if there s was a shortage of any operators could have called more people in. the only thing i see here, and there will be an after-action report according to people i m talking to about all of this, be sure about that. the only thing i can see here is, is there a lane, something we can develop, especially that road? such a heavily used road. is there something we can do where if this if this happens again, you know, god forbid it happens again, how can we get to these people quicker? that s what i want to know. the people who might need help in some of those situations. adam tuus. the virginia governor apologized but said something similar. told people not to get on the road. looking forward to that briefing from vdot. appreciate it. reporter: thank you. close to decision time for congressional investigators as they move into a more public phase of the january 6th insurrection. who can face subpoenas? congressman adam schiff is with
last sunday thousands came out in cuba to protest against the government. it was the biggest such demonstration in decades. yesterday the government responded with what it called a revolutionary reaffirmation rally held near the u.s. embassy. government supporters were heard chanting down with the yankees. what happens next in cuba? will anything change? atta ferrer joins me now. she s a professor at nyu. welcome. so the first question, professor, is will this lead to anything other than a further crackdown and more oppression? thanks for having me. first of all, as a historian, i always have to start off by warning you that it s way too soon to tell what the result and what the legacy of these
also the protesters on the streets. we saw videos of plainclothes security forces, of uniformed security forces arresting people, beating people, and one of the things that i found most interesting in watching the videos of that is that you could see the people, the witnesses express their disgust and their repudiation of those strong-arm tactics. and it s interesting, as a historian i can think back to the 1950s and the original cuban revolution. in that movement against the dictatorship, young people were very mobilized. students were very mobilized. and one of the things that turned a more general public opinion against the government was watching the government repress and beat and enact physical violence on young protesters. so it will be interesting to see whether that happens in this case. government repression can be a very, very effective tool.
procedures, frameworks to ensure better performance during the next pandemic which will surely come. the divergence between the last crisis and this one has been most stark on the global level. as daniel drezner wrote in his excellent book the system worked people used to think of global governance the way woody allen joked about food at catskills resorts, so bad and yet such small portions. in fact as he documents, global governance functions surprisingly well during the financial crisis. countries cooperated, central banks worked together and a downward spiral was averted. he noted even china was remarkably willing to go along with major international initiatives. washington played the central role of course, nudging countries to get in line, but also acting in ways that helped other. the economic historian adam tuus
of whom used violence to enforce their rule. dictators, army officers, turned heads of state and only relatively recently democratically elected presidents. the troubles at the top have only added to haiti s other problem. it is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. on a host of indicators from literacy to life expectancy to infant mortality, haiti is by far the worst-off country in latin america. its neighbor to the east with whom it shares the island, the dominican republic, has more than six times haiti s per capita gdp. so how did haiti get here? the answer, like most, lies in history. haiti was once san doming, the richest colony in the caribbean. it was the jewel ain france s crown. it supplied half the world s coffee and 40% of its sugar according to historian david bell. the french shipped a huge number