strike that lasted 21 days. after serving 17 years, he was finally released in april of 2007. we welcome him as well. we are going to go obviously through a process under which our witnesses and our guests are going to be speaking in spanish. we are going to have an interpreter. we are going to start off with normando hernandez. i m going to have to ask you as you go through your presentation to pause at times to give the interpreter a chance to interpret and so the transcript can be developed and so senator rubio may fully understand and for the members who have staff here will know what you re saying as well. it will take a little bit of time but we look forward to your testimony and we thank you for your willingness to come ford. with that, mr. hernandez, we re going to start with you. if you can summarize your testimony around five minutes or so, we ll be a little flexible here, we don t always get these opportunities and then all of your testimony will be included in the