 Resonante, thank you so much for all of your work and love to discuss the issue with you. Thank you for being here. I'm going to ask you questions in Spanish and English because I speak Spanish, and also my followers, and I want them to understand, so I hope it's okay. Yeah, ask whatever you want, and I think we'll work this just fine. Do you feel that you live in a free country with all the violence that there is, the NSA invading the private space of the people, the news controlling and manipulating information, with commercials to join the army, in the movies, etc. I think we live in a world where technology is radically changing. So everybody has one of these things, right? And what this thing does, it will tell somebody exactly where I am sitting. Do you know that? Yeah, right here, at this moment. And if I go across the street, they will follow me across the street. There is pretty good evidence that the NSA records, not records is the wrong word, but keeps track of the phone calls that millions of Americans make, that they get into your emails and into the websites that you choose to visit. That is a scary situation, all right? That's what we call a big brother-type society where government knows everything about you. But by the way, it's not only government, it's corporations. They know the products that you're buying, the books you're reading. So today, the government and private corporations have more knowledge about your life and my life than anyone would have ever dreamed of 20 or 30 years ago. We have got to change that. A free society means that you're free. You do what the hell you want. Live your life, unless you are threatening people, you're into violence or terrorism, government has a right to stop that. But as a free individual, no, the government should not be knowing the phone calls you're making or the books you're reading. In other words, you feel free here. We have got to create policies where people understand that they're living their lives. You go to the doctor, that's your business. Not somebody else to be checking into your medical records, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Or your banking, how much money you have in the bank. So yes, the government has got to protect us from terrorism. That's a serious issue. But 99.9% of the people have nothing to do with terrorism and they should not have government or corporations knowing everything about their lives. Yeah. I think it's the same. I think this happens in different countries also, in Latin America, also in Cuba, but in a different way. They put a guy. Because they don't have a wife. That's right. They're doing it the old fashioned way. That's cool. In the United States, there's a lot of freedom. I think it's the favorite word in this country. Why do you think that after almost 120 years of Puerto Rico being a colony, the United States still doesn't give Puerto Rico independence? Well, I think there are a lot of reasons for that. And a lot of those reasons have to do with the fact that powerful special interests in this country would like to maintain the status quo. But from my point of view, it's not my job to determine the political future status of Puerto Rico. That is the right of the Puerto Rican people. And as you know, the island is divided. There are some like you who would like to see the island become independent in their own country. There are some who want statehood and there are some who want to maintain the status quo. So my view and I think what is the fair thing to do is to say as president of the United States that decision should be made by the people of Puerto Rico to a referendum as soon as possible. And do you think education has to do with it? Like I think because if the people is not well educated, they don't know what to choose. And that happened in Puerto Rico that we had not so good education over there. Well, I think what a good campaign is about, and this should be worked out with the leadership in the people of Puerto Rico, is giving the people enough time. Like saying we're going to do a referendum in two days. But pick a date in which people feel comfortable that the different sides can get their point of view out and make the case. So, you know, this is something that I think we should work on so that people hear all points of view and can make what they believe is the best decision for the island. Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States. However, we cannot vote for the president when it affects us or the decisions that take place here. When it's the president, do you think you can give the vote to Puerto Rican people? I very much, if the question is, well, here's where it becomes complicated. If Puerto Rico becomes a state, it goes without saying that they will have the right to vote. And I believe that should be the case. And by the way, I believe Washington, D.C., which is probably has more people in it than my state of Vermont, also has the right for statehood. But they answer your question by definition. If it becomes a state, of course they have the right to vote for president. And if we maintain a colony, we can't have a colony instead. Current status, you do not have the right to vote. I know that you expressed yourself against the joint fiscal control in Puerto Rico. How do you think Puerto Rico could improve its economic situation? What would they have to do? A couple of things. First of all, we have to understand the severity of the crisis. It is a real, real economic crisis. Thousands and thousands of Puerto Ricans are leaving the island to come to the United States because their education system is failing, there are no jobs, health care is inadequate. It is an economic disaster right now. That's number one. And number two, when you're in the midst of an economic disaster, if you're bleeding and you're hurting, I can't ask more from you. So I can't say, well, you have $73 billion in debt and you've got to give Wall Street every single nickel, but at the very high interest rates, they are charging your country. So that debt has got to be renegotiated in a very significant way. By the way, this is not radically different to what happened in Greece, you may know. Same thing, big money owns the debt and they're sucking the blood out of the island, in this case forcing schools to be closed, health care to be closed. That's absolutely unfair. So what has to happen is Wall Street vultures, some of these vultures have got to sit down at the table with the representatives of Puerto Rico and work out a mutually beneficial agreement. Wall Street cannot get every nickel that it wants when children's lives are at stake. I believe that very strongly. You raise a very important point and it's one that we don't discuss very much. But as you know, the Monroe Doctrine, what that was about is simply saying the United States could do whatever it wanted in Latin America. They didn't like the government, they could overthrow it. And obviously that is completely absurd and unacceptable. The countries of Latin America deserve to be respected and treated as partners of the United States for economic and political reasons. I think as somebody more than aware, I was in Chile just last year and we went through the grave of Salvador Allende. It is no secret that Allende was overthrown by the CIA and the United States government. And a neo-fascist government was brought in, thousands of people were killed. That is unacceptable. The United States cannot continue to go into Latin America and overthrow or try to disrupt in economic reasons countries. Those decisions have got to be made. The future of each country has got to be made by the people themselves, not the United States. And furthermore, in recent years, for whatever reason, we have not been aggressive enough in working with the governments and establishing the kind of partnerships that we should. There's a lot of improvements that have to be made. And it's so great to hear it from you because I think you're the only candidate I can about it and I can't understand how you being Latin or from Latin America you can vote for other candidates. Also candidates that support Kissinger that he did so much harm to Latin America. He did. And we passed through one of the worst genocides in disappearing and killings in Argentina with Videla and Chile with Pinochet and with Rios Mont in Guatemala. You're right. You're absolutely right. Look, the point you are making, and we have to be open about it, we can't go forward unless we're honest, okay? And the history of the United States toward Latin America for a very, very long time has been the role of a powerful nation, the strongest military in the world, saying we don't like that government. We're going to overthrow it. And chaos and mass murder often take place afterwards. I visited Nicaragua. I was criticized for this. But I went to Nicaragua because I did not want during the Sandinista regime there because I did not want to see the United States again supporting the countries to overthrow that government. So that's what I mean by developing a new relationship based on mutual respect between the Latin American countries in the United States. It's super important. It is very important. It's going to change the image of this country also from outside. Yes. So it's great. And I played baseball for many years in my life until I started studying art. I was a sports follower. And for me, Roberto Clemente's figure is very important. Which sportsman or striker did you choose? And I also wanted to know if you had played baseball. Yes, I did. When I was a kid, I was a pretty good athlete. We played the baseball, basketball more. I was a runner, ran the mile in cross country. Pretty good. But I was growing up. I was obviously more than aware of Roberto Clemente and what a great ball player he was. But my favorite ball players were around the Brooklyn Dodgers because I grew up here in Brooklyn. So people like Jackie Robinson, Peewee Reese, Roy Campanella, Duke Snyder. Those were people we followed every single day. Yeah, wow. And do you collect baseball cards? I did. Absolutely. You don't have it anymore? No, if I did, I'd be a very rich guy. If I had those original, do you have cards? Yeah, I still have. Did you collect it as a kid? Yeah, and I still have them. Well, when I was a kid, I used to buy and find cards and exchange. So I have Mickey Mantle, I have Roy and Marys. Well, from the giant kids, William A.s, Jack Williams, all schools. You know what we used to, I don't know if you used to, we used to flip them. Yeah. Did you ever do that? No, I, no. You have a card and you flip it to the wall, okay? Yeah. And the card that gets closest to the wall wins the other guy's card. Oh, yeah. And then sometimes we used to flip them, heads or tails. Okay. And we would trade cards that way. Well, we used to put like two, a bunch of cards and you bet. And the higher number gets the card. Gets the card, yeah. But then we always had like a card with a low number and then based another card and we cheat. I have my cards. I'm sorry. No, this is something very nice. Obviously in Cuba, baseball is very, very important. I have a lot of great ballplayers. I just learned last week that the kids from my city, Burlington, Vermont, kids are going to go to Cuba to play a baseball game with the Cuban kids. Yeah. And I think you're going to see a lot of changes in baseball now to make it easier for Cuban athletes to make it into the major leagues. You know, it's going to be fine. But we have the rookie of the year that is Carlos Correa. He's from Puerto Rico and he's killing it right now. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much.