Important issues facing the americas today. They talked about the attitudes of voters in venezuela, and oho support has shifted since 2019. This is an hour and 20 minutes. All right. Im going to go ahead and start to introducing the next panel, and so the next session is entitled, venezuela, a conversation and this session is a oneonone interview moderated by the president , and featured luis day leon. And also the president of the group will be here to talk about the latin american market. And also, the visesupervisor of the group. And also, we will be joined by the professor of foreign governments and also held the governance and the Southern Cone administration, and so without further ado, please welcome our speaker. Buenos diaz. Translator good morning. The topic of venezuela has come up a great deal in this Conference Since we got started yesterday afternoon. It is topic of great concern for all of us here in this room. And i dont think i need to point out the dimensions of the mu
Important in washington d. C. Going on tonight, i think you know what im talking about. Thank you for coming. Im Mark Loiselle at this George Mason University and we author the intelligence policy and National Security that has put on a number of these wonderful programs in the last few years. Im flattered that his turnout and look very much forward to this event. For those of you who dont know George Mason University has a short School Policy government that provides academic programs in fairfax and Arlington Virginia and we have a number of her fashion of degree programs primarily taught in arlington and Public Policy Public Administration interNational Security studies which has been ranked number two by u. S. News and world report nationally that we are very proud of and i think the Michael Hayden sent her center for Security Policy studies a number of other entities at the school are a very important component of the recognition we have received for being leaders in the field of s
Committee, and that money is actually paid by fifa money. So it is the other 11 billion that goes into the infrastructure and half of that is being paid by the federal government of russia. Now, in russia its a little bit different because you say, the other half comes from sponsors and other private citizens, from what i learned in sochi, many of those private companies that sponsor were actually governmentbacked there you get a little bit, unlike the United States, germany and others where you have true commercial entities, i find many of these private companies have some Government Support in the back. Also what happens is, i again learned, correct me if im wrong here, is that many of those hotels were built in sochi and maybe this will happen for world cup, many of the hotels are built based on loans guaranteed by the federal government. So if they default on those loans, because those hotels arent being filled up and theyre not making revenue, who is really paying that . It is the
Good afternoon. Stocks steady despite jobs and gdp data financials and tech the best performers and telecom and energy the biggest laggards. Bob evans farms soaring, beating Sales Estimates and raising outlook and chicos taking a hit. Comp store sales also missing the mark. Lets get you caught up on latest headlines on har vixt the governmentrun u. S. Flood Insurance Program now says it has already received 35,000 claims, as of noon today and as of midnight, dumped 21 trillion gallons of rain, and its enough to fill half of lake tahoe. And the storm is hitting louisiana now. The state bracing for tornadoes and flooding weve got you covered. Lets go to Team Coverage on the ground in texas. Brian sullivan live in pasadena with the latest on the refineries Contessa Brewer still in houston where businesses are continuing to get back to business. Lets start with you. All right, sara, thank you very much. We want to look at these refineries and show them to you. Right along the buffalo bayou
At work and school when tolds powerful earthquake hit. Good evening, everyone. Tonight at least 149 people are confirmed dead, including 22 bodies in a collapsed school building. Millions are without power tonight. The usgs said the magnitude 7. 1 quake was centered about 75 miles southeast of mexico city. We have the developing news now from debra. Some of the pictures and video is just incredible. Yeah, really frightening. Just 12 days ago, an 8. 1 quake hit off the coast of southern mexico. It had 30 types the energy as todays quake, but this one was closer to mexico city, the effect is muchs,. People were working in this building when it collapsed about 1 00 in the afternoon. Some got out, many injured. At sites like this across mexico city, frantic efforts began to unearth those burred area live. Emergency workers and ordinary citizens rushed to dozens of downed buildings, moving rubble, hand to hand. Heavy equipment and saws were desperately needed. For every survivor found and l