27/12/2024
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*South Korea: National Assembly ousts interim leader Han Duck-Soo
*Haiti: Health Minister dismissed from his post following attack on hospital
FTS 8.30
*South Korea: National Assembly ousts interim leader Han Duck-Soo
*Haiti: Health Minister dismissed from his post following attack on hospital
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00:00The Israeli forces have stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing 350
00:15people out, including all the patients and medical staff.
00:22South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly voted to oust interim leader Han
00:27Duk-So, and in Haiti, the Minister of Public Health and Population was dismissed following
00:35Tuesday's attack on the State University Hospital by criminal groups.
00:45Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:46My name is Belen De Los Santos, and from the Tel Aviv studios in Havana, Cuba, we begin
00:51with the news.
01:08And we begin in Palestine.
01:09As the director of the Gaza Health Ministry has stated, two media outlets that Israeli
01:14forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing 350 people out, including
01:21all the patients and medical staff.
01:24Authorities are reporting that around 50 people have been killed in this process, including
01:28five medical staff, as a result of an Israeli airstrike on a building near the hospital.
01:35Israel has ordered the evacuation of the hospital, endangering not only the staff, but the nearly
01:4075 patients who remained hospitalized.
01:44In these last weeks, the attacks against this hospital, the most important in the area,
01:48have been constant, and the Gaza authorities are denouncing an ethnic cleansing operation
01:54in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
02:01And in Israel, at least 18 people were injured as they ran to take shelter from several Yemeni
02:06missiles early Friday morning.
02:09The Zionist defense forces claim to have intercepted the missile at around 3 a.m. local time.
02:16Hours later, the Majen David Adams service in charge of the medical emergencies in Israel
02:21confirmed the number of people wounded.
02:24As a consequence, the Benghudin airport, the most important in the country, temporarily
02:28suspended its operations.
02:30The strike comes hours after Israel bombs Yemen in an attack that nearly killed the
02:36president of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was on a mission
02:42in the country.
02:48And we move on to other topics.
02:49On Friday, South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly voted to oust acting President
02:55Han Duk-seo.
02:56The Democratic Party initiated the motion just two weeks after the prime minister assumed
03:01the role following the impeachment of President Yun Sung-kyo, who is facing rebellion charges
03:07related to a controversial martial law declaration.
03:11Opposition lawmakers accused Han of failing to appoint judges to the constitutional court,
03:16a critical step for addressing Yun's impeachment process, and claimed he had acted in support
03:22of Yun during the political crisis.
03:29And in Spain, the autonomous community of Madrid is experiencing a wave of mobilizations
03:34where rectors, professors and students from public universities denounce an unsustainable
03:39situation due to the lack of funding resulting from the budgetary management of community
03:44president Isabel Ayuso.
03:45Let's see.
03:48The community of Madrid has six public universities that serve tens of thousands of students.
03:54However, the regional budgets for 2025 propose an increase of only 47.3 million euros, far
04:01from the 200 million that the rectors consider necessary to reverse the underfunding accumulated
04:07over the last 15 years.
04:10Isabel Ayuso is at war with the public university.
04:12She's advocating us at the budget level with an underfunding of more than 35 in the last
04:1615 years.
04:20The protests have reached the gates of the Assembly of Madrid on the day Ayuso used his
04:24absolute majority to approve the accounts for 2025.
04:28The protesters denounced the use of public universities as a weapon against the government.
04:33They're not having their hands on a lot of universities.
04:36There is an open war with the central government in which a public university of Madrid is
04:40going to pay for their program.
04:41We cannot accept it.
04:44In Madrid, there are already 13 private universities compared to the six public ones.
04:49And the precariousness denounced by the central government affects all staff.
04:54As you know, we have a problem in the public universities of our country of temporary and
04:59precarious contracts.
05:01In the university, it is practically 50 percent.
05:04One out of every two professors in the public universities of our country has a precarious
05:09and temporary contract.
05:14Students also raised their voices.
05:16A new law promoted by the community of Madrid threatens to limit the organizational capacity
05:21of the student movement.
05:23Just after the students led camps in solidarity with Palestine and questioned the links of
05:27universities with companies that support the Zionist state of Israel.
05:32The law is a serious repression of the student movement.
05:35It is no coincidence that this law was passed just after the Palestinian protests.
05:40They clearly want to repress the student movement that has been demonstrating in defense of
05:44Palestine and against the relations of our universities with companies that finance the
05:49genocide that Israel commits.
05:52Meanwhile, the universities face a bleak outlook.
05:57The six rectors have issued a joint statement denouncing that the regional budget does not
06:02guarantee the sustainability of public universities after more than a decade of neglect.
06:07Ayuso, aware of the importance of the cultural battle, attacks those who defend public education.
06:14With the case of the Complutense, they are so interested in the public university, in
06:19public education, and they are doing the same as with feminism, as with all institutions,
06:24colonizing it to use it in their service.
06:30With a budget crisis threatening the future of public education at all levels, the community
06:35of Madrid is experiencing a conflict between a growing privatization model and the defense
06:41of accessible education.
06:42Mobilizations of the entire educational community promise to mark the coming weeks.
06:52And now we have a short break coming up, but first, remember you can join us on TikTok
06:55at Telesur English, where you will find news in different formats, news updates, and much
07:00more.
07:02Stay with us.
07:12Welcome back from the South.
07:25In Haiti, the Presidential Transitional Council dismissed the Minister of Public Health and
07:29Population, Ducanson Lortel Blema, following the attack perpetrated last Tuesday by the
07:35criminal group Living Together against the State University Hospital.
07:39Government officials who gave this information did so on the condition of anonymity due to
07:44the tense situation of violence in the country.
07:47They indicated that the Minister of Justice, Patrick Pellicer, will take over as the new
07:51Minister of Health on a provisional basis.
07:54This attack on the hospital was one of the worst ever recorded, killing two journalists
07:59and a police officer when members of the coalition of criminal groups came in shooting at those
08:05on the premises.
08:10And in Panama, the canal celebrates 25 years in the hands of the country, but it continues
08:15to be overshadowed in a nation that is the fourth most unequal in the world and now faces
08:20the imperialist threat of the United States to conquer the canal again.
08:24Our colleague Rekha Chandiramani with the details.
08:28When the Panamanians recovered the canal in 2000, the waterway ceased to be a US military
08:35asset and became an enterprise at the service of world trade, connecting 1920 ports, 180
08:42maritime routes and serving 170 countries.
08:46And although the canal generates billions of dollars a year, these benefits seem imperceptible
08:51to the majority of the population.
08:56But history did not end up making the most collective use possible of the assets that
09:01were reverted.
09:07It turns out that here, after the invasion, once the military regime was suppressed, the
09:17democracy of those at the top organized things in such a way that those reverted goods passed
09:21into the hands of the oligarchy, and $30 billion went to the great robbery of that century.
09:29The milestone comes with a bittersweet taste.
09:34US President-elect Donald Trump's onslaught on recovering the canal, citing alleged Chinese
09:40control and high tariffs, has brought to the fore debates on the background and remaining
09:45forms of interventionism after the reversion.
09:51The canal is problematically involved with a treaty called the Canal Neutrality Treaty,
09:56which is not legal, is not in accordance with international law and is not convenient
10:01for Panama.
10:02On top of that, it turns out that the reverted areas are in the hands of the new North Americans,
10:08in quotation marks, the new white people, and not in the hands of the Panamanian people.
10:19But we have to disassociate ourselves from that treaty and that should be the government's
10:23position to start talking about it.
10:26We cannot accept that every time they want they threaten us because we are a small nation.
10:34After the signing of the Torrijos-Carter treaties in 1977, the US Congress unilaterally introduced
10:41at least six amendments before ratifying it in 1979, the Conchini Amendment and the Church
10:46in Number Reservation being the most controversial and interventionist in terror.
10:55We continue to be seen by the United States as their position to take care of their backyard
10:59in South America and that is what Donald Trump is referring to in the face of the possibility
11:03of a global conflict to put us as a military objective of their enemies.
11:14The Mulino government has been cautious in its responses to Trump, whose statements come
11:18as a bucket of cold water in the face of the accommodating attitude that has characterized
11:23all post-invasion Panamanian governments.
11:26Trump replaced current Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte with Kevin Marino Cabrera, a Miami-Dade
11:32County Commissioner in Florida, an active Republican member and businessman, which signals
11:37a 180-degree turn in relations between the two countries.
11:40With control of the canal, now the central focus.
11:51We go now to Ecuador, as more families denounce forced disappearance of their children and
11:57adolescents.
11:58The indignation caused by the forced disappearance of the three teenagers and a child who were
12:03detained by a military patrol in Guayaquil has prompted the emergence of more reports
12:08of similar cases.
12:09Just as has happened with Steven, Saul, Ismael and Josue, two mothers, Sandra Arteaga and
12:15Janet Escobar, have denounced a similar case.
12:18Their children have been missing since December 6, two days before the ones in Guayaquil.
12:31We are the mothers of the boys, three missing.
12:34I ask you to help me to share this because they are children, three minors, two sons
12:40and my son-in-law.
12:41This happened in Orense de Garaycoa, in the Hacienda Fortaleza.
12:56The military came in to do raids and took six children.
13:00Of those six children my two children and my son-in-law are included.
13:04Since those days we have no communication, we don't know where they are, nothing, no
13:09trace of them.
13:39Welcome back from the South.
13:52The Peruvian Congress is investigating former official Jorge Torres Arabia, suspected of
13:58running an alleged prostitution ring within the legislature.
14:02Torres, who previously headed the legal and constitutional office and is linked to the
14:06right-wing Alianza para el Progreso party, is accused of exploiting young women to provide
14:12sexual services to lawmakers in exchange for political favors.
14:17The investigation intensified following the murder of Andrea Vidal, a former employee
14:22who was reportedly involved in recruiting women for this operation.
14:28As public outrage grows over this scandal, Torres has denied any wrongdoing, asserting
14:33that hiring practices were managed by human resources.
14:42And in Bolivia, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced the closing of the judicial election
14:46with the delivery of credentials to those elected, in order to immediately open the
14:50general electoral process to elect the government and the legislative assembly in the middle
14:55of next year.
14:56Our correspondent Freddy Morales tells us the details.
15:01The election of the highest judicial authorities by citizen vote is a unique process in the
15:06continent, but Mexico is in the process of implementing it.
15:12This is a very suede, generous type of election that does not exist in Latin America.
15:17Soon the state of Mexico will address them, but it is a situation that needs to be studied.
15:27In Bolivia, the election was held on December 15, in its third version, with the common
15:32problem of scarce information on the 94 candidates.
15:35But in comparison to the two previous ones, this time the valid votes exceeded the invalid
15:40and blank votes.
15:45In the previous election, the white and null vote reached 65 percent in round figures and
15:50the useful vote reached 35 percent.
15:57In this election, I stress, in this election, the result is totally different.
16:08The valid votes reached 64.29 percent and the white and null votes barely reached 35
16:14percent.
16:20Out of a total of 26 judicial authorities that were to be elected in these elections,
16:25only 19 were elected by decision of the constitutional court, and the remaining seven will have to
16:31wait for the preselection of candidates by the legislative assembly.
16:35With the partial election, this process is closed.
16:41The delivery of credentials is scheduled for December 30th of this year, thus closing the
16:46judicial electoral process.
16:53The new judicial authorities will take office next January 2nd, and the Supreme Electoral
16:57Court will start preparing for the general elections of the national government and legislative
17:02assembly which are scheduled for August 2025.
17:10As from January, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal must dedicate all its efforts to the general
17:15election which is programmed in principle for August 10th, 2025.
17:26This will be ratified at the time of the launching of the call which is scheduled to take place
17:30in the first 10 days of April.
17:35While the authorities of the judiciary are elected for six years, the president, vice
17:41president, deputies and senators are elected for five years.
17:45In 2026, this country will also have elections again, and it will be to elect governors and
17:51mayors also for a period of five years.
18:01And we stay in Bolivia as authorities issued an orange alert for the flooding of the Agra
18:07River in the Amazonian city of Covija in the north of the country.
18:11Authorities argued that the alert intended to warn the population and minimize the risks
18:16of a possible overflow.
18:18Since the beginning of 2024, the north of Bolivia has been suffering the worst floods
18:23in the last 10 years due to the overwhelming flow of the Agra River, whose waters rose
18:29from 1.5 to 17 meters in a week, an upsurge attributed to the deforestation of the Amazon
18:37and the illegal gold mining operations being carried out along its waters.
18:54And in other news, the lechona, a typical Colombian dish that represents tradition and
18:59unity, is positioned as the best dish in the world according to the Gastronomic Ranking
19:04Taste Atlas 2024-2025.
19:07From Colombia, our colleague Valeria Cardona tells us more about this.
19:1128 years ago, Miller Dueños González came to Bogotá from Charparral, Tolima, and here
19:19in the south of the Colombian capital, he set up his family business with his children.
19:26I started this business many years ago.
19:28It is more a family business than anything else.
19:30I started with my children when I first came from the village.
19:34I had the skills because I'm from a town called Charparral, Tolima, and there anyone can make
19:39a lechona for their home.
19:41So I came to Bogotá and I saw that it could be industrialized here, and that's why we
19:45developed the business of selling lechona.
19:52Although where he comes from, they do not add rice to the lechona, once he arrived in
19:57the capital, he realized that this side dish was very popular in the city, and he adapted
20:02to the palate of the rolos, name given to the people of Bogotá.
20:06And he began to sell this typical dish, cooked in the way of the capital.
20:13The lechona is prepared with pork loin, pork leg, rice, and peas.
20:18It is cooked for 12 hours in the ovens.
20:21When the client comes, we explain to him how to handle the product.
20:25We also sell portions if people want to come and eat here as a family.
20:35In this street of the L Zone, Miller and his family share with other families and companies
20:40of lechona, in the place where for more than 40 years a tradition, coming from the departments
20:45of Tolima and Huila mainly, began to grow, and where the visitors can taste a typical
20:51dish that according to the gastronomic ranking taste atlas 2024-2025 is positioned as the
20:58best dish in the world.
21:04And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
21:06You can find these and many other stories on our website at protestoenglish.net.
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21:16For Test for English, my name is Belén de los Santos, thank you for watching.