TELEARUBA — broadcast 20260814 180000 UTC 431 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. [00:00:09] I continue talking with Luis Alberto Villamarín, a retired lieutenant colonel of the [00:00:13] Colombian army, and I asked him because, for example, [00:00:17] Guatemala, the Guatemalan government was very firm, right? In [00:00:20] terms of, there will be collaboration, but there will be no [00:00:24] foreign troops ever. They [00:00:27] settled it once and for all from the Ministry of Defense. I don't know if [00:00:30] it's due to the emergency, which is feasible, it could [00:00:34] be, they haven't settled it like that, so I ask you if you are [00:00:37] completely sure, [00:00:39] gold. The Lieutenant Colonel, that Abelardo de la Espriella's idea [00:00:42] is not something else. [00:00:44] and timely information on In what sense? We have [00:00:47] seen him since the campaign and all this [00:00:51] time completely open to any approach and [00:00:54] collaboration, even unprecedented, with the United States. So I don't [00:00:58] doubt that things will be different. What do [00:01:01] you think? No, definitely, Abelardo de [00:01:04] la Espriella cannot do that. He is a lawyer. The [00:01:08] thing is that he also knows how to manage image and populism, right? And he knows how to [00:01:11] generate scenarios in which he is [00:01:14] politically present, but he knows as [00:01:18] a lawyer, as an expert in laws, and he knows the [00:01:21] Colombian constitution very well, that not a single foreign soldier can enter [00:01:25] armed. Yes, it is within the agreement signed in [00:01:28] 1952. From then on, the United States can [00:01:32] send specialists to instruct those who [00:01:37] society. What operate the equipment, it can advise on the planning of operations, but never [00:01:40] intervene in the command of the troops, much less in [00:01:43] direct participation. The thing is that the left has historically [00:01:46] used that argument, they have even invented a story about US [00:01:50] bases in Colombia. In Colombia, there has never been a [00:01:53] base like the one in Ecuador in Manta or like the one Mr. Novoa is [00:01:56] promoting or like the one they are going to build in Peru. There has never been [00:02:00] a US military base, there has been a presence. So he [00:02:04] cannot go beyond that, and politically no one would [00:02:07] accept it and Congress would open an investigation and it would [00:02:11] complicate things. It seems to me that it is more part of his [00:02:15] Assembly of Venezuela, who is Caribbean and tropical way of being and of constantly generating the [00:02:18] political scenario to be [00:02:22] the data, ready for what present. Yes, of course, taking [00:02:25] political advantage of this type of announcements is very common in [00:02:28] any scenario. [00:02:31] This Latin American, that is, they do it, almost all [00:02:34] leaders do it when this happens, but then how do we understand [00:02:38] Lieutenant Colonel, this announcement? That is, basically what [00:02:41] stopped being done with Petro and that was done before with other [00:02:44] governments, right? Because it was done with [00:02:48] Cepeda, sorry, with Cepeda, it [00:02:51] was done with this Duque, it was done with [00:02:55] Santos, it was done with Uribe, it was done with [00:02:58] Pastrana, well. At different levels, but it didn't stop being done, that's what [00:03:02] I mean. However, with Petro, it [00:03:05] that? Now the other thing, the reached a point where there was a terrible break. [00:03:07] We are seeing nothing but the normalization, let's say [00:03:10] so, of these collaborations that have already been a tradition, so [00:03:14] to speak. Of course, Fernando, the thing is that de [00:03:19] than ever, it must be said clearly, a sector of la Espriella wants to take advantage of Trump's strategic intention to [00:03:21] fight drug trafficking at all [00:03:25] levels. So he can ask for much more support and [00:03:29] logically he would give it to them, more intensely than we had [00:03:32] before. Because, for example, to take down Mono Jojoy, it [00:03:36] was naturally with US intelligence, but it was a whole [00:03:39] process of protocols, of agencies, of [00:03:42] intermediaries until the agreement was finally reached. Here, what would be sought is [00:03:46] more expeditious intelligence and more support, for [00:03:49] example, of ammunition for the planes, better [00:03:52] armament for the soldiers who descend to the combat [00:03:55] site, high-end technical [00:03:58] system. Let's go with equipment, to enter the terrain, that [00:04:01] is, an update, drones that did not [00:04:04] exist at that time. That is what is being asked for and that is what he will get, but the [00:04:08] Colombian military forces have the capacity, Fernando, to carry out [00:04:11] operations. We saw Operation Haki, Hake, purely carried out by [00:04:15] Colombians. [00:04:19] Yes, of course, one cannot minimize the work and [00:04:23] I believe that it would also be a very serious political mistake on the part of Abelardo de la Espriella [00:04:27] who has given so much strength [00:04:29] to the security forces in Colombia. Now, [00:04:33] to close, I ask you this last question, Lieutenant [00:04:35] Colonel, this collaboration [00:04:39] in the result [00:04:41] between Abelardo de la Espriella's policy, yes, of a firm hand [00:04:45] and of going after all these groups outside the [00:04:48] law, the collaboration of the United States, which can be much more intense due to de la Espriella's [00:04:52] own disposition, do you foresee [00:04:55] conclusive results in the [00:04:58] short or medium term? [00:05:00] I would say in the medium and long term, therefore, but [00:05:03] logically, it is required that in the October elections, [00:05:07] Trump does well so that he does not have problems in Congress and [00:05:10] also that at the end of Trump's government it can be prolonged, because if you [00:05:14] overlap, when de la Espriella leaves in 2 years, Trump is [00:05:18] leaving, so there would come the problem that if the Democrats win, by mere [00:05:21] political action, they could block it and complicate [00:05:25] the matter, but there will be results, there will be, because the [00:05:29] intelligence that the United States has is magnificent and with [00:05:32] resources, the Colombian troops demonstrate that when they have [00:05:35] political will, resources and [00:05:39] technical reinforcements, the blows are wonderful. [00:05:44] Well, we are going to wait for those results that, furthermore, [00:05:48] necessarily, [00:05:51] for Abelardo de la Espriella's popularity, I mean, to maintain it, it has to [00:05:54] happen because it is the great promise of Abelardo de la Espriella, among [00:05:57] other things, but it is one of the great banners since the [00:06:00] campaign and of his government. Listen, Lieutenant Colonel, [00:06:03] a hug, thank you for always accompanying me, I send you greetings. [00:06:07] Likewise, Fernando, very kind and very grateful for your [00:06:10] solidarity with our people who are suffering the [00:06:13] tragedy. [00:06:16] Always, always all my solidarity, empathy, affection and [00:06:19] our support, as far as possible, this window is to [00:06:22] help them whenever possible, of course, that [00:06:26] it hurts us a lot. I said it yesterday, I maintain it and I will always do so. [00:06:29] Thank you, thank you, Luis Alberto Villamarín, Lieutenant Colonel, retired from the [00:06:33] Colombian army accompanied me. I am going to take a break, I'll be back, [00:06:37] we are going to talk about what Venezuela announces [00:06:40] at this closing of its first. first round of [00:06:43] talks, they have agreements. [00:06:47] Eh, there is one that can be key to fulfill it, [00:06:51] it does not only depend on Venezuela, but [00:06:54] it is also a very confusing thing, no, look, let's talk about this better when we [00:06:58] return. [00:07:03] go for a run in the city, Buenos Aires [00:07:05] offers free running training in different parks and [00:07:09] squares, there are proposals for beginners, people. 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[00:11:32] CNN América is a multiplatform program [00:11:35] where you will have information from all areas that will [00:11:39] allow you to understand the world from the angle you are [00:11:42] seeing it from. In those three hours, you will not only have [00:11:46] information from a political and economic perspective, [00:11:49] but also health, from a women's perspective, but [00:11:53] above all, it is a space where. we can have conversations not [00:13:38] of meetings, Chavismo and a sector of the opposition, now more [00:13:44] the Venezuelan opposition close a first round of [00:13:47] dialogue with the support of the United States, of course, and [00:13:51] I would not say the support of the United States, but with the [00:13:55] Washington agenda because this is part of [00:13:58] those stages that Marco Rubio defined. So not only the [00:14:01] support but with the agenda that the United States has set. [00:14:05] The product of these meetings, the first of them, the ones [00:14:08] to which the press was not allowed access, resulted in two [00:14:12] important agreements: to assist the victims of the June earthquakes, which was [00:14:15] necessary, of course, to establish it, and then [00:14:19] to advance in a reform of the justice [00:14:23] the first one because to help the victims, it is necessary to involve a [00:14:27] third instance, the [00:14:30] president of the National Assembly of the Regime, Jorge [00:14:32] Rodríguez, said it in these terms, [00:14:35] listen: [00:14:38] both parties will focus efforts on [00:14:41] promoting the recovery of Venezuela's international reserve assets [00:14:44] in the Bank of England, [00:14:48] establishing mechanisms of transparency, [00:14:51] traceability, auditing in the efficient [00:14:55] use of [00:14:56] them. [00:15:00] That is, to attend to the emergency, the victims, [00:15:04] etc., they are still looking for the money that they have not [00:15:08] released, no, which has been the great struggle for a long [00:15:11] time, among other things, of the regime, [00:15:15] to recover that money. Let's see, if the Venezuelan gold that is in the [00:15:18] Bank of England is not recovered, [00:15:22] it seems, Jorge Rodríguez does not say it like that, but it seems that then. So they [00:15:25] cannot help the victims. Remember [00:15:28] that they have had frozen access since 2018, when the [00:15:32] British government did not recognize Nicolás Maduro's electoral victory [00:15:35] and. They say they will use the resources for [00:15:39] housing, electricity, health, and debris collection in [00:15:42] the areas affected by the earthquakes. That would be [00:15:46] the end. Now, there he talks about traceability, about [00:15:49] transparency, of course, I imagine that in the current context [00:15:53] supervised by the United States, there will surely have to be mechanisms [00:15:56] that perfectly define where that [00:15:59] money is going, but let's remember that this is not the [00:16:03] first time that this request has been made by the regime. [00:16:07] The most recent was at the beginning of July, in [00:16:10] July Delcy Rodríguez asked [00:16:13] the British king, Charles III, to release that [00:16:17] monarch has not responded publicly or has his [00:16:21] position on the request been known. [00:16:23] That is, it seems that the fulfillment of the [00:16:27] first point of the agreement is tied to the resources managed by a third party, because [00:16:31] that is how Jorge Rodríguez makes it [00:16:33] clear, no. Now, what if the resources do not arrive then? [00:16:37] So no, no, it can't be done or how, because that was not clear, [00:16:40] no. There will be an external factor to which the [00:16:44] difficulties in fulfilling what was agreed upon will be attributed, that is, in a few [00:16:48] words, to blame England, no. [00:16:51] We have not been able to do it because they have given us the money in England, will it be [00:16:54] that? These are questions, [00:16:57] no, that's why beyond the signature and the forms [00:17:00] around the communiqué, because the form [00:17:03] there, the form is very important, we have to read between the lines. [00:17:09] It will be necessary to observe who assumes that responsibility to [00:17:12] execute [00:17:14] with or without the resources they are [00:17:17] requesting. [00:17:19] That is the first, the second, the second commitment that is reached regarding [00:17:22] justice. The former deputy and representative of this sector of the [00:17:25] opposition listed the issues in general [00:17:29] terms, but listen: [00:17:32] reforms to the Organic Law of the [00:17:36] Supreme Court of Justice. Justice and [00:17:40] other laws of the justice system; b) to [00:17:43] renew and expand the judicial [00:17:46] nominations committee; c) to [00:17:48] activate a new nomination process for the [00:17:52] renewal and appointment of all [00:17:55] magistrates of the Supreme Court of [00:17:57] Justice. [00:18:01] On paper, it could seem like a relevant step, of course, on paper, [00:18:05] but here too there are questions about the details of those possible changes, especially [00:18:09] if the new rules will produce a truly independent [00:18:13] justice. And there is an evident absence, for now there is no [00:18:17] agreement on elections or on democratic guarantees, there is no mention [00:18:20] of political prisoners, so it seems that these first consensuses are built [00:18:24] around issues where there is still [00:18:28] room for agreement. Let's [00:18:31] see, how can there not be agreement on an emergency in which people affected by an [00:18:34] earthquake or a double earthquake [00:18:37] have to be attended to, right? How can there not be agreement on [00:18:43] issue of the reform of the [00:18:46] judicial branch remains very [00:18:49] ambiguous. [00:18:51] Yes, how, how are they going to agree on [00:18:55] how they are going to guarantee that it will not again be an [00:18:58] appendage of the regime? [00:19:02] They have sat at the table more than 10 times, [00:19:05] no, the real challenge is to know if the parties are [00:19:09] willing to bear the costs of fulfilling what was [00:19:11] agreed upon. [00:19:14] Who has to pay the highest cost? Well, the [00:19:18] regime, no, well it should be. I am going to take a [00:19:21] break to return with my guest. He is already in [00:19:24] Venezuela, he told me in a live stream that he wanted to return, he [00:19:27] told me crying and he returned, he is in Venezuela, [00:19:31] Roberto Marrero, lawyer and secretary of the National Assembly of Venezuela, happy, [00:19:35] smiling, I'll be back with him. [00:19:41] I always wanted my bicycle import company and one day I said [00:19:44] why not, but the road gets difficult, they close doors on you [00:19:48] and you give up, until I remembered my [00:19:51] dad, son, when it gets harder uphill, you have to [00:19:55] pedal harder, and I continued until [00:19:58] I found yes, Oscar, we approved your credit, your [00:20:01] business is ready to write its next chapter and [00:20:05] we are ready to accompany you, let's go. Your story, writes [00:20:08] ours. [00:23:02] lawyer and secretary of the National [00:23:05] joining me from Venezuela. I am very happy to [00:23:09] greet you, Roberto. Of course, I knew you were in Venezuela because [00:23:13] I follow your steps, but we had not spoken since you left [00:23:16] Miami. How are you? You look very good, happy. [00:23:21] Well, honestly, I'm happy to be in Venezuela and happy with the things that [00:23:24] are happening. I'm not going to deny that I feel [00:23:27] optimistic in this process, because [00:23:30] although we have had many negotiation tables, [00:23:33] many dialogues, none with these [00:23:36] characteristics. [00:23:39] But what is the main characteristic? That the United States is [00:23:42] behind it, no, and that Maduro is not there. [00:23:46] Maduro is not in Venezuela, Maduro is in New York, Maduro is out of [00:23:50] power and that is, it is not a small thing, no, it is not a small [00:23:53] thing that we are sitting at a dialogue table with [00:23:57] deputies who had to be in exile, the previous dialogues were not in [00:24:01] Venezuela for a simple reason, the representatives of the opposition [00:24:05] could be arrested, persecuted, at this moment they are, they go to [00:24:08] Venezuela, they can sit down, there is a transition, there is a [00:24:12] there are two commissions that sit for a week [00:24:16] and the people saw it, the public saw it, the country saw it, [00:24:19] the world saw it. And also yesterday's announcement is not a small thing, it is [00:24:23] a total renovation of the [00:24:26] judicial power in Venezuela, all the magistrates, the [00:24:30] nominations committee is expanded, the process is reopened so that new candidates can [00:24:34] register, that is, the process that Jorge [00:24:38] Rodríguez's assembly was carrying out did not enjoy the [00:24:41] credibility for decent people, who [00:24:44] really wanted to form a good TSJ, a [00:24:48] Supreme Court of Justice for the people. [00:24:50] to run. Now yes, now understanding that it is a process with [00:24:54] supervision. [00:24:56] But what will be the guarantee? I still find something [00:24:59] shocking, it is very I was listening to Enrique today, Enrique [00:25:03] Capriles, this and [00:25:06] Enrique said, how can those who destroyed the [00:25:09] country rebuild the country? It is an enormous [00:25:12] contradiction. How, how, what guarantee will there be? I mean, you have there, Maduro is no longer there, [00:25:16] Maduro is not there, but Diosdado is, Jorge is. [00:25:20] exit, claro, I understand Enrique's point and that's why, what [00:25:24] guarantee, what guarantee does the [00:25:26] participation of the same people who were [00:25:30] part of Maduro's group give you? What [00:25:33] guarantee does it give you that now it will be different, that there will be a real independence in the selection of magistrates, [00:25:37] etc.? It's that the nominations committee is being [00:25:40] reopened, it is being expanded, it's not something they [00:25:43] wanted to do, it's something that is happening evidently due to [00:25:46] the accompaniment of the United States, that is, it is not a... I understand the doubts of [00:25:50] some sectors, but no, no, no, they are not the ones who are going to appoint [00:25:54] the magistrates, they are magistrates with a standard that complies with the [00:25:58] constitution, simply by having the magistrates comply with the [00:26:01] constitution, have no political militancy, have no complaints of [00:26:05] human rights violations, have an impeccable resume, that complies with the [00:26:08] constitutional requirements, you already have a guarantee that it is a supreme power, a [00:26:12] power of autonomous justice, for the first [00:26:15] time in 27 years we have the possibility of having a supreme [00:26:19] court of justice and I remind you that this tragedy began with a [00:26:23] violation of the Supreme Court of 1999 that allowed [00:26:26] a fraudulent constituent assembly that changed the [00:26:29] constitution and they handed over to a gentleman like Chávez who came [00:26:33] from giving a coup d'état to make a constitution and change all the powers and he [00:26:36] put them for himself, now we have to institutionalize the [00:26:40] country, we have to go, as President Figuera said, [00:26:43] eating the elephant piece by piece, this, in this [00:26:47] stage, the elephant is the new supreme court of [00:26:50] justice and with that we would achieve a step, for example, so that there are no [00:26:54] more political prisoners, for example, I still have not been able to recover my [00:26:58] assets and I have had a pardon since [00:27:00] 2020. [00:27:03] But, but listen, but let's put ourselves on the other side, it could [00:27:06] work against them to have a real independence in the justice [00:27:10] system, why? Well, because there are many crimes to prosecute [00:27:13] there, no. Eh, why do you think they would [00:27:16] allow it? [00:27:19] That is something that is happening, I am on the side of Venezuela, on the side of the [00:27:22] constitution, accompanying the National [00:27:25] Assembly 2015 in the process, which is our legitimate assembly. No, I am not on the [00:27:29] side of the regime and its preferences. [00:27:33] But what I can tell you is that it is a different process, a process that is not [00:27:36] to their liking, it is a process that is happening due to the need [00:27:40] to have legal personality and elections, which is what we need [00:27:44] to be able to move forward. The big oil industries are not going to invest [00:27:47] the billions of dollars that need to be invested to rebuild [00:27:51] the oil industry in Venezuela, if they don't have guarantees. There are no [00:27:54] guarantees, there is no one, there is no legal entity that can commit [00:27:58] the state, and that is why we need a new [00:28:02] election. It is not just a matter of democracy and human rights, it is [00:28:05] also that the world, capitalism, the big [00:28:09] traditional oil companies are interested in Venezuela having clear rules, [00:28:13] legal security to be able to invest. So the economic interests of the [00:28:16] transnational oil companies converge with the interests of Venezuelans, which is [00:28:20] that we want elections and to renew the powers and a transition to democracy. [00:28:24] I am, I am completely in agreement with you. Now you say [00:28:28] something very important, right? The assembly, the last one recognized as [00:28:31] legitimate by... several countries, the one from 2015, eh, [00:28:35] ah, what a good inclusion, exactly, but again there is a terrible [00:28:38] exclusion. Nobody can deny the representation that María [00:28:42] Machado and Edmundo González have, nobody can deny it, but they are excluded from the [00:28:45] process. They already have a big flaw, [00:28:48] Roberto, it's not that it's not a flaw, because this is not about electoral [00:28:52] leadership, look, the great beneficiary of the [00:28:55] elections in Venezuela, first will be the people of Venezuela who will be able to elect [00:28:59] all the authorities, but nobody doubts that the leadership [00:29:03] that leads the polls in all public opinion studies, if an election [00:29:06] is held today or in 6 months, she will be the big winner. This is not [00:29:10] a process against María, it is a process to re-institutionalize [00:29:13] Venezuela. I'll give you an example, the primaries [00:29:16] that the opposition held, we did them because it was the right thing to do and all [00:29:20] the parties knew that María Corina would win. The Venezuelan opposition is not [00:29:24] afraid of leadership nor is it afraid of transition, it is afraid of staying [00:29:27] where we are stuck with this residual Chavismo or with [00:29:31] Maduro. That's why we moved forward. The opposition has done the [00:29:34] right thing, when it held the primaries it did not do it thinking about political calculations, we all knew [00:29:38] that she would win the primaries and Enrique Capriles knew it, Manuel Rosales knew [00:29:42] it, Henry Ramos knew it, they all knew it and the primaries were [00:29:45] pushed. Why? Because it was necessary to renew the leadership. Today it is the [00:29:49] same, we are from the National Assembly, which is the constitutionally [00:29:52] legitimate institution to appoint magistrates and to [00:29:55] appoint rectors because it is its competence, an exclusive competence of the [00:29:59] legislative branch, and well, it will do it. What is [00:30:02] happening? Because this was not possible on January 2nd, this is an unforeseen [00:30:06] situation, as you well know, where we need to re-institutionalize the [00:30:09] country and the elephant in pieces means [00:30:12] justice, we all want justice, but to whom do we [00:30:15] ask for it? To this CCJ that is absolutely theirs, a [00:30:19] TCJ that for example, in 2015, the ruling that [00:30:23] the TCJ issued was to annul the effects of the victory of the people [00:30:26] of Venezuela on December 6th with that assembly with two-thirds of the opposition and it [00:30:30] annulled it again. Exactly, something broke there, [00:30:34] there began the transition from an authoritarian government to a [00:30:37] dictatorship. [00:30:38] And [00:30:41] uh, that, that's clear to me, that is, you can't, well, there is no [00:30:45] independence of powers at this moment in Venezuela, we have to work on that, uh [00:30:49] tomorrow will dawn and we will see, Roberto, I have to go but I will [00:30:53] continue bothering you as I have done for so many years so that we continue [00:30:57] talking as this progresses so that we have our.