there's mexico, north south america, central america and south america. and you're right that the focus of the boom has been in south america, absolutely. your right to say it has been fueled by natural resources. and, in fact, it's worse for central america than even you wished is not just central america doesn't have the natural resources to benefit, but they have emerged as a competitor to china because they produce, they are a manufacturer. they don't even have the natural resources to balance that out. something to situation for central america is not good. that's what south america start prospering. and i celebrate the end of the. i don't think there's anything bad about the. i think sometimes those of us who are focused on latin america, we used to think so pessimistic that we've missed the fact that this is a wonderful moment. but you're also right to suggest that we're now into a different debate. we're into a debate about how to spend the proceeds of this wealth, and that's a very important debate. the point i was trying to get across, i just wa

we've got south america, and i think your book is really focused more on south america than central america. i was actually preparing for the panel today, i was actually looking at the average gdp growth on a per capita basis over the last 11 years in latin america, and i found something which i found quite surprising. i'm going ask, actually, people in the audience. what was the average gdp growth on a per capita basis of mexico over the last 11 years? more than 2% a year, less than 2 %? who would say more than 2% a year? who would say less than 2% per year? i'd say balanced. okay, so i thought it would be much more than that. it's .be 8%. so gdp growth on a constant basis for the last 11 years on average was .8%. in latin america in the south, southern parts of latin america, it's about 2.5-3% with the larger countries. so the region, really, that has benefited from commodity price, the rising commodity prices and the appetite of the -- [inaudible] from china is south america. central america has not benefited that much. but what i would like to come back to and, i think, pick up on one o

third largest economy in south america, is that true? >> we surpassed argentina, and after mexico and brazil, we are the third largest growing. 6% a year. >> we would be happy to up 6% here. -- to have 6% here. what is the foundation of the economy? imports, exports? what is happening? >> we have a strong agricultural sector. our coffee, the best coffee in the world. mining and oil sectors have grown significantly. also, manufacturing. it is really a very diverse and balanced growth. >> i read someplace where maybe 10 or 12 years ago, investment is maybe 1 million or a couple of million -- billion, i'm sorry -- per year. now it has gone through the roof. isn't it? >> 20 years ago, when i was ambassador the first time, and i had more hair and less weight -- [laughter] >> happens to all of us. >> the average investment was $1 billion, $1.5 billion per last year it was $18 billion. tremendous change. it comes from everywhere we. of seeing regions different from the u.s., other countries, taking advantage. probably in a more aggressive way.

throughout south america, scientists study the tragedy and vow to prevent the next one.hey may get their chance here, in ecuador. the ngurahua volcano threatens a town of 17,000 at the base of the mountain. it is called baños. although baños is very near the equator, its elevation in the andes gives it a mild climate. add spectacular scenery and soeothermal hosprings and you have aibrant tourist economy. on the surrounding hillsides, adequate rainfall and fertile volcanic soils sustain agriculture. but the same natural forces that sustain the economy are also a source of danger. hoping to avoid a agedy, geographer patty mothes maps and monitors several volcanoes for ecuador's geophysical institute, inclu tungurahua. she is looking for any changes that might signal an eruption. es and one ofhese ways thate hat is to put a prism that's highly reflective, or a number of prisms up on the flanks of the volcano, and then, shooting with this very high-powered laser beam... narrator: the beams reflect off the prisms and back to patty's measuring device. itan dett subthangesin t

and most of the slaves who come to the new world go to central and south america. we estimate maybe 5% of the millions of slaves who are brought from africa to the americas end up in what is now the united states. now, the cotton gin in the 1790s as we mentioned, the cotton gin gives slavery a new lease on life. it's a new way to make money from a slavery. and the typical slave in the period from 1830 to 1860 works on a cotton plantation. although not all of them. some slaves work in industry, slaves helped build railroads in the south. they work in mining. believe it or not, they had that gold strike in georgia in 1828. some slave owners mined gold with slave labor. but most of the slaves work in agriculture, most of them work in crops, plantations that raise crops like sugar and tobacco and so on. mostly of them work on cotton. well, the bell has just sounded. so let's finish up for today. i'll see everybody on wednesday for the discussion of the richard john monogram. thank you for coming. >> with congress on break we are featuring some of american history tv's

now we codified that and say we come to the aid and assistance of countries in central and south america. this is a lot of stuff in just one year. this is containment. stop for a second and put yourself in joseph stalin's chews. the united states has gotten involved in greece and turkey. the mediterranean. the united states has gotten involved in rebuilding western europe. the united states is sending out guys around the world and now we have signed on to the military alliance in central and south america. if you are joseph stalin, who is the great threat? who is trying to take over the world? it's the united states. if you paranoid and suspicious, it's the united states. so if you are joseph stalin, you have to respond. the cold war is like a tennis match. it goes from one court to the other. they do something and we respond and they respond. here is stalin's response. he is going to tighten up control over countries in eastern europe. hungary and czechoslovakia i mentioned because those were two countries that were supposed to have free elections. well, the free elections go out the wi

it's a military alliance between most of the countries of central and south america and the united states. it's a defensive alliance, where an attack upon one is an attack upon all. and, of course, big brother, the united states, will come to their aid and rescue. we've always been sort of the protector of the western hemisphere from the days back in the monroe doctrine in the 1800s. now we've sort of codified that. we are saying that we will militarily come to the aid and assistance of countries in central and south america. this is a lot of stuff in just one year. this is containment. now stop for a second and put yourself in joseph stalin's shoes. the united states has gotten involved in greece and turkey, the mediterranean. the united states has gotten involved in rebuilding western europe. the united states is sending out guys all around the world, and now we have signed on to a military alliance with central and south america. if you're joseph stalin, who is the great threat to the peace, safety, and security of the world? who's trying to take over the world? >> u.s. >> yes, the uni

now we have signed on to a military alliance with central and south america. if you're joseph stalin, who is the great threat to the peace, safety and security of the world? who is trying to take over the world? yes, the united states. if you're stalin and paranoid and you're suspicious, it's the united states. and so, if you're joseph stalin, you have to respond. the cold war senior like a tennis match. it goes from one court to the other. we do something, the soviet union does something. we respond, they respond. here is stalin's response. he's going to tighten up control over countries in eastern europe, hungary and czechoslovakia i mentioned specifically because those were two countries that were supposed to have free elections after world war ii was over. yeah, those free elections sort of go out the window by 1948. the communists, there is a purge of leadership and these two countries are going to basically become puppet regimes of the soviet union. and then there's berlin. this is -- it gets a little complicated now. just keep in mind that during world

[cow moos] most powerful country in south america? >> gdp-wise, we are bigger than all the other countries together. this is it. hello. time for americans to wake up. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm morley safer. in this edition, we take a look at the impact of global expansion on american corporate tax loopholes, counterfeit drug trafficking, and the economic rise of brazil. we begin with the always taxing topic of taxation. companies searching out tax havens are nothing new. in the '80s and '90s, there was an exodus to bermuda and the cayman islands, where there are no taxes at all. when the government threatened to clamp down on tax dodging, many companies decided to leave the caribbean, but as lesley stahl first reported in march 2011, instead of coming back home, they went to safer havens like switzerland. >> several of these companies came to this tiny dot on the swiss map called zug, a small, quaint, medieval town. i don't think anybody's ever heard of zug in the united states. hans marti, who heads zug's economic develop

in there much as i want to look at where you think ecuador is going in the long term and where south america is going in the long term. it seems to some degree that there's a lot of good things you know there's greater integration in south america standards of living have been increased the amount of influence that the united states and other countries outside latin american apply to it is also decreasing but where do you think it's going in ten years twenty years. in the link you have said the u.s. influence is steadily decreasing and that's good that's why we have stated that latin america is changing from the washington consensus to the consensus without washington. maybe with a sound forward consensus consensus without washington exactly ok. if there were no and this is great as the policies dictated by the us had nothing to do with our needs in latin america but were rather good to the interests of those countries they were concerned to interest in particular if you make an analysis of the economic policy modesty apart i know something about it or at times the policies could have been g

and south america is he quits as the president of ecuador his latest interview due to air tuesday. and it could be a bumpy ride for a lot of those london's a fast approaching summer olympics so severe delays line closures and even bus strikes threaten to put a squeeze on the games stay with us. so for assistance for new job the rates of. rates of leukemia for example the surgery to. breast cancers more than ten times told cancers fourteen times if you get the exact details but the shoes numbers there's not nothing that you have ever found in any epidemiological study did you ever there is a way that brings victory. to its creator. he's not alone some are more severe than others we have something to be he's born with that skulls without ne and sometimes with their legs totally to mr block means death to those who it's pointed out. to those who choose this window. and the celebrate seen and they don't realize stand looking that their own future can't so i'm this is just. so science. i have. leakage and i show you to the extent how much i have leakers. welcome to the. science technolo

very, very treacherous sailing around the tip of south america through the straits of magellan. treacherous then and today. and very long. so you're right. in the 20th century we builds the panama canal which cuts that off. >> did magellan's crew settle australia? >> no. magellan, you can see here, here is magellan. they come into the philippines, no, they don't set foot in australia. and they come down through the islands, borneo, australia is one of the late discoveries, one of the later discoveries. other questions. >> so st. augustine is -- wasn't the french right after that? >> it's john cabot. sorry. jacque cartier, in the 1530s, will be sailing here in the north. what cartier, and what cabot are looking for is once the europeans understand that there's something here called north america, what they really want then is what do you think? once they find -- they want a way through it. because they are still fixated on getting to the east. so jacque cartier and john cabot are looking for a water route, a water route that can get them through this. they do this as an obstacle.

the one example of a success of private markets is in south america.it's a basket case in south america. one country is doing quite well and that's chile. the biggest reason is because of this guy of the finance minister created a private social security accounts. so instead of trusting the government to give you money, everybody has a little savings book and they can watch the money appreciate and it makes them think about their own money and investment through the symbol innovation and i give president bush credit he was the guest speaker but he went to every state to sell that in america and got nowhere. people are horrified by the idea. so i go to chile and expect to find people who will say this is great. but everybody that i interview, nobody says that. everybody says you know, the bank that administers this, the fee is too high and the government ought to step in and reduce income. nobody understood the mechanism that had made their lives better. this is also true true in hong kong. milton friedman's famous case, the most popular high school vid

people down here in buenos aires, they are the ones collecting all the energy, south america. that's why these-- the countries down below, south america and australia, in december, would be having their summers, yeah? and we have ours just the opposite. it kind of makes sense, doesn't it? yes. look at the globe. do you see? look at-- in the summertime, there's the tip toward you, huh? now, here's-- it says the old sun right here. everything i can see-- you guys can't get back and you'll see this. but i can see amsterdam right there. all right? now, amsterdam, that's halfway mark. amsterdam is right in the sun, okay? so it's day, day, day, day, day, day, day, day, day, day, day, day, day, day, day, day. sun down. night, night, night, night, night. sun up. day, day, day, day. [laughter] - get the idea? - yeah. so they're in the daylight most of the turn. how about at a place that's on the daylight all of the turn that's just barely on that? of course, the north pole is. so when at north pole, daylight is 24 hours a day. but you come down to a certain point where it just comes up

and we do not pay attention, unfortunately, to south america and latin america and africa. where are we in the world? >> 60, 70 years ago, who was dominant in the middle east? it was the british and french. they were -- they left or were pushed out after world war ii. who replaced them? we did. with whom did we have the best relationships there in those years when we moved in? with iran, turkey, a faithful nato allies from the moment of nato's founding practically. with the saudi arabia, a source of oil and income for us. and egypt. how are our relations with all of these four today? in all cases they are not as good as they used to be. in some cases, they are still pretty good, particularly turkey and saudi retief. with egypt is mixed. and with iran is hostile. all of that reflects the global awakening going on in the middle east. and problems with the united states, among other issues the issue of israel as a state. >> by 2014 most of our soldiers will be out of afghanistan, but that commitment is still there. the commitment is still there in iraq. is the premise that ira

it's almost easier to look and say where of choose not come from to israel this committee is from south americand north america a large persian jewish committee and indian jewish community from all over. >>> in my favorite activities is folk dancing one of the areas without the blending of the different aspects of the islamic culture and think is the most amazing the songs that are now being made to dances with steps from yemen combined with steps from europe and all coming into one son and most of us don't even think about it and we do it but it's a very typical with their riders the group and different walks of life ethiopian are from my rack describing the immigration waves of the '50s. in a fax of the music affects the dance and movies. any of the people viewing are on netflix lookup israeli films there such a variety of resources and opportunities to really be exposed to different aspects of the culture. >>> we will return in just jump moment please join us as we continue the wonderful conversation. >>> welcome back. honored to be your host this morning a wonderful conversation today about

the man in charge talk for the first time in public about the incident in south america. mark sullivan got a grilling from lawmakers. we also learned about previous issues involving the agency's passed with protecting the president. scott thuman has more. >> what if by allegedly bringing prostitutes into the hotel rooms, they somehow put the president's safety at risk. he insisted today that did not happen. he had to apologize for multiple -- >> g-20 alcohol -- i do not know the environment, these individuals did some really dumb things. >> and one of the more rare apologies these senators have heard, there is no excuse for a dozen agents allegedly party in the with prostitutes day before. >> i cannot explain why they would have done what they did. >> i continue to believe that the problem is broader than you believe it to be. >> especially in light of recent news reports. >> sexual encounters have been condoned under an unwritten code. >> the notion this kind of behavior or is condoned or authorized is absurd. >> senators pointed to five other incidents in the last five

we travel to south america to investigate and bring you this rare glimpse of a man living a real life kafka-esque nightmare. these are the warm walls of on the strangest and toughest prisons in the world in bolivia. a forbidding place. and here, among the murderers and rapists and petty drug criminals, an american languishes. no charges, no evidence against him. >> it's an absolute nightmare. i feel all alone. i am becki ingbegging the amerie to try to help me. >> reporter: jacob is one of 3,500 prisoners in this facility. look around. there are no guards in here. the inmates run the show. murders are common here. so is prostitution. and so are drugs, right out in the open. it's like "lord of the flies," bolivia style. >> i don't think i ever will recuperate from what has been happening to me. >> reporter: jay job is from brooklyn. in 2008, as construction in the u.s. collapsed, he invested family savings in a rice-grow g ing venture here in bolivia. it was a good business. 40 million pounds of rice, the first year, 200 bo live yan employees. last june, bo live yan authorities arreste

rafting on a challenging section of the american river last week, the north fork, this is the south america of the american river and the water looks calm but it is moving faster than normal. 2200 cubic feet a second. it is good rafting water but come up and use caution. >> reporter: they are called the trouble maker rapids. >> the water creates more options. normally everyone goes down the left side because that is where the water is. >> reporter: this is the south fork of the american river. >> it is awesome. running higher than normal right now. you can see the weather is great. >> reporter: he says the inexperience should go with -- inexperienced should go with a guy. a man died saturday rafting on the american river. the cause unknown. >> he was with folks that knew what they were doing, he just collapsed. >> reporter: that happened on the north fork of the american, a more advanced section. now may be the best time. >> yeah. perfect time to start. >> reporter: as you saw the folks over turned, the experts say in addition to wearing a life jacket and seeking a guide, using a suitable b

the caribbean, a quiet of haiti.cuba and some pretty intense wet weather in the northern half of south america at the moment. things are quiet in brazil. isolated showers and some clouds around. largely foreine. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers use their expertise in global finance to guide you through the business strategies and opportunities of international commerce. we put our extended, global network to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles. >>> welcome back to "newsline."

you've been absolutely clear you're against decriminalization but you probably followed events in south america where, following the visit of president obama and before he visited colombia recently, the heads of government of south american countries also saying that we have to have a debate about decriminalization because the so-called war on drugs, and this is where they agree with you, has not really worked. is there no possibility, do you think, of any form of decriminalization to try and deal with the drugs barons attempt to run these -- >> mr. chairman, we have decriminalization. we've had decriminalization in this country since the passage of misuse act, bipartisan measure in 1971, and particularly its implementation in october of 1973 when he instructed magistrates to cease sending people to prison for cannabis possession, which has then grown over the years into a reduction of penalties for that drug to such an extent that the prime police response to cannabis arrests now is something called the cannabis warning which doesn't even have your legislative seal out, was created entirely ad

a baby penguin is native to south america. >> every year we have birds that breed and we allow them tohatch. >> the san fransisco zoo is the leader of propagating and when populations. raising them, feeding them and even taking them to fish school where they learn to eat dead fish and interact with the public. >> he has a nice fat belly and his lungs and heart sounds normal. you can see he is quite perky, asking for food. that is a good sign. >> fat is a good thing? >> it is definitely a good thing. their party when they come out and stay around for the first month. >> to date made for life? >> they made for life just as well as humans do ... >> that means every breeding season we have pear's that decided the time to move on and it wanted better broke. >> you can come see the baby penguins any time during the next month. at that point they may be walking around and when they do they could fall into the water. at that point they are taken away to school. >> everyone has to go to school. it is painting class for some unlikely artist. >> the most i ever painted before this was my house. >

then we take a look at shoplifting gangs from south america. and finally we go undercover in china to expose rampant product counterfeiting. we begin in iraq with the theft that's been called one of the largest of its time, the mother of all heists. and it happened right under the noses of u.s. advisers. as iraqi investigators told us in october of 2006, more than half a billion dollars had disappeared from the defense ministry-- money that was supposed to equip the iraqi military. investigators believe the very people that the united states had entrusted with the funds had stolen them. but it seemed neither the u.s. nor its allies had much of an appetite for pursuing the matter. >> people have died. moneys have gone missing. culprits are running around the world, hiding and scurrying around. i have to ask myself why has this happened? it is not every day that you get billion dollar scandals of this kind. when ali allawi, a harvard educated international banker took over as iraq's minister of finance in 2005, he was confronted with a gaping hol

we recently had an influx of a lot of rawhide chewies that came from south america and they had horrible chemicals. use your judgment. talk to people at the pasteur and use products they know are good. >> this one is about a dachshund. our mailbox is causally chewing on the smaller ones years. ears. >> do not ignore that behavior. it is a brutal time for ear infections. dogs like their butts and they let their dogs year and that is not good. i cannot tell you how to stop it. you have to train properly and offer alternatives to licking the ears. >> thank use a much and thank you molly as well. you can e-mail your question to pat questions or visit our website, wbaltv.com and click on family or send your questions to pet questions. coming up to 9/11 as of 5:00, report of the gunmen on the list at the umbc campus. we're monitoring any developments as police car the surrounding areas to stay with us and tin in tonight at 5:00 for the latest. a challenge for the mayor, and delicate pat mcdonald once stephanie rawlings boy to take him on on tv in a debate on youth crime. boot camp at the scien

. >> at the start, there was tough times, particularly in south america. >> it was a very hard experiencef so many of the preconceived notions that people all over the world have about americans. over the course of the five months, we were able to realize, oh, we're morale like than we are different. >> now she's using what she learned to open up new worlds for inner city kids. >> introducing this ball alone is going to open up their eyes to being able to exercise their creativity. build confidence and develop new friendships. it's important for me to spread and share this tool with as many youth as possible. >> that's just what she's doing, beginning with children at the martin luther king recreational center in atlanta. >> one of the greatest things that i think ms. martin has taught our children is you must be persistent in the pursuit of your goals. >> athletically speaking, soccer is the universal language. so many people play the sport, watch the sport, love the sport. for those americans, especially kids in the inner city and adults not familiar with the spore, they're being left o

become dangerous when they become concentrated coca leaves for example or no big deal i was down in south america was mad regional people i chewed some coca leaves like strong coffee but when you turn into cocaine then you have a problem you've got a seriously dangerous drug similarly opium poppies make a gentle tea but heroin refined and distilled from opium will kick your ass food in its natural state is good for us we're frankly just talking about fruits and vegetables take them out the farm say that this is a real food but when you're refined it into a concentrate. they could never find in nature it's no longer a food it's essentially a drug from high fructose corn syrup to highly processed breads and means to vegetables turned into something hardly distinguishable from the original instead it's a t.v. dinner they're addicted if they have negative health consequences and because big food companies can take the bruised and damaged fruits and vegetables and put them in a processed foods or the range of fish and fish sticks or the pink slime into our burgers or fast food and processed food is ch

and believe that south sudan, the newest country in the world is either in southeast asia or in south america. most americans who do study abroad go to a relatively few number of countries, many also english-speaking. and they study abroad for a very short period of time. the other thing that we tend to forget except for you and this committee is that foreign language learning in our country may be at the lowest level in our nation's history. certainly for college students today with about as the secretary has said, only 8% studying a foreign language. that's half of what it was in 1965. yet the need for as you've noted and many times the need for much more proficiency in foreign language is where the future ought to be. the federal programs that this committee has supported are quite strategic, therefore, in my view. they're global. they get our citizens to more than 150 different countries. they're very diverse. not only in terms of where students go, but the students from our society that go more than half are from minority groups in our society. much different portfolio and profile than i