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When Ruth Rodriguez decided to backpack across South America with her fellow graduate student Keith Hagan, it was the first time she'd ever disobeyed her parents. But had Ruth known of the nightmare which awaited her in one oppressed South American country, she would never have left Southern California. The customs guard warned us not to sight see in the barrio. We won't stay long, Ruth. I just want a few snapshots of these tin-roofed huts to contrast with the shots I took at the luxury hotels downtown. Ah, so many poor children on this muddy street. All those little bellies floating with hunger. This isn't exactly a compassionate country, you know. Keith, there's a man lying in that alley. Looks like somebody really beat him up badly. He needs a doctor. The children, the parents, everyone's disappeared on this street. Maybe we shouldn't get involved. What's the matter with you? I'm going for help. You try to keep his face out of the mud. Right, Keith ran. 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So I know that behind the lush scenery and the colorful Indian blankets, General Salazar runs this poor country with an iron fist. Then you also know how close Salazar's opposition, the guerrillas, are to toppling his regime. What does that have to do with Ruth? Three weeks from now, the U.S. Congress debates General Salazar's $40 million aid request. Enough guns and riot control equipment to prop up his shaky regime another two or three years. I have a suspicion General Salazar mistakenly believes the confession of an American college student on espionage charges will secure him that military aid. Salazar is holding Ruth? Not Salazar directly, but his secret police. Where? We've heard a rumor from a reliable source inside El Cando Prison. The locals have dubbed El Cando the house of laughter. On a still night, the screams of the political prisoners carry outside the prison gates. Oh, dear God, we've got to get Ruth out of there. I told you we have only a rumor. Without verification, the ambassador cannot apply pressure. Mr. Rhodes, you could print Ruth's story. World opinion would freer. Print a rumor? The secret police would deny it and move her to a camp in the jungle. At least inside El Cando, we can keep a surreptitious eye on Ruth. It's my fault, Ruth, on this mess. I dragged her into the barrio. How can I help? Well, I have a proposal, but should you accept this consulate and the American ambassador would deny it? Naturally. If I'm caught. If you and Mr. Rhodes are caught, we go together. Inside El Cando? Yeah, to try to find Ruth. I'm proposing this drastic shot in the dark because Ruth's life is at stake. How do we get Ruth out? We don't. We're going in for the evidence we need to freer through Mr. Edelund's diplomatic channels. Yesterday, Keith, you described to me Ruth's gold heart locket. Sure. The locket has Ruth's initials engraved on it. If the secret police haven't taken it from her, the locket will be all the evidence we need. And if they have taken Ruth's locket? Well, that's the chance I'm asking you to take. How do we get inside El Cando? At General Salasar's invitation. Salasar is making a big effort to polish his tarnished image in the States. A local newspaper editor, Luis Correa, was granted permission to invite a group of American reporters to inspect El Cando tomorrow. Senora Correa saw to it that your name appears on the list. When I'm inside, how do I find Ruth? We have the general location of Ruth's cell and the diagram of the security checkpoints inside the political cell block. The lack of diligent security inside El Cando is as notorious as the sadists who staff it. What happens if Mr. Rhodes and I are caught? With the congressional vote on Salasar's aid request coming up, we expect at the very worst that the two of you would be expelled from the country. I have one more question. Mr. Rhodes, who do you work for? I'm not CIA, if that's what you mean. But you are risking your neck for a girl you never met. Well, I don't deny I smell a story, and I'd like your promise on an exclusive. But I also know that Ruth will spend many years in El Cando prison if she signs a pulse confession. Too many years for me to live with if I don't do my damnedest to help. But no man does speaking. I am certain that Captain Salcedo believes that Ruth Rodriguez's file was supplied to us by the CIA. See, see, Captain Salcedo understands that no visible signs of duress are permitted. Well, she is in Salcedo's office now. What is your name? You may call me Alacran. Your confession is on the table before you sign it. Alacran means scorpion. It isn't a name. I have a right to contact the American consulate.  Oh, all those lights, they're blind. Soon you will beg for the opportunity to confess. Open your eyes. Please, I don't understand. What am I accused of? You delivered a role of being compromising many sensitive government military installations to a guerrero terrorist in the barrio. Fortunately, the secret police arrested you. That's a lie. Please, the lights, they burned my eyes.  Sign your confession. I found a bleeding man beating half senseless in a muddy alley.  Think on your blindness as I read. Father Carlos Rodriguez born Mexico City, 1932. Mother Guadalupe Rodriguez born Nogales Mexico. You face the lights. Mother born Nogales Mexico, 1935. Parents met at a church social in Los Angeles, 1952. Married one year later. How do you know those things about my parents? A North American government agency supplied us with your file. You're saying my government knows I'm your prisoner? Who do you think gave us your file? Enough of the lights for now.   Our great democratic nations are locked in a common struggle against the guerreros. Sign your confession. That's a ludicrous suggestion. Do you really believe your government would not sacrifice one Mexican American in the name of national security from your file? You enrolled University of California at Los Angeles fall of 1977. California driver's license number N619547. Social security number 113464225. You can drop the charade now. I know you're lying. What lie? How do you know? I just know you must be lying. No lies. Sign your confession or I will be forced to place you in the cell of the beautiful ones. Who is the beautiful one? My children, women priests. Do you wish to join them? I sign up false confession. I'm condemning myself. Sign your confession and you will see your family again in a few months. It is your only hope of freedom. I can't. See you, alecran. Take her to the cell of the beautiful ones. Wrap yourself in the luxury of serious super-plastic. That time just one touch will tell you their super-thick and luxurious more combed cotton terry loops per square inch than any other towel we sell. 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All items available at most larger Seers retail stores. Fear rushes through the blood of American graduate student Ruth Rodriguez in the cell of the beautiful ones. Follow prisoners maimed under torture. Ruth's interrogator is the sadistic Captain Salcedo, whom she knows only by his netherworld nickname of Alecran the Scorpion. Captain Salcedo demands Ruth sign a false confession, admitting she is a member of the terrorist, Gary Eros. American consul George Edlin and Ruth's boyfriend, Keith Hagan, have set in motion a desperate gamble to help her, but the question is, will help arrive in time. He's 20 or 30, poor woman, crowded in his cell. True, true. Aye, for the more, all things. Good, the God brings Mariana now. Mariana is also a university student. You two should be friends. This local scotch is the best I have to offer, Colonel Mindis. I am more concerned with your poor performance today as a lacran than the poor quality of your scotch, Captain Salcedo. The prisoner maintains a stubborn innocence. The American newspaper reporters inspect the prison this afternoon. I was not informed. A mere oversight, Captain. One day's delay will not harm your interrogation. Let the North Americana spend her last night of sleep in the cell of the beautiful ones. She, it will color her dreams. You gave a pitiful presentation of the CIA file. Colonel, I do not question the file the CIA supplied us, but it did not affect the prisoner or else it was predicted. The Senegal Salazar truly believed Ruth Rodriguez's confession will bring us the 40 million in American military aid unquestionably. Our Washington lobbyists predict narrow defeat when the American Congress votes in three weeks. However, when we release the Ruth Rodriguez Confession a few days before the American Congress votes, the swelling publicity shall tip the vote in our favor. Tomorrow I use fear, paralyzing fear to make Ruth Rodriguez sign her confession. I drink to tomorrow then. Please, Marianna. I want to be alone. Aye, you're so amica. See, Marianna, you are my friend. Alecran said we should be friend. I spit on Alecran's name. Who are you? Alecran took my name. I have no name now, or my family might suffer at the hands of Alecran. I, I know you both mean well. I prefer to be alone. I am not brave. Yeah, I know my boyfriend Keith must be looking for me, but I fear Alecran will make me sign his confession before Keith can find me. What's the guard doing? Oh, so come, put your blackie feeling us in. Alecran hides his beautiful ones behind the wooden door. Hide us from what? What doesn't Alecran want us to see? As I've heard, that there will be visitors to El Camdo today. Members of the press. Alecran does not want us to see them. And more truthfully, he does not want them to see us. We'll continue after this message from your local station. When George had his heart attack, the doctor told me that we had to reduce the animal fat in his diet. 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Of course, it is impossible to view all of El Condor cell blocks in one day. So I will answer any questions that you may have. Sir Correa, what do you suggest I begin? I suggest we begin with the felons division. Violent crime is a severe problem in North America. A wise choice. Dangerous men make interesting reading. Tell me, who is the young man beside you? This is my colleague, Keith Hakin, Colonel. I'm Jack Rhodes, Unified Wire Services. Sir Rhodes is known for his persuasive journalism. Oh, yes, Sir Rhodes. You must provide an accurate picture of our panel system for your American readers. Colonel, on that you have my word. The block has three checkpoints and only one issue. Therefore, the need is small for our guards to patrol the corridors. And now are there any questions? Excuse me, Coronel. We are running behind the schedule. The kitchen and shower facilities are next. That's Louise's QT. We're near the political cell block. Yeah, good luck with Mendez. Colonel, I've got a hypothetical question for you. Do you believe that Guerrero is capable of running a prison this size? Well, this facility in Guerrero hands would be Dante's Inferno. Sir, over here, he said... Time is short. What do you want? Give my message to Sr. Correa. And I will tell you where Alacran keeps the American girl. You know? You have seen her? Yes. Tell Sr. Correa Herto, says Ronaldo is alive. I swear I tell him. Now where is the American girl?  It is the only cell with a wooden door. Ruth, your locket. Your heart locket. Did they take it from you? No. Slip the locket under the door. Why? We need evidence. Now. Do it. The confession. They keep saying I'm a Guerrero terrorist. I know. Hurry. I'm praying that the locket won't fit under the door. I think I hear a guard. The women in this cell have all been tortured. Ruth, listen. The American consul says don't sign anything. Your life depends on it. Leave me. There's a guard. I have to go. Ruth will get you out. Querido. Good boyfriend just told you he needs your locket. Mariana will take your locket to him. Tomorrow we, the beautiful ones, help Mariana to escape. Mariana? I escaped? I don't think I understand what you're saying. Well, yesterday in the exercise yard, we heard that General Salazar plans to release all non-political prisoners who have a red patch sewn over the heart of their prison shirts. The general does this to celebrate his new independence day. I have seen no one in this cell with a red patch on their shirt. Oh, my sister wears a red patch. Tomorrow in the exercise yard, Mariana will trade shirts with my sister. My sister? Well, then take Mariana's place among the beautiful ones. And Mariana walks out of the prison gates in your sister's place? You can't either.  Mariana has no family, so Alacrion cannot threaten her with reprisals. Maybe when Mariana brings your locket to your boyfriend, he will help us fight Alacrion, too. Our dream is to rid our country of all general Salazar's Alacrion. Mariana, here is my locket. When you are free in the city street, go to the Mari Soul Hotel, room number six. Wait there for my boyfriend, Keith Hagin. Keith will know what to do. Print the story. It's been less than 48 hours since you spoke to Ruth inside El Condor Prison. One day, 18 hours, 43 minutes. When Ruth's name sees print in the major American newspapers, we'll be stealing General Salazar's thunder. You'll realize Ruth's confession won't win a many congressional votes on his foreign aid request. Jack, if our sole concern was blocking Salazar's 40 million dollars in military hardware, I'd be panting for you to print the story. But it's like Keith said, Ruth's life is at stake. Today is the 11th day Ruth's been inside that hellhole. We have to do something. The Ambassador feels General Salazar might convict Ruth to a 20-year espionage charge if we tweak him in the pocketbook. He'd do it out of spite. World opinion wouldn't stand for it. Without proof that Ruth was falsely imprisoned, world opinion will not be on our side. Oh, you might be right, Keith. Damn. A minute ago, I was so sure I knew the right answer. Think it over. Go back to your hotel room, Keith. Lie down and think over the ramifications of printing Ruth's story. Guess I do owe Ruth a clear decision. I'll be in Louise Correa's office at the Press Nacional all day. You can reach me there when you've made your decision. Come in, come in. What do you want? I have views for you. Your friend, the doll-witted girl. Mariana? Yes, exactly. Mariana. She is dead. What? Mariana, your friend, she is dead. I mean, what? Did you believe Mariana escaped? No one escapes El Condor's prison walls. Sign your confession. No. Your friend is dead trying to escape. Is that what you wish? That sign your confession. This morning, I reported Mariana's escape to the secret police. But not to me. Yes, Captain. The information I have just extracted from the beautiful ones leads me to believe that this Mariana escaped with a locket belonging to Ruth Rodriguez. Do you realize the General's entire campaign to sway American congressional votes may be destroyed? The secret police must find this Mariana before she can bring Ruth Rodriguez's locket to the American consulate. I have already ordered the secret police to cordon off the American consulate. The American ambassador knows that we are holding Ruth Rodriguez. But without proof, he would not dare to make a public accusation. We must announce the North American's confession before Mariana can bring the American's locket. I promise you, Colonel Mendes, very soon she will break and sign her confession. You will have it very soon. Senor, por favor. Is something the matter, Senorita? Senor Ruth. May I get you a glass of water? Senor Hagen, por favor. Hey, that's Ruth's locket you're holding. You come from Ruth. See, Senor. General's newspaper censors resigned. Did you spend the day in bed, Jack? And in our Salazar, we released 300 El Condor inmates yesterday in honor of his new independence day. Hey, that's right. I've been so snowed under with the Ruth Rodriguez disappearance. I forgot about the General's announcement. Have you had any news of Senorita Rodriguez? My colleague Keith Hagen asked me to give you an important message from Erto. Erto was arrested six months ago. He worked for me. Let's step inside your office, Swiss. Fewer years. You mean I have other police spies working in my newsroom besides the Hector the copy boy? Imagine that. Rhodes, we got it. We got the evidence we need the pre-Ruth. Well, slow down, Keith. Who told you I was in Senor Correa's office? That guy in the blue shirt out there, the one talking on the phone. Is it Hector, Jack? Yeah. Come in, Mariana. I'll watch the window. What for? That guy Hector you spoke to is Senor Correa's resident police, Stooli. The secret police are probably on their way now. I know, por favor, Senor. Senor Correa, this is Mariana. She's brought Ruth's locket. Oh, that's certainly the evidence we need. Our American consulate will be tickled to get that. But the secret police know Mariana escaped. We saw them patrolling the consulate's streets. They're waiting for her to show up at the consulate. That's why I brought Mariana here. Then I beg you, leave now, Keith. Please take Mariana out by the back stairway. My car's in the alley. Hector's standing out front obviously waiting for Salazar's goons to show up. When the police arrive, I will stall them as long as I can. Ruth and I thank you too. We better hurry, Mariana. The secret police just pulled up. Thanks, Luis. I'll keep in touch. Sears National Automotive Sale. Now, save $36 to $76 on a set of four Sears steel-belted radial tires. That's great savings on the most popular radial in Sears history. 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Captain Salcedo makes a very convenient scapegoat for Ruth's imprisonment. We won't be able to contradict their story if Salcedo tows Salazar's line. That doesn't explain the delay behind Ruth's promise to release this afternoon. If Colonel Mendez somehow knew Ruth had proof Captain Salcedo didn't act alone, he couldn't afford to release it. General Salazar wouldn't permit any accidents. An accident to Ruth would destroy his military aid request. But it is a possibility, isn't it, Mr. Edelund? Ruth's life is still very much in danger. I don't believe so. But you can't be certain. Well, no. We get Ruth out now. Colonel Mendez won't be prepared. Just the reason we go now. They're expecting us at seven tonight. We show up at the prison five hours earlier. Mendez will bark at the thought of you babysitting Ruth on his doorstep. I'd like to come along. After all, Keith did promise me an exclusive on Ruth's story. Well, let him bark. I'll remind him of the democratic image he told me yesterday he hopes to maintain. He should be delighted to see a member of the press in our entourage. Colonel Mendez, Captain Salcedo's superior officer. I believe you know Captain Salcedo as Alecran. So the scorpion does have a real name. I wake up in a soft bed and a clean room with food prepared for me. What new trick is this cutter now? No trick. You have been in this prison 13 days, 11 in Captain Salcedo's hands and two days in my care. Your Alecran, Captain Salcedo, is to be caught martial. I don't believe you. If I've been saved, as you say, then why isn't someone from the Miroslav consulate here? Tonight the American consulate, your young man, Senor Hagen, will escort you out of the prison. You're lying. I understand your thought. You have been through a harrowing ordeal. Please. Here, over there. Read the American newspapers on the table. How do I know your people didn't print out these New York papers? I understand your distrust. Read, examine the facts. Check the dates. Mariana's alive. Oh, the dull-witted girl. The one who smuggled your locket out of prison. See? She's alive. Captain Salcedo told me she was dead. There's nothing more than Captain Salcedo's cruel joke. This isn't what happened. They haven't printed the truth. Praise God that the Captain Salcedo's superior officers believe Mariana's story. Otherwise, you might still be in that madman's hands. Salcedo didn't act alone. Apparently independent of the country's internal security forces, it says.   The Capitan freely admits he acted upon his own authority. I told Captain Salcedo I knew he was lying to me. And I know that you are lying to me now. Really, explain. I do not understand your words. The file of Salcedo showed me. The one he said the CIA supplied to him to convince me I had to sign his false confession. I know where the information in that file came from. Out of my college transcript. I excuse my smile, but that is a little fantastic. To believe Salcedo hired someone in California to break into my university's records office on his own? Yes, but I bet your general hired a professional thief to photocopy my transcripts, especially with 40 million dollars in foreign aid on the line. That's the figure in the newspapers here. It's really a little too fantastic. Oh, the file, the count for the days I was held in isolation before my interrogation began. You had to wait for my transcripts to be stolen. I sincerely hope to leave the CIA's name out of this affair. Our staunch friend has been a victim of much adverse publicity recently. The CIA persuaded Captain Salcedo to pressure a confession from you. They believed that your confession would shock the liberal elements in your Congress into approving our 40 million dollar military aid request. Your line through your teeth. Passage have spared the necessity of the CIA providing any clandestine contribution to us. Colonel, four years ago, I inadvertently entered the wrong social security number on my college application. The last digit was off. It was the number Captain Salcedo read to me. I even tried to correct it at the time, but you know how bureaucracy lend themselves to error. Unbelievable. Yes, you would think that if the CIA decided I was important enough to warrant a top secret file, they'd at least get my social security number straight. No American government agency was involved at all. Realize that political blackmail is wielded by the Davids as well as the Goliaths, with no room for a citizen's personal satisfaction. Personal satisfaction? I think back in the days when you were Captain Salcedo's prisoner.   Yes. I could order Captain Salcedo brought into this room. I scratch his eyes out. My general empowered me to offer you a more reasonable compensation, one with greater personal satisfaction. Captain Salcedo's execution. In exchange for what? Your silence. Would there be witnesses? There are no witnesses to his suicide. Only you and I and Captain Salcedo will be in the room. Thank for him. Excuse me, Coronel Mendez. The American consul has arrived unexpectedly. He demands to speak with you. Ah, that is excellent. And Captain Salcedo joined me and the North American Rodriguez here in this room. Leave us but five minutes no longer. And then escort the American consul into the room. See, Coronel. The American consul must enter the room immediately after you hear the gunshot. A gunshot? Will the Coronel be safe? I would be ecstatic. Follow your orders and you will help the North American. Hand back to me a lost political card. A card the American consul shall help me play. You seated at the table with Sir Richard Rodriguez, Captain Salcedo. For analysis, I understood I was to have no further contact with the prisoner. And execution is now necessary. I need a witness to confirm my report to the general. I will be happy to serve as your witness. Hand me your pistol. Since my pistol is to be used in the execution, should not my hand pull the trigger? Hand the pistol to me. See, Coronel. Coronel, it meant this what are you doing? I am handing your pistol to the prisoner. Sit down in your chair, Captain Salcedo. The young lady is pointing a loaded gun at your head. But why? Call it reasonable compensation.  I keep quiet about the nightmare you put me through. In exchange for your execution here in this room. But I am a loyal officer. I obeyed my orders. I am a son in the general's army. The general would never permit that's an incident. Now Salazar has already accepted, Señorita Rodriguez, a bargain. Please proceed, Serita. I volunteer to take the blame for the prisoner's arrest to spare the general embarrassment. I would gladly die for it.  I'm your stripped poor man of his dignity. Shoot him. Feel the pistol pressed against your temple? You're sweating, Malacran. I only obeyed the coroner's orders.  Enough, pull the trigger. Who are the adminders ordering me to do these things? Kill him. What are you doing? I am placing the gun on the table, Colonel. As for you, Captain Salcedo, remember that your Colonel's treachery was sanctioned by General Salazar himself. Yes, you have your life. I pray you use it to tell your brother officers of your ordeal in this country of fear. Just as I intend to tell the world. Why? Why did you not kill him? To beat you at your own gain, my dear Colonel. In this way, Captain Salcedo will help defeat all of General Salazar's alakrans. Men like yourself, Colonel Mendy. A moment, please, sir. I'll step aside for a while. It would appear your friends have arrived. Get out of the way. We're going through that door. What's going on in here? Oh, Ruth. We're a little early, Colonel Mendy. I am aware of that, sir Mendy. Oh, dear God. Look what they've done to you. No, Keith. It's not what they've done to me. 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We've limited time. I think that the time that you bought on space, that you bought will be, you know, it will be gone soon, and so we need to ensure that your money gets the value, you know, in the shortest period of time that the company has given us. You claim that you want to alleviate poverty in this country, right? One would wonder, and one would ask this very important question, that look, from the time the patriotic front came into power, the number of things that they've done, they have built schools, right? They have opened up this country in terms of ensuring that they build communication towers, they've built roads. The patriotic front burst of improving, you know, the infrastructure development of this country. They've built hospitals, they've increased meal allowances, you know, for loan schemes rather, you know, for those that are students. And someone would say, I think we are okay with the patriotic front. Oh, ask me, I say, that's why some of them say I support you long ago, even though I don't. I support him when he, where he's right, and where he's wrong, I do. Not supporting him. Here's the question of the fly overbring. I laughed when I heard that it would be congested up, that many vehicles, I just laughed. The reason why I laughed is that, you know, that's the fly overbring. You can go with your car there, but when you go the side, you meet another flat road again. You meet another, you join another, then how do you think it congested? My dear friend, you know, this is a question of the government, let me tell you the difference. When I've been set up- So there's everything wrong with the fly over bridges. Everything wrong with that, it's just only creating problems. When you fly there, you join the other group there, and then the other vehicles inside, the other vehicles inside, what will happen? Then you even create more problems there. So now, when I've been set out, what I'm going to do? We shall put up stair roads. The other vehicles are moving down, all cities, Lusaka cities, starting from Lusaka, Kitwe, all these, we shall connect all the provincial centers with the up stair roads. The other roads down, the other road on top. The main buses, because in my government, I'll create a revenue. Those who are working, the minimum wage will be 10 million. So they will be able to have cars. There will be a lot of cars like what you see here. In my government, a lot of cars will be here in Zambia. People will buy cars. They'll have money. All those who are not working in my government will be getting 2 million salary. If they are 10, it will be 10 times 2. They have 20 million. So even those families, if they want to put together their resources, they can buy a car. So there will be a lot of cars in this country. Therefore, my plan on strategy, which I've already put, there will be roads, down road and up roads. Where you only, there's bigger cars like buses and the road is beyond the flat road, the down road, ground road. Then these two small cars will be on top there. What we do, we build the whole street of Lusaka. To the nearest sub-bomb or district. Countrywide. That's my job. Then once we have done that, then the vehicles will now be moving.  This is the women project, which I'll do. And of course, I'll print money to facilitate a job. I'll create more jobs, more than 12 million for road construction, bridge everywhere. Each road, we shall put, down road, we shall put the fish bond. The drainage will be fish bond. So that we have got fish to the people to eat. My government, there's nothing you are going to throw. My first diploma in storm management, IPS, I was trained that there's clouds in the by-products.  That what you throw can be taken to the industry and to produce something. For example, when you throw a bottle after drinking Fanta there, that bottle is taken to the bottle. They'll use that bottle. They'll give you money in exchange. If you throw a plastic... Hold on! I want you to bring back to my government. Then from there, I'll have crops and animal husbandry in each and every district. We shall have bumper harvest. President Moliokil, I asked you about what is wrong. The patriotic front government has embarked on a robust infrastructure... This is what I'm whispering. Thank you so much. I'm coming. They've built hospitals. I'm coming to life. They've built schools. They've invested heavily in education. Exactly. I'm coming. What's the problem of Lord Shedding? But Lord Shedding at your place is the issue of the past. Please give me a chance. Let me come in. Let me come in. You know, I'm talking about fly over bridge. That's my first topic. Out of what you said. I said why and what is my plan over that? Of course. Why I think that is a share waste of money for those who fly over bridge? This is a share waste of money. To me, according to my understanding and knowledge. Okay. So I'll put it upstairs. Now let us come to schools and the hospitals. Of course. To me, those schools and the hospitals, they are private institutions for the patriotic front because the beneficiary to those schools are themselves. And they know the people of them. What do you mean? The reason is this. Taxi pay us money. Whatever you buy this VAT, but where the tax which you go to the venue. At the same time, on behalf of my fellow poor people, every day you are listening the minister receiving donation from where we shall donors on behalf of the poor people. And that is the money they use to construct that school. To construct that clinic. But now when you go to that clinic the doctor say go and buy medicine. It is no longer private. He doesn't even go to he knows even the clinic where you can the shop where you can buy that medicine because it is his own benefit. So the beneficiary are themselves. The Zambian have to pay for that institution. Your children have to pay school fees. Even the university students are languishing there. In my government such things will not be there. According to article number 26 of the General Assembly the law says that everybody everybody that's the way to everybody everyone what does everyone mean got your dictionary everyone should live a decent life that is article number 25. Everyone should go to school fully fully of charge only you know high schools like master degree order setting from grade 1 up to bachelor of sense degree the school support to be free free free only someone who a post graduate degree like master degree PhD is when he can pay because he's already a graduate that's what the law says but now go to the ground students are paying those poor people are selling to take their children to school the government school have been turned into a private school for present wrong when the his cabinet ministers they are the people who are enjoying their sources it is like you if you build this structure of this building you are the one who is enjoying the saving the money and the poor people have nothing in common to assess there that's why my government will be different from present wrong in the sense that I will provide two million salary to every damn day who is not working at the same time two million the so called two thousand in a room will be two million because I will remove the to my coin which they printed proper denomination so now we are going to make sure that the poor people are coming out of poverty education will be free grade one up to university what I say university means bachelor of science degree master of science someone already a graduate he can now pay for his master he can now pay for his PhD that is his problem so as for grade one up to university will be free


Hello, everyone, and welcome to this CNCF webinar. And today I'm excited to introduce Cubescape 3.0, which is a significant advancement in open-source Kubernetes security posture management. And let's dive into what makes this release so special. So before we get started, a quick introduction. My name is Gal Ghibli, and I'm the open-source product manager at Armo. And I'm deeply involved in the development of Cubescape, and I also have a background in DevOps for a few years. So feel free to connect me on LinkedIn, and I'm always open to have a conversation. What's our agenda for today? So our agenda for today includes an in-depth introduction to Cubescape 3.0. We are going to have also a live demo for the CLI, a detailed look at some highlights of Cubescape 3.0, and some information about what's coming next, which is very important also. So Cubescape 3.0. Cubescape 3.0 represents a significant leap in the Kubernetes security posture management. It leverages automation tools to identify and resolve security misconfigurations and compliance issues across all Kubernetes components. And today we'll be exploring its new additions, including scan results as CRDs, CVE scanning from CLI, comprehensive vulnerability results, and much, much more. So a quick intro to Cubescape and its history. Cubescape was launched in 2021 as a tool for validating a cluster against the NSA hardening guidance. It was released, it was issued just a month earlier. Fast forward to 2022, Cubescape is the leading open source project for Kubernetes security, and it was accepted as a CNCF sandbox project. Fast forward again to 2023, and here we are now. So what we will do next is I'll walk you through a live demo showcasing how these new features work in real time and how they can be as a benefit for your Kubernetes security posture. Let's start with the in-cluster component, which will lead us ahead in this demo. So following this documentation, we are going to install the Cubescape in-cluster component. You may notice that you may notice that at the end of the snippet, I have the set capabilities argument, and this is used to determine which capabilities that we talked about before would be enabled or disabled according to your needs. So you can enable or disable, for instance, configuration scan or node scan and the reachability and many more capabilities. So let's start with the in-cluster component, which will lead us ahead in this demo. So following this documentation, we're going to install the Cubescape in-cluster component, and you may see that in this code snippet, I have the set capabilities continuous scan to enable, and this is used to determine which capabilities will be enabled or disabled according to your needs, as we talked before about the capabilities. So you can enable or disable configuration scan, node scan, reachability and many more capabilities. So after I've installed the in-cluster component and the first scan was already done for me as I set the scan capability to enable, I can now view the results fairly easy using the following commands. For instance, let's look at the list of workload configuration summaries. So if I run this command, I get the full list of all the configuration summaries, objects that I now have using Cubescape, and let's say that I want to examine this one specifically. So I'm going to look at the detailed view of this workload configurations scan. So I can just take this, put it right here at the namespace, and I get the full report of that workload, including all the controls that ran against this workload, and of course what is the result if it's passed or in this instance failed. The same can be done with the vulnerability manifest summaries in order to take some of the detailed views.  And I will get a detailed view of this specific image of vulnerability scan. So I have too high, I have 50 low, and so on and so on. So you see that how easy it is for open source users now to consume the info that Cubescape collects without building and maintaining your own dashboard. So that's the first thing that I would like to show you. Moving on, we are going to talk about the Cubescape 3.0 CLI version. So I'm going to install it with the command right here, and I'm going to run this. Now I want to start with showing you the new looks of the reports provided by Cubescape. So it's very easy to get using with Cubescape scan. So the Cubescape scan command will now run and scan against my current context cluster. I have a cluster up and running with Kubernetes Goat, which is a deliberately vulnerable project on that cluster. So as soon as the scan is finished, I actually want to focus for a second on this last part right here. Yeah, this last part right here, which is actually the what now section. So here it's important to say that we not only provide you with lots of data, we also want to suggest what are the next steps that you should take in order to get your cluster to the highest security level to improve your security posture. So you can scan a specific workload, you may scan images, or you may scan for specific controls to get more information about how this control affects your environment. Now, scrolling up just a bit, we see the highest take workloads, which are actually the workloads that Cubescape identified as the most riskiest in your environment. So in terms of prioritization, you should start with those workload first. And the easy way is just run the command offered by Cubescape and go over the results. It's like so easy, right? So now imagine that you implement these capabilities in a CI pipeline and including the image scanning using the Cubescape CLI or even implementing an easy to use GitHub action that we also provide. So it makes things a lot easier to set gates and fail the pipeline if something doesn't look right in terms of vulnerabilities, controls, compliance, and so on. And this is the result. This is the scan for that specific workload that we just asked for. So we have the controls, different controls that failed on this workload and also the summary of the vulnerabilities for that workload. And if you want to run and scan this specific image, we can do it with this command right here. Again, the what's next is a very important step. So let's see what else this report has to say about our security posture. So you can see right here, I have the compliance score according to NSA and MITRE. And you can see at the top that we've divided the controls into sections. So it will be easier to spot the issues in every section. So we have the controls for workloads level, we have the network level, the control plane. So we cover what you need to know and each one of these also has a verbose mode to see more detailed results every time. I can also run a specific control scan using Cubescape Scan Control, and it will show me this control for my entire environment. And of course, we also preserved the easy to use command in order to scan the data. In order to scan for a specific framework like the NSA, the MITRE and the CAS if you want to. So we were talking about scanning images and I want to show you how easy that is right now. So you just use the Cubescape Scan image and the image name and you will get a report for that image with all the vulnerabilities on it. So you can see right here the full table, I have this amount of critical, which is three for this components and this version and it was also fixed in that version. So we're also letting you know what version you should upgrade to. So we have in total 137 vulnerabilities and these are the most vulnerable components in my environment. I can also go for the verbose mode and I will get even more information. But it doesn't end here. You can also use the GitHub action to scan your images as well. So I encourage you to do that. So talking about Cubescape 3.0, let's put on the highlights and dive into the key highlights of Cubescape 3.0. So in Cubescape 3.0, we focused on two main areas. The first is the addition of functionality and the second is actually improving the user experience which is very, very important to us. And all of this with the goal of making security a more appealing chore for DevOps engineers and something that becomes ingrained in the development processes for engineers which results in a more secure Kubernetes installation. So what do we have here? So we have the new configuration scan results which are stored in cluster. So we made it possible to store scan results in cluster, enhancing visibility and ongoing security management, of course. Cubescape can now scan the running clusters in two ways with an in cluster agent installed via a helm chart or as opposed to an agent free which uses the command line, which is the second option. And in previous versions, the results, the result data from the in cluster scans was only available to be sent to the RML service, to the RML platform. Now what we've added is easily available to all open source users without the chore of building and maintaining your own dashboard. So in Cubescape 3.0, we added an in cluster storage for the scan results. And with Cubescape in cluster components installed, you also get that in cluster storage. So you'll be able to see your scan results in configuration scan summary and workload configuration scan summary for instance. These are two objects, two new objects. We also added the vulnerability scanning in the CLI and also in the in cluster. So in previous versions of Cubescape, it supported vulnerability scanning inside the cluster only. So what we've done is we've brought this feature to the Cubescape command line in 3.0 and actually bringing our image scanning to the command line unlocks many great use cases. So you can scan a manifest file in the CI pipeline and you can flag or reject it based on the number and class of the vulnerabilities in the containers that will be installed. You can also use the CLI to scan an individual image and get an output in the same JSON format as the in cluster objects. A new key feature that we released is the new scan modes. So we have introduced a new cluster baseline security scan which actually performs some key security checks and then shows you the number of resources which have certain permission. So you are then able to set up a risk acceptance rules to allow those things which are deliberately installed or configured about your cluster. So for example, mailware in a cluster will often attempt to create a cluster admin role or a role with permissions that approximates it. So with Cubescape baselines scan, you can identify which roles you have installed that should have these permissions and then easily see or be notified when the configuration changes from your security baseline change. Another cool thing is the capabilities based, capabilities based in cluster installation. So with our new helm, with our new in cluster features, we've made it easy to enable and disable them in our helm chart. So you can make configuration scanning, vulnerability scanning, reachability, which former known as the relevancy and the node scan at the node agent in the values.yaml file. So it's a more flexible and customizable installation process which is tailored for your needs. So in conclusion, Cubescape 3.0 is a major release, but our journey doesn't end here. We're already looking ahead to Cubescape 3.1 and well beyond. So throughout the rest of the year, we'll be focusing on completing our compliance and vulnerability scanning roadmap. And this includes introducing an in cluster UI for enhanced visualization of all your saved results that we just talked about. And it's going to make it even easier to manage and understand your Kubernetes security posture and much, much more. So as a wrap up, I want to emphasize that your feedback and ideas are incredibly valuable to us. And I want to tell you that we also hold community meetings on Zoom on the first Tuesday of every month at 2PM GMT. And we'd love to see you there because your insights help us continually improve Cubescape. And that's very important for us. So a big thank you to all our contributors. Your efforts make Cubescape better with each release. If you're interested in contributing, please check out our GitHub for more information on how to join the Cubescape community. And I really encourage you to check out our new release and share your thoughts on the Cubescape channel on the CNCF Slack. So we're excited to see how it will enhance your Kubernetes security management. And I would like to thank you very much for listening today.