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00:00Thousands of Catholic pilgrims from all over the world gather in St. Peter's Square in the

00:13Vatican City to bid farewell to Pope Francis. President Nicolás Maduro welcomed the proposal

00:24to create an international entrepreneurship network to strengthen the economic countries

00:28attending the Entrepreneurship Congress. And hundreds of people have been injured following

00:37a massive explosion and a fire at the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, south of the capital, Tehran.

00:43Hello, welcome to From the South. I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Atarzo Studios in Caracas,

00:56Venezuela. We begin with the news. Stay with us.

00:59This Saturday, thousands of Catholic pilgrims from all over the world gather in St. Peter's Square

01:16in the Vatican City to bid farewell to Pope Francis. Diplomatic corps and delegations representing more

01:21than 165 nations were present at the ceremony, which was also attended by heads of states,

01:27governments and kings. The coffin of Pope Francis has traveled six kilometers from St. Peter's Square

01:33to the Basilica of Santa Maria la Mayor after a service presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista,

01:38Dean of the College of Cardinals, who recall France's most committed moments for peace,

01:43poverty and human dignity. With his characteristic vocabulary and language, reaching images and metaphors,

02:00he always sought to shed light on the problems of our times with the wisdom of the gospel.

02:07He did so by offering a response guided by the light of faith and encouraging us to live as Christians

02:17amid the challenges and contradictions in recent years, which he loved to describe as an apocal change.

02:27Cardinal Giovanni Battista took the opportunity during the ceremony to recall the human qualities of

02:32Pope Francis and how he worked to create a more just and inclusive church.

02:37He had a great spontaneity and an informal way of addressing everyone,

02:43even those far from the church.

02:54Rich in human warmth and deeply sensitive to today's challenges,

02:59Pope Francis truly shared the anxieties, sufferings and hopes of this time of globalization.

03:07He gave of himself by comforting and encouraging us with a message capable of reaching people's hearts

03:19in a direct and immediate way.

03:21And following the funeral mass, a procession accompanied Pope Francis Coffin from St. Peter

03:32Square through downtown Rome to his final resting place and Santa Maria Maiore Basilica. The Pope himself

03:39had chosen this Marian shrine outside the Vatican as his brutal place, as it was one of his favorite spots where he

03:45used to pray before and after his trips. Along the way, people stepped outside their houses to applaud and

03:51greet the Pope's last journey to the papal basilica.

03:53Meanwhile in Argentina, citizens prepared for what will be the mobilization in honor of Pope Francis

04:06from Buenos Aires. Catholic parishioners affirmed that they have ready the agenda of activities and a

04:11mass to be held in the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Argentine capital. The religious ceremony in memory of the

04:16first Latin American Pope will be conducted by the Archbishop of Buenos Aires and will serve to unite a good

04:22part of citizens. In other words, a caravan is expected to take place around Plaza de Mayo and thousands of pilgrims

04:28are expected to participate.

04:30in Bolivia certainty that general elections will be held in August return with the reiterated guarantee

04:43of the supreme electoral court that the elections will be held and the commitment of the constitutional

04:47court that it will not interfere in the process as it did in the past judicial elections. Our correspondent

04:53and Freddy Morales with the details. A sort of rumor campaign by the political opposition about an alleged

05:01plan to postpone the August national elections led the supreme electoral tribunal to repeat its commitment

05:06that the elections will be held on the scheduled date.

05:13The supreme electoral court has a firm time and again that the general elections scheduled for this

05:19administration will be held on August 17th of this year. The rumor was based on what happened in last

05:32year's judicial elections when the elections were torpedoed by the constitutional court, which not only

05:36postponed them, but also, in the face of several lawsuits, authorized them to be held partially.

05:40We, the magistrates of the constitutional court, give our faith, we give our commitment, and we give

05:52certainty to the Bolivian people for the realization of this electoral process. For the fulfillment of this

06:02electoral process, and to process the appeals with celerity, and without the processing of these

06:07appeals meaning the postponement, or slowing down, of the election of August 17th of this year.

06:18Analyst Susano Bejarano described as shameful that a state power such as the electoral tribunal

06:22asks the judiciary not to interfere, but the commitments of both give back certainty.

06:32There is already a common sense in society that the elections are going to be held,

06:36and if they were not held, it would be like lighting the fuse to a gunpowder that is already spread

06:40in the country. Because as you know, the fact that there's been a lack of fuel, the inflation we

06:50are experiencing after two decades and all these situations have generated, whether you like it or

06:55not, a tension in the population. It is the opposition sectors themselves, who spread rumors

07:05about an alleged attempt by the government to extend the deadline for the elections, who encourage

07:09uncertainty by filing lawsuits before the judiciary that could affect the date of the elections.

07:13If you make a review of who are the people in the framework of those five rulings that have put that

07:22question, you are going to see elections, they are going to be suspended because now there are some

07:26rulings. Four of them are people who belong to the opposition bloc, to the anti-movement for

07:30socialism bloc. Although they are dressed as indigenous people, they have been systematically

07:34against the movement for socialism. The national elections have been officially called for next

07:47August 17th. The electoral calendar is already smooth and determines that whoever wins these

07:52elections will take office at the beginning of November of this year. The registration of

07:56candidates will take place in mid-May. Freddy Morales, Telesur, Bolivia.

08:05We now have our first break coming up. Remember, you can join us on TikTok at TelesurEnglish,

08:08where you'll find news in different formats, news updates, and much more. We're going to be right back. Stay with us.

08:26Welcome back. The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, welcomed their proposal to create an

08:36international entrepreneurship network to strengthen the economy of the more than 50 countries attending

08:41the Entrepreneurship Congress. During the closing ceremony of the Congress that gathered representatives

08:46from 57 countries in the city of Caracas, the Venezuelan head of state greeted this first meeting

08:51of economic diversity as a well-timed initiative. The Venezuelan president explained that entrepreneurship

08:57emerged as one of the 13 economic engines promoted by the national government thanks to the work and

09:03productive conscience of the Venezuelan people. In this sense, President Maduro specified that the new

09:08diversified economic model was consolidated as a strategy to confront the economic agressions imposed

09:14by the government of the United States against the people of Venezuela.

09:21Because knowing our experience and knowing your experience, we can integrate great ideas and

09:32great strengths. That is why I think it is very good that in this first international meeting,

09:38an international network of entrepreneurship is born at the level of all our countries and all our

09:45economies and these 57 countries that are participating here want this international network of entrepreneurs.

09:53I am in favor. I think it is very good that they have taken this decision and I applaud and support it.

10:09And the rainy season is starting in Venezuela and is expected to last until November to prevent risks

10:24and react more efficiently in case of an alert. The Bolivarian government launched this week a special plan to

10:30protect their population. A corresponding chat to the fall accompanied the activation in the capital district.

10:34On the sides of the Pan-American Highway, on the southbound exit from Caracas, the mountainous landscape is dotted with houses that have often been built by the inhabitants themselves.

10:48In the rainy season, these precarious constructions on unsuitable land endanger entire neighborhoods.

10:57Most of our population is afraid of the rain because we are in lands that are shifting,

11:01that are not stable. And that is why it is the fear of all the inhabitants.

11:05It is precisely this area that has been chosen to initiate the implementation of the capital

11:14district's 2025 rainfall plan. During his inspection of the area, together with state security forces

11:20and community representatives, the head of government insisted on the need to work together to identify

11:24risks and provide efficient solutions.

11:26There will be a significant deployment in terms of reviewing the condition of the territory,

11:36the condition of the land, the movement of the earth, and of course the survey of the various

11:40works that we must do to mitigate risk.

11:47This initiative is part of the call made earlier this week by President Nicolas Maduro,

11:51who warned about the torrential rains expected for this year and the need to react with a special plan

11:56at the national level.

12:02Heavy, heavy rains are announced for this year because the weather is warmer. This is climate change,

12:09so we have to prepare ourselves, prepare the cities, prepare all the towns, prepare the machinery,

12:15prepare the preventive measures and prepare the capacity of action to replace roads, access roads,

12:20houses and everything that needs to be replaced, and to protect life, which is the most important thing.

12:31The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, for its part, said it is monitoring any

12:36change in the atmospheric conditions and assured that it will keep the population informed through

12:40its social networks, also counting on the collaboration of citizens in this task.

12:49It is important because we bring awareness of climate change to the communities,

12:56and in turn empowerment through the management of products and weather stations to clarify these

13:01effects that can cause extreme precipitation. During the week, heavy rains have lashed the states of

13:12Trujillo and Berinas. At a time of global climate crisis, Venezuela faces the challenge of articulating

13:18a joint effort to adapt as a society to a new reality. Chadafol, desde Caracas, Venezuela, para Telesur.

13:25In the Dominican Republic, various activities are being carried out throughout the week to commemorate

13:33the revolution of April 1965. What it's all about? Our correspondent, our colleague, Daisy

13:39Susanne, tells us the details.

13:45Sixty years after the April revolution, the Dominican people remember one of the most transcendent chapters of

13:50its 20th century history, the civil-military struggle that sought to re-establish the legitimate government

13:56of Juan Bosch. It was an event of extraordinary gravity, because now it seems to be a historical

14:04fact, it happened a long time ago but because of our age we had a certain informative curiosity of that

14:09moment. In the year 65, it can be said that what was happening here in Santo Domingo was known in

14:20all of Latin America, even the conservative press. I am talking about my country, Argentina, did not

14:30stop reporting every day the development of that event which was very strange because it was a kind of

14:34unification of the contested social forces of the great popular depth together with all kinds of military.

14:47On April 24, 1965, thousands of Dominicans took to the streets to demand a return to constitutionality

14:53after the coup d'état that overthrew Juan Bosch in 1963, following his proposals for social reforms that

15:00made conservative sectors uncomfortable. The Dominican revolution surprised the continent in an era marked

15:06by military coups. The particularity was the union of civilians and the military in defense of democracy.

15:17On April 24, 1965,

15:21the Dominican people took to the streets to re-establish the legal and legitimate government

15:26the government that had been overthrown two years earlier.

15:45Today, various activities recall that heroic deed, from photographic exhibitions in Independence Park to

15:51lectures, such as the one given by Argentine political scientist Atilio Boron, who also draws

15:56some parallels with the US invasions of that time, and today's interference.

16:07Look, what is happening today is that US interference is much more widespread and diversified than before,

16:11before it was an interference that I would dare to say was fundamentally military, political diplomatic,

16:16but today the interference that they have managed to have, for example,

16:28through the control of the media system that practically when you look at it,

16:31especially the press and television is in the hands of the United States through frontmen,

16:34through allies, through people who sell out, who change their minds, but then today it is much more

16:38dangerous, besides, today there is an empire that is in a phase of decline and therefore it is much more virulent,

16:43much more aggressive.

16:52Six decades later, the ideals of that April continue to resonate as a call for the defense

16:57of democracy and fundamental rights.

17:02On the 60th anniversary of the April revolution, the transcendence is that it is an occasion to reflect

17:08on what democracy means, and what the struggle of the Dominican people to restore the overthrown

17:13government of Juan Bosch in 1963 meant, and also to retake the constitution of that year.

17:24The April revolution is not only history, it is the present and the commitment of a people

17:29that continues to fight for its dignity.

17:31We have a second short break coming up. Before we invite you to visit our Facebook page at

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17:48Final break, we're going to be right back.

17:49Welcome back.

18:10Hundreds of people have been injured following a massive explosion and a fire at the Iranian port

18:16city of Bandar Abbas, south of capital Tehran. Iran's customs authorities said in a statement

18:21on Saturday that the explosion occurred in the Sina container yard, which is affiliated with the

18:26country's ports and maritime organization. State media are reporting that the number of injuries

18:31has risen to 406, while Iranian state television said initial reports indicate negligence in the

18:36storage of flammable materials at the site. In this context, the National Iranian Petroleum

18:41Refunding and Distribution Company issued a statement following the blast saying oil facilities in

18:46the area were not affected by the blast.

18:50At least 16 people were killed in Palestine on the 40th day since Israel resumed its genocide

19:13against the Gaza Strip. Health authorities in Gaza reported since October 7, 2023, the number of people

19:19killed has risen to 51,495 and that 117,524 people have been wounded. Also 10,000 people are missing or

19:28presumed dead on the rubble, whereas survivors still search for the remains of their loved ones.

19:34Meanwhile, several United Nations agencies have announced the total blockade imposed by Israel

19:38to the entry of food and other essential supplies since March 2nd this year, which aggravates the humanitarian

19:44crisis in the region.

19:53And Cuba joined the worldwide call for solidarity with Gaza, where participants demanded an end

19:59the Zionist occupation, full recognition of the Palestinian state and the return of refugees from

20:04Israeli genocide. Young Palestinians and Cubans, together with representatives of civil society

20:09organizations supported Cuba's demand for the cessation of the Israeli genocide against the

20:14population of the Gaza Strip. They also rejected the complicity of the US government in the massacre

20:19that has claimed the lives of at least 51,350 Palestinians and injured more than 117,000 civilians

20:27in flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreements. In this sense, they denounced the terrorist regime

20:32of Israel for the use of extermination policies and expulsion of the civilian population.

20:44The struggle for life, the struggle for culture, the struggle for the sovereignty of Palestine is

20:49our struggle, as it is Venezuela, as are other peoples. We are in the same space of resistance.

20:56Today we are denouncing a genocide. We have been denouncing an imperialism that is a fundamental

21:07part of the conflict. We have been asking for the freedom of the Palestinian people. We have been

21:11asking for the rights that the Palestinian people deserve to solidarity, and to continue in combat

21:16always until victory.

21:30On April 25th, Casa de las American Literature Prize was awarded in Havana, Cuba, in the categories of

21:36Short Stories, Poetry, and Latin Studies in the United States. In the category of Poetry, the prize was

21:42awarded to Cuerpo Quebrado Lumbre by Venezuelan Esmeralda Torres because it is a book constant and

21:48deep in stone, in which the poetic character of an old woman undertakes a sort of inner expedition

21:54from the descent into the sea to the sea. In the category of Short Stories, the prize was awarded to

21:59The Woman Who Hated Cats by Cuban Edelmis and Noceto Vega because the volume reveals with originality

22:06and narrative complexity the true and astonishing nature of every day.

22:10Lastly, the category of Latin studies in the United States was awarded to

22:15Tell Me If They Are Latin Writings of the Ecuadorian Diaspora in the U.S. by Ecuadorian Cristina Burneo Salazar.

22:31The Casa de las Americas Award, to have it for any writer, is an important achievement,

22:37not only for Cubans, but for all Latin Americans. More than time, it has a lot of history.

22:47A very nice history, especially for the number of artists and intellectuals and

22:52writers who have been close to the prize. For me, it is one of the most important moments of my

22:57literary career and of my life. Because, of course, literature is my life.

23:10Honor is a word that is too small for the overflowing sensation I have when I am here.

23:15The workshop was a super nourishing space of exchange for me, to rethink many things related

23:22to dramaturgy, to Latin American dramaturgy, to poetry, to politics, and to the theatrical work

23:28in a broad sense, and also to the encounter between people who produce cultural scents,

23:34who are dedicated to art.

23:40At this, we have come to the end of this news rift. You can find this and many other stories on our

23:44website at Terezo English in the internet. Also join us on social media, Facebook, X, Instagram,

23:49Telegram, and TikTok. For Terezo English, I'm with Alberto Matos. Thank you for watching.

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