Amanpour: Claudia López, Moisés Naím, Michael Lewis and Robert A. Pape

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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After days of violent protests in Colombia, Bogotá Mayor Claudia López joins Christiane Amanpour to explain why President Duque should reach out directly to young people to address poverty and inequity. Journalist and analyst Moisés Naím digs in further to how the protests fit into a broader wave of social and economic crises sweeping across South America. Then turning to the pandemic, Michael Lewis discusses his book "The Premonition", examining the unknown individuals who tried to raise the alarm on Covid-19 and the systems that failed them. A new study on the January 6 Capitol insurrection finds that of the nearly 400 rioters arrested or charged, 93% are white and 86% are male. The study’s principal investigator, Professor Robert A. Pape, talks to our Michel Martin about his findings. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Columbia is rocked by deadly protests.
0:14.0	From poverty to police violence,
0:18.0	we hear how COVID has unleashed demonstrators
0:21.0	determined to hold their government's feet to the fire.
0:24.0	Then, every day with the daily cases continuing to fall,
0:28.0	we are hopeful about these really encouraging trends.
0:31.0	Americans start to see light at the end of the tunnel, but did the pandemic have to be so bad?
0:37.2	Best-selling author Michael Lewis explains why he thinks the system failed in his new book,
0:42.3	Premonition. Plus this is not the usual
0:46.0	suspects. Profiling the insurrectionists, Professor Robert Pape tells Michel Martin, his study reveals they are not the people
0:56.0	one might expect. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:16.0	Discontent is boiling over in Colombia. At least 24 people are dead after eight days of
1:22.4	protests and a brutal crackdown in that Latin American nation.
1:27.0	Now the Interior Minister has come out to say that the government does not condone violence
1:32.0	and that any police officer violating
1:34.1	the law will be held to account. The demonstrations were sparked by a proposed tax
1:38.8	hike that the president has now canceled but protesters are not letting up.
1:43.9	Columbians are desperate for better lives after COVID made an already dire economic situation
1:49.4	even worse.
1:50.9	This stunning statistic perhaps puts it into perfect perspective.
1:54.0	More than 40% of the population now is living in poverty.
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