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00:01:17Welcome back to this episode of Caribbean Medical
00:01:20TV. Every year in March, we observe
00:01:23World Down Syndrome Day. Many in
00:01:26Trinidad and Tobago, like the rest of the world, don multicolored
00:01:30socks to help raise awareness, but yet many people in
00:01:33classrooms, in the workplace, in public spaces, even in our
00:01:37own homes, do not understand people with Down syndrome and
00:01:41how to support them. Over the years, Trinidad and Tobago's Down
00:01:44Syndrome Family Network has made strides to raise awareness
00:01:48and offer encouragement and community to families across the
00:01:51country. For members of the Down Syndrome Family
00:01:54Network, their mission to advocate for families of people with Down
00:01:58syndrome is a highly
00:02:01of the total trade in the personal one. It was difficult in the beginning, didn't know
00:02:03anything about Down syndrome, so I thought I was cursed, you know, for my son to be
00:02:07born with Down syndrome. And then even realizing
00:02:11after three days that he also had congenital heart
00:02:14trade is the spearhead disease. He had three holes in his heart and needed emergency
00:02:17surgery. So it's almost like, okay, what next, what
00:02:21next? I mean, he already has Down syndrome, now you get three holes in his
00:02:24heart. Why? What did he do? What did I do, you know, to cause this?
00:02:28And not knowing that, he didn't do anything, didn't do anything. It
00:02:32just happens. And then a friend of mine, you know, we're actually
00:02:36sitting down, having some drinks and I was ranting
00:02:40and he's just looking at me and over his
00:02:43drink he was sipping it and he looked at me straight in my eyes and he
00:02:47said, "What are you
00:02:50Ramírez, who has just doing?" And he took a sip of his drink. I wanted to slap that drink out of his hand, you
00:02:53know, and opened my mouth three times and I could not
00:02:57answer him because I
00:03:00realized then I wasn't doing anything. So I was a part of
00:03:04the problem. In fact, I was the problem in my son's
00:03:07case because I wasn't doing anything to help him.
00:03:11And so that changed everything. The result was a collaboration among
00:03:14parents of children with Down syndrome to establish a
00:03:18support network. Means to reach out to those struggling and
00:03:21help them see that their children could have lives full of
00:03:25potential. I started educating myself, I started
00:03:28attending conferences abroad.
00:03:30And that is where I got the concept of the network because I'm seeing
00:03:34how those other organizations grew from family support
00:03:38groups to huge international
00:03:41organizations. Some of them are the largest advocacy
00:03:45organization for Down Syndrome in the world. And it
00:03:48started off as a family support group.
00:03:52So I came back and with some other parents, we formed the Down
00:03:55Syndrome Family Network. And in 15 years, you
00:03:59know, I always... I used to think that we haven't done anything, but people have to keep
00:04:02reminding me, "Look what you have done." You
00:04:05know, we, the government has ratified the UN Convention
00:04:09on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. They updated the national
00:04:13policy on persons with disabilities, and they have
00:04:16begun drafting national legislation for persons with
00:04:20disabilities, you know. So we anxiously await that, because
00:04:23that is the game changer right there for all persons with
00:04:27disabilities. The support of organizations helped to raise
00:04:30awareness of the best means to support families and people with
00:04:34Down syndrome. Truly a powerful program to make a difference.
00:04:37They support us with our workshops, and we have these
00:04:41workshops quarterly, along with our conference annually in
00:04:45March, where we bring parents together with
00:04:48professionals, you know, occupational therapists, speech therapists,
00:04:52physiotherapists, and even as we had
00:04:55today in our workshop,
00:04:57perspective, we follow what financial specialists from Republic Bank to
00:05:01tell us all about planning for the future, investments, and
00:05:05even starting from basic from a bank
00:05:08account and how that could help us plan for our children's
00:05:11future.
00:05:14Difference is really making a difference
00:05:17through partnership with the Down Syndrome Family Network. And we
00:05:21hope that as we continue, they will help add our
00:05:25cries for legislation for persons with
00:05:28disabilities to continue making that difference
00:05:32and changing the lives of persons with disabilities
00:05:35forever going forward. One of the most dynamic fundraising
00:05:39events for the organization is the annual "Fashion With Us," which
00:05:43is a truly inclusive celebration. Today we
00:05:46celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Down
00:05:50Syndrome Family Network and the fourth "Fashion With
00:05:53Us" program. "Fashion With Us" was the idea
00:05:57behind creating an inclusive forum for
00:06:00persons with Down syndrome to also model on stage
00:06:04with typical models. We
00:06:06joined with the top designers in Trinidad and Tobago under
00:06:10the creative direction of Richard Young to create a
00:06:14marvelous fashion show. All of our kids over
00:06:1814 years old are invited to do a model call, and
00:06:21then they practice. They come and they practice and have their
00:06:24sessions. "Fashion With Us" really has elevated
00:06:28the idea of inclusion, because once you can
00:06:31presume that someone is competent and you give them an
00:06:34opportunity to be included, they will show
00:06:37you exactly what they can do. So we are so happy that we
00:06:41were able to bring all of them together again in its
00:06:44fourth year at the Hyatt, and to
00:06:47celebrate diversity and inclusion. Every
00:06:50year we do a little more. I ask a little more of them. I give them
00:06:54a little more difficult moves. They get more accustomed to the
00:06:58models as well. They understand what they're doing for the
00:07:01designers. So you know, they're really differently abled. And this is what
00:07:05people need to understand when we're working with people who
00:07:09are differently abled, that their ability is just
00:07:12as keen as ours if you give them a chance. So today
00:07:16was "Fashion With Us." It's all about inclusion. We presented
00:07:1912 fashion houses. We had a cast of over
00:07:2375 models. We had the top designers in the
00:07:26country. They all part of it. They were all so thankful that they were
00:07:30included. They were hugging and loving and
00:07:33sharing. And the models, I think it also does something for the models
00:07:37themselves. The models have another responsibility when you're
00:07:41working with a Down syndrome advocate. And
00:07:44so the backstage is just filled with love, filled with
00:07:48cooperation. Events like this are a showcase of the true
00:07:51potential of people with Down syndrome once they are embraced
00:07:55by our communities. I will
00:07:57tell anybody with a child with Down syndrome
00:08:00to look, search for the children's skill. Don't
00:08:04keep them back. Don't, you know, it's not what you want
00:08:08them to do. You have to see what they are capable of doing
00:08:11and push them. Love them because they are really sweet
00:08:15children. They are beautiful children. They can teach
00:08:18you how to be a better person, a better
00:08:21parent. Support for people with Down syndrome does not
00:08:25begin and end on one day of the year. With the support of
00:08:28family, networks, and community, people with Down
00:08:31syndrome can reach their full potential and enjoy the very
00:08:35best quality of life. Thank you for joining us today on another
00:08:39episode of Caribbean Medical TV. We look forward to see
00:08:42you next time.
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00:11:09Hello, how are you, I'm Oppenheimer. The Economic Commission
00:11:12for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations, CEPAL, has just
00:11:16conducted a very interesting experiment, together with
00:11:20political figures from the right and left to
00:11:23prepare a joint document on what Latin America needs to do to
00:11:27overcome its backwardness. And
00:11:31the executive secretary of CEPAL, the leftist former president
00:11:34of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, and the right-wing former president
00:11:37of Colombia, Iván Duque.
00:11:41Under the direction of the three of them and working together for more than
00:11:44a year, they drafted a document of more than 400
00:11:48pages trying to reach consensus on key issues such
00:11:52as, for example, the economic integration of Latin
00:11:55America. Argentina, because the report cites a chilling
00:11:57fact:
00:11:59despite many decades of presidential summits and great
00:12:03speeches to promote regional integration, interregional
00:12:06trade in Latin America,
00:12:09trade between Latin American countries, instead of moving
00:12:13forward, is going backward, it's no joke, the study
00:12:17says that interregional trade in Latin America and the
00:12:20Caribbean fell from 21%
00:12:26region in 2008 to
00:12:2914% in 2024, it
00:12:32plummeted, that is, today only an average of
00:12:3614% of the products exported by
00:12:40the countries of the region go to other countries of the
00:12:43region, comparatively in Europe, for example, the
00:12:46average is more than 60%,
00:12:50and according to the authors of this study, the
00:12:53lack of more trade
00:12:55between Latin American countries leaves them much more exposed to
00:12:59external shocks, such as, for example, President
00:13:03Trump's tariffs. We are going to talk about all this with two
00:13:06of the co-presidents of this commission, and then we are going to talk with the
00:13:10writer and former vice president of Nicaragua, Sergio
00:13:15released a new novel called "The Curse of
00:13:18Ramfis." Sergio Ramírez is one of the many
00:13:21Nicaraguan opponents whose citizenship was revoked by the
00:13:25Nicaraguan government 3 years ago. We are going to
00:13:29ask him about his new book and about the
00:13:32recent speech by the Nicaraguan ruler Daniel
00:13:35Ortega in which he said that there will be no more elections in
00:13:39Nicaragua, although later Vice President
00:13:42Rosario Murillo toned down that statement, and
00:13:45finally later in the program we will have the Venezuelan writer and political
00:13:49analyst Moisés Naím, who has just published, together with journalist
00:13:53Quico Toro, a new book called
00:13:56"Charlatans," where they say that the
00:13:59world is increasingly filling up with
00:14:02charlatans and suggest some
00:14:05concrete recommendations on how to protect ourselves from
00:14:09them. Well, let's start with the CEPAL study, the
00:14:12study called "Breaks and Opportunities." We have with
00:14:16us the Executive Secretary of CEPAL, José
00:14:19Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, and the former president of Colombia,
00:14:23Iván Duque. President Bachelet was going to be with
00:14:26us, she apologized due to the flu, but
00:14:30we hope to have her very soon. Let's go to the interview. Executive
00:14:33Secretary, José Manuel Salazar, thank you for being with
00:14:37us. Former President Duque, thank you for being with us. Well,
00:14:40I read the document and it caught my attention that you
00:14:43say, although with more diplomatic words than I am
00:14:47going to use, that the world changed since Trump arrived, that
00:14:51there is a rupture of globalization and free trade.
00:14:55Protectionism, but you are convinced that the world
00:14:59definitely changed after Trump, that is, you are
00:15:02very sure that after Trump, because
00:15:05Trump has 2 years and a few
00:15:08months left, you are very sure that after
00:15:11him we will not return in a certain way to globalization, to
00:15:15free trade and multilateralism.
00:15:19In the report, there is a long-term analysis. It is not just that it
00:15:23changed with the arrival of the president. Rather,
00:15:26first, the change in the
00:15:29geoeconomy is observed, and there are the data on how China accounted for
00:15:336% of the world's GDP in 2000 and now it is 20%, depending on how
00:15:37you measure it. The Chinese economy is already as large as the
00:15:40American one or is about to surpass it. There are data on
00:15:44technologies, technological leadership, several international indices are
00:15:47cited there, so let's say there is an
00:15:50affirmation that the world changed in a very structural economic sense,
00:15:54and how these different economic and technological
00:15:57powers, of course, influence geopolitics
00:16:01and the strategies of each
00:16:04nation. Now, where emphasis is placed is evident,
00:16:07because it is true that it is said, well, the year 2015 marked a before and an
00:16:11after, especially with the tariff policies of the United States that
00:16:15came, let's say, to
00:16:17further change the rules of the game that were already changing. So in that
00:16:21sense, the idea that the world changed is in the
00:16:25last 20 years to a new reality of the
00:16:29relative weight of multipolarity, of where the
00:16:32main markets are, of where the main technologies are, and in an
00:16:35immediate sense, the behavior and strategies
00:16:39of the main powers. Now, the report says
00:16:42that Latin America does not have to have unconditional alliances, but
00:16:46rather maintain flexibility between the United States and China, but
00:16:50there is a reality, the United States government a few months ago announced its
00:16:54national security strategy, there it explicitly
00:16:57says that it wants to reduce China's presence in Latin
00:17:01America, so will Latin America be
00:17:03able to maintain flexibility
00:17:07between the two superpowers? I believe, Andrés, that there is something
00:17:11very interesting in the report, and that is,
00:17:14number one, we are saying that
00:17:18not having rigid alliances means that Latin America has to
00:17:22look after its commercial interests, its
00:17:25security interests, it also has to look after the
00:17:29protection of its main assets and
00:17:32maximize the potential of its assets for the benefit of its
00:17:35citizens, but also we talk about values
00:17:39and clearly with the United States there are
00:17:42similarities that have been historical for a long time in terms of
00:17:46values, democracy, the rule of law, security, commercial
00:17:50integration, because a very good part of the countries in the region have free
00:17:54trade agreements with the United States and with China
00:17:57trade also unites us, perhaps less
00:18:00values, but more trade and also
00:18:04investment, so Latin
00:18:07America has to understand that and has to play
00:18:10according to its opportunities, but
00:18:13when we say that we don't want rigid alliances, it is that they are not
00:18:17alliances of submission but of shared interests.
00:18:21We also talk about the need within our own
00:18:25region to also depend less on abrupt
00:18:28changes that can affect
00:18:31the economic planning we have for the next
00:18:35few years, what has also happened with tariffs.
00:18:38How can we protect ourselves from these abrupt changes?
00:18:42Well, by having more intra-regional trade, not depending only on one or
00:18:46two trading partners. And in the particular
00:18:48case of the United States, because there is a chapter where we talk about
00:18:52security, we are also united in the fight against organized
00:18:56crime. We are united in the fight against drug trafficking, we
00:18:59are united in the fight against terrorism. And there
00:19:02we need to continue cooperating with the United States in terms of
00:19:06intelligence, military support, investigations,
00:19:09etc. But we Latin
00:19:11Americans ourselves need to cooperate among our countries, because
00:19:15to compare only with the United States and not do it with Mexico, with
00:19:18Guatemala, with Brazil, with Argentina, with other countries,
00:19:22simply makes us more vulnerable, because transnational
00:19:24crime is a real threat. We have to take a break, when
00:19:28we return, we will continue talking about the CEPAL report, and then we will talk with the
00:19:31writers Sergio Ramírez and Moisés Naím who have just released new
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00:21:03imagine 8 hours taking notes of everything that
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00:23:03Thank you for staying with us, we are analyzing the new study on the future of Latin
00:23:07America carried out by a commission of figures from the right and
00:23:10left that has just been published by the Economic Commission
00:23:13for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations,
00:23:16CEPAL. The study was co-chaired by the secretary.
00:23:30Let's continue with Secretary Salazar- Xirinachs and former President Duque. As we
00:23:33told you in the previous segment, President Bachelet was going to be with
00:23:37us, but she excused herself at the last minute due to the flu. We hope to have her
00:23:41very soon. Let's continue with the interview.
00:23:44Your report gives a
00:23:47data point that left me cold, didn't it? It says
00:23:50that in terms of interregional trade, that is,
00:23:53trade between Latin American countries, Latin
00:23:57America, instead of moving forward, is going backward. That is, your
00:24:01report says that interregional trade between Latin American
00:24:05countries fell from 21%
00:24:08of the total trade in the region in 2008 to
00:24:1214% in 2024.
00:24:16Comparatively, in Europe, interregional trade,
00:24:20trade between European countries, is more than
00:24:2260%. So all the presidential
00:24:26summits that have been held to promote Latin American
00:24:28integration, all these grand speeches, these grand
00:24:32final declarations, were
00:24:34useless. I don't know if the word is that presidential
00:24:37summits or presidential summits, but clearly
00:24:41that is an issue that we have to solve, Andrés, because
00:24:44historically we have integrated much more with the world, today
00:24:48we have more trade with the United States than we had
00:24:51before, more trade with Europe than we had before, more
00:24:54trade with Asia than we had before and in Latin America,
00:24:58intra-regionally, it is only 14% of our
00:25:01exports. What do we have to do? Increase it and
00:25:04increase it where, which the report also says,
00:25:08we have shown great progress in intra-regional trade
00:25:12of manufactures, that already shows us that there is potential, but we must also take it to
00:25:16other sectors and have greater
00:25:20intra-regional trade like Asia or Europe have, we are talking about levels that exceed 30,
00:25:2440%, well, it makes us
00:25:26less vulnerable and helps us
00:25:30develop value chains within Latin America,
00:25:33so rather than focusing on whether presidential
00:25:37summits served or not, clearly we also need to
00:25:40de-ideologize that commercial integration and I'll give you a very
00:25:44specific example, what happened with the Pacific Alliance that
00:25:47was born in 2012,
00:25:50and that independently of government
00:25:53changes advanced, deepened trade and then in the
00:25:57government of President López Obrador due to
00:26:00perhaps ideological prejudices the entry of Ecuador was
00:26:03stopped, the continuity of the alliance was demotivated and it is at its weakest
00:26:07level in the last 12 years, so the message that one can also
00:26:10give from the report is that this does not need
00:26:14to be full of ideological prejudices, integration is not of
00:26:17the left nor of the right and on the contrary it strengthens us, it
00:26:21opens up business opportunities and makes us less vulnerable.
00:26:25Yes, Andrés, to complement with a couple of data and
00:26:29ideas that President Duque has correctly said.
00:26:33Well, it is 14% on average, but we have to
00:26:36understand that what happens is that in the last 20 years, the
00:26:40exports of the countries of the region to the rest of the
00:26:42world have increased very, very strongly, not only in
00:26:46goods, but also in services in some cases, so that this figure
00:26:50of 14% is 14% of total
00:26:52exports. That doesn't mean they have decreased; they have
00:26:56decreased proportionally from 24% to 14%, but if you look at it in billions
00:27:00of dollars, it is a trade that
00:27:03is many orders of magnitude more than what we had, say, 10 or 20
00:27:07years ago. Now, however, 14% compared
00:27:10to other regions is low. There is enormous potential, and that leads
00:27:14to the topic of the summits, which is the question and the topic of, let's say, the old
00:27:18dream of integration, which is also a dream that was born, or at least is very
00:27:22associated with CEPAL here, the ideals of previs since the 1950s,
00:27:25and there is almost no presidential summit that doesn't have a paragraph reiterating
00:27:29the will, no, it is a project.
00:27:32As President Duque says, an ideological one, to dream and then
00:27:36there is no one in charge, we have to take charge of many issues, we have to take
00:27:40charge of border crossings, we have to take charge of rules of origin, we have to
00:27:44take charge of the norms, of a great, here there are some
00:27:47authors who call it the boring agenda, it is not an
00:27:50agenda for major news, but unless we
00:27:53work and there are technocracies and there are, well,
00:27:57investments also, it won't be possible to overcome it.
00:28:01In addition to... having a better defense against external
00:28:04shocks, what other advantage does interregional trade have? Why should
00:28:08interregional trade increase? And Andrés, I want to
00:28:11quickly add something about that, which is that intraregional
00:28:17of many other things. It is the construction of
00:28:20value chains within the same region, and on the other
00:28:24hand, it is also increasing the levels of intraregional
00:28:28investment, and one of the longings that the
00:28:32integration process has also had is that we can eventually
00:28:35also consolidate stock markets, which was also the great
00:28:38aspiration of the Pacific Alliance
00:28:41through Mila, which was the integrated market of Latin America, so that we could
00:28:45take advantage, go to public stock markets,
00:28:49mobilize savings towards
00:28:52desarrollo empresarial y por esa vía tener más capacidad de
00:28:56hacer ofertas públicas iniciales de nuevas empresas y de
00:28:59transformación de base tecnológica que también está. en el
00:29:02business development, and through that, have more capacity to
00:29:06make initial public offerings of new companies and
00:29:09technologically based transformation that is also in
00:29:11the report. So yes, we make that mention of intraregional
00:29:14trade, but what we really want is for it to be
00:29:18trade, investment, and
00:29:22to multiply the vehicles of savings and
00:29:25financing in order to expand the size of our
00:29:29companies, generate quality formal employment,
00:29:32thank you very much Secretary Zarazar Chirinax, thank you very much
00:29:36former President Duque, we have to go to a break when we come back we will have the
00:29:39writer and former vice president of Nicaragua Sergio
00:29:42Ramírez and then
00:29:47the also writer, political analyst Venezuelan Moisés
00:29:51Naim, both have just released new books. Don't
00:29:54go away, we'll be right back.
00:29:57Every night, there is the possibility of a
00:30:00bombardment, without filters. They should not
00:30:04treat our young people like that anywhere.
00:30:08Here it is asked, is there freedom of belief in the country, in
00:30:12Spain? Listen. These types of phenomena are not
00:30:15the generators of change, they are the expression of change, and it
00:30:19is debated, its foreign policy will be like this, lukewarm in taking
00:30:21positions, conclusions with
00:30:25Fernando del Rincón from Monday to Friday on
00:30:29CNN. Here on CNN, the news comes
00:30:32first, today Coño Molinares, at the Capitol
00:30:36they have already made the funds ready for the Department of National Security,
00:30:39when there is a lot at stake. We eliminate the noise to
00:30:43inform you clearly about the issues and policies that impact
00:30:46you, from the decisions made in Washington to their
00:30:50repercussions throughout the United States, Latin America, and the
00:30:53world. At what point are relations with the United States?
00:30:57Relations between the United States and Cuba have always