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Been a disaster. 70 people have been rescued from stadiumed vehicles. The area was hit with 16 of rain and more is open way. Schools are closed. Public transportation has been shut down. Same with the airport. Now we want to bring to you what happening in ecuador. This is the damage last behind by the major earthquake on saturday. The president is saying the biggest priority is to get the people who are still trapped out of the rubble. You can see people are congress through the rubble with their hands and what tools they can fine. 272 people have died. More than 2,000 others are injured. The ...

Were doing. Could you comment, please, sir . Yes, sir. The observations that we made, and this is in the report and certainly not allconclusive. These werent six guys in the mess hall who dreamed these things up. These were based on comments we got from Security Experts who were with obo on a daily basis. I would tell you for one, if you can build a beautiful embassy under Design Excellence and you can do it as fast, and it doesnt cost any more, im all for it. I dont care. I dont care what we build. But what i am concerned with, its just not logical to the people we talk to and, frankly, to me...

There is a movement for democracy among people that work there, thinking it matters more and more to their work. And that is also true in the United States. During this last 25 years in the United States government. These last 25 years it has become part and parcel of every diplomats dna to appreciate that the democratic character of governments that we partner with affects their International Posture and policies as well and our military establishment and intelligence agencies i think increasingly understand that and increasingly weave that into their engagements with their partners as well b...

Possibilities. My own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to the congress to support Civil Society actors in a variety of countries and, of course, the National Endowment for democracy remains the pree moore institution in the world premier institution in the world for targeting assistance to democrats usually many tough places. So they know they have support from the outside community, from the International Community. So let me mention a couple of things just to wind up this opening scene setter. One is that i think we in the United States need to appreci...

To see disorder, particularly in key parts of the world as were seeing now in the middle east. Second reality that we face is that oftentimes states that democratize can become democracies, may become less close partners of the u. S. In security matters, specifically the case if the u. S. Had supported an authoritarian regime that preceded it, then a new regime comes in and they seek to distance itself to a may not seek to doubt the full panoply of u. S. Security agenda. With the difficulties in our National Security establishment in being able to reconcile a commitment to the longterm which i...