13/09/2024
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*Colombian pres. Petro assures that a coup d’état is developing against his government
*First troops from Jamaica and Belize arrive to Haiti
FTS 10.30
*Colombian pres. Petro assures that a coup d’état is developing against his government
*First troops from Jamaica and Belize arrive to Haiti
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00:00The government of Venezuela called on Thursday its ambassador for consultation to Spain due
00:17to recent statements made by the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles.
00:25In Colombia, President Gustavo Petro denounced that a coup d'etat is preparing against his
00:30government.
00:35And the first troops from Jamaica and Belize for the multinational security support mission
00:40arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday and will join the 400 agents from Kenya who
00:46are already in the country.
00:55Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:57My name is Belén de los Santos, I'm from Telesor Studios in Havana, Cuba.
01:01We begin with the news.
01:02The government of Nicolás Maduro called on Thursday for consultation its ambassador to
01:06Spain due to recent statements made by the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles.
01:12Robles discredited the government of President Maduro by calling it a dictatorship while
01:16showing her partiality with the self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González
01:22Urrutia.
01:23Venezuelan Foreign Minister Iván Gil described as insolent, interfering and rude the expressions
01:29made by Minister Robles.
01:31In view of this situation, the Venezuelan government has decided to recall the Venezuelan
01:35ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain, Gladys Gutiérrez, for consultations.
01:40In this context, the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, requested
01:45the rupture of relations with the European nation.
01:54And on Friday, the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Iván Gil, issued a statement to celebrate
01:59the first anniversary of the strengthening of bilateral relations between Venezuela and
02:04China.
02:05The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asserted the President of the Bolivarian Republic
02:09of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, on behalf of the Venezuelan people and the Bolivarian government,
02:15is pleased to express to the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping,
02:19his government and the brotherly Chinese people the feeling of joy and celebration on the
02:24first anniversary of the establishment of the all-weather strategic partnership between
02:29the two sister nations.
02:31The foreign Venezuelan minister also said that on September 13, 2023, a historical presidential
02:40summit was held in Beijing, where both heads of state reached broad consensus and agreed
02:46that Venezuela and China are in a new stage of binational and international relations,
02:51showing that the relationship is as solid as a rock and that it will only grow in the
02:56years to come, fulfilling the legacy initiated by leaders Hugo Chávez Frías and Xi Jinping.
03:03The ministry further pointed out that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reaffirms
03:07its commitment to continue working hard to expand and strengthen the relations of friendship
03:11and sisterhood with the People's Republic of China in order to ensure greater welfare
03:17and happiness for both people, as well as joint efforts in building a new world of balance,
03:23friendship and peace, free of cross-hegemony and attached to international law.
03:29The Foreign Minister Ivan Hill underscored that solid relations between Venezuela and
03:34China have been set under the principles of self-determination and sovereign equality
03:39of the states inspired by the highest human values that must govern the community of nations
03:45and their common destiny.
03:57We continue in Venezuela as President Nicolás Maduro denounced a wave of global aggressions
04:02loaded with fascist policies aimed at discrediting the government.
04:07These statements were made after the President led the 16th anniversary of the youth of the
04:12United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
04:15From the anti-imperialist rebellion square located in the city of Caracas, President
04:20Maduro affirmed that the Venezuelan youth must unite in the struggle against Washington-originated
04:26conspiracies.
04:28The Venezuelan head of state also denounced violent plans promoted by the extreme right
04:32wing to achieve their particular objectives.
04:41We have to put up a tremendous fight.
04:45For the mind.
04:47For the values.
04:49For the ideal of our homeland.
04:52Especially now, when Venezuela is being attacked worldwide.
04:58The US imperialism believes it can conquer and colonize Venezuela.
05:04Are you going to let imperialism take Venezuela?
05:08They believe they can impose fascism by force.
05:12With hate, intolerance and division.
05:15Are you going to let fascism fill Venezuela with violence?
05:20They are evil.
05:21I said it so many times in the pilgrimage.
05:24This is a battle between good, between truth, between justice and them.
05:33And we go now to Ecuador, as supporters of former Vice President Jorge Glass held protests
05:37on Thursday in the main cities of the country to demand his freedom after being arrested
05:42on April 5th during a police raid on the embassy of Mexico in Quito.
05:47Precisely in the Ecuadorian capital, thousands of people gathered in front of the National
05:52Court of Justice, where his detention was ruled as illegal.
05:56The Guayaquil protests were held before the governor's office of Guayas in the city
06:02where Glass, who was Vice President to Rafael Correa's government, is currently imprisoned.
06:08In this context, former member of the National Assembly Sofía Espina denounced aggressions
06:13against the demonstrators in Guayaquil and assured that consulates abroad have been closed
06:19to not receive the petitions of migrant brothers for Glass' freedom.
06:32And also in Ecuador, the director of the literal penitentiary, María Daniela Icaza, was killed
06:38on Thursday in an attack.
06:40The attack against María Daniela Icaza and her companion, a prison official that ended
06:44up wounded, occurred on the road between the town of Daulé and the city of Guayaquil,
06:50where the penitentiary is located.
06:52Icaza was on her way to the Wasmosur Hospital, located in the south of Guayaquil, when armed
06:58men intercepted the vehicle and shot at her while she was in the passenger seat.
07:04The authorities initially reported that Icaza had managed to be taken alive to the hospital,
07:09but later confirmed her death.
07:19And now let's take a short break, where remember you can join us on TikTok at Switzer English,
07:22where you will find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
07:31Stay with us.
07:39Welcome back from the south.
07:55In Colombia, President Gustavo Pedro denounced that a coup d'etat is preparing against
07:59his government.
08:00The president emphasized that the accusations against him are a reflection of the coup d'etat
08:04that is being carried out by illegitimate administrative bodies.
08:09Pedro is being accused of a supposed violation of the law through an alleged exceeding of
08:14the spending ceilings in the electoral campaign that led him to the presidency.
08:19He stated that the intention is to remove him from power by means of an assassination
08:24or a political destitution in the next three months and replaced him with the president
08:29of the Senate, Efraín Cepeda.
08:31In this way, he denounced that there are economic interests to produce a political process of
08:36destitution of the legitimate president of the country.
08:47The coup d'etat is not a general of the police and the army looking for a way to take
08:51the palace and remove the president.
08:54No, the oligarchs of this country are not so naive.
08:59It is a Colombian style coup d'etat.
09:02First, they disqualify the president that the constitution protected.
09:09Over the constitution, there is already a coup d'etat.
09:13The president's immunity was granted to prevent any administrative instance from judging him.
09:20And today, I am being judged by an illegitimate administrative instance.
09:27And Colombia seeks to redefine labor rights for young apprentices through a labor reform.
09:32Our partner Valeria Cardona has the details in the following report.
09:38The National Apprenticeship Service, SENA, has about 442,000 apprentices in 33 regions
09:44of the country.
09:46In the final stage of their training, apprentices are linked to companies for internships, which
09:51in some cases are remunerated, although in most cases they do not receive any financial
09:57remuneration.
10:00We are not asking for something new, but on the contrary, we are talking about a historical
10:04revindication of the SENA apprentices.
10:07The other is because we know that the SENA apprentices are one of the most vulnerable
10:11populations in economic terms.
10:13SENA apprentices are the same ones who sometimes have to decide between having breakfast or
10:17paying for public transportation to get to the training center and get trained.
10:22In other words, they are a vulnerable population in economic terms, and for this reason, I
10:27and many of us feel that they should be paid a salary.
10:31Apprentices, instructors, members of the student committee, and even graduates of the SENA,
10:37who are now members of Congress, watch over the rights of apprentices and seek the laborization
10:42of the apprenticeship contract through the labor reform, which is currently under discussion
10:48in Congress.
10:51There are two main modalities which are very sad for the hiring of young workers.
10:56One is internship, which is also widely applied, and the other is the apprenticeship contract.
11:01The current labor reform is included in this first discussion, but it is a discussion that
11:06is much more than labor is pending, and it is that a human being cannot be sent to a
11:11company without pay, because that corresponds not to the capitalist mode of production,
11:16but to slave-like socioeconomic formation.
11:22Arias, a SENA graduate, is now working as a senator for the labor rights of the apprentices
11:27of this institution, where he studied in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the apprenticeship
11:33contract enjoyed the labor character that was taken away with the reform of the year
11:372000.
11:39His aspiration is that today's apprentices who have this type of contract enjoy guarantees
11:44such as social security and severance payments.
11:47The popular youth of Bogotá deserves labor rights.
11:50We deserve it!
11:52It is a fundamental right of us apprentices.
11:55It is a fundamental right of us apprentices, yes, in the companies, just as the ordinary
12:00worker has the right to social benefits and to a legal minimum wage.
12:03We as apprentices also have rights.
12:07The linking of SENA apprentices through the apprenticeship contract in the companies under
12:12a labor character is one of the 73 articles that were approved in the first discussion
12:16of the labor reform in the House of Representatives, with the objective of dignifying the conditions
12:21of the apprentices of the largest public educational institution in the country.
12:27Valeria Cardona, Telesur, Bogotá, Colombia.
12:43And Brazilian authorities in Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas, declared an emergency
12:48situation due to a drought affecting the Negro River and are implementing countermeasures.
12:54The state of emergency begins on Monday, September 16, with the first phase of Operation
12:59Drought in compliance with a decree with the delivery of basic supplies, food baskets and
13:04kits for families in the communities of the Negro and Amazonas Rivers.
13:09At least 7,700 families will benefit, corresponding to almost 25,000 people from 93 riverside
13:17communities in the capital.
13:25And in Vietnam, rescue teams found alive 123 people who had gone missing after the typhoon
13:33Yagi hit the northern region.
13:36Authorities reported 115 residents of Co Bang village fled in the middle of the night into
13:41the mountains as they had detected signs of an imminent landslide, which would eventually
13:47bury several houses in their area.
13:49Thus, they had been registered as missing for several days until rescue teams found
13:54them after an intensive search.
13:57Hours later, eight more survivors were located in a new village where a landslide destroyed
14:0137 homes.
14:03As of Friday, the death toll from the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi has reached 233, while 103
14:11are still missing.
14:12And we have a second short break coming up, but before we invite you to visit our YouTube
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14:38Final short break, don't go away.
14:42Welcome back from the south.
14:54Panama recognizes the relatives of the January 9th martyrs, 60 years after the heroic date
14:59in which students from the National Institute crossed the fence that divided the U.S. dominated
15:04canal enclave from the rest of the country.
15:08There are conflicting opinions on the matter.
15:10Our colleague Regna Chandiramani tells us about it.
15:18The government of Panama began to pay an annuity to the relatives of the martyrs and survivors
15:22of the January 9th, 1964 heroic deed, which left 22 Panamanians dead after the struggle
15:29to plant the Panamanian flag at the Balboa School in the former canal zone, which was
15:34controlled until 1999 by the United States.
15:41In part we see the positive point to those who really deserve it, but another part is
15:46the way to clean the image of the governments that did not fulfill the obligation to solve
15:51the fact of those boys, because today many have already disappeared, and supposedly it
15:57would be those who did not participate who would have benefits, which gives a positive
16:02and negative balance.
16:05On that day began the heroic deed that lasted several days, when the U.S. military forces
16:11stationed in the canal zone repressed the students of the National Institute who jumped
16:15over the fence of the enclave to demand compliance with the treaty in force and the raising of
16:20the Panamanian flag together with the American flag in the canal zone.
16:25Most of the martyrs were students of the National Institute, the so-called Eagle's Nest.
16:36What did the government do, years later, so that there would be no way to remember those
16:42events?
16:43They came and changed the school year, and then they began to end it in December, so
16:49that on January 9th there were no students in the classrooms and there was no seed, all
16:56that to eliminate the historical memory.
16:59We also see later that there was the chair of relations between Panama and the United
17:05States, a lady who is from Cologne, by the way, and is currently the Minister of Education
17:13again, said that the problems that existed with the United States had already passed
17:19and that this chair should be eliminated.
17:22There is a systematic approach to eliminate the anti-imperialist struggle of our people.
17:35This date is considered by social fighters as the true date of the recovery of sovereignty,
17:40which materialized on December 31, 1999 with the transfer of the canal into the hands of
17:47the Panamanian government.
17:49This economic recognition by the state to the Panamanian martyrs comes 60 years late
17:54and leaves a bittersweet taste to many, especially to the victims of the invasion, who 25 years
18:00after this gesture, return to feel the US military power without the Panamanian state
18:05has been able to cipher, much less to recover the bodies of all the dead.
18:19And the first troops from Jamaica and Belize for the multinational security support mission
18:25arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday and will join the 400 agents from Kenya who
18:31are already in the country.
18:33On the Jamaican side, a contingent of about 20 military personnel and four police arrived
18:37at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in the Haitian capital on Friday,
18:43six months after the country announced its support for the multinational mission.
18:48Two Belizean soldiers also arrived in Port-au-Prince on Friday on a flight organized by the United
18:54States as part of the multinational mission, an operation with UN approval and expected
19:00to include at least 2,500 military and police personnel.
19:26We go now to Palestine, where the Israeli genocidal army committed a new war crime by
19:30attacking the Al-Mawassi humanitarian area south of the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of
19:36Palestinian civilians.
19:38An Israeli incursion into an apartment in the Al-Mawassi area claimed at least five
19:43lives of a family, including two children.
19:46In addition, seven Gazans couldn't survive the bombing dropped on the refugee camp of
19:50Nusrat and the southern city of Rafah.
19:54In this context, on Friday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees
19:59in the Near East, the UNRWA, denounced that airstrikes killed 18 Palestinians at the Jony
20:05School on Wednesday evening at the place had been working as a polio vaccination center
20:14for the past week.
20:22In this context, hundreds of Palestinians bid farewell to the remains of five people
20:26killed by the Israeli army in Tobaz in the occupied West Bank.
20:31In this way, relatives and residents of the murdered young men mourned their lives in
20:35a funeral ceremony held on Friday.
20:38The victims died two days ago during an Israeli drone attack.
20:41The occupation army withdrew on Thursday evening from the towns of Tul Karem and Tobaz and
20:47a nearby refugee camp after having besieged both neighborhoods for several days.
20:53These aggressions are part of a wider Israeli offensive that has been going on for weeks
20:59in the occupied Palestinian territory and which has claimed at least 50 lives.
21:14And the government of Cuba offered 200 scholarships for Palestinian students to complete undergraduate
21:20and graduate education on the island in the coming years.
21:24The announcement was made on Wednesday afternoon when Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal Bermudez
21:28received the ambassador of the state of Palestine, Dr. Akram Mohamed Samhan, who ends his diplomatic
21:35mission in the Caribbean nation.
21:37The Palestinian diplomat thanked the Cuban president for the support of his country's
21:41students, whom Cuba has been protecting and supporting.
21:45Currently, 250 students from Palestine are studying in the Caribbean island, pursuing
21:52undergraduate and postgraduate studies in different higher education centers.
22:02And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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