today colombia is one of the countries with the largest gold production in south america and one of the most important gold producers in the world. in two thousand and ten it produced approximately fifty four tons while it is estimated that there are still enormous unexplored reserves because. geological knowledge of the country is still limited. but according to research of national interest me talking about forty one thousand tons of gold buried posits. in all of these can be developed. colombia is suffering from gold rush fever. in no other country of the world is this happening in a more intense way. there are people here who have come from all over the country not just from one of insurer but from the entire country but that is because gold is money its wealth its peace for the family its food. life has changed one hundred percent but at least for me the mine has changed my life one hundred percent because before i lived next to the national road. and at the moment of what i see them and now i have a house in one of and tura and now i don't depend on the government to send me five

the reason for the monroe doctrine -- in south america the various countries were beginning to rebelagainst the spanish king, and the french king was a cousin of the spanish king and the french were going to send military aid to put out these barbarians of english and they send their military to keep the french from going into south america. and they invited the americans to join them in keeping the french out of south america because obviously south america was rich with gold and silver, and john quincy adams was the secretary of state and said absolutely not. we are not going to get involved in a foreign war. we are not going to let them come over here either. and that was the seed planted for the shooting of the monroe doctrine. monroe doctrine wasn't a separate doctrine. was a part of lonrho's message and he asked his cabinet for help in putting together some sort of statement making our international policy clear. and john quincy adams wrote the core provision of that. there were three long paragraphs that now are called the monroe doctrine, and in one of them he tells the europ

yes i am but of course i would also add south america. in terms of drug distribution and drug trafficking cocaine and hero in a very much similar to probably amounts of cultivated and produced drugs or about the same as we do in south america you have about one thousand tons of cocaine and in afghanistan you have five hundred to six hundred tons of heroin once such an amount of drugs is produced it starts moving through other countries destabilizing very jeems increasing corruption producing paramilitary groups but their leaders are interested in look just maximizing their profits because their profits skyrocket straight away. they want to have their own ministers their own generals have their own vision for the country start shooting at each other because such groups are numerous there will fight each other and together they fight the government mexico is one example of that they have a huge number of us s. nations some fifty thousand of assess nations judges prosecutors police offices but mexico is indeed a transit country right mexico

they invited americans to join in keeping the french out of south america because south america was richwith all the gold and silver. john quincy adams was secretary of state and said absolutely not, were not going to get involved in foreign wars. we're not going to let them come over here either. the seeds were planted for the monroe doctrine. it was part of monroe's annual message and he announced his cabinet for help in putting together some sort of statement, making our international policy clear. john quincy adams wrote the corporate vision of god. there are three long paragraphs that now call the monroe doctrine. he tells the europeans he does not want to get involved in wars. we don't want anything to do. you stay out of our affairs. the band of the colonial era had come to an end. you can no longer consider americas as father for colonial aspirations and any attempt to colonize will be considered a threat to the united states. >> your book mentions, but doesn't dwell on family troubles. the adams family had some serious drinking problems. this is not a problem. it is a genetic tr

i have got to get cocaine, tons of cocaine from south america here to maly and guana and south africa and up to europe. you al qaeda help me. you al qaeda will become part of my drug empire. >> operation. >> so what happens is the guy was not an actual drug dealer. he was a sting, a dia operator. the main contact point the guy thought to have some communication with al qaeda in northern africa. he communicates up the criminal food chain. recruits two of his buddies, they make arrangements to transport nine tons of cocaine from south america to africa to europe. >> >> bill: al qaeda would get a cut. >> theoretically al qaeda would get a cut. >> bill: who arrests them? >> they are arrested. the informant is actually working for the d.e.a. and they, at the critical point as the d.e.a. and as the federal agencies the fbi and the others do, they take the -- they walk the snucky criminal through the purported crime like the guy was going to blow up the new york stock exchange with a thousand pound bomb. he goes and pushes the trigger and of course the bomb is fake. the whole thing was a sti

now the uncontrolled water mass heads towards the coasts of south america.here, this kind of climate tsunami leads to massive flooding. the people of the piura region on the coast of peru live in constant fear of the el nino. every time this natural disaster strikes, it causes chaos in their lives. >> today there's no trace of the havoc wrought by el niÑo. valentin ruiz's banana plantation is thriving. it will soon be time to harvest. but the peruvian farmer will never forget the day he nearly lost everything. >> the water was up to here. here, where my hand is. this whole land was devastated. today it's fine. we banana producers carried away all the dead earth and planted new banana trees. >> valentÍn ruiz and many other local banana farmers were facing ruin. they survived by joining forces. today, their association numbers 340 banana producers. they export 2 million bananas a week, mainly to europe. it's partly thanks to them that peru is the world's leading exporter of organic bananas. by working together, they're taking preventative action against the ef

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forrest is a head of a peasant movement in south america. years before, i was responsible for putting him in jail for 10 years. he has been labeled an ego terrorist by a country -- company controlling the water rights. tavis: an ecoterrorist. >> there is a big break up. they end up killing a lot of people, quarantining areas, getting rid of the population. he gets wind of this. i am sent down and pulled out to rescue him and bring him back, so the truth comes out by a member of the actual -- the sister of the ceo of the company, who is not playing along. i have to basically go back and re-counter a man i put in jail many years before. he does not know that, but i do. that is where the story takes off. tavis: at this point, do you to certain projects -- do you choose projects based on the issues raised in the project? or is it just a choice of you find in good work that is entertaining? >> i think both. what you try to -- get the best piece of material possible. the subject matter is compelling and has resonance, like in this case. that is gr

south america really is hot.e chicken we talked about and a lot of the menu trends are starting to bubble up from south america and really starting to make inroads on the menu. and you also find that restaurants are going to be seeking differentiation through libation variety. the drink menu. beverage is a great area for restaurant operators to innovate. we're seeing a lot in terms of microdistilled liquors and spirits. craft beer is certainly hot right now and non-alcoholic. whether its specialty drinks, specialty mock-tails. beverage is a great place to innovate and provide a differentiation for the consumer. i'm a smoothie man myself. hopefully there will be some of that out there. david henkes from technomic, thanks so much. still ahead... why so many motorists take the fast track when it comes to buying car insurance.. and how much they could be getting ripped off.. is next. w you've heard it here before-- you better shop around when it comes to car insurance.. despite our warnings.. most people are skipping

south america, latin america, has been in denial about its black roots.n denial about that 11.2 million figure to the point where these countries would allocate millions of dollars to pay europeans to come move to mexico, move to brazil, move to cuba, move to dominican republic, move to wherever, intermarry, and lighten the country. they were trying to change the ratio of blacko whe, and hope, through miscegenation, that they would lighten the country. and they even had theories about... in brazil, through gilberto freyre, was called "racial democracy," but in mexico, 1925, josé vasconcelos wrote a book called the cosmic race. >> hinojosa: that's right. >> and he said, "we are all the races," but he devalued the black element. he wanted the black element to disappear in a mestizanal kind of fantasy land. >> vasconcelos is in 1925, in his famous essay mestizaje, suggests that these other races e just a stepping stone for the stizo race to come and take over. the mestizos, in his view, are the ones that are going to bring together the... the differences of

that is why the comfort takes off and heads down to south america, to show goodwill, not to be the american country that comes down there and shows people how it's done, to be the united states' ambassador of medical care that wants to partner with these nations, learn about them, learn about their illnesses, learn about their afflictions and learn from the people in the area how we can better support and partner with them. build bridges before they have to. if we have had twice the number of aircraft carers in 9-11, if we had twice the number of marine battalions in 9-11, would that have stopped it? it would not have. but maybe, maybe through humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, global engagement, the ability for us it reach across borders and change minds, maybe the intelligence might have been forthcoming. maybe there was one individual who might have seen something happening and recognizing we can't let bad things happen. that is why we do this. one, we globally engage because it's the right thing to do. we are citizens of the world and we deserve to take care of those less fortuna

these live in central and south america. he is nocturnal. >> this animal here can turn green and the reason is algae grows on his fur. and will grow on his back and he looks like a blob of moss in the jungle. when he gets big his fur is so thick that the bees can not attack him. >> that is just a little dirt. >> that is the dirt he lives in. these right here are toxic glands. so dogs eat them won't survive. sometimes harvey stays in the tubs as well. >> what's this? >> just over here, grant. >> whoa. >> keep his head over this way. >> you remember we talked about the anaconda and you saw the one that almost bit me. >> are you mad? >> the anaconda they have 200 teeth shaped like fish hooks if this animal bites you account not let go. it takes 30 minutes for him to relax his jaw muscles. if a python or boa or anaconda bites you you sit there. mein ts akge tbe3 pa?th amal this is a delicacy in asia. they use the fur and the scent glands for perfume. but it loved to eat cobras as well. he could eat a king cobra. when a cobra str

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

we do see it in calinke, you see it in certain incan sites in south america. so it might be a pan american feature. i'm not sure what it is. some hopi people have told me that the t, the bottom of the t, goes down into a mythical underground lake so this is an upside down mountain that leads down into a place called the house of rain. that is where twyla, probably oldest american deity, the rain deity, lives down in the house of rain and this is a t shape from up on the colorado plateau and that is the last picture on these slides, so -- the t shape, the pottery, i followed genetic information that you find in bones and teeth. i followed as many different pieces of information as i could and they sent me walking. i started in chaco canyon and walked north up to mesa verde, around to comb ridge in utah, down into the hopi mesa, across the mugion rim, to mexico and then into the sierra madre, following people, following routes. because everything in the desert leaves a route that leads you somewhere. everything out there is a story. and that's what i'm following

of her flight from south america was the most exciting part of her trip. people were going, whoo. they were bouncing and riding. >> the weather is not just .reaking havoc with the skype 83 million people have taken to .he roads many roads are still icy. it is a full ice rink even though the skies are completely blue. back at dulles, the winds had died down by late saturday. the crowd, whether, and the .elays >> you want to see loved ones and friends. that is one passenger front .ndianapolis of three americans are taking a train, plane, or a car to get to wherever they need to go. travel one of the top days of the year all affected huge midwest storm. live from reagan national, richard reeve, abc 7 news. reporters have been out there .ll day have happy that the winds died down. a cold will settle in after tomorrow. let's find out from steve rudin. a cold night ahead. tomorrow will be chilly, but nothing compared to today. 35 at reagan national. right at the freezing mark in .artinsburg look at these wind gust from earlier today. wintergreen, virginia, 61 miles .er hour keep in mind

. >> debbie arrived at dulles after a 16 hour flilet from south america. she said the landing was the most exciting part of the trip. >> made a low turn on the runway and people were like -- >> there were weather problems and mechanical delays. >> it was only a half hour but it does mess up your day. >> it was a little bit bumpy but the pilot did an amazing job. >> flying in from texas, she says she's been through this before. >> as long as you feel like the crew is calm i just think to myself, they have done this 100 times. >> arriving passengers say they are glad their holiday homecoming is safe. >> there were some people who said that was the bumpiest ride they ever had. >> some white knuckles out there but those folks are happy to be on the ground. the wind appears to be dying down. the airport now, you can see some of the traffic behind me is getting busy. >> thank you very much for that. two people are in the hospital after they were shot in a manassas convenient store. the shooting happened just before 1:00 this afternoon. police tell us a suspect i

so the growth in the america, south america and emerging markets.ou look at food service, even on some slower, you know, flattish type growth over the second and third quarters, the margin increases that we've had i think people are starting to see why the combination of these two as you showed earlier, cranes, plus food service equals profit. liz: okay. i mean i definitely see that but you just mentioned europe. where is the growth in your crane business? who is, buying your cranes? sorry, is it asia, or you just mentioned south america s that sort of a brazil pre-olympics play? >> i think actually it is sort of obviously brazil but there is chile, peru, colombia, all have been good markets and so, you know, the americas has been good. if you look at what is going on in the energy and the, the energy and the petro chem type business, the fracking is good type business and boom trucks that has driven the growth. you have australia's been good. russia is coming back. after can has been a good story this year. i think you put all that together on the

>> three-banded armadillo. 11 banded, nine banded, and people eat the armadillo, but in south america, they cook it like a taco. when you're there with the natives, people live there, they'll cook it like this, but he's the only armadillo in the world, not even anent can pen straight that. >> it's amazing. >> touch it, see how hard it is. you won't believe this, only animal in the world to carry leprosy. >> now you tell me! >> that is the old days, i hope. >> what do you mean, you hope? if you just gave me leprosy -- we're going to fall out, jack. >> look it up when you go back to your room. >> i believe you. i'd rather you tell me before i touched him. >> i forgot to tell you, i usually tell people before they touch it, some people don't want to touch it. look at this here. go ahead, buddy, go ahead. >> we need to take a break while i have a leprosy test. >>> next, animal responsible for the worst bite of jack's life, can you guess what it is? we'll find out after the break. first, another of jack's close encounters, you'll be surprised to hear, lions. >> got one of the males there.

across south america and you can see some very big showers going up to paraguay and into bolivia and also peru. we would like to see heavy rain during the course of sunday. the main concentration remained in northwestern part of brazil going toward ecuador. as you come southward of argentina, it is one are to showers likely. we might see some rain pushing up from the southwest during the latter part of the day. highs in santiago a route 29 degrees. in the caribbean is looking like a fine picture. we should see some showers coming into the northern coast. elsewhere in we've got scattered showers. further north is looking fine was sunny weather and highs of 23 degrees. in north america, at temperatures around 32 degrees. we have to weather systems moving in. this should make some really we go to our top stories. egyptians have less than two hours for the second and final round on a referendum on the constitution. the president'smahmoud mekki announced he was resigning. a senior minister and seven others have been killed in a suicide bomber attack in pakistan. the taliban is claiming re

further south, plenty of showers as usual over many parts of south america and monday we're going to see plenty of them in the northern parts of argentina. that will clear away as we head into tuesday and bind -- behind it, it's going -- going to turn >> hello, again. a reminder of the main stories here on al-jazeera. a debate in uppedway in the u.s. congress on how to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. earlier, president obama spoke on how to avoid the budget crisis. and turkey's prime minister has said the war in syria will soon be over. he made the comments as he visited refugee camps on the turkish border. protesters in india who have been calling for harsher punishments for rapists have been holding a candlelit vigil in the capital the they gathered in new delhi -- delhi to mourn the death of a 23-year-old gang rape victim. the attack on her earlier this month throwed nypd protests. six suspects have been charged with murder after she died sunday. she had been receivering medical attention in spinning. the -- in singapore. she's been cremated. rebels in the central african republ

for the next four decades or encrypt and blood sets we carve the streets of south america into a grid of rival territories. and . today these fractured communities are home to five generations of urban soldiers. really for a while from. us this out is where we come from as a stall model kill or be killed. what's going to need to have a to come from across normandy you dot. com call them are still baffled. when i was going down you know when the month good old come out will you come the mother when you don't know nobody mother didn't you got. west side of his bloods on the inside of us is crips just around in a box you know me surrounded by insects this was created over twenty years ago to where the geographics in the neighborhoods have been separated by gang. certain streets certain alley certain stores certain schools certain parks or claim deathstar. you can go it is gas there's booze gives no call. you can go to bed or what it is you want to own they will have. you got some of action when you fall and you would tell them you know hi from nowhere home you can all say but you got som

africa south america and europe are all represented here the largest room is reserved for the model. and finally here is the russia room. the room of mother russia here are some famous russian symbols such as the kremlin . the first man in space. of course the russian troika and the russian birch tree all the wonders of the motherland are on display. and thankfully it also happened to be right next to the ball you are welcome thank you dario. and so. much needed. while i got to work on dinner for the team it told me that this place really is a dream come true the project is the result of a childhood fantasy when i was young i used to dig out small passages. as i grew older the passages grew larger that's how a child's dream materialize the structure has been a run for four years i'm glad to know that this has given people some moments. full time as i said goodbye to and headed to my scandinavian theme drew. was in for a bit of a surprise. ok it's see what they mean now about a hard sell with a difference but it's been such a long day. a good. dream of the sea. wealthy british style.

this year's event will mark five years since the end your own sre swapped africa for south america they thousand kilometer ruud buses through beirut and argentina before finishing in santiago the capital of chile in twenty two well to formally dominant thomas team suffered a setback when they failed to make the podium for the first time in eleven years this time three trucks with a young drivers will be supported by a technical truck carrying a ton of spare parts and although driver it was disqualified in the previous race after the crash the twenty six year old doesn't feel under any pressure that the teacher was like this year the restarts medusa's off peru it's the hardest part of the route all the contenders for podium places will be determined during the first days will do everything not to let choking down as he has everything to become a good bus that he could teach a child and teaches us you seem. to think you mustn't i spend lots of time on the passenger's seat teaching our young drivers this year i think they've got the talent and the potential to perform successfully. team ha