Widesmunoz and the making of a dream. This is an amazing book that shes going to tell you a lot more about, but just to say that this was called a must read to understand the new america. Our distinguished moderator, tim padgett, is going to be introducing and sing more about laura and our panelists. Paper just to introduce tim, he is wlrn americas correspondent covering latin america in the caribbean from miami here keys covered latin america for almost 25 years for newsweek as its Mexico City Bureau chief from 19901996, and for time as is latin america your chief first in mexico from 19961999, and then in miami where he also covers florida and they u. S. Southeast 19992013. So welcome tim, and have a great evening. [applause] thank you very much. And thank you to mitchell and books and books. Its always a delight to comment just present the very important books such as the one we are going to hear from in the minute. You all know lauara widesmunoz, veteran miami journalist one of the
Operation worked. Reporter they were definitely sophisticated. Their alleged crime activity spanned all the way to asia and more than 2,000 stolen goods recovered. It was sophisticated. It was organized. We estimate the loss to be around 2 million. Theyre described as a multimillion Dollar International burglary ring whose criminal activity spanned every bay area county with a final destination of vietnam. We had street level people actually breaking into vehicles. The groups demise began late last year after a dramatic spike into car break ins. It led them to several suspects at a Storage Facility filled with an estimated 1 million worth of stolen electronics. Thats what kicked off the investigation. Police uncovered what they now believed to be an international scheme. They would break into cars, steal Electronic Devices then sell them to a middle man between thieves. They would them then sell the stolen goods to people who would ship or fly them to vietnam. They have to be making mo
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill nato ambassadors convened a rare emergency meeting today in brussels on the Islamic State threat in turkey, after a string of attacks. Representatives from 28 nations gathered at nato headquarters for the special session, at turkeys request. Afterward, the alliances secretarygeneral spoke to reporters. All allies stand in solidarity with turkey. We strongly condemn the terrorist attacks. We express our condolences to the turkish government and to the families of the victims in suruc and other attacks against police and military officers. Ifill at the same time, turkey faced more violence from kurdish militants. A turkish soldier was sh
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill nato ambassadors convened a rare emergency meeting today in brussels on the Islamic State threat in turkey, after a string of attacks. Representatives from 28 nations gathered at nato headquarters for the special session, at turkeys request. Afterward, the alliances secretarygeneral spoke to reporters. All allies stand in solidarity with turkey. We strongly condemn the terrorist attacks. We express our condolences to the turkish government and to the families of the victims in suruc and other attacks against police and military officers. Ifill at the same time, turkey faced more violence from kurdish militants. A turkish soldier was sh
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