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a pan of global finance experts discuss the impact of china s currency and emerging markets specifically in the latin american region. the olympic council hosted this event. it is about 90 minutes. good morning, everybody. i am chair of the anti-council and we are indeed delighted in grateful to have you all with us. thank you for being here today to discuss the topic that has the former u.s. ambassador to china is very near and dear to my heart. and that is shining and it s exhausting global role. we are delighted to be able to unveil the latin america centers latest report titled a globalized will reshape latin america. dieter schecter here and we re grateful for his leadership among many others on his team. thanks enormously to our generous partners at hsbc represented here today by their chairman of global banking for the america and atlanta council board member jerry meadow. jerry has become a great friend over the years and i am absolutely delighted that our ....
president reagan was that i arrived in the soviet union in moscow three days before the chernobyl accident. i had a fellowship for one month at the institute for world economy and i had with me a one-year-old 1-year-old son. and that is relevant to what i m going to say. i had been there two days, i m listening to the bbc radio and that i realize that some catastrophes happen. in terms of a nuclear accident. in the next week, a few days later i gave a talk at the institute and tried to be forward leaning and talking about the importance of improving u.s. soviet relations. the person who hosted me then started attacking me for the quote unquote lies that the united states was telling about chernobyl. there have been no accident, nobody would had been killed. that was one version. by the way after my talk i have people privately come up to me and say what s really going on. in the three subsequent weeks gorbachev had a complete turnaround after first while denying that so ....
someday show somme promise and he blows it up as the threat of all time. he could get reagan to give up sdi if he gave an offer on reduction of nuclear weapon but it totally failed. and then to reform the soviet union. and once he started the reforms they were vastly accelerated with the meeting and then the next year was a party conference that implemented these reforms. that is my thesis. i know marvin will disagree but we can talk about that later. two or three points. to have the great background i learned never pick a fight with of moderator. [laughter] at what i would disagree with khomeini they feared the nuclear attack and because of the succession and ideas to share birthday with robert mcnamara and then make the same point every year to show you how effective that was to always come back from moscow and said basically a blip scared out of its mind putting nuclear attack. i said the last time that i checked the older bombers are lined up bunny their field all o ....
of hurricane matthew along the eastern seaboard. a death toll in haiti from the massive storm continues to rise beyond 300. a country that is still recovering from the devastating 2010 earthquake. we begin in the norwegian capital oslo, with the nobel peace prize has been awarded to colombian president juan manuel santos. he was praised for his peace signedth the farc rebels last month after four years of negotiations, despite the agreement being narrowly rejected by colombians in a referendum last weekend. the 52-year conflict led to the deaths of an estimated 260,000 people with more than 6 million others being internally displaced. let s take a look at what the commuter the leader of the committee had to say. president santos initiated the negotiations that culminated in the peace accords between the colombian government and the farc guerrillas. he has consistently sought to move the peace process forward. -knowing that the accord was controversial, he was in ....
of how the book subject went from being an idealistic harvard graduate to hard-core columnist to the lessons we can draw from that as we grapple with modern form of fanaticism. it s it s a brilliant book that to quote the new york times window of delusion and narcism that fill the radicalized of any era. there s another reason that we are particularly delighted to be hosting tonight s event at the library and that s long distinguished career as journalist and human rights advocate, you can read about in your program researched and wrote much of this book right here down the hall from where we are sitting in the libraries fredrik and alan room. the alan room are several special places at the library that offer actions to our collection and quiet contemplating place for writers to think and be inspired. it s always a source of pride when we are able to celebrate publications made at the public library at the public event as we are doing this evening. tonight we are prou ....