professor, and jose luis morin is a professor at john jay college of criminal justice.emocracy now! is grilli accepting applications for full-time social media manager. details at democracynow.org. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] ( music ) narrator: in 1990, the national gallery of art in washington marked the 350th anniversary of the death of the painter sir anthony van dyck with an extraordinary exhibition of about 100 paintings and oil sketches, gathered from collections around the world. born in 1599, van dyck's remarkable career took him from his native flanders to italy, and then to england as court painter to charles i, before the artist's death there in 1641. works shown here represented the full range of van dyck's artistic creation,

jose luis morin you get a job at the center for constitutional rights in 1990.our first day on the job, you're on a flight to panama on? >> my first day on the job was to get on a plane to be part of on civiliangation victims of u.s. invasion. this was a delegation n of the national l lawyers guild. among g the persons ththat joins was an attorney who is continued to be the attorney for the victims after i left the center for constitutional rights. juan: it has taken almost 30 years for judgment on whahat happened in panama to come out from international bodies? can you talk about why it took so long to be able to get this? >> when you're going against the most powerful country in the world, they are -- there is going to be pushed back, including the united states at every stage of this case attempted to claim that inter-american commission did not have the competency, that we had not exhausted all remedies as required under international law and the procedures of the commission, and so at every stage, the united states -- and it continues to deny its responsibi