and, the man who owned new york s legendary studio 5a nightclub dies by assisted suicide in switzerland. welcome to our viewers in the uk and around the globe. we start in sri lanka, where president gotabaya has not honoured his promise to resign. he flew to the maldives about 2k hours ago, but in a public letter, he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state, while he was absent. that s led to anger among protestors, who wanted both men to quit. meanwhile, a curfew is in force. from colombo, our south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe had just been made acting president, crowds gathered in front of his office, one of the few government buildings not yet occupied by protesters. there is a tense stand off here in colombo. the protesters are here along this avenue, and on the other side you can see the security forces who are
new york s legendary studio 5a nightclub dies by assisted suicide in switzerland. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start in sri lanka, where president gotabaya rajapaksa has not honoured his promise to resign. he flew to the maldives about 2k hours ago. but in a public letter, he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state while he was absent. that s led to anger among protestors, who wanted both men to quit. meanwhile, a curfew is in force. from colombo, our south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe had just been made acting president, crowds gathered in front of his office, one of the few government buildings not yet occupied by protesters. there is a tense stand off here in colombo. the protesters are here along this avenue, and on the other side you can see the security forces who are guardi
My name is frank mora, the director of the kimberly green Latin American Caribbean Center here at Florida International university. We are, for our friends in cspan, we are here located at the biscayne bay campus of Florida International university here in miami. We have another campus in west dade. The center that i direct is one of the institutes and programs or centers at the steven j. Green school of public and international affairs, again at Florida International university. Were just absolutely delighted to be hosting or cohosting this event. I want to thank our dean here, the dean of the Chaplin School of hospitality and tourism management, mike hampton. Thank you, dean, for supporting this. And this is a great event to have here on your campus, right . Also i want to thank another cohost, the Cuban Research institute. The director is here with us today and will be joining the panel in a second. A little bit about why were here and how we got here. Last year, the Brookings Insti
We have wine and beer and music on the weekends. How many book events do you do on a regular basis . On a yearly basis, about 600 a year. Often kid events, adult events, other kinds of things but we are very active. When did you open . About 35 years ago. Why . Well, you know, the story is basically i was an english major in college. I didnt want to give up the dream of being part of the literary culture and one quick way to do that was to get into the book business. I loved bookstores when i was a kid. I saw myself at the bookstore more than the library in college. I went to law school. Why coral gables . I am originally from miami beach so when i moved back from where i was going to school, coral gables was a community i didnt know very well but i explored it. It was right before an independent book shop at the time ripe for an surrounded by miami . What you think of miami is really about 26 different little cities. Miami beach, miami, miami south. So coral gables is just one of thos