The panel covers sanctions against venezuela, russian involvement, and the future of democracy there. Posted by the interamerican dialogue, this is hosted by the interamerican dialogue, this is 90 minutes. [indistinct conversations] good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon. I am michael shifter, the president of interamerican dialogue, and i want to welcome everybody here and thank you for coming. Week ago today, juan guaido returned to venezuela after an International Trip where he shored up support from europe, canada, and the United States, first in miami, then in washington, d. C. He met with the president , speaker of the house, state of the union, he received a standing ovation, and showed us all that bipartisanship is still actually possible. But the future is far from certain. The president of the National Assembly was recognized as interim president by some 60 governments. The maduro regime seems entrenched. The unprecedented humanitarian crisis persists, and guaido faces tou
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 we understand this year is an election, but i think its clear for the International Community and you have to be clear for all the venezuelans and i think 80 of the venezuelas have the same understanding we have, the only way out of this situation is a fair and free president ial election. If they want to achieve a transition going to a joint election, National Assembly, and president ial election, more than welcome if we have new Justice System and all the conditions because we understand and we really know that the moment the venezuelans are able to vote, the day we have a real election is the last day of maduro and the gang in the power. In the moment venezuelans are able to decide not only in the country, because thats another thing important. Now were almost 5 Million People outside of the country. 5 Million People. With rights, political rights, that right now doesnt have any chance to be part of an election. That kind o
Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s. During this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. It was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasnt greatly developed. A lot of the ideas of
Government. Next, a book tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits charleston, West Virginia, to learn more about its literary history. For years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seem to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. Booker t. Washington for 20 years was the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america. At the time, we had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of race relation. What he observed with his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middleclass, and that became his path, his career path, as he went from tuskegee to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hill sport. It is about 225 miles from here. In those first nine years, he was a slave boy. He did not have pants. He wore a slave boy shirt. He wanted very much to go to school. He saw white children going to school but he wasnt unable to do those things. They leave the
The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story as we c takec booktv and American History tv on the road with the support of local Cable Television provider we visited 24 cities in the last year and over the next two hours we will looknd at highlights frm some of these stops we began our special feature in milwaukee. So this is a photograph of the lynching that occurred august 7, 1930 in marion, indiana. James cameron to a 16 was supposed be the third person hanging from the tree but he survived the lynching. His friends, abe and tommy, were killed that day by a mob estimate between ten ten and 10 angry whites. Often misidentified as 1000 lynching. It it was a northcentral indiana when the lynching took place. So y we ended up writing a book that he called a time of he actually started to write those when he was in jail awaiting his trial and then when he is finally convicted and sent to prison he finished writing the book. James cameron was born in wisconsin in