government has had strong relationships with latin america. it takes time for these relationships and understanding. we were surprised there was a feature -- forgive me more continuing to talk about content in the magazine. we profiled five latin americans who were having some success in china. and including a museum curator and a musician saying on chinese television before an audience of 750 million people, the reason we did it. visiting officials from the regi region, how the region currently perceives beijing. because of those cultural ties, latin american countries would rather engage with the united states and with u.s. companies instead of chinese companies. is that still true here at the beginning of 2019? >> thank you for the question. thank you for moderating this and congratulations again on the addition. >> obviously it's mutual admiration society that we have going on here. it's an important question and i guess what i would say before answering the question is that latin america -- and it's come up already in this panel several oc

what dorian people think about the united states and its involvement in latin america and in ecuador. more you say 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 like 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 whose offices in command were chosen by the us ambassador and paid by the us and so we have increased considerably the police's pay how ever as their salaries were coming from somewhere else they didn't even notice we did away with all that there are some who still long for those times which will never come back thought out relating to the us ours has always been a relationship based on affection and friendship got us in the framework of mutual respect and seventy that i lived in the us for four years have two academic degrees

three well it was in latin america but later on president obama was somebody who was much better received by the world. he was talking about changing the way that america the united states of america just with the world i think that was a major part of. the last office re grabbing a policy decision on libya which turned out the country into a complete chaos i guess my question to you is is that really about values because there is a i think your question. is an american value that speaks to pushing us towards war and in the. answer is absolutely not if you look on balance which is the only way you can assess and remember we all live in democracies in the western hemisphere. on four and five year political cycle or so go over the whole history of the united states in the world i unabashedly say we are a force for good well i'm not ready to go and i'm actually not claiming that the united states is a force for bad but if you look at the very very very long history of cia support of coups in latin america which sometimes deposed democratically elected government supported military regimes ca

morgan to oversee a $5 billion technology fund focused on latin america. ier, i spoke with the softbank group coo about the new ind and about interest opportunities in the region. take a listen. >> you look at the size of the market, the latin american market is twice the size of india and china, so it is in the right place, right population, right technology adoption. we are looking at tech companies that are growing, that are leveraging data and artificial intelligence to disrupt traditional models. in the first few weeks we are looking at 140 companies so it is above expectations for potential investment we plan to launch in the latin american region. emily: wow. 140 companies in a few weeks. the vision fund is raising record amounts of capital at a time when dry powder is already at record highs. how does softbank stay disciplined and put so much capital to work at the same time? marcelo: we have been quite disciplined in terms of a clear investment thesis m&a, and we are looking for that company that has the ability to leverage artificial intelligence,

plans and latin america. i think it's become very obvious that america has never given up on the idea that latin america has its own backyard we've seen over the decades that they have intervened and overthrown democratically elected is often left wing governments across the continent to the great detriment to the peoples and to the economies of those countries across latin america and it's been very clear as well that america over the last few months. very very strongly been trying to overturn to effect a coup against the democratically elected president of venezuela maduro and it's not going to plan and i think they're getting frustrated with this so they are beginning to think about what next steps they can take such as trying to claim that it's a terrorist state or whatever and i think one of the interesting things from my perspective is that i think venezuela and the people of venezuela very lived the classic playbook rules that america has used in previous coos across latin america and that is why they'

whether that is canada, latin america, or europe.are saying they have a dominant position all over the world in these regions. and yet, they represent a small share of what is possible. that is certainly the messaging coming out of uber. to confidently say that they have a strong position in the countries they operate in or they own a stake in major players in those regions is a compelling international position. >> briefly on international growth? >> i think international is very strong. one, i think they are a master chessplayer. he understands it from expedia. they have big investments at uber in southeast asia, russia, and china, all exciting businesses. latin america, it will give them an air monopoly in the middle east. australia is very profitable. it is interesting. if you think about lyft, worth 21 billion, it implies uber is worth 40 billion. emily: there is rising investor demand ahead of the directive listing at the workplace software maker goes for double their valuation. and later, he is one of the most critical voices

i was surprised by how big latin america is.ric: one amusing thing with this contract they draw between the market share and category position. market share is very small and it sees a huge amount of growth opportunity for ridesharing. but category position, relative to competitors, it says that in a lot of regions there is over 65%. whether that is the united states and canada, latin america, or europe. they are saying they have a dominant position all over the world in these regions. and yet, we represent a small share of what is possible. that is certainly the messaging coming out of uber. i think being able to confidently say that they have a strong position in the countries they operate in or they own a stake in major players in those regions is a compelling international position. caroline: mitchell, briefly on international growth? mitchell: i think international is very strong. i will draw a couple -- one, i think dara is a master chessplayer. he understands it from expedia. expedia did some interesting international stu

the region is starting to shift in his favor really every major government and economy within latin america is is starting to turn to the right unlike what it was during the obama administration and so as a result you've seen increased pressure against venezuela and it's it's patron there's his mates benefactor which is cuba cuba obviously receiving fifty thousand barrels of oil from venezuela daily so they can see those two as as a part of this troika of tyranny now obviously domestic politics is always is always a factor within cuba it's you know brant scowcroft called it a domestic issue not a foreign policy one and if you look back at the course of the last three elections the winner of florida that all important swing state has only won florida by a little bit less than one percent of the vote so even though the population is starting to change start to favor normalization more the calculus that the political operatives and watching must think is how much do i gain by being tough on cuba how much do i lose and when those margins are that slim they might as well be tough because it's fl

the historic day for latin america. for the white house it was a mistake by the american ambassador in santiago edward gorey. thank you very well he was going to. let me just say oh you know the main problem you're going to be on you know i'm going to. die and he was elected i said that it was a grave and very serious defeat for the united states we knew that although i would act in one. appeared to be a legal and constitutional manner it would be designed as a class warfare to eliminate the middle class opposition the bourgeois it would be a class war approach. top secret sensitive eyes only. nixon already in september called in henry kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated that in latin america an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make the chilean economy scream. nixon gives orders that they make the chilean economy scream and cia director richard helms writes it down. will behave. in order. to maintain the has to see him to know it's the end all b

you have just launched this $500 billion tech growth fund for latin america. what else in the region will you be focusing on? for having me. great to be able to put some attention into the latin american market and more to the venture market in latin america, which traditionally has been a market that has not received a lot of attention. there are tremendous opportunities in latin america that are similar to other parts of the world. started, the latin american market is twice the size of india. it's in the right place with the right population and the right technology adoption. we are looking at tech companies that are growing, leveraging data and artificial intelligence to disrupt traditional business models. in the first three weeks, we are looking at 100 40 companies. this is way above expectations and the amount of potential investment that we planned to launch in the latin american region. emily: 140 companies in just a few weeks. the vision fund is raising record amounts of capital at a time when dry powder is already at record highs. how does softbank s

latin america -- do you see in latin america you're working to reinforce or prevent? i'm sorry.lmagro: exceptvery good morning, it is very allergic morning. [laughter] see isn. almagro: what i the same structural problems we have faced in the past 200 years. if we see the structure of poverty, it has changed very little in latin america and caribbean countries during these years. inequality has changed very little. is the biggest complication we have for development of democracy. we have also the same kind of problems about access to rights. we have the same kind of troubles and difficulties in order to make our political system work in a way that is coherent with democratic principles. those on thel continent, everywhere on the continent practically where the winner takes all. 50% plusquation that one vote equals 100%. zero.nus one vote is it makes it very difficult for the political systems to operate that can be efficient in order to solve the problems of the people. we see the same structural problems of violence, of drug trafficking. countries see our struggling

i was surprised with how big latin america is.ric: i think one amusing thing is the contrast uber has between market share and category. its market share is very small because it sees a huge amount of growth opportunity for ridesharing. , so relativetion to competitors, it says they have over 65%. whether that is united states and canada, europe. we have aying dominant position all over the world in the regions we operate. yet we represent a small share of what is possible. that is the messaging coming out of uber. they either have a strong position in the countries that they operate in, or they own a stake in major players in those regions. it is a compelling international position. francine: briefly on international growth. mitchell: i think international is very strong. he is a master chess player. and haveted expedia done some international stuff. they have big investment that uber and china. latin america, the deal that they did in korea. we will give them -- it will give them a different monopoly in the middle east. regionia

we apply the same logic and discipline to latin america. lly focus on china, india, u.s., and now latin because it applies to that region of the world. emily: how much time will you spend on this latin america part of your job and your duties as coo of softbank group? >> we are pretty well-organized. , i run a division fund nk international. companies we have a majority energyip, such as groups. i am launching a new technology fund. time in lating america but the core of my business is running the corporate group as well as the coo. the four leaders in the company are able to accommodate possibilities accordingly. we have an amazing group of people through the world that supplement us. we are busy, there is a lot of activity. we are applying the same rigor and discipline. emily: you have a big ipl potentially coming up. what are your expectation for uber's ipo? on thery not to comment potential we have invested in with the ipl. -- with the ipo. we have invested in a lot of tech companies that are growing at an amazing rate. we are hoping the

policy toward latin america. oftentimes, a decision-making role for florida politicians. you know, it's an oversimplification to say that florida is dominating all of u.s. policy towards latin america. that's not quite as much the case with respect to mexico, central america, migration policy at large. just this week when president trump announced his intent to cut off aid to central america northern triangle, guatemala, he el salvador, hon doris, -- honduras, senator rubio called it counterproductive. when it comes to cuba and venezuela, for this administration, florida is in the driver's seat and has served as the back dron for u.s. policy -- as the back door for u.s. policy toward latin america. big speeches, big decisions, national security adviser bolton was in miami in november delivering a major foreign policy speech on latin america. and it was billed as a foreign policy speech on latin america at large, but the three countries that were the focus of his speech were cuba, venezuela, and nicaragua, which h

i covered latin america for ten years for abc news and 50 years ago more than 90% of latin america, theon of catholics, identified as catholic, today it is around 59%. in some latin american countries it is less than 50%. i remember whenjohn paul ii died i was in mexico city and we did a series of stories about the roman catholic church in latin america, and what i found was you have one priest with aparish of 50,000 people. the numbers are impossible to reconcile. there was this spiritual drift, inevitably because of that, not to mention modernity itself. and the rise of evangelical and fundamentalist and pentecostal in place. but, in fact, in latin america the fastest growing religious sector is the people who identify as not religious. i'm glad you came to that because in the same research i mentioned 84% telling the surveyors they are believers and 16% are non—believers, a significant proportion, even under those numbers, why do you think some people are susceptible to religious belief and organisation and others not? modernity has allowed people to drift and question, it's easy for

policy toward latin america. big speeches, big decisions, national security adviser bolton was in miami in november delivering a major foreign policy speech on latin america. and it was billed as a foreign policy speech on latin america at large, but the three countries that were the focus of his speech were cubea venezuela and nicaragaragua which he dubb the troika of terror. president trump also traveled to miami to deliver another major foreign policy speech on venezuela and florida is serving as the backdrop for u.s. policy towards latin america. it's easy to see why the communities would and should have a major role at the table when determining some of these decisions in u.s. policy toward the region, but there's a danger that comes when personalization drives policy rather than national security interests. there are risks that come when emotions, strong emotions and many of them incredibly justified are dictating u.s. policy and in some respects military training, military planning toward the region. >> fa

security in latin america washington has a lot of military presence u.s. central command has deployed twenty thousand soldiers in central and south america and may increase to forty thousand. on the eighteenth of february u.s. president trumps that a short term goal of overthrowing left wing governments in venezuela. and cuba washington thinks that that will help to turn latin america into a territory under u.s. control. concrete steps taken against venezuela to destabilize it from the inside through consolidation of the opposition organization of protests and launching a hybrid aggression against the country comes as the white house insists venezuela does not have a professional military institution and u.s. special representative for venezuela elliott abrams claims that the country relies on armed gangs. venezuelans deserve to be protected by a professional military institution and not have their leaders rely on armed games or off or on foreign powers who send thousands of soldiers or intelligence agents. british intelligence agent thinks that such an unp

venezuela a very lived the classic playbook rules that america has used in previous coots across latin america and that is why they're not falling for it this time and america is trying to ramp up the game and get rid of material by any means necessary. microsoft fake news watchdog news guard is facing heavy criticism in the u.k. labeled as trustworthy three controversial tabloid newspapers the sun daily daily star and it's not the only issue that the new black listing program is raising auntie's don't quarter. remember news guard that handy dandy microsoft programmer tells you what is and isn't fake news while they're still hard at work putting little green checkmarks next to information they like in search engines use guards' co-founder calls it applying a little common sense to searching information we're going to apply common sense to read problem that the algorithms haven't been able to solve we're going to dozens of journalists to read and review the seventy five hundred news information common sense might not be enough if the admins are living under a rock that robert muller's report is

people of venezuela a very light the classic table that america has used in previous koontz across latin america and that is why they're not falling for it this time and america is trying to ramp up the game and get rid of maturer by any means necessary. with updates for you in just half an hour see the. financial survival guide i don't buy it i promise on a future. home of the flies at least some of my ex in the future so crocker was kaiser. all. the welcome to worlds apart united states relations with russia and iran have never been particularly ordeal but under the presidency of the poles to look at down towards our own sanctions attempted isolation and self-serving allegations of bajor evo. ron paul the chill lover aging american and the well to discuss that i'm now joined by iran's the files minister amir me minister it's a privilege talking to thank you very much for your time. well i suppose stop subject matter is just more general russia iran world the whole world is facing an important issue the troubles that trump. his mentality a mindset. creating. this correct thought iran or russia

in latin america al-jazeera has come to fill a void that needed to be filled. in syria citizens are collecting evidence your daughter has shot of crimes committed against civilians moved out of syria six hundred thousand pages of terror so that one day they can bring the assad regime to justice. she will face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a few tricks syria witnesses for the prosecution on al-jazeera. i. think. saddam's doctors join protesters in the chant for freedom peace and justice as deposed president omar bashir is reportedly taken to prison. on their entire lives is out jazeera live from london also coming up peru's former president alan garcia dies in hospital after shooting himself to avoid arrest. funerals are held in tripoli to shell slam into the libyan capital overnight killing at least five people. i want to india's largest airline suspends all operations after it runs out of money to stay in the skies. will begin in sudan where former president omar al bashir has reportedly been taken to the country's most notorious jail. had bee

and its satellites in latin america there have always thought that the best way to overthrow material is to try and win over a section of the military to launch a push to overthrow it so mean they've always been looking at as i say what the crucial institution of the venezuelan state which is the military it is in most states but in this country i mean iniquitous of venezuela the military is absolutely central to how that country functions it's not just the military force it's been a crucial social force and it's been crucial to the success of shove a. and it is excessive would do so if they could break or for the key component of the venezuelan majority that would strike a real would get into that which must be ambition of washington a must be an ambition of. chris thanks for coming the program reacting to our breaking news today chris palmer a political analyst live on the program. all right moving on for a nod a u.s. army veteran has been arrested and charged in california over an alleged bomb plot according to the justice department the twenty six year old was planning it must occ

through the freedom of information act was a school assassin as we learned it's well known in latin america a school for dictators a school march. wash and calls front page long to. hit a very big article of the torch and. there were a few news at the school of the americas techniques of torture is syria says serious. crimes against here. and it was time. to put out the word. who went to latin america simply to request that the stops and in the troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries made decisions to pull out. those countries to be in argentina uruguay and venezuela. bolivia he went to ecuador where you met with president rafael correa and at that meeting he announced that ecuador it was calling out of the school of the americas simply said something very important prison according to say that it will have made it because he said this school. should not exist. less for the east. so. this is. the force. peaceful efforts to disarm the iraqi regime have failed because we are not dealing with peaceful man. intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt. tha

who went to latin america simply. to request that the stops and the troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries may just say should just pull out. those countries to be in argentina uruguay and venice away a lot. he went to ecuador with president rafael correa and at that meeting he had not just that ecuador it was going out of the school of the americas he said something very important is that according to say that it will have made it because he said this school should not exist. less is for the east. so let's face it. you can make your city. peaceful efforts to disarm the iraqi regime have failed because we are not dealing with peaceful man. intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the iraqi regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. by went downstairs hours later the pentagon and the joint staff called me into his office and said i want you to know he said sure we're going to attack iraq you pull up a piece of paper off his desk

connection with corruption charges over his relationship with a giant construction company in latin america called on there but it alan garcia and nine associates were accused of receiving illegal payments and money laundering the sixty nine year old former president was already the subject of a travel ban on tuesday in his last ever interview he repeatedly denied the charges dismissing them speculation adding that he never sold himself and that is proven. what i can accept and which i reject completely having been head of state two times is that there are these are baseless speculations. and i saw himself as a victim last november he entered the two way embassy in lima seeking asylum he spent two weeks there until the food away and government rejected his request saying there was no evidence of political persecution that's just a quarter's clash with police here at the hospital where the former president has died his political allies say the decision to take his life was one of dignity and . he has shown dignity by not allowing the government and the public prosecutor's office which is ful

we have throughout latin america.ou have seen examples of parties the won an election, the sln at one point in nicaragua, before it went back to a fmln in elp, and the salvador. if you win the election, congratulations. that is going to be our reaction in venezuela. we want to see a free and fair and open political contest and whatever venezuelans choose, we will respect. jonathan, i want to look more globally. you have done extensive research on democratic processes, i want you to provide examples of cases around the world were having an inclusive transition helped the process for democracy, what have you seen as far as the value of chavistas in of the as part of the government and ensuring the transition really does happen? >> ok, so beginning with the second part, the problem with dissidents is usually they are not alone. in venezuela, where you have an increasing crisis, they will expand and grow in importance. in the short term, this will be meaningful because in terms of actually getting to something we might ca

, which brings together scholars throughout north and latin america for intensive weeklong workshops on transnational history. professor young has published two books on borderlands history, "revolution on the texas-mexico border," and also his most recent book, "alien nation: chinese migration in the americas," which explores the transnational construction of the idea of the illegal alien in the americas. our second presenter, professor kathleen lopez, will be speaking on gatekeeping in the tropics, u.s. immigration policy and the cuban connection. professor lopez is an associate professor of latino and caribbean studies and history at rutgers university. she is the author of the award-winning book, "chinese cubans: a transnational history," she has also published essays on topics such as immigration and national identity in latin america, asian -- afro asian connections in the americas, and asian dimensions of latino identity and culture production. our third speaker is professor ichiro azuma, who will be speaking on japanese agricultural labor prog

>> reporter: it's hard to overstate the importance of latin america to the global ride sharing pictureit's a region that's still relying on trains and buses, so traditional forms of transportation and that makes it less appealing for commuters to actually own a vehicle secondly, it is one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world so for these reasons, it is one of the most exciting opportunities for ride sharing companies but it is also one of the most competitive uber has been there since 2013 and built up the market share and llatam represents the bigget growth in north america. $200 billion last year and that represented nearly a fifth of the company's total revenue in its f1, top five most important markets. uber said it's currently the dominant player in the region but it is battling tough local competitors such as brazil's 99 app. early, and were able to take some of the market share away from uber and last year acquired by ride sharing giant dede they are using that capital to compete out of brazil and to expand beyond in latin america didi itself went into mexico last

we are in latin america.ntry, but we are not. >> anthony: but are you optimistic? >> carina: i am, i am. i don't see like a huge crisis coming. but also when they came, you never realized before, so. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: when people think of this often overlooked, little country -- if they think of it at all -- they tend to think of it, patronizingly, as argentina's "little brother." not so. and that attitude pushes people here to think of themselves in many ways as existentially in opposition to their bigger, louder neighbor. >> anthony: where were you born? are you from montevideo? >> lucia: no, no, i'm from argentina. >> anthony: is it a big difference culturally -- argentina and uruguay? >> lucia: here, if you're a little bit courageous, then you made it. you know? >> nacho: it's a sin here. like to be flashy, it's a sin. >> lucia: to be successful, it's not something that -- >> anthony: you gotta do it quietly. >> lucia: there is a saying, "quedate en la chiquita." it means stay in the small things, you know?

it is around 20% more than the necht one. >> when you go to latin america, you're the bank of latin americaknow you brought in the rest of your mexican business must offer a lot better returns than people realize. >> latin america has a huge bank population but more importantly for the bank, the middle class has grown over the last few years. the lows are always higher so you see stronger institutions and many countries like brazil, for instance and you're getting good growth very importantly, there are many businesses in payments, for example. so we make 50% of our profits in l latin america. but it's only 28% of our balance sheet. so that's a huge opportunity for growth going forward. >> i'm glad you brought up the balance sheet. you had both shareholder meeting and then a huge fabulous analyst day. you're very transparent. and what i saw is that there are people worried about your balance sheet. but you raised a huge amount of cash to me, it seems like a false worry. we had a three year plan we delivered on everything brazil had had 9% drop in gdp. argentina had had problems and we went

company tapping a $5rgan and others, billion tech fun with a focus on latin america.loomberg technology" anchor emily chang spoke with marcelo. look at then you latin american market, it is twice the size of india. we are looking at tech companies that are growing, that are leveraging. artificial intelligence to disrupt business models, and i can tell you in the first weeks, we are already looking at 140 companies, so there is an amount of potential investment that we plan to launch in the latin american region. emily: wow, 140 companies in just a couple of weeks. the fund is raising massive amount of capital when dry powder is already at record highs. how does softbank stay disciplined and put so much capital to work at the same time? celo: i think we have been quite disciplined in terms that we had a very clear investment business and investment mandate, and we are looking for that company, that number one company, the entrepreneur who has the ability to leverage artificial intelligence, leverage data, disrupt traditional business models that affect people's lives.

makes its commitment to peace clear you said that you forgot to mention that while most of latin america does. peace it also wants nicolas maduro out but you forget that actually common for example which is a group of fifteen a state school in the other direction so when you talk about latin america and you completely forgetting caribbean region which is part of our region so i started you know there's the old guard colombia costa rica guatemala honduras paraguayan they don't count for anything they have their views and they were pronounced themself and they actually participate actively in the debate in the security council they were there they spoke they have their voice raised and their claims of where they're on the table at the level of the ministers of foreign affairs it is only that at the security council they didn't guard your traditional strong. clutching at straws one on one of the worst aspects of this crisis is that you continue to refuse substantial offers of international aid that could go some way to alleviating the poverty and distress of your people which you've imposed