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*Uruguay prepares for Sunday’s presidential runoff.
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00:00In Venezuela, government authorities denounce new terrorist plans sponsored by Banilla-Corina-Machado
00:16and drug trafficking.
00:21In Uruguay, over 2.7 million citizens are called to elect a new president this Sunday.
00:30And in Spain, citizens take to the streets to protest against the administration of Madrid's
00:34president Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
00:41Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Televisa Studios in Havana,
00:45Cuba.
00:46We begin with the news.
00:47Venezuelan government has derailed new terrorist plans against the country.
00:52Venezuelan Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, said a violence plan
00:56by mercenary groups stemming from the state of Zulia has been dismantled.
01:00Cabello said terrorist plans against the country are being financed by foreign powers to generate
01:05chaos.
01:06He said the terrorist groups, controlled by Maria-Corina Machado, are being financed by
01:10drug trafficking.
01:16Currently, the financing of the terrorist groups led by Mrs. Maria Machado comes from
01:24drug trafficking.
01:26From drug trafficking, and the logistical support comes mainly from Colombian paramilitary
01:33groups led by Duke and Uribe.
01:37They continue to attack our country.
01:40And we will remain firm in defending the revolution, defending our territory, and, above all, defending
01:49our people.
01:53The Interior Justice and Peace Minister assured that they dismantled the training site of
01:58the paramilitary groups.
02:05In the investigation they provided us with the location of a site where they were training
02:09Colombian paramilitary groups, Colombian paramilitary groups linked to the same people who participated
02:18in Gedeon.
02:21Whoever wants to know the names of those who were in Gedeon, in Operation Gedeon, check
02:26the data of the paramilitary groups who trained them, where they were trained.
02:33They had this training site.
02:35We arrived there when we arrived in the middle of the operation.
02:40We started to check the location and we found these weapons that were probably part of what
02:44was there for training.
02:50The World Congress of Antifascist Youth and Students moves forward in Venezuela with the
02:55participation of at least 500 guests from all over the world.
02:59During the event that began on Friday, participants are developing a work agenda focused on a
03:03radical antifascism which currently threatens to scorch humanity.
03:07Likewise, seven work tables were set up to discuss ideas that could be included in this
03:12initiative promoted by the Venezuelan government aimed at the defeat of this ideology.
03:17Close to 1,000 people are in the city of Caracas, half of them from abroad, in order to continue
03:22strengthening the antifascist network and safeguard the sovereignty of the peoples.
03:32We go now with Belén, our special omba in Caracas, for more details on everything that
03:37has been happening in this international work, Youth and Student Antifascist Congress.
03:43Hello studios, exactly, we continue here in Caracas as the Youth Antifascist Congress
03:54is underway in the Venezuelan capital and the delegations are here, this is the second
03:59day of the congress, some of the panels are already underway as the delegations from
04:05different parts of the world are discussing, debating, bringing their own experiences on
04:12very relevant topics to really, first of all, understand the world we are living in and
04:18second, just share the different experiences from different territories and also think
04:24of a common agenda and common strategies to really tackle those challenges and think
04:30of the way in which a better future, a better world order can be built and that is what
04:36is happening here in Caracas.
04:38The topics go from discussing the environmental crisis to discussing the possibilities of
04:45young and popular organizations around the world and also the women and gender topic
04:51is also one of the main keys of debate, this has been for the past decades, of course,
04:58one of the most relevant topics, but in this case, it's being analyzed in an international
05:04and also an anti-capitalist perspective for the women movement around the world and we
05:10are now joined by Luisa Danon, she is from Portugal and she is from the Democratic Women
05:16Movement from Portugal, so first of all, welcome Luisa, thank you for joining us here
05:22in Tell Us Your English.
05:23Thank you very much.
05:24It's a pleasure for us to have you here and I would first like to ask you about your first
05:30impressions, it's your first time in Venezuela, right?
05:33Yes, it's my first time in Venezuela, I arrived here this week and I've been finding it wonderful,
05:41wonderful people, very sympathetic, very warm and receptive and also it's very important
05:47to say that it has nothing to do with what has been told in my country, in Portugal,
05:53people tell many lies about Venezuela, that it's too violent here and people don't have
06:00anything and I've not seen that at all, I've just been loving it, it's a beautiful city,
06:06it's a great opportunity to meet more people and to see the resistance, the political culture
06:11here from Venezuela, that is a big example to us in Portugal.
06:16Right, of course the question about the media campaign against the sovereign countries around
06:24the world is one of the key topics here as well, because of course that is the impression
06:29from many of the delegates that are visiting, not only Venezuela but sometimes Latin America
06:34for the first time, moving out of their own countries for the first time, so it's really
06:38good to know the in-person experience from this country on the one hand and also I imagine
06:45that you've been talking to delegates from all over the world and asking them about their
06:50experiences, what is going on in their countries, so it's a very big learning process and I
06:56would like to ask you, yesterday was the first day of discussions, of panels, you come from
07:02the women's movement in Portugal, so what was that like in the exchange of ideas, what
07:08were some of the main topics in that area, how was the exchange of visions with delegates
07:14from all over the world, what's your perspective?
07:18I would say it has been also fantastic, since I arrived here I've been talking every time
07:23to people from all the continents and as I'm from the women's movement I always ask about
07:28the women and the situation in their countries, but here, yesterday, it was very important
07:32that we had a whole discussion dedicated only to gender and women and I was invited there
07:39to be talking about the experience of my country and my movement, that was great, but it was
07:45even better to listen, many people from Latin America, many women from Venezuela as well
07:51and other countries in the world, to tell their experiences, also as struggle and the
07:57rights for women in all these countries, so it was very rich, we stayed almost three hours
08:03there just exchanging experiences and it has been great, I feel like even more strong now
08:09to my struggles in my country and surely they feel the same to their countries and it's
08:14very important to be solidary, to strengthen this solidarity towards all the women of the
08:20world, we learned very much and it's great.
08:23Well that is really amazing to hear and to see, we see people exchanging experiences,
08:29we see people exchanging their flags, their fighting symbols and that is really, it can
08:36appear a superficial thing, but I think that it speaks to really the exchange and the solidarity
08:43that is being built with someone that you are talking with, sharing an experience, so
08:47it's really good and I would like to end by asking you, what is the situation in Portugal
08:53in terms of the women's movement, what are your key struggles and have you been able
08:59to share and learn from other experiences during this Congress?
09:04Sure, we see that Portugal has lived 48 years under a fascist dictatorship, as many Latin
09:12American countries and that dictatorship was very misogynist and hated women, women
09:19had way lower rights than men and just because many women were in the anti-fascist struggle
09:25and together with all the people, all the working class, they made a popular social
09:29revolution in 1974 and after that things changed a lot, what proves we think that the social
09:37organization of the working class can't really change the world, but now we live in a capitalist
09:43country, that's Portugal, it's one of the poorest countries in Europe, so we have many
09:47struggles due to the low wages, women get less paid and usually are in lower paid professions
09:55and we fight a lot in some rights that women can be mothers if they want and this should
10:03not be a heavy thing, they should have free public education for babies and this doesn't
10:09happen right now in our country, it's a struggle to us to have a free and public service to
10:17children care in our country, we are always in the streets talking to our women to be
10:24strong in the trade unions, to fight for bigger wages, to have also better times of work because
10:32some women do work a lot, have two or three jobs and this is too much, we see that women
10:38suffer a lot and we also are in the struggle against violence against women because Portugal
10:44is overall a very safe country, but the most reported crime is domestic violence, so we
10:51have to tell women to be aware of that and don't fear to denounce that, so it's one of
10:57our struggles and mainly now we say a lot about anti-imperialism, to support Palestine,
11:04to support Cuba, to support Venezuela and women to stand with peace against all the
11:09wars, against all the violence, this is also very important to us and that's why it's very
11:13important to us to be here, thank you very much.
11:17Thank you Luisa, it's our pleasure to have you, truly, that was Luisa our comrade from
11:22Portugal bringing some of the information and reality in the women's movement in that
11:28country and really that is just a little bit of what this congress is all about, not only
11:34the topics that are being discussed but also learning from the reality in each country
11:40because one of the keys in the international attempt to unite the different movements from
11:46different countries has to do with learning about what's going on and also finding that
11:51there's a lot of common ground, that there's a lot of shared history even with people who
11:57are far away in the world and that is what is happening, the exchanges are being made
12:02and a lot of comrades are realizing that the same struggles are being fought in different
12:08territories and that means that there's a lot of people for them to learn from and also
12:15a lot of road to walk together, so that is what is happening here, we will continue to
12:20bring you all the information from the Anti-Fascist Youth Congress in Caracas, now we go back to you.
12:29Thank you Belén for the information, let's now take a short break, but first remember
12:33you can join us on TikTok at Televisión English, where you'll find news in different formats,
12:37news updates and much more.
12:39We'll be right back, stay with us.
12:50Welcome back.
12:51In Uruguay, the armed forces and the national police are moving and guarding the battle
12:55boxes and electoral material for the run-off presidential election to be held this Sunday,
12:59November 24th.
13:00The election material will be taken to custody centers to be distributed to over 7,000 voting
13:05stations.
13:06Over 2.7 million citizens are called to vote for one of the two options, either for Yamandú
13:12Orci and Carolina Pocose by the Broad Front Party, or for Álvaro Delgado and Valeria
13:17Ripoll by the National Party and the Republican Coalition.
13:21According to polls, the presidential hopefuls Yamandú Orci and his rival Álvaro Delgado
13:25are in a technical tie for this Sunday's elections.
13:33And in El Salvador, social movements took to the streets this Saturday to protest cuts
13:38in the 2025 budget presented by Nayib Bukele's government.
13:43The march started at 8 a.m. local time from Salvador del Mundo Square.
13:46Demonstrators condemned the budget cuts to 30 public hospitals and the education sector.
13:51In this regard, they demand an alternative budget that responds to the needs of citizens
13:55in the face of the loss of quality of life, especially in the areas of education and health.
14:00The alleged dismissal of health workers who participated in the so-called white march
14:04in recent days was what led members of that union, teachers and members of various unions
14:10and non-governmental organizations to speak out against Bukele's measures.
14:19Meanwhile in Ecuador, President Daniel Novoa marks one year of his administration marked
14:24by the security crisis, the energy crisis and popular discontent.
14:28President Novoa took office as president of Ecuador in an early election, called after
14:32the dissolution of parliament during Guillermo Lasso's term.
14:35During Novoa's year in office, the country faced problems such as violence and insecurity,
14:40registering more than 5,000 violent murders between 1 January and 10 November 2024.
14:46Another of the relevant events of this year of Novoa's government was the assault to the
14:50Mexican embassy in Quito and demonstrations in rejection to the blackouts, layoffs and
14:55the deterioration of the economic situation of the nation.
14:58Meanwhile in Honduras, the first trade fair of the People's Republic of China was inaugurated
15:08on Friday.
15:09The event was organized by the Chinese Council for the Promotion of International Trade and
15:13the Secretariat of Economic Development of Honduras at the Expo Center of the Chamber
15:17of Commerce and Industries of Cortes in the city of San Pedro Sula.
15:22The activity takes place from November 21st to the 24th and it is the largest exhibition
15:27organized by China in Honduras since the establishment of diplomatic relations between
15:31both countries.
15:32China injects dynamism into the world economy, offers new opportunities for global development
15:37and opens new prospects for mutually beneficial cooperation between the two nations.
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16:00Thanks for the break, don't go away.
16:08Welcome back.
16:09In Spain, thousands of people took to the streets to protest against Madrid autonomous
16:14community president Isabel Díaz Ayuso demanding justice for the death of over 7,000 elderly
16:19people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
16:21Demonstrators condemned the inability of Ayuso to deal with the COVID-19 emergency for he
16:26claimed the lives of dozens of elderly people.
16:28Demonstrators also blamed the judiciary for failing to open an investigation into this
16:32matter to bring justice for the deceased.
16:34The people participating in the protest also expressed their condolences to the families
16:38of the elderly victims of this COVID-19 pandemic.
16:42We are in pain out of helplessness, for we must try to allow families to grieve, but
16:55with justice being served.
16:57Ayuso thought best not to transfer elderly patients, thinking they ought to die.
17:07And yes, the elderly will eventually die, but when it may be their turn, not because
17:13somebody's fault, negligence or abandonment.
17:17What happens is that the justice system is highly politicized in favor of the right,
17:22and furthermore, these people on the right don't care to destroy all institutions in
17:27order to prevail.
17:29In the Madrid Assembly, we have a president who not only tries to silence what happened
17:38to those 7,291 elderly people during the pandemic because of her protocols, but also, she despises
17:49the victims and the relatives, as demonstrated by the way she conducted herself in the plenary
17:55of the Assembly, where I asked her to apologize to the relatives she had insulted.
18:01Not only she did not apologize, but she confronted them.
18:08We are from the end of this news brief.
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18:18For Televisual English, I'm Luis Alberto Matos.
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