TELEARUBA — broadcast 20260813 053000 UTC 454 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:48] because as you did in [00:01:08] and the city of Pereira, one of the most affected by [00:01:12] this earthquake. John Milton Quintero, a resident of that [00:01:15] city, is there to [00:01:18] tell us how the hours after this [00:01:22] strong earthquake were experienced. Milton, [00:01:26] thank you for your time. I want you to tell me [00:01:30] how these past [00:01:33] hours have been for you after [00:01:37] this tragedy. [00:01:38] Go ahead. [00:01:41] Rey, greetings to you and all the viewers. Let's say the experience has [00:01:44] been quite catastrophic. In spite [00:01:47] of everything, I was very lucky. [00:01:51] movements, you are showing them on Fortunately, all my loved ones, [00:01:53] including myself, are safe. [00:01:57] However, the residence where I live, which has been habitable for [00:02:01] about four to five months, I won't be able to occupy [00:02:04] it because it suffered significant damage. [00:02:07] We were obviously forced to evacuate during that [00:02:11] earthquake, which I felt lasted really about [00:02:15] two minutes, I would say, but it felt like 15 or 20 [00:02:18] minutes. It was a sense of helplessness, especially [00:02:21] because in Pereira we are relatively [00:02:25] accustomed to tremors, mild tremors and so on. [00:02:28] When that tremor started, I thought it was just another one, [00:02:32] but when it continued, when it didn't stop, when [00:02:36] things in the apartment started, [00:02:39] let's say, falling, when the walls started to crack and when the movement didn't stop, [00:02:43] well, those were seconds of panic that, [00:02:46] specifically with the recent [00:02:49] the data, ready for whatever experience in Venezuela, I thought we were going to experience, that I, personally, [00:02:52] was going to experience a [00:02:55] similar situation. The apartment was quite [00:02:58] damaged. [00:03:01] throughout beta, this is one of I insist that luckily my mother and I, well, we [00:03:05] got out well, thank God. [00:03:08] However, Pereira is experiencing a very complex situation, especially in neighborhoods [00:03:12] like Centenario, 30 de Agosto Avenue, [00:03:16] street, they've brought in a Circumvalar Avenue. Many buildings have suffered [00:03:19] and many buildings are on the verge of collapse, [00:03:21] Rey. [00:03:25] You're talking about the complex situation that Pereira [00:03:29] is experiencing, of course. One of the most [00:03:32] affected, but tell me about that complex situation you're referring [00:03:35] to, and I ask you, it might be a very simple question, [00:03:39] but you're there, you're seeing it minute by [00:03:42] minute, hour after [00:03:45] reference point to find out what's hour, everything that's happening. What is the biggest concern? [00:03:48] Where are people going? How are they [00:03:52] feeling it? In short, everything, everything, and [00:03:55] for you, of course, what's next? Well, [00:03:59] the aftershocks, I think. I think they have been one of the main fears. This [00:04:02] morning in Pereira there was an aftershock of [00:04:05] 4.7 at 11:30 in the morning. [00:04:09] Indeed, there are buildings that are about to collapse, there are many that already [00:04:12] did in Bolivar Square, for example, I think that has been one of the [00:04:16] main fears, Rey, the aftershocks and [00:04:20] especially that help arrives quickly. In Pereira, as I have seen [00:04:23] in communications from the mayor's office, [00:04:25] you to answer me after several collection centers have been set up, [00:04:28] one of them is in Consotada, which is in the Cuba [00:04:31] neighborhood, there are others that have been installed in the main coliseum, there [00:04:35] are also shelter centers where people have been able to go, [00:04:39] located in Cuba, in the Main Coliseum [00:04:42] as well, that is, there are several points that have been [00:04:45] set up so that people can obviously go to [00:04:49] receive help. However, to answer your question, Rey, one of the main [00:04:54] is happening in your city, in fears are the possible aftershocks and obviously the buildings that [00:04:57] were quite damaged. There are many people still under the rubble [00:05:01] and the idea is that obviously the authorities, who [00:05:05] are doing an excellent job, can continue with this [00:05:08] help, but [00:05:11] society. What mainly the issue of aftershocks. It has been quite [00:05:15] frightening for the [00:05:16] community. [00:05:19] What's next for you, [00:05:20] Milton? [00:05:25] Rey, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. Can you repeat, please? [00:05:27] favor, [00:05:30] Yes, I was asking you first, what's next for you, and [00:05:34] of course, a question that always comes up whenever there are [00:05:38] emergencies of this type, are we ready? And that includes [00:05:41] all of us, because also, for example, in Mexico and [00:05:45] other parts, in Venezuela, we just saw it too, [00:05:48] well, these are places where [00:05:51] this type of event occurs more and more frequently, and [00:05:55] the question is also, are we prepared to face [00:05:59] these emergencies? Rey, I feel that [00:06:03] we will never be prepared, no matter how much [00:06:05] training and education is done. I [00:06:09] experienced the earthquake in the coffee-growing region in 1999. I lived here in [00:06:13] Pereira, I was born here in Pereira, and [00:06:16] really, lessons [00:06:20] are learned in the moment, I think, Rey. So one always talks [00:06:24] afterwards about the importance of having a family plan, of [00:06:27] having, for example, at this moment when there [00:06:31] is no electricity in many areas of the city, when there is no [00:06:34] access to internet, well, one [00:06:37] reconfigures those plans. But I feel that [00:06:41] it will always be different. That earthquake, unlike the one I experienced in [00:06:45] 1999, was even much harder, it was much [00:06:48] longer, and I feel that regardless of whether one [00:06:52] is pedagogically prepared to know what [00:06:55] to do in this type of circumstances, it will never be [00:06:58] enough because what you experience at that moment, that is, the [00:07:03] the screen right now, these are moments of panic where [00:07:06] indeed many of the things one has learned are not [00:07:10] applied. [00:07:14] Absolutely, I completely agree, one is never prepared for this, but [00:07:18] well, one has to try and prepare for these [00:07:21] emergencies. Thank you, John Milton [00:07:24] Quintero, thank you for your presence and your [00:07:26] time. We will surely [00:07:30] see and hear each other [00:07:33] in the coming days. Thank you for being here. That was John [00:07:36] Milton from Pereira, Colombia, one of the most [00:07:39] affected cities. Well, the earthquake, the earthquake was the [00:07:43] strongest with an epicenter in the country since [00:07:47] at least 1990, according to the United States Geological [00:07:50] Survey. One of the areas most affected by the earthquake in [00:07:54] Colombia, as we told you, is Pereira, the [00:07:57] David, our colleague David from CNN went [00:08:00] there, to that area, and tells us how he [00:08:04] saw it and what he [00:08:06] found. [00:08:14] the hardest hit areas, and I want to bring you a little bit closer here, because they've just [00:08:18] started once again in trying [00:08:20] to actively search for folks within what [00:08:24] was an apartment building, and you can see it's covered now this entire [00:08:29] crane, they've had to bring in a fuel truck directly to the [00:08:32] crane just to keep the operations going, and I was speaking to a [00:08:36] couple here who have friends that live in this apartment building and [00:08:39] they say that they were hearing yelling through. about the [00:08:42] night, and it's for that reason that you have several [00:08:45] dozen, not only firefighters and first [00:08:49] responders, but then just locals who have jumped in [00:08:53] to try to help in some fashion. mean, most don't even have the proper gear to do so, but you [00:08:57] can see they're using buckets and they're trying to clear as much rubble as [00:09:00] possible, and they're hoping to get to the areas that they [00:09:04] believe that those yells are coming from, and and and folks are are [00:09:07] standing on the sidelines. let me show you just trying to stay out of the way as much [00:09:11] as possible, but also. so they're taking this in, [00:09:14] because these are folks that they know, this is their [00:09:17] community, some of them are are just standing almost in a days with tears [00:09:21] in their eyes as they're watching this play out, and it's interesting [00:09:25] as as we got to the first location in this city, mind you, we [00:09:29] had driven for eight hours from bolota because flights weren't landing anywhere near [00:09:33] here last night, we went to one location and we thought that [00:09:37] was the most devastating part of the city, and we've been told at each location, [00:09:40] no, you need to go to another, you need to go. go check out this location, go see [00:09:44] this, and that's what brought us here to lasa libertad where [00:09:48] you can see there is just a continued effort right now to [00:09:51] try to find whoever may still be alive, mean we're just after [00:09:55] 24 hours from when this earthquake struck [00:09:59] and so folks are still incredibly hopeful and yet feeling that [00:10:02] urgency to try to get to whoever may still [00:10:05] be alive in in this collapse structure here, [00:10:09] but again I mean you you just go block after block. within [00:10:13] this city and you will see lot of the streets are [00:10:16] just filled with a rubble that have come down from the buildings [00:10:20] around uh, i was also noticing that they [00:10:24] uh had on on the... mountain roads that we were coming in on and and these are very windy, [00:10:28] dark, difficult roads to traverse. you had lot [00:10:31] of uh basically personnel coming in from the capital, from [00:10:35] Bogota where we were coming in from, and they were going at really high [00:10:39] speeds just trying to get with all the equipment and resources they had [00:10:42] to this location to assist in this effort, because you can see it's [00:10:46] exhausting, and at this point, I mean the numbers [00:10:49] suggest 55 or so who [00:10:53] have died in this city. 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[00:19:39] His return was possible after President Donald [00:19:43] Trump granted him a pardon in December 2025, [00:19:46] considering that he had received a treatment, and [00:19:49] I quote, very harsh and unfair in the Joe [00:19:53] Biden administration. But Hernández did not return to close a chapter, [00:19:57] he returned to open another. Now, he faces [00:20:00] in Honduras an accusation of alleged money laundering and fraud, according to the [00:20:04] prosecutor's office, more than 10 million dollars. that were [00:20:08] diverted to two non-profit organizations between [00:20:11] 2010 and 2013, when Hernández presided over [00:20:14] Congress, and he adds that those resources would have been [00:20:18] used to finance his 2013 presidential [00:20:22] campaign, something he denies. And there is [00:20:25] another key detail: Juan [00:20:29] Orlando Hernández has still not [00:20:31] gone to trial. Last August 3, an [00:20:34] organized crime court [00:20:37] imposed precautionary measures on him, including the [00:20:40] prohibition from leaving the country and rejected the [00:20:43] prosecutor's request for him to be provisionally [00:20:47] detained due to an alleged risk [00:20:50] of flight. The next step will be on August [00:20:54] 12, that is, this Wednesday, when the [00:20:57] initial hearing will be held, in which the [00:21:00] judge must determine if there is sufficient [00:21:03] merit for the criminal [00:21:06] process to advance. And while the prosecutor's office defines its [00:21:10] investigation, Hernández [00:21:13] responds with a political accusation, saying that an attempt [00:21:17] is being made to influence his process [00:21:20] and attack judicial independence. The former president speaks of [00:21:24] an alleged interference by the [00:21:27] radical left. [00:21:29] Let's listen. about the interference of groups [00:21:32] with dark agendas and policies of the [00:21:36] radical left, who, through the manipulation of [00:21:40] truth, seek to pressure and attack judicial [00:21:43] independence, weakening the [00:21:47] constitutional guarantees [00:21:50] that [00:21:52] all citizens have. [00:21:56] Hernández also denied the accusations from the prosecutor's office that [00:22:00] representatives of the institution had received [00:22:03] threats during his hearing last Monday. [00:22:07] Let's listen. The non-existence of [00:22:10] threats. We absolutely and [00:22:14] categorically deny that during the development of the hearing any [00:22:17] type of threat, [00:22:21] intimidation or coercion [00:22:24] was uttered against the prosecutor or any [00:22:28] other official present at that [00:22:29] hearing. [00:22:32] Well, and today the prosecutor of [00:22:35] Honduras is our next [00:22:37] guest. [00:22:44] And I welcome Dagoberto [00:22:48] Aspra Iglesias, the former prosecutor [00:22:50] general of Honduras. Prosecutor, thank you for being with us in this space. We just [00:22:53] heard a few minutes ago the former president [00:22:57] speak and say that he spoke of an alleged [00:23:00] interference by the radical left to [00:23:03] manipulate this process. Are there elements [00:23:07] to support that accusation or is it perhaps [00:23:11] part of the defense strategy? I don't know, you will tell me, [00:23:14] prosecutor, go ahead, thank you, [00:23:17] good evening, Rey, greetings from Tegucigalpa. [00:23:20] Those are the arguments that Mr. Juan Orlando [00:23:24] Hernández uses when he cannot control people and [00:23:27] institutions. He calls us activists, he says we are [00:23:30] part of the radical left. What he tries to ignore is that we [00:23:34] are part of this government of the national party, the party to which [00:23:38] he belongs, which he used to be president of the [00:23:41] republic, to be president of Congress. However, we [00:23:45] have the clear responsibility to face these processes with [00:23:48] greater responsibility, because our obligation is to defend the state of Honduras, [00:23:52] to defend its heritage. The Attorney General's Office of the Republic is the representative of the [00:23:56] victim in this case, the state, as [00:23:58] you pointed out in the preliminary [00:24:02] part of this interview, more than 10 million dollars were looted, current [00:24:05] value, because these events occurred more [00:24:08] or less between 2010 and 2013, where [00:24:12] a network of foundations, of [00:24:15] civil organizations of a civil nature, was used to extract [00:24:19] funds from a secretariat that is oriented towards [00:24:22] agriculture and livestock. Programs were disguised to favor [00:24:26] young people and mothers and children [00:24:29] so that some resource or teaching from the state could [00:24:33] reach them. That money, the entire [00:24:36] amount, was drained into political campaigns. It has been [00:24:40] determined through financial traceability expert reports that [00:24:44] the money came from those budgets of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and was [00:24:47] used through that [00:24:51] network of foundations and was used to pay [00:24:55] expenses that were from the political campaign of movements controlled by Juan Orlando [00:24:59] Hernández that are identified as Blue United movements, friends of [00:25:02] Juan Orlando, another card that they also used [00:25:06] to be able to call people to be part of [00:25:10] their ranks. This investigation revealed that the patrimonial [00:25:13] damage to the state exceeds more than 10 million dollars. We, as [00:25:16] members of the national party who are in charge of [00:25:20] different institutions, there are many people [00:25:23] who we have no commitment to Juan Orlando Hernández. He [00:25:27] believes that because he was president of Honduras for two consecutive terms, [00:25:30] having been president of the National Congress, having controlled [00:25:33] different state organizations of Honduras for more than 20 [00:25:37] years, most of the people have to fear him or [00:25:40] owe him something. We do not owe Juan Orlando Hernández absolutely anything. [00:25:44] We are going to assume this responsibility that we have at the head of this institution. Tomorrow [00:25:48] I will be personally at the initial hearing, where [00:25:52] we will provide evidence to be able to link this [00:25:55] gentleman to the process and that the prosecutor's office can exercise the civil [00:25:59] compensatory action at the appropriate time and recover assets to be able [00:26:02] to compensate for the patrimonial damage that has been done to the state of [00:26:04] Honduras. [00:26:07] Prosecutor, have you received political pressure to [00:26:11] act against the former president? That's on one hand. You are saying [00:26:14] that you are supporting this, but others say that there may be [00:26:18] interests, political interests, and also the [00:26:22] former president speaks of [00:26:24] alleged threats. Tell us what happened, I'm sorry to ask [00:26:28] you three questions at once, but you will tell me. Yes, of course, the [00:26:31] threats, the threats... We reported them from the Attorney General's Office. The [00:26:35] three agents of the Attorney General's Office that I appointed for that hearing informed [00:26:39] me that the hostile attitude of Mr. Juan Orlando Hernández [00:26:42] materialized in situations that we have [00:26:45] investigated to be able to have an objective, real criterion of what happened, [00:26:51] the presentations prior to my interview, he came out [00:26:54] denying what I had said publicly that my [00:26:57] prosecuting agents who had been present in the hearing [00:27:00] had suffered some type of intimidation. threat, I have the conclusions of an independent [00:27:04] report that was carried out by a criminalistics expert [00:27:08] and he concludes that there was a high intensity of [00:27:11] confrontation and intimidation by [00:27:13] directly singling out the official with the expression [00:27:17] "I want to look him in the eyes," that is, Mr. Juan Orlando Hernández [00:27:21] addresses the people from the Public Prosecutor's Office who are leading [00:27:24] our representation, telling them he asked the judge for [00:27:27] the floor, the judge granted it to him, an act that we have not [00:27:31] seen in other hearings, the defendant is granted the floor without [00:27:35] submitting to the formal declaration he must make [00:27:39] before the judge, that we cannot ask him questions that do not refer to the facts but [00:27:42] rather he does it in a discursive way, he says [00:27:45] that he looks him in the eyes, he tells the people from the Public Prosecutor's Office that he wants to give him [00:27:49] a lesson and he starts to say, he starts to narrate different [00:27:52] situations where he talks about activists, he talks about how different [00:27:56] documents were made, because the Public Prosecutor's Office, [00:27:59] let me tell you, made a request in the hearing [00:28:03] requesting that a precautionary measure [00:28:07] of judicial detention be decreed in a detention [00:28:10] in a space that we could determine [00:28:13] that he could have some security, before being extradited he was in the [00:28:17] special forces police battalion, he was there for approximately [00:28:20] 2 months and was guarded [00:28:23] there, we are requesting that this be done for the term [00:28:27] prior to this hearing because we [00:28:30] argued and substantiated within a means of proof that was presented [00:28:34] where there is a profile of who Juan Orlando Hernández is, that there was a risk of [00:28:37] reiteration, a criminal structure that he was suspected [00:28:41] of belonging to and for that reason there was a risk of contamination of sources of [00:28:44] proof, I believe that this strength [00:28:47] of the request made by the Public Prosecutor's Office was what really [00:28:51] bothered him because that is recorded [00:28:54] in the video because there is video and audio of that hearing, we presented a [00:28:58] means of proof that was elaborated by the policy observatory. [00:29:02] the anti-corruption where it concludes that Mr. Juan Orlando [00:29:06] Hernández, how he has reached different positions, what he [00:29:10] has done, what has been his way of behaving towards the state [00:29:13] and and with the power he has had, the use of [00:29:17] resources under discretion, which is why [00:29:19] we consider that he is indeed part of a criminal structure, that was [00:29:22] raised in the hearing, I think that bothered him and that's why [00:29:26] he confronted the members of the Public Prosecutor's Office, that report [00:29:30] the conclusions are that he uses sustained [00:29:33] eye contact towards the representatives of the Public Prosecutor's Office, by [00:29:37] saying, "I want to look you in the eyes," he seeks to break the emotional counterbalance [00:29:41] of the accuser, in behavioral criminology, this is a non-verbal [00:29:44] marker of dominance and coercive forcing, the [00:29:47] turning of shoulders and torso breaking the perpendicularity towards the [00:29:51] judge's bench, reorienting the body mass frontally and [00:29:54] defiantly towards the Public Prosecutor's table, demonstrates [00:29:58] that there is a non-verbal intimidation accompanied by [00:30:02] masked, disguised phrases, because he usually speaks in a soft [00:30:05] tone, in a tone as if he is a grandfather, that he is a family [00:30:09] man, he wants to teach a lesson as an older person, but we know that there are [00:30:12] veiled threats in those [00:30:14] phrases, [00:30:17] Prosecutor, do you guarantee [00:30:20] then that this process will be based on evidence and not [00:30:24] on other things, but I ask [00:30:28] the break, I will have to make a cut, we'll be right back, we are [00:30:31] talking. Dr. Dagoberto [00:30:34] Aspra Iglesias, the Attorney General of Honduras, [00:30:37] don't go away, [00:30:38] we'll be back, [00:30:41] the news never stops and CNN is [00:30:45] always present to bring you the most relevant [00:30:48] information. Now, on weekends Rey Rodríguez, who leads [00:30:51] the World View team, your reference point to find out what [00:30:56] your country and in the world.