. >> host: peter james hudson, you also write about entity called the matc which was what? >> guest: the matc is a north american trust company. it was founded and i think 1898 by a number of midwestern bankers. the principal banker was a figure by the name of samuel miller jarvis who have made tremendous amounts of money working as a banker involved in western mortgages. he was basically taking capital from england and set up a mortgage brokerage that was filtering capital from england in the northeast into the west. by the end of the 19th century, under very suspicious circumstances he had collapsed the naacp. it filed for bankruptcy. he left the west and did that in new york city and then suddenly in july of 1898 finds himself on a boat having to santiago cuba in for the united states has declared sovereignty over the republic, it was very u.s. occupation cuba has officially begun. he uprisings that the argo and opens up the first north american banking institution in cuba which is the north american trust company. the activity of the north american trust company start a