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Colombia and one-time candidate for president used to be a member of the n-19 guerrilla group, an insurgency that once sought political power through armed struggle. >> translator: the war hit us hard. i was imprisoned. they tortured me. the majority of my friends died. >> he spent almost two years in prison. the charge, illegal possession of a firearm. now decades since petro first disarmed, he asked his constituents to do the same. >> its very notorious for a man that wasnt armed against the s...

Thats the main focus of his mayorship, and hes been quite successful with that. in other areas he is a disaster. but in that area, he is successful. >> indeed, he has been so disastrous in those other areas colombias inspector general asked for him to be removed from office. he was barred from holding a public office for 15 years. petro can appeal the decision. now the gun ban may be the only positive part of his legacy. and there are numbers to prove it. the weapons restrictions along with bett...

Examination background checks, and you can get a weapon. restrepo estimates that there are about 1 million guns, legal and illegal, in circulation throughout bogota, and what the ban does is allow cops to confiscate every weapon on the streets. the gun restriction, which began as a three-month trial, was generally supported by the public and was implemented by the military and the police. but mayor petr os measure of banning weapons in public wasnt without great irony. [ speaking a foreign langu...

But the mayors idea of banning weapons in public wasnt without. >> translator: part of the reasons for violence is that we have armed ourselves. state armed themselves. insurgencies. i was part of the colombian insurge enty. >> thats right, the second most important elegislatived official in colombia and one-time candidate for president used to be a member of the n-19 guerrilla group. an agency that once sought political power through arms struggle. >> translator: the war hit us hard. i was impr...

Murder rate by 20% in 2012. this represent a three-decade low for the city. the ban has been extended and will be in place for the foreseeable future. and petro thinks that united states could stand to revolutionize its attitude on guns as well. >> translator: i watch from afar, but its undoubtable there is a sickness within american society with regard to guns which is part of its history. but which is doing it much harm. could it be that bogata can say to colombia and the most violent region i...

Violence. here and throughout being tau, police search for weapons. at this bar, they find this knife. it is all part of an effort to disarm colombias capital and largest city, since general luis martinez, head of being taus metropolitan police. >> translator: being tau has a big problem. and that is on the weekend the consumption of alcoholic beverages, crime, homicide and personal injuries increase. >> bobatah a city of 8 million people had 1,600 murders in 2011 alone. most involved guns. when...

Footage of those facilities every single day. thats new and its important. now, there are going to be people, many allies, the saudis are not going to like the fact that the iranians can enrich at all and are going to be given i think between 6 and $9 billion. >> im reading more into the statement. youre absolutely right. $4.2 billion may be cash and as im looking at these notes the other concessions have to do with what they can do inside their own country such as petrochemicals and gold and au...

Spitzer got caught paying women like me and now hes stumping, smiling for photographers and topping the political polls for new yorks next controller. i would be find with spitzers return to politics. apologizing and get might career back wasnt exactly an option our society supports." why, why is that? what is your understanding of why that standard is so different as applied to eliot spitzer an applied to melissa petro? >> sure. well, its hard to tell a complicated story in 15 minutes and i thi...

Why that standard is so different as applied to eliot spitzer an applied to melissa petro? >> sure. well, its hard to tell a complicated story in 15 minutes and i think were used to some pretty familiar narratives. when it comes to sex in general, but when it comes to sex workers in particular, were really portrayed as victims or villains, and any sort of complicated story that most of us have, actually, that fits in between that, theres little room in societys sexual imagination for those stori...

Petro? >> sure. well, its hard to tell a complicated story in 15 minutes and i think were used to some pretty familiar narratives. when it comes to sex in general, but when it comes to sex workers in particular, were really portrayed as victims or villains, and any sort of complicated story that most of us have, actually, that fits in between that, theres little room in societys sexual imagination for those stories. >> and yet, it is precisely from the male perspective, it is precisely this comp...