Good generation. He entered the Foreign Service immediately on graduation from yale. His education was essentially in the humanities, not International Relations theory. He felt the most viable course he took in college was in economic geography, which is not hot anymore come either in colleges or high schools. He was required to yield major to take a course in dealing with the english civil service. No one pays attention in which english constitutional history. And when he entered the Foreign Service, whose first assignment was in hong kong in 1960. Hong kong in 1960 is hard to remember this was the place that existed in almost total isolation from china. There were millions of refugees in hong kong, but no american could go to china. And there is no trade. It was a listening post, but not a very informative one. But the experience that he had their used to be typical of the experience that Foreign Service officers had. He was assigned to interview these applicants. He learned that th
Let me talk about specifically what those conditions are. In section 230 203 commonsense upon making determination under section c3, democratic elected government in cuba is in power. The President Shall upon determining the democratic elected government of cuba in power submit that to determination to the appropriate congressional committees. Let me first ask. As the president made a determination that a democratically elected government in cuba is now in our . The president has not taken actions under those aspects of the libertat act. So he is not invoked that part working out the libertat act to take the actions hes taken. He simply doesnt feel like he has to refer to the libertat act . What is he doing it is not basically lifting the embargo . What is this . I think the president has made very good that congress is the only body that can lift the embargo, and as he said in his state of the Union Message he called on congress to do so. Therefore, these make clear that you have the
Certainly we have good examples, colombia, because of courageous leadership. Im not seeing a lot of democracy flourishing in venezuela or cuba, from that standpoint. Can you help me out in terms of what youre talking about . Theres no doubt that democracys not flourishing in cuba. And its part of the president s effort to pursue a new approach to see what more we can do to help the cuban people begin their own political opening. As we look back over the last several decades, whats important to remember and acknowledge about our hemisphere is this was a region that was largely ruled by authoritarian government, some military, some not, but which has found through its commitment to human rights and its ability to organize and use Interamerican Solutions like the Interamerican Human Rights Court and the Interamerican Court of human rights to develop Civil Societies around human rights issues and use that to build democracy. Whether its chile in the 1980s, our work in Central America to fa
Large land mass in the southern pacific. But it was australia incognito, this land nobody was sure nobody had found it. And then in the 18th century, nations became got into the curiosity business, and the french and the english sponsored two great explorers, one is captain cook. Actually his first name is james, but we think his first name is captain. And they then systemly explore lands of tahiti and when he gets back he publishes his travels and creates this image of a heatty of being this a heatty tahiti as lucious and free love and writing in this roman romantic era. And cook was much sterner than that. He has four great explorations of the pacific, where he goes all the way from the northwest, where he is very interested in seeing if there is a Northwest Passage in the arctic region, and then he does circumnavigate new zealand and explores the eastern side, but he also discovers the Hawaiian Islands and a series of islands where the polynesian people live. He charts, a great mapm
Marking the one-year anniversary of the congressional coup that brought Boluarte to power, thousands took to the streets of Peru to oppose attacks on democratic rights and demand the government’s ouster.