and cuba. when we have an image of a black man hanging from a tree in the u.s., it's a lynching, and that's what marti recorded when you live in the u.s. but in cuba and was often away for us late in his life. in fact, there's a wonderful book by historian called dying to be free. and, in fact, many of the slaves are hanging from a tree in cuba were slaves who were found some escape from the horrible life. one difference what does marti say here? it's important. he says, he sees a man hanging from a tree and says come as a boy, the boy himself swore at the sigh site of a dead man to e his life, the cry. so what is important about that? again, i am translating his words. it's a crime. this is a boy at a tender age it's a crime, and he pledges his life to try to correct that. the interest that marti had in racial justice was from an early age on. and then i think as i tried to point out the experience has seen failures to bring racial harmony to the united states, exacerbated his desire to bring

cuba. slaves in colonial cuba, many of them worked in sugar cane. arguious work. many accounts say the population of colonial latin america was the shortest lifespan of slaves, particularly those working with the sugarcane. it is hard to cut. and the factory model of the sugarcane plantation meant that after the work in the fields was done sugar had to be processed. and slaves were put to work at that. so it is no exaggeration to say as historians pointed out that slaves might be putting in 17-hour days. this is really hard. and slaves were tortured and abused. i think what i would like to really bring out is that aside from the very negative aspects that are similar there is nothing in cuba like the gatherings to watch lynchings, setting people on fire that is a tragedy, in u.s. history. when we think about race and marti and i have spoken mainly about his experiences in the united states but a very important part is what marti experienced as a boy in cuba. the difference between the u.s.

cuba is not free until cuba is free. it now becomes the government of fidel and until the broughtnt of fidel is down, there is no freedom. these guys are as passionate as they have ever been and that is extraordinary. just as extraordinary as the longevity of fidel castro, is of their longevity. that is the situation you are seeing here with these exiled community down in florida. does that answer the question to a degree. from the highest levels of cia you're talking about the same people. after that they are farming it out to different groups. it is always good to use the smaller people when you can't. -- when you can. the legitimacy of government up when people come in from the outside. it is not always to cross pollinate because that destroys legitimacy if you're bringing in people from the outside area especially in latin american communities. latin american communities are some of the most prideful in their own backgrounds and you would be surprised -- i was surprised to hear how derogatory they can be towards othe

cuba is not free until cuba is free. for a long time, it was to fidel , but now i've run knows it becomes the government of fidel and until the government of fidel is brought down, there is no freedom. you have to think, these guys for 60 years have been feeling the same thing. they are as passionate as they have ever been and that is pretty extraordinary. just as extraordinary as the and theirof fidel passion. i can't understand because it never had my homeland taken night for me, but i can imagine that i would be annoyed by it and do something about it. that is the situation you are seeing here with these exiled community down in florida. does that answer the question to a degree? from the highest levels of cia , you are talking about the same people. e.on did that, they are farming it out to different groups. it is always good to use the internal people when you can. for a lot of reasons. basically, the legitimacy of government gets dinged up when people come in from the outside. you want to use dominicans when you ca

chileters focus on iran, and cuba. they also examined the american stance on women's rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960's on. this session was hosted by the american historical association at their annual meeting. it's about an hour and a half. >> thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. my name is amanda moniz. on the curator of philanthropy at the smithsonian national museum of american history. until recently, i was associate director of the national history center of the american historical association, which sponsored this afternoon's panel. amanda perry is the new assistant director. we are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, which all look at human rights in the late cold war era and then looking at activists and policymakers who were active in a number of different areas, including korea, cuba and iran. some really fascinating and rich papers. this is matth

cuba is only 90 miles off our border. they offer a potential for increased exports, of all sorts of products but especially kansas wheat. and in fact, we -- while we're introducing this legislation now, we started down this path two increase our ability to sell agricultural commodities, food and medicine to cuba back when i was a member of the house of representatives. i offered an amendment then to an appropriation bill that lifted the embargo, the ability to sell, that would allow the ability to sell those food, ail cultural commodities and medicine to cuba for cash upfront. and that bill was passed. it was controversial then. this issue of whether -- what our relationship ought to be with cuba has always been contentious, but i remember the vote was about i think 301-116. a majority of republicans and majority of democrats said it's time to do something different with our relationship with cuba. this was a significant step in opening up the opportunity to market american -- the products of american farmers and ranchers

cuba. cuba? cuba. i just realized i'm going to cuba. so we arrive in cuba. and once again, i have to collect this bag. oh, my god. oh, my god. i'm so tired of dealing with it. i know as american, i shouldn't be in cuba. i handed customs my passport. they were very suspicious. they immediately started asking me questions. where are you coming from? >> the united states. >> where are you going? >> paris. >> they told me if i didn't leave the next day, they would come looking for me. i was shocked. and i was really scared. as we were leaving, i said to laura, let's just get a hotel together and save some money. honestly, i wasn't ready to let her go. we went into the room. she's curious about the states, and i asked her about london. and i'm just sitting there on the bed and i notice that laura's bag looked exactly like mine. exactly the same as mine. same color, same shape. same bag. i'm staring at the bag, and i'm looking at her and i'm trying to picture her as a drug trafficker. i said, no. no, impossible. no. because if she is, she's really good. that night

speaker, we must stand with the people of cuba. we must stand against the castro regime that seeks to benefit only itself. we must give the cuban people hope and commit to help them achieve freedom and democracy. it is the duty of the new administration to review the previous administration's failed policy and start working for the people of cuba and against the castro regime. hank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker. in this chamber last night as i listened to the president's address to the joint session, i could only think of one word -- resist. whether voted for donald trump or not, we are all obligated to resist his pledge to dismantle the protections of the affordable care act with empty slogans. perhaps the most revealing moment of the trump administration so far was his declaration monday in his meeting with america's governors that health care is complex. who knew, he said. well, anybody who had do

we've now introduced in this congress the cuba trade act. this is legislation which would lift the trade embargo to allow farmers and ranchers, small businesses and other private sector industries to freely conduct business, to sell products, agriculture products in particular to the nation of cuba, to its people. last month i spoke about the terrific difficulties our farmers in kansas and across the country are facing due to low commodity prices. the farm economy has fallen by nearly 50% since 2013 and that decline is expected to continue in 2017 making this perhaps if not the -- certainly one of the worst economic times, economic downturns in farm country since the great depression. in 2016 the harvest in our state and across much of the country were record breaking yields. historic in their magnitude, in fact. what that means is there are still piles of wheat, corn and other grains all across kansas just sitting on the ground next

teresa: rodrÍguez dice que ha viajado cuba varias veces. hace dos aÑos fue a la isla a exhibir su trabajo. el tÍtulo de su exhibiciÓn llevaba un hombre muy significativo para Él. >> necherboy, es el nombre del barco de que yo me fui de cuba. yo hablÉ de mis trabajos por dos horas. enseÑe hasta dibujos, que la crÍtica antes del che y de todo. >> al venir de un paÍs comunista, con una propaganda polÍtica muy fuerte socialista despuÉs vivir y desarrollarse en los estados unidos, donde se atora comercial. Él ha sabido unir esas dos vertientes, para utilizarlo a su conveniencia. teresa: eduardo, estaba estudiando diseÑo grÁfico en la habana, cuando se tropezÓ con el trabajo de rodrÍguez. >> utilizÓ la imagen icónica del che guevara, pero cambiÓ la estrella de la boina, por un signo de nike. ese tipo de manipulaciÓn en cuba ante no estaba permitido. teresa: ambos artistas viven estados unidos y son amigos. y disfrutan de las consecuencias polÍticas que se saca atrÁs del arte. >> lo que mÁs me preocupa es que la gente se empi

sought cuba as a destination. it was so common, airlines had navigation info for the havana airport even though none of them had flown there commercially in at least eight years. airlines ordered pilots to comply with all demands and also had a set of standard procedures for how to get planes and passengers back to the states. most of the time that's exactly what happened making hijackings merely harmless inconveniences early on. that exposure inspired even more people to consider it as a way to run. "a few miles south of rome, a manhunt began when hijacker minichiello fled from the hostage he had taken by car from rome airport, the chief of airport police and disappeared into the countryside." on halloween of 1969, u.s. marine raffaele minichiello hijacked an l.a.to san francisco flight and stopped in denver, new york, bangor, maine and shannon, ireland on his way to rome. "would you do it again?" "go home! go home." covering 6900 miles, it was the longest hijacking in history and had coverage nearly ever step al

certainly an interest of cuba. that, you know, we move forward and bring people closer together to have the economy's respond and thrive together. so, we're optimistic that we'll be able to continue to cruise and we're looking forward to taking more and more americans to cuba. >> good to see you. when there's bad weather outside, people do start booking and thinking about that next cruise. >> absolutely. come cruise with us. we look forward to hosting you. >> arnold donald of carnival, thank you. back to you. >> enjoy ft. lauderdale. very nice. >> not fair. >> especially on a day like today. >>> dow has actually stocks have managed to trim their losses. not sure if this happened around the headlines that saudi arabia would try to comply more with these opec production cuts, but, clearly the worst of the session beginning to see a ramp here mid-day. >> tesla looking good. up 2%. >>> in the meantime, let's get back to scott wapner. >> welcome to the "halftime report." the valiant crash. the stock tanking today. sells

reporter: nestle is getting close to a deal to open a new factory in cuba. it has been one of the biggest investors on the island. reporter: time for a well-deserved break for these workers in havana, just as their boss, the vice president of nestle touches down in cuba to talk business. iant has produced ice cream on bottled waters on the islands of the 1990's and the collapse of the soviet, cuba's former ally, but there are new opportunities to be seized. >> tourism is going to double in the coming years. today, demand is only partially covered by local production. there i s a neeed. people rely on imports. reporter: nestle has announced a 50 million euro investment to build a third factory on the island and start producing coffee, biscuits and cooking products. foreign countries are required to form a joint venture with the cuban company. the deal is pending formal government approval. work on the new factor would begin in the port, some 50 kilometers west of havana. meriel has been chosen to host cuba's first economic develop an zone, designed to welcome

the obama administration cuba administration last year. is there any prospect that the trump administration can bring her back to from that island to justice here. new jersey governor chris christie hopes. so he joins us now. governor, thanks for coming on. >> thank you very much. tucker. >> tucker: i know you have been following this for many years. so you will know the answer to this. did the obama administration make any effort as was normalizing relations with cuba negotiating over those normalized relations to bring this fugitive back to the united states. >> none that we're aware of, tucker. i wasn't in obviously on the meetings that were happening in secret beaten tween the obama administration. thee murdered a state trooper convicted 40 years ago this week. escaped from a new jersey prison when she was being transferred. and fled to cuba and has been protected by the castro regime paid by them, supported by them and, yet, we normalized relation was country that will not return someone that was rightfully convicted under our justice

just as their boss, the vice president of nestle touches down in cuba to talk business. the swiss food giant has produced ice cream and bottled water on the island since the 1990's. he says there are new opportunities to be seized. going to double in the coming years and today demand is only partially covered by local production. people here still rely on imports. announced a 50 million euro investment to build a factory on the island and start losing coffee, biscuits and cooking products. foreignban law, all companies have to form a joint venture with a cuban company. the deal is pending formal government approval. this site is designed to welcome dozens of joint ventures and will be governed by special laws. the aim is to attract foreign investment and boost local production. cuba's government has set a goal of 1.8 billion euros in foreign investment to modernize the economy. they have so far failed to meet that target. something a bit off about some of donald trump's new merchandise. team has started selling a green make america great again hat for st. patrick's day.

when we are about to arrest them, they leave to cuba with millions of dollars. it is an outrage. it has been extensively covered by the press and south florida. people may think seniors are not victims, they are victims. >> all c-span programs are available at www.c-span.org and by searching the video library, and on our homepage. ♪ journal, live every day, news and policy issues that impact you. sunday morning, the congress coalition and sanford san colander will discuss president trump's 2018 budget outline -- outlined his last week, including the boost in military spending, domestic spending tax proposals. then m.i.t. technology review editor in chief discusses the annual list of breakthrough and their expected impacts. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7 a.m. eastern on sunday morning. join the discussion. ♪ takeg up shortly, we will a look back at the 2016 presidential campaign, with former trump campaign manager, corey lewandowski. then lawmakers honor former congressman bob michael with interviewed on the house floor. later, another chance to see the

do the obama administration make any effort as normalizing relations with cuba to bring this fugitive back to the united states? >> none that we are aware of, tucker.us i wasn't in obviously on the meetings that was happening in secret between the obama administration and cuba, but this much we know. that in cold blood, she murdered a new jersey state police trooper convicted 40 years ago this week, escapedhe from a new jersey prison, where she was being transferred, and fled to cuba and has been protected by the castro regime, supported by them, and yet we normalize relations with a country that willot not return someone who ws rightfully convicted under our justice system of murdering a state trooper. it's outrageous and i've been saying it's outrageous since i became governor. >> tucker: it isr: outrageous but what can be done now? >> listen.n. i hope what trump and administration do before we take further steps with the relationship with you but that s they say, listen, first and foremost, return this fugitive from justice back to new jersey so she can rightfully serve the rest of

that is the president saying, yes, we recognize cuba. a lot of the statutes dealing with cuba, the president does have discretion. are allowing commercial flights because that is something the executive branch can do, but he cannot overturn the entire trade embargo, which is in statute. presumably, congress could, as they did with when dynamo bay, put a writer on the budget to say, you can have your embassy but there is no money for it. >> [inaudible] there is no reason for congress -- it could just be a handshake. you brought up appropriation. congress has the power of the purse when you have an executive agreement that entails spending a lot of money. how does that work? prof. azari: congress is still in charge of appropriating or not. prof. rudalevige: prof. rudalevige: that is a good question. going back to the civil rights orders, the fair employment practices commission was underlined in part by the senate, richard russell, sort of infamous in the area of civil rights as a mentor and later opponent of lyndon johnson. something call

almost 50% of americans strongly agree the decisions have an cuba accou -- impact on their every day lives. that 82% number you mentioned, it's bipartisan. it cuts across the parties. everybody feels strongly that what happened with the supreme court was an important factor in their vote. >> can you walk us through the methodology of the survey, who you polled and what took place and what was the margin of error. >> it's been conducted very recently. we conducted online interviews from march 7 to march 9 last week. we conducted 1,032 interviews among likely voters. the maurgin of error is 3.05% with a 95% confidence level. if it were possible to sbrinterw all americans, 19 times out of

eduardo of cuba, pictured here. he is a medical doctor and a leader of the christian liberation movement who was savagely beaten in frovent his wife and two children and has been in imprisoned since november, 2016. just days ago, he was sentenced to three years in prison. he is condemned and sentenced because he is the voice for change and a respected human rights leader. the truth is that he has been imprisoned because he is willing and has been doing it to tell anyone who would listen that the cuban people do not approve of the castro regime. for not supporting this vial castro dictatorship, and speaking out against his cruelty and abuses, he was sentenced to three years. mr. speaker, we cannot stand idly by as more and more pro-democracy leaders are being beaten and arrested on the island. the president and his new administration have committed to reversing some of the damage inflicted by the previous administration on the cause of freedom and democracy in cuba. our policy in cuba should send a strong message thr

that's when cuba and the u.s. worked out a deal that would let the hijackers stand trial in the states.

regardless, airlines are cutting back on flights to cuba. the first airline to have regular flights is stopping the flights. the airlines says low demand and competition from major airlines is the reason it's canceling its flights to cuba. others have cut down flights they have going to the island. >>> beginning next month, american airlines will be offering free meals, depending on the time of day they will be given a breakfast. delta announced, it, too, is bringing back meal service earlier this year. >>> a birthday bash at the oracle tonight, it took a mad dash to the finish to make sure that this really was a happy birthday. it's okay to cry, right? no more! we don't want anymore! [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh! everyday price and no extra monthly fees, unlike cable. speeds up to 45 megs, for $30 a month. >>> it is no secret, the warriors are struggling for the first time in the steve kerr era. and they are struggling to get things in the right direction and tonight it was not easy. >> happy birthday to steph curry, he turned 29 today, and he cele

ese tipo de manipulaciÓn de imÁgenes en cuba, en aquel momento no estaban permitidos. reportera: son amigos y disfrutan de las conversaciones que se desatan. ¿quÉ es lo que mÁs te preocupa, sobre los prÓximos 4 aÑos? >> lo que mÁs me preocupa es que la gente, empiece a acostumbrarse. los insultos y la forma de ser, la gente se cansa. reportera: u estÁs listo con pincel y papel para la prÓxima declaraciÓn de trump? >> si. reportera: aprovechando la atenciÓn que han recibido los recientes dibujos de trump, ha decidido imprimir la mayor cantidad de ilustraciones que pueda y distribuirlas, donde mÁs puedan ser vistas. a continuaciÓn un adelanto de la prÓxima edición de "aquÍ y ahora" locutora: viajan en jets privadosy derrochan las fortunas de sus padres. sus excesos, los presuman a las redes sociales y con frecuencia, insultan a los menos afortunados, a quienes tratan con desprecio. reportera: esta y otra informaciÓn, apreciamos su preferencia. condu presentador: estos son los titulares de la informaciÓn, cientos de personas asistieron a el condado de ala

venezuela so went through cuba. did that mean they trim their sales a bit on being more aggressive on venezuela? possibly true, but i don't think they were linked as directly as one would think. >> michael, on that? yeah, i mean, i generally agree with chris there. i don't think there's much of a cost to sort of sanctioning venezuela. there isn't much of a cost for hitting the country in that regard. it doesn't even have any support, for example, internationally. democrats in congress are no longer willing to listen. liberal democrats are no longer willing to listen to the maduro government's claims. you have bipartisan consensus of the importance of sanctions for standing up for universal human rights. so i think although there was the close sequencing, december 17, 2014, announced normalization talks with cuba, and the day after he signs a bill from congress which ultimately resulted in the sanctions in 2015. so there is a connection there, and the point is that venezuela, for the moment, is something where we're

and they leave to cuba with millions of dollars. it has been covered by the press in south florida and people may not think that seniors are not victims. >> all programs are available at c-span.org on our home page and searching the video library.

this is a little dog, and little mutt comes up the boat from cuba. he is walking around the streets of miami and enjoying the view and a french poodle walks by and because he is a cuban dog, he has to start complementing and say, oh you are so beautiful and are you from around here? i love the way you want. and she looks down her snout at him and says do you have any idea who you are talking to quake you are a mutt and i am a french poodle. i am a breed of distinction. and so the little mutt sort of is temporarily speechless. and then he says oh well, here i may be a mutt but in cuba i was a german shepherd. [laughter] >> les standiford what have you heard from this discussion? >> as a writer i think you have two, when think what is said most eloquently you have to be capable of holding two diametrically opposed concepts in your mind at the same time and then when you sit down to write you have to be able to write characters who might be opposed in the same way diametrically. no matter what you believe in order to write compelling fiction or a worthw

cuba out of the have a caused it to shortsighted view of what to do in venezuela? >> i think there are two answers to that question. part of the issue of not applying sanctions was in part driven by the state department and the career foreign service wanted to pursue dialogue who had serious doubts about the obama -- opposition. it was not just obama policy. i think the obama administration made the calculation cuba was a lesser national security threat than venezuela was. did that mean they trimmed their sales a little bit on being more aggressive on venezuela? that is possibly true. but i do not think they were linked as directly as you might think. >> i generally agree with chris. i do not think there is much of a cost to sort of sanctioning venezuela. there is not much of a cost for hitting the country in that regard. it does not have any support for example internationally really. democrats in congress are no longer willing to listen. liberal democrats are no longer willing to listen to the government's claims. you have a bipartisan consensus about the importa

december 17, 2014, he announces normalization talks with cuba. the day after, he signs a bill from congress which resulted in the sanctions in 2015. there is a connection. the point is that venezuela, for the moment, is something where we are trying to rally the troops. but there still is not a consensus about what to do. no one is talking about the real value of the most aggressive action, which would be sanctioning venezuela's will exports. as you mentioned in the run-up, that would hit the government where it hurts. but that seems unlikely because of the precedent it would set. we are not talking about a crisis that threatens vital u.s. national security interests. so it is a very difficult crisis to manage. we do not really have that many great options. the real point here is to argue that there are great costs for disengaging. we have made significant progress in ratcheting up pressure. there still remains a great amount of work to figure out a solution to this highly complicated problem. ethan: that is a great way to end it. i want to thank

you wrote a book called in cuba i was a german shepherd. how you come up with a title like that and what does that mean?that mea [laughter] >> it's a punch line to a joke that i heard when i was in a reporter. i used to cover little havana my first time at the harold and it was a joke that tony lopez, really wonderful sculptor told me. i didn't know how to do it. it stayed with me and when i left and began to write fiction, i said i'm going to write a whole story, you know, revolving around this joke. >> what is the master of fine arts and how do you get into your program at fiu? >> a master of fine arts is one of those degrees that i would hesitate to tell parents to send their daughters and sons to come to because the parents want them to learn how to sell bonds, do things that they can assure themselves will make their children a lot of money. you don't become a writer too become rich and famous, what we do is offer the opportunity for those people who can't do anything else to take that talent. >> thank you. >> take that talent and brin

i've been going to cuba because i made black and latin america for pbs. - you understand though that many of the things he's done of late, has he done them in the first term, it wasn't just about florida and cuba. - he wouldn't have had a second term. - he wouldn't have had a second term or he would have had a harder time making the argument as he has now that at the end of six and a half or seven years of anything i do them saying no to because i did it, i've had to take the step of. - look when the republican caucus had that press conference to say we are going to do everything we can to keep this man from fulfilling his agenda and being a one-term president. that is, that's cold. - so, but i wish that he had a little more lbj in him. - he doesn't have, what did jonathon alter say, he doesn't have the schmooze gene. - no he doesn't. - and he doesn't really look to use his powers of the office or persuasion to necessarily get up in people's grills. - exactly. and many of the people who love him the most have advised him to use the perks of the office to seduce, which every president

s on the action pack set of fate of the furious, from new york, to iceland, to cuba how the movie is making history around the world. >> closed captioning provided by -- >>> scarlett johansson stuns in a sexy sequin ground. hit the red carpet in a custom made balmain number, ghost in the shell and her dress had us doing a double take. paris jackson wore a similar style at this year's gram my's. >> in the film scar-jo kicks butt and in real life she's been taking self-defense classes. >> my trainer is like, i'm this kind of young and clumsy sort of block of wood he has to carve something out of. >> and she maybe newly single with scarlett didn't walk the carpet alone. >> that's my brother. not really my date. he wanted a free ride over here actually. can i drive to the theater with you? i was like all right. >> awe, sibling love. scarlett's brother hunter is actually her twin and why don't we just celebrate two more strong females, shall we? charlize theron and michelle rodriguez star in the "fate of the furious." this whole case is off on their craziest ride yet. they're going where

and as you said in regard to cuba, the financing really is key. so we actually have a bill that says not government backed but -- >> right. >> -- if an individual or, you know, a private bank or whatever wants to do the financing, that they'll have the ability to do that. i'm running out of timing but i to want to comment. one of the things i have raep concern about and i think the committee does is you have the feeding programs in the schools. summer comes, and then you have a bunch of kids, you know, that don't benefit from that. what we're trying to to is get a smooth transition. if you would just, you know, afurthermore your recognition of the importance of that. those rules that governor, you know, that transition stuff haven't been changed since the '60s. so if you could just in five seconds -- >> certainly. i was able to share with several of your colleagues who mentioned that privately in your office that i would love to facilitate that kind of transition to make sure those kids who are able to get meals while at school are able to continu

i think we would love to have cuba as a customer in many things. i lead an aggie delegation from georgia to cuba as governor in 2010 and i found then that as much is the problem there regarding demand was the ability to pay and ability to finance their as much as anything. i think they would love to have our products and they are appropriate customers for the rice that louisiana grows and arkansas grows and other beings, edible beans in the upper midwest that they grow and for that reason i think if you all could see fit to look into the private financing operation, one of the things they mentioned to us is they had to buy the restraints go through europe and have a financial haircut in that regard of being able to purchase the products so i think we have the product they need and they would like the product. the real issue i heard regarding cuba was the financing part and certainly that would come probably under another area, not the usda but i would support their efforts to get private financing. regarding other areas, in central south america, e

midwest we would love to have cuba as a customer i led a delegation from georgia to cuba as governor in 2010 and is much of a problem there was the ability to pay and finance might think they would love to have our products as appropriate customers for their rice and beans from the upper midwest and for that reason you could see fit to look into the private financing operation by the restraints they had to go through europe and at a financial haircut so we've have the products they need and regarding cuba was of financing part and other areas not the usda but i would support their efforts regarding other areas which europe and southeast asia i hope we can work very closely with the secretary of commerce to put agriculture first in their repertoire and i believe they have the ability to produce food products as well as others and visiting with all of your colleagues when you talk to farmers around the globe that is what they're most concerned about with the world supply and demand issue nbc some of the lowest prices in many years that is a direct result of a financial situation that f

vamos creciendo, ya tenemos corresponsal en cuba. un saludo a toda la gente que nos ve en la habana, ahÍ somos nÚmero uno! muy bien, ahora sigamos con un poco de mÚsica. vamos a ponernos un poco romÁnticos. dame a juliÓn Álvarez, para que la costa oeste tambiÉn despierte con "cÓdigo segura"! ♪ orlando: escuchen esta historia, porque el 18 de marzo de 2014, aquÍ en "despierta amÉrica", un hombre muy enamorado, llamado jorge, le propuso matrimonio a la cantante carmen jara. estaban enamorados! recordemos cÓmo nos emocionamos. karla: me da muchÍsimo gusto darle de nuevo la bienvenida a nuestra querida carmen jara, la campeona, con mÁs de 25 aÑos de carrera. carmen jara: ahora sÍ que se trata de toda la sinceridad y el amor que nos tenemos mutuamente. karla: se nota que estÁs enamorada, y creo que este aÑo vienen muchas sorpresas en el Ámbito personal. carmen jara: sÍ! pues estoy feliz, porque... ¿te digo? karla: ¿la vas a soltar asÍ de plano? carme jara: ¿la s suelto o no la suelto? me caso, comadre! jorge: hoy

there can be a response, why don't we make everyone more like cuba? i'm willing to have that argument. i understand the policy. jeff flake last time looked is not a democrat. and is not a fan of commies. said this is a great move. as did some other people as well. as usual obama in these negotiations doesn't get a lot from the other end. that is irritating in a moment when cuba has cracked down o on a lot of people. but most on its face, even though it's an immigration restriction, and don't like them as a thing, it makes a certain amount of sense. gene: arguments? jonathan: i don't want to argue, but i do want to point out i think matt has in this answer and many others shown a lot of integrity. he's not using every answer to try to score every point he can. i think he's trying to illuminate the audience. i think he's trying to answer the questions honestly. i want to say this answer especially i think, he deserves a lot of credit. >> we feel the love between these two guys. matt: that makes me feel uncomfortable. gene: next question. >> the gentlema

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i think the real issue regarding cuba is the financing part. and certainly that would come probably under another area, not the usda, but i would support their efforts if we could get private financing. regarding other areas certainly in central south america, europe and southeast asia as well, their new and developing markets there. i hope we can work very closely with trade representative lite howser and secretary of commerce ross in order to put agriculture first in their repertoire of things to trade. i believe that we have the ability to produce a very efficient crop and food products as well as other products, clothes and other things around the world they need and i look forward. that's certainly from visiting from most of your colleagues trade was at the top of the list. i think when you talked to farmers around the globe that's what they're motion concerned about. we have a worldwide supply and demand issue that's weighing heavily on prices currently. we are seeing the lowest prices in many years that's putting a lot of pain out there.

chileters focus on iran, and cuba. they also examined the american stance on women's rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960's on. this session was hosted by the american historical association at their annual meeting. it's about an hour and a half. >> thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. my name is amanda moniz. on the curator of philanthropy at the smithsonian national museum of american history. until recently, i was associate director of the national history center of the american historical association, which sponsod