correspondent for cnn espanol. what do we know at this point in time? hi poppy. there was a rally today in caracas and in that rally it ended at the presidential palace president maduro announced as part of the speech and in the speech he also said he was imposing a veto requirement for americans traveling to venezuela, that an american pilot of latino origin has been captured on the board we are colombia and that he was cooperating with authorities. it s not the first time something like this comes out from the venezuelan government. this pilot has not been identified. there hasn t been any more information on his apparent activities. but it has been a very tense week between the u.s. and venezuela. the congress approved sanctions that included denying visas or eliminating visas for anyone who the u.s. government determines has violated human rights in venezuela. and the response from president maduro today was to impose a visa requirement for americans
time frame several ambassadors were asked to leave venezuela but not the fbi. at that time, the reason was there was an individual named robert allen stanford out of houston, texas, who woo runnias a ponzi scheme, 7 billion dollar scheme and had a branch in venezuela and defrauded venezuela ans out of $2 million. venezuela said you other agencies get out but fbi, don t go anywhere. we want you to help us in this case because in the event the money would be recovered it would be repate riotated to venezuela. nothing has happened since 2010 because of who is running the operations down there. as far as the visa requirement, the u.s. requires them to pay and that is typical. any country in the world where we require their visitors to get a visa and pay, which i believe
june 30th. and the miami herald from our parade of papers, the cuban officials have announced the country s going to exit the visa requirement opening the door to citizens to travel abroad. the new policy begins january 14th, 2013, and that s going to cause a fascinating shake-up in the politics of south florida. and the washington post, the president of france is promising to put an end to homework. oh, i love this. as part of a sweeping overhaul of the country s education system. his argument, he says it s not fair. some students get help from their parents when other children from disadvantaged families do not. willie, this guy that s interesting. i think, and we may have to move to france because this guy is like okay, so now he s banning homework. yep. yep. he s trying to reduce the workweek because, of course, france s economy is struggling. you re going to move to france, aren t you? he s going to force people to work less.
the government of the united states there s a threat for the country in this sense on weapons, mr. president. the weapons have come into the country, either military leaks of letting the arms come through, what s going to be done? and for prime minister harper, are is the visa requirement going to be removed for mistake cans? thank you. mexicans? thank you. that s a lot of questions. [laughter] go ahead, go first. [speaking spanish] translator: my position on this subject is very clear, and i would repeat it here. let me, let me broach it from another angle. it s been shown that when there is an excessive, quick availability of weapons in any given society, there is an increase in violence and the murders that goes on many be years afterwards. this phenomenon took place in many places of africa after
seriously and taken some unprecedented steps. we will continue to coordinate closely with the mexican government because we recognize the toll that it s taken with respect to families and innocent individuals inside of mexico. and this is part of our broader, comprehensive cooperation in weakening the grip of narcotrafficking within mexico, and we recognize that we have a responsibility to reduce demand for drugs, that we have a responsibility to make sure that not only guns, but also cash isn t flowing into mexico. and i, obviously, president calderon takes very seriously his responsibilities to apply effective law enforcement within mexico. and i think he s taken courageous steps to do that. so we re going to keep on partners together in order to continue to make progress on this very important issue. you asked me about the visa requirement. visa requirement is the really