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00:00:00for all persons with disabilities. The support of
00:00:03organizations have helped to raise awareness of the best means to
00:00:07support families and people with down syndrome. Through the power
00:00:11to make a difference program, they support us
00:00:13with our workshops and we have these workshops quarterly, along
00:00:17with our conference annually in March where we bring
00:00:21parents together with professionals, you
00:00:24occupational therapists, speech therapists, physiotherapists
00:00:28and even as we have. today in our
00:00:31workshop, financial specialist
00:00:34from Republic Bank to tell
00:00:37you ask for it and they don't give it to you. Let's go with us all about planning for the future investments and even starting from
00:00:40basic from a bank account and how that could
00:00:44help us plan for our children's future,
00:00:47so power to make a difference is
00:00:50really making a difference traits partnership with the down syndrome
00:00:54family network and we hope that as we continue
00:00:57they will help add our cry.
00:01:00for legislation for persons with disabilities to continue
00:01:04making that difference and changing the lives of
00:01:08persons with disabilities forever going
00:01:11forward. one of the most dynamic fundraising events for the
00:01:14organization is the annual fashion with us, which is a
00:01:18true inclusive celebration. today we
00:01:21celebrated the 15th anniversary of the down
00:01:24syndrome family network and the fourth fashion with
00:01:28us program. passion with us was the idea
00:01:32and... this is a much behind creating inclusive forum for
00:01:35persons with down syndrome to also model on stage with
00:01:39typical models. we joined with the top
00:01:42designers in trinidad and tobago under the creative
00:01:45direction of Richard Young to create a
00:01:49marvelous fashion show. all of our kids over
00:01:5214 years old are invited to do a model call and
00:01:56then they practice, they come and they practice and have their sessions.
00:02:00fashion with us really has elevated the idea of
00:02:03inclusion, because once you can presume that
00:02:07someone is competent and you give them an opportunity to be
00:02:10included, they will show you exactly what they can
00:02:13do, so we are so happy that we were able to bring all of this together
00:02:17again in its fourth
00:02:19they carried in their luggage, in year at the hat and to celebrate
00:02:22diversity and inclusion. every year we
00:02:25do a little more, I ask a little more of them, I give them a little
00:02:29more... difficult moves, they get more accustomed to the models
00:02:33as well, they understand what they're doing for the
00:02:36designers, so you know they really differently abled, and this is
00:02:40what we need to understand when we're working with people
00:02:43who are differently abled, that their ability is
00:02:46just as keen as ours, if you give them a
00:02:49chance, so today was fashion with us, it's all about inclusion, we
00:02:53presented 12 fashion houses, we had cast
00:02:57of over 75 models, we had the top
00:03:00designers in the country, they're
00:03:02extensive use of visa
00:03:02the opposition all part of it, they were all so thankful that they were included,
00:03:05they were hugging and loving and sharing,
00:03:09and the models, i think it also does something for the models themselves, the models have
00:03:13the revocation of another responsibility when you're
00:03:15working with a down syndrome advocate, and
00:03:18so the backstage is just filled with love, filled with
00:03:22cooperation, events like this are a showcase of the true
00:03:26potential of people with down syndrome once they are embraced.
00:03:30by our communities, I
00:03:32will tell anybody with a child with
00:03:34dongson
00:03:36drone to you, look, search for the chiren skill, don't keep them back,
00:03:39don't, you know, it's
00:03:42revocation of not what you want them to do, you have to see what they
00:03:44are capable of doing and push them, love them
00:03:47because they are really sweet children, they are beautiful
00:03:51children, they can teach you how to be better person,
00:03:55better parent, support for people with down syndrome
00:03:59does not begin and end on one day of the year, with the support of
00:04:02family, networks and community, people with down
00:04:06syndrome can reach their full potential and enjoy the very
00:04:56know. What I do know is that
00:07:02Offenheimer, the State Department reported a few days ago that it had
00:07:06already revoked 175
00:07:09US entry visas since the return of the president to the White
00:07:12House in January of last year. Among the most
00:07:16recent, best-known cases are those of Andrés Manuel López
00:07:19Beltrán, known as Andy, the son of former Mexican
00:07:23president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the
00:07:25Brazilian ambassador in Washington, and last
00:07:28year, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Costa Rica, Óscar Arias
00:07:32and several other Supreme Court magistrates,
00:07:35deputies,
00:07:38journalists from Costa Rica. See what
00:07:41Óscar Arias told me a few
00:07:43hours ago
00:07:49about this. My visa was revoked last
00:07:53year, just like several
00:07:56magistrates of
00:07:59our Supreme Court of Justice,
00:08:02also some
00:08:06deputies of our legislative
00:08:09assembly, all of them
00:08:12belonging to
00:08:15party to the government of
00:08:18former president Rodrigo Chávez.
00:08:21Another example was
00:08:25the visa of the members of the Board of
00:08:28Directors of the newspaper La
00:08:32Nación, the most prestigious
00:08:35media outlet
00:08:37in the country. None of
00:08:41us have
00:08:44been informed of the reason
00:08:48why the embassy has
00:08:51communicated to us the
00:08:54the visa of the United
00:08:57States.
00:09:01In parallel, the Trump government also circulated proposals to study more
00:09:05closely the social media history of applicants for
00:09:09tourist and study visas to the United States, although it is not clear
00:09:12if that has already been put into practice. Today we will
00:09:16analyze if it is becoming increasingly difficult to enter the United
00:09:20States and what parameters the Trump administration is using to
00:09:24decide who receives a visa and who doesn't. We will
00:09:27talk to Ambassador Brian Nicholls
00:09:30who, until less than 2 years ago, was the Assistant Secretary of State for Western
00:09:34Hemisphere Affairs for Latin America. He was the head of all
00:09:37US ambassadors in Latin
00:09:41America and the Caribbean. And to hear another side of the story, we will have
00:09:44Carlos Díaz Rosillo, who was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
00:09:47for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Latin
00:09:50America, during the first Trump administration.
00:09:53And later in the program, we will change the subject and
00:09:57analyze if the United States will increase its military
00:10:00operations against drug traffickers in Latin
00:10:03America. Why? Because Defense Secretary Pete
00:10:07Hexeth announced that Colombia has already asked to carry out
00:10:11joint military operations against drug traffickers, although the Colombian
00:10:14government has not yet confirmed it. The
00:10:17Trump government has already been attacking boats of alleged drug traffickers in the
00:10:21Caribbean, in the Pacific, but the big
00:10:25question is whether operations will now be carried out on land
00:10:29against cocaine laboratories and other
00:10:32drug trafficking activities. And another big question is whether Trump will order
00:10:35unilateral attacks on land against alleged drug traffickers in
00:10:39Mexico. The Mexican government said that it
00:10:43accepts cooperation in intelligence, also in
00:10:46training, but not in military operations on
00:10:49Mexican soil. Well, let's start with the issue of visa
00:10:53revocations and visa denials. They are also two different
00:10:56things. Revoking is when you have it and they take it away from you. Denying is when
00:11:02Ambassador Brian Nichols, former head of the State Department for
00:11:06Latin America. Ambassador, thank you for being with
00:11:09us. Well, Ambassador, you were in charge of the
00:11:12State Department for Latin America until
00:11:15very recently and you know that the practice of denying visas is not
00:11:18new. It was already said before, what
00:11:22changed? Is there a significant increase
00:11:25in visa denials or not? I believe that
00:11:29there has been a
00:11:32change in the use of visa
00:11:35denial for political or
00:11:38economic purposes in
00:11:41the service of the Trump administration,
00:11:44before it was
00:11:48a legal framework focused on
00:11:51corruption, drug trafficking,
00:11:54terrorism
00:11:57wider range of visa denials. CNN
00:12:01recently reported that there have been 175
00:12:05visa revocations, meaning, more than a visa denial, people who had
00:12:09the visa, as we said recently, had it taken away from them.
00:12:13A few days ago, it was the case of the son of the former
00:12:16president of Mexico. He said in a letter he published on
00:12:20Instagram that his visa had been revoked.
00:12:23Is this particular case new or was it already being
00:12:27considered when you were leading the State Department for Latin
00:12:30America? Well, I think in this case
00:12:34eh
00:12:36it is supposed to be a case of
00:12:39corruption by the son
00:12:42of the former president. However,
00:12:46to get involved with
00:12:49a close relative of the former president,
00:12:52a political power
00:12:56in Mexico is something
00:12:58unusual, but if
00:13:02we are seeing the
00:13:04situation in Mexico, the case of the
00:13:08now former governor of Sinaloa,
00:13:11other officials of the Mexican
00:13:14state, people with a political
00:13:18profile, that is something
00:13:22that is noticed, the more
00:13:27denial, visa
00:13:30revocation, but was this case already being considered when
00:13:34you were leading the State Department for Latin
00:13:38America or is it something new? Well, we have always used
00:13:41the revocation
00:13:44the denial the prohibition
00:13:47of obtaining a visa for the United States in
00:13:51cases of corruption,
00:13:55trafficking or terrorism, but
00:13:57there was a legal framework
00:14:01with a high bar
00:14:04to deny a visa or revoke a visa.
00:14:07It is not something that can be done
00:14:10easily, at least
00:14:13historically in the US government,
00:14:16but do you remember when you were in charge, was the case of the
00:14:20son of the president of Mexico being considered or not?
00:14:24Well, I don't want to get into
00:14:27conversations of this nature. Okay, the
00:14:31Trump administration revoked the visa of the Brazilian ambassador in
00:14:34Washington and before that, several figures
00:14:38Óscar Arias and former president of Costa Rica. I just spoke to
00:14:42him. We just played what he told us. He told me that they
00:14:45still haven't returned his visa and that he doesn't know why they took it away. Do you have
00:14:49any idea why they took his visa away?
00:14:52Well, the only thing I have
00:14:55read is that
00:14:58it could be because of some political statements
00:15:02he has made recently.
00:15:06I think that in the case
00:15:09of Costa Rica the visa has
00:15:12also been revoked
00:15:16to the board of
00:15:19a newspaper
00:15:23there as well. for
00:15:26reasons of the statements
00:15:30or reports of the newspaper,
00:15:34so it is a use that
00:15:38is not, according to
00:15:40the criterion
00:15:44of what I understand is the framework of the
00:15:47law of the United States, so that there are no
00:15:51doubts, what do you think of this more
00:15:54extensive use of visa denial and revocation? Is it
00:15:57good or is it bad? I think
00:16:00it is
00:16:02bad. And why is it
00:16:05bad?
00:16:10The Trump administration wants to use all the
00:16:13tools it has to
00:16:16leverage its goals,
00:16:19to gain an advantage in
00:16:22negotiations, to support its allies
00:16:26and punish the opponents
00:16:29of the Trump administration according to its
00:16:32vice of
00:16:35closing the possibilities of an open
00:16:39debate on policies in the region
00:16:42or within a country, when it is only
00:16:46about an expression
00:16:49of free thought
00:16:53of someone, that is something very
00:16:57worrying that goes against
00:17:00the spirit of the
00:17:03United States constitution and
00:17:07will generate antibodies,
00:17:11opposition in the system
00:17:14in the region against
00:17:18the United States in the medium and long
00:17:22term, that's why I think it's not a good
00:17:25idea. The State Department also reported that more than
00:17:286,000 student visas have been denied. Is this
00:17:32about students new or was it done before when
00:17:35you were in charge? No,
00:17:38that is something extremely worrying
00:17:42for me that in many countries
00:17:45in the world they are closing
00:17:48consular sections, especially in Africa,
00:17:51they are sending visa applicants to
00:17:54another country to apply for the visa.
00:17:57There are
00:18:00requirements for a bond
00:18:04for the trip on the part of the
00:18:08applicants,
00:18:10they have reduced the number of foreign
00:18:14students who are studying in the United
00:18:17States, and we know that these
00:18:20students, when they leave
00:18:24university or a postgraduate degree in the United
00:18:27States, become, in the vast majority,
00:18:31ambassadors for the United States, talking
00:18:34about how good their experience was
00:18:38in the United States
00:18:41and bringing common values to
00:18:44their countries of origin. Denying
00:18:47visas to people who will be allies
00:18:50of the United States seems like a very bad
00:18:54idea, Ambassador. What will happen with the Trump government's proposal to review
00:18:58the social networks of those who apply, for example, for a tourist
00:19:01visa? This is new, right?
00:19:04Well, before there was the
00:19:08possibility of
00:19:10reviewing computers,
00:19:13mobile phones of people
00:19:17entering the United States at the port of
00:19:20entry to the United States.
00:19:22In the case of visa
00:19:26applicants, yes, there was the possibility
00:19:30of requesting that information,
00:19:33but not to check
00:19:38their Twitter
00:19:41and Facebook or anything looking
00:19:43for their political opinions,
00:19:46but rather
00:19:49with drug trafficking or terrorism or
00:19:53something very serious, and
00:19:56for me, freedom
00:19:59of expression is something very important
00:20:02for all peoples
00:20:05and the United States should
00:20:09be the leader in promoting freedom of
00:20:13expression worldwide, and to
00:20:15make people afraid to
00:20:19express themselves, that is something worrying
00:20:22for me. Is it known if this Trump administration proposal was put into
00:20:26practice, because I also read that it is not clear if it is being
00:20:30implemented. I don't
00:20:33in the visa application form,
00:20:37one has to put their
00:20:41name as it appears on social
00:20:43media. That requirement
00:20:47has existed.
00:20:52So if they wanted to implement it more
00:20:54severely, they could, they would have the staff to do it. How do you review
00:20:58the social networks of millions and millions of people who
00:21:02apply for a tourist visa to visit the United
00:21:05States? Well, artificial intelligence, I think, is the way to
00:21:09implement it. However,
00:21:12the value of
00:21:14looking for that information, of
00:21:18seeing if someone posted a meme
00:21:21of something,
00:21:24it seems to me that it doesn't have
00:21:27much value in determining if the person
00:21:31meets the
00:21:34requirements for the visa. No, we have to note that we
00:21:38repeatedly invited the State Department to come to this program and
00:21:42explain to us exactly what the criteria are for revoking or denying
00:21:46visas. So far, they have not responded positively. We have to make a break.
00:22:17CNN correspondent. Of all the jobs I
00:22:20have done, the one that has perhaps impacted me most personally has
00:22:23been the coverage of the war in Ukraine. Seeing and
00:22:27narrating the stories of some of these thousands of refugees has
00:22:31undoubtedly been very difficult, but also necessary.
00:22:35Narrating their stories has served to
00:22:38dimension the drama of this war,
00:22:41to convey the pain it is causing among
00:22:44so many innocent people. However, something that has
00:22:48surprised me a lot has been the integrity with which
00:22:52these people crossed the border. They didn't shed a
00:22:55single tear unless we asked them about what
00:22:59they had left behind, their families, their
00:23:02belongings. But to that, I would also add
00:23:05that the extra
00:23:09the few suitcases they carried with them, was surprising,
00:23:12and that is hope.
00:23:52In World Panorama we travel the world in search of the events that
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00:23:59world at the speed at which events occur.
00:25:24Thank you for continuing with us, we are analyzing the revocations,
00:25:27denials and refusals of entry visas to the United
00:25:31States. The State Department reported a few days ago
00:25:34that it had already revoked 175 entry
00:25:38visas to the United States since President Trump returned to the White
00:25:41House in January of last year. These are visas
00:25:45that had already been granted that were
00:25:47taken away. Many are coming.
00:25:50We have with us Carlos Díaz Rosillo, former senior White House official
00:25:54during President Trump's first administration, a man close to the
00:25:58current US government. Let's go with him. Carlos Díaz Rosillo,
00:26:01thank you for being with us.
00:26:04Well, as we just said, the State Department
00:26:08has said that it has significantly increased its visa restrictions
00:26:12on people who operate in favor, they said, of US adversaries. What
00:26:15do you say to the criticism that it's one thing
00:26:19not to let a potential terrorist into the country and it's
00:26:22a very different thing not to let someone in who thinks differently, who
00:26:26criticized President Trump, for example? What do you say to those
00:26:29criticisms? Of course, Andrés, you used
00:26:33the right word, adversaries.
00:26:35The available tools are being used to
00:26:39ensure that adversaries of US interests do not enter the United
00:26:42States. Entering the United States is not a
00:26:45right, it is a privilege, and the US government is the one that
00:26:49grants that privilege. You don't have to be a terrorist, you don't have to be
00:26:53a member of a criminal
00:26:56organization to be an adversary, to want to come to the United States to harm
00:27:00it. And what the government is doing is
00:27:04using all available tools to ensure
00:27:08that people who have expressed opinions that are
00:27:11not only adverse but also demonstrate a history of
00:27:14violence, who want to come to harm the United States, do not enter. All
00:27:18those who want to come to invest in the United States, to do tourism in
00:27:21the United States, will always be welcome. Here it is about
00:27:24using these tools to ensure that those who should
00:27:28not enter because they want to harm the United States do not enter. But what do
00:27:32you say to the criticism that the United States has revoked the visa, for example, of
00:27:36Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Costa Rica, Óscar Arias,
00:27:39magistrates, deputies, recognized journalists from Costa
00:27:43Rica? Wasn't his visa revoked because he had expressed
00:27:46an opinion against President Trump? I don't think so.
00:27:50There are opinions against President Trump all over
00:27:53the world. Just turn on the television,
00:27:56listen to the radio and see how he is criticized for absolutely
00:28:00everything. However, many journalists, leaders who criticize President
00:28:04Trump openly, can enter the United
00:28:08States. So to say that all those who criticize Trump cannot
00:28:12enter, I think is an exaggeration and does not correspond to
00:28:15reality, because I repeat, all or almost all media
00:28:18criticize President Trump for what he does, for what he doesn't do, for what he
00:28:22says, for what he doesn't say, and yet they can enter the United States freely. But
00:28:26do you really believe that former president Óscar Arias and the
00:28:29members of the Supreme Court and deputies and journalists of the municipal
00:28:33newspaper of Costa Rica terrorist, a potential for
00:28:37violence, I don't think it represents a terrorist
00:28:41threat or a potential for violence, no, but it was
00:28:43determined with information that neither you nor I have that it is not in the interest of
00:28:47the United States for those people to enter the country, I repeat, I don't think it is
00:28:51any kind of violent or terrorist
00:28:54threat, but those are not the only reasons why a person
00:28:58does not receive permission to enter the United States. What
00:29:01do you think of the recent decision to revoke the visa of the son of the
00:29:05former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and not
00:29:08only him, but many Mexican government officials, including acting governors
00:29:12who cannot enter the United States? One of the things
00:29:16I learned when I worked in the American government for 4
00:29:20years, including in the White House, is that often the information presented to
00:29:24the media, the public information that you and I have, is not
00:29:27always the most accurate, there must be very strong
00:29:30information. from the US State Department
00:29:34that suggests that the
00:29:36entry
00:29:39of Andy into the United States endangers the security of
00:29:43the United States, without knowing the intelligence in detail I cannot comment, but I imagine that
00:29:47decision was not taken lightly. The State
00:29:50Department said that more than 175
00:29:53visas have been revoked under this government of President Trump,
00:29:56there has also been a proposal to review the social media of
00:30:00those who apply for a tourist visa.
00:30:02Is that not a form of censorship, that is, is it not something that
00:30:06harms the image of the United States and that can also destroy the tourism
00:30:10industry in the United States? Look, in that particular case I think it was a
00:30:13good decision, why? Because there are many people who enter the United
00:30:17States with objectives that are not positive for the United States,
00:30:21people who come and start protesting, start generating
00:30:25controversies and the objective of an immigration system
00:30:28is to allow people who want to migrate, in this case to
00:30:31the United States, to have a positive contribution to the country,
00:30:35I'll give you an example of the former president of Colombia, whose
00:30:38visa to enter was revoked, because when he goes to New
00:30:41York to give his speech before the United Nations, he goes to a neighborhood in
00:30:45New York to tell the military not to obey the orders of the
00:30:49commander-in-chief, people who have such a history,
00:30:52people who promote violence on social media,
00:30:56actively promote civil disobedience.