. they are part of the group known as salek. g adam raney is in havana. >> at the end of the first day of official meetings it's clear that this organization is gaining some sort of momentum and seeming to be a respectable challenge to the organization, an organization that for decades that shows regional issues. it's long seen as having undue influence put on it by washington. selek doesn't have the influence because canada and the united states are excluded. what we have seen is since yewingo chavez, died, there was a lot of speculation that this organization, his baby, his idea might peater out. it's growing in importance. we had the first visit here in havana for the conference. we saw the secretary-general of the organization make his first official visit by any head of that organization. all that is to say that this organization is a vanity problem. it's attracting attention. they are ready to solve their issues without the input or influence. >> the national treasure in pakistan

all of them are from latin america, and they are from china. >>> vodka is being blamed for killing one quarter of russian men before the age of 55. they looked at adult males, and the death rate is totally out of line with the rest of europe. >> reporter: vodka has been part of the social fabric of russian life for 600 years, but for a growing section here, the party has gone on too long. at a wedding, the couple toast their wedding with vodka. a drink that will follow them through their lives. divorce rates are soaring. and alcohol is the cause of extraordinarily high of early death of russian men. 25% of russian men dying before 55 due to heavy drinking, and to put that in perspective, the rate in britain is only 7%. >> there are so many alcoholics here. so many. first of all, vodka is so cheap. it only costs a dollar a bottle. >> russian people drink a lot because they want to forget about their everyday problems with politics. the problems with jobs, and problems with family. and it seems to me that when we drink, they forget about all of their problems. >> reporter: it's not just

that >> brown: juan gelman was an argentine poet who became a major literary figure throughout latin american spain. he was also known for his fight against the military junta that ruled argentina in the 1970's and 80's, and for the personal tragedy that came from that. his daughter was kidnapped and tortured. his son and daughter-in-law were killed. and their child, gelman's granddaughter, was taken and given away for adoption. gelman finally located her in 2000. juan gelman died at age 83 at his home in mexico city this week. here to tell us more is ilan stavans, a writer and professor of latin american culture at amherst college. he's editor of "the fsg book of 20th century latin american poetry." first tell us a little bit about juan gelman the poet. what account for his prominence in the spanish speaking world. what was his poetry like? >> juan gelman belonged to a tradition in latin american poetry that connected the people with the word, the spoken word, the written word, the tradition best represented by pablo-- in his case juan gelman's case he understood that the role of poetry was

we focused a lot on asia but latin america is having its fair share of troubles and you know brazil and argentina probably better than anybody else. tell me what you see in those markets and the reaction of our markets to their sell-off. >> well, you have big currency sell-offs all over the world, latin america, particularly countries with current account deficits. this probably shouldn't surprise people because we have already seen this once before when taper talk started to happen, that when interest rates or you're worried about u.s. interest rates going up, investments in the united states look more attractive than other riskier parts of the world and capital starts to flee those countries. we also don't see a lot of will in those countries to do what's right. here's what's key to remember. a lot of these countries lived as if commodities were going to be high forever and interest rates were going to be low forever. that's clearly not going to be the case. but you know, they lived like the revenue was always going to be that way and they were always going to be able to borrow. so no