 Welcome to what the F is going on in Latin America, CodePink's weekly YouTube program of hot news out of Latin America and the Caribbean. We broadcast every Wednesday, 7.30 p.m. Eastern, 4.30 p.m. Pacific. For those of you viewing on YouTube or Facebook, for those of you that need translation from Spanish to English, English to Spanish, please join us on Zoom with the link provided in the comments, and I will post that momentarily. Tonight, in partnership with Columbia Human Rights Committee, Friends of Latin America, Task Force on the Americas, we bring to you part four of four of our virtual human rights delegation to Columbia. Can you- I'm sorry everyone, you can hear me now? Okay. Okay. Thank you so much. A slight technical problem with my microphone, so that's okay for everyone. So tonight, we're bringing you part four of four, of what was planned to be a delegation to Columbia August of 2020. So we're going to- we're bringing you all of January segments of what was to be an on-the-ground delegation. This evening, our final segment is entitled, Columbia Becomes a NATO Global Partner. Our guest this evening is Enrique Daza. He is director of Sede Trabajo and is an expert on international relations. Tonight's presentation will be approximately 30 minutes in length, followed by 30 to 45 minutes in length, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. If you are watching on Zoom, please submit questions in the- in the two- please submit questions in the Q&A option. The chat option will be disabled. Please join me in welcoming Enrique Daza. Bueno, me oyes? Yes, we can hear you. Thank you so much for joining us this evening. It's an honor to have you with us. Bueno, muy bien. Muchas gracias. Entonces, me han pedido que- que hable del- del tema de la participación de Columbia en la OTAN. Entonces, yo voy a hacer dos- como dos bloques. En primer lugar, tengo que hablar algo de la OTAN. Porque sin entender la OTAN, pues es muy difícil entender qué es papel juega a Columbia. Y en segundo lugar, voy a hablar, pues, de Columbia. O sea, su política militar, su geopolítica, su política estratégica, pues, etc. Entonces, en primer lugar, el tema de la OTAN. Como ustedes saben muy bien, la OTAN se creó en 1949 como una alianza de los países europeos con Estados Unidos para enfrentar a la Unión Soviética desde entonces. Este- esto fue lo que se conoció como la Guerra Fría, que duró hasta 1990. Y que enmarcó, digamos, la- la- la situación mundial de todo ese periodo. Eso tuvo diversos incidentes, muchas de etapas, muchas enfrentamientos, etc., pero yo no me voy a referir a eso. En 1990, entonces, cuando cayó el burro de Berlín, cambió la situación. Porque desapareció el pacto de Varsovia, se desintegró la Unión Soviética. Apareció Rusia y, digamos, que ahí cambió el- el- el- el- el- el contenido de la OTAN. La OTAN, en realidad, fue diseñada expresamente para enfrentar el- el- el bloque soviético, pues, a la Unión Soviética, pero también a sus aliados. En 1990, al caer el burro de Berlín y se integrarse a la Unión Soviética, entonces la OTAN quedó como sin brújula. El pacto de Varsovia se acabó y entonces se- se supone que en ese momento, según algunos analistas, se- se- llegó al fin de la historia y ya no habría más enfrentamientos, porque la democracia, eh, liberal, se habría impuesto en el terreno político y la globalización en el terreno económico. Sin embargo, así no fue. Después de caída la Unión Soviética, entonces, eh, en- como producto de esa situación que se vivió en los 90, eh, Rusia aceptó facilitar la reunificación de Alemania, a cambio de que se mantuviera más o menos el estatus europeo. O sea, que la OTAN no incorporará nuevos miembros y hubiera, digamos, en general un clima como de extensión. Sin embargo, eh, esto no se cumplió. Eh, la realidad es que la OTAN se siguió expandiendo. Eh, si ustedes me permiten compartir la pantalla, yo puedo hacerles una muestra rápida. Eh, tienes que terribilitar mi- mi- mi opción de compartir pantalla. Un momento. Entonces, si ustedes pueden ver el mapa, eh, la- la parte más oscura del mapa es lo que era originalmente la OTAN. Sí, ahí se ve. Y va cambiando de color y ahí se puede observar, digamos, cuál es el proceso de crecimiento de la OTAN. En 1949 estaba solamente el azul oscuro, y en el 2020 se incorporan, ya, pues se van incorporando poco a poco, y el 99, el 2004, el 99, el 2017, y el 2020 se incorporan pues ya en los últimos países. Que ya han incorporado, que son más Delegonia del Norte, que era un país que no existía antes de- de- de- de- de- de- de- de- de- de- de- de- de- de 2020. Yes, but he has permission. Yes. But he has permission. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. 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They can be found at CodePink YouTube, our YouTube channel, and they're all recorded there. Of course. I will send it to you. Let's see if I can put in the chat. When I have a chance to edit it. Of course. Thank you so much. Well, thank you so much. I want to just clarify with our audience that Charlie and Christina, who Enrique just graciously thanked are from the Colombian Human Rights Committee, which is one of the sponsors of this program this month. So a huge thank you to them for having for inviting you. This was a fascinating conversation and I would love for you to come back, not too far in the future and to see if we can continue to evaluate the United States role in the world. I love this really to see how the United States embraces multilateralism or pushes back against it with the new with the new administration so I would extend that invitation to you to come back in the future. So thank you everyone. Thank you everyone for joining us this month and again you can find all of the segments on CodePink YouTube. There is a playlist under videos for what the F is going on in Latin America and all the videos are there. And with that I will say good night. Good night Enrique and good night to Carmelo and Charlie who have been fantastic interpreters for us this past month. So thank you so much and good night. Bye bye.