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[00:00:03] 14 transport companies, which
[00:00:58] thermal power plants that run on gas,
[00:01:44] was not the only warning from the Minister
[00:02:34] It was obviously much more than what
[00:04:01] return because what
[00:04:03] they left changed and what
[00:05:10] old from being run over on
[00:05:20] Welcome to our Prime Time broadcast with Alejandra Forero.
[00:05:24] Next, our headlines.
[00:05:28] Judge gives the government five weeks to find a solution
[00:05:32] to the issue of UTVs and Aruba Bear Life
[00:05:35] Conservation. Salary app facilitates minimum wage
[00:05:38] calculation in Aruba. Transporters reinforce their
[00:05:42] units after attacks on transportation in Peru, a
[00:05:46] father risks his life and saves a girl from being run over,
[00:05:50] bought a ghost town on a bet and is now the only
[00:05:54] inhabitant. At this time, and every day,
[00:05:57] I am pleased to greet our viewers, giving them, as always, a
[00:06:01] warm welcome to our Prime Time broadcast with Alejandra
[00:06:04] Forero. It is a great pleasure to greet you, hoping that you had
[00:06:08] an excellent Thursday. We begin with
[00:06:11] local news and finally, it seems there is a light at the end of the
[00:06:15] tunnel. Yesterday, the government sat down with representatives
[00:06:18] of the UTVs or ATVs and
[00:06:22] tourist operators to try to reconcile
[00:06:26] with what the court also indicated, giving
[00:06:30] the government five weeks to
[00:06:33] sit down and find a balance between what
[00:06:36] Aruba Bear Life Conservation and these
[00:06:40] tourist operators have been. We know that the impact has
[00:06:44] been carried out all this week. The Court of First Instance of
[00:06:47] Aruba decided to postpone for five weeks the case concerning
[00:06:51] access and protection of the north coast, a dispute that
[00:06:55] pits environmental conservation against the activity
[00:06:58] of UTV and ATV tour operators,
[00:07:01] which are all-terrain vehicles. In its
[00:07:04] decision, the judge established a clear
[00:07:07] condition: the government of Aruba must sit down to dialogue with the
[00:07:11] organization Aruba Beer Life Conservation, known as
[00:07:15] ABC, to seek a solution that also takes into
[00:07:18] account the interests of the tourist sector and the community.
[00:07:22] The judicial process will continue next October. According
[00:07:26] to the Court, in this case there are legitimate interests
[00:07:29] that must be balanced. On the one hand, Aruba Bear Life
[00:07:32] Conservation advocates for the protection of flora and fauna in
[00:07:36] protected natural areas, but on the other hand, tourist
[00:07:39] operators also seek to maintain an
[00:07:43] economic activity that for years has been permitted and is their
[00:07:47] daily bread. The judge also warned that the
[00:07:50] government must immediately set the date of the meetings and
[00:07:54] demonstrate good faith participation in this dialogue, otherwise
[00:07:57] the case will proceed more quickly
[00:08:01] and without further extensions. Meanwhile, the government
[00:08:04] and several of the main tour operators signed a
[00:08:08] protocol to continue negotiations. The document proposes
[00:08:11] discussing measures such as fixed routes, regulated
[00:08:15] access for small groups, zoning, environmental
[00:08:19] controls, noise reduction, and even a possible fee
[00:08:23] system for entering natural areas. Although this
[00:08:26] protocol does not modify the judicial process, it opens a
[00:08:30] 5-week window to try to reach an
[00:08:33] agreement that allows protection of Aruba's natural
[00:08:37] heritage without jeopardizing a key activity for
[00:08:40] the island's economy and tourism.
[00:08:44] Now workers and employers
[00:08:47] have the Salary app where they can confirm that
[00:08:51] the minimum wage payment is being made as it should be, and the
[00:08:55] best part is that it comes in four different languages: Spanish,
[00:08:58] Papiamento, English, and Dutch.
[00:09:02] The Ministry of Labor and the Department of Labor Affairs and
[00:09:06] Research Dao expanded the Salary application, a
[00:09:10] tool created to facilitate the calculation and verification of the
[00:09:13] hourly minimum wage in Aruba. The application is now
[00:09:17] available in four languages: Dutch, Papiamento, English, and
[00:09:20] Spanish, with the aim that both workers and
[00:09:23] employers can access clear and reliable information
[00:09:27] about their labor rights and obligations. The
[00:09:31] salary app was developed especially to accompany
[00:09:34] the transition to the new hourly minimum wage system that came into
[00:09:38] effect on January 1st of this year, with a rate of 11
[00:09:41] florins and 58 cents per hour. The
[00:09:44] tool allows for quick and easy calculation
[00:09:47] of the salary and checking if the remuneration
[00:09:51] corresponds to what is established by law. The government also
[00:09:54] anticipates that the application will continue to be developed to
[00:09:58] become a tool that allows workers to
[00:10:02] practically verify the salary they
[00:10:05] receive. For calculations, the weekly salary is
[00:10:08] obtained by multiplying the hours worked by 11 florins
[00:10:12] and 58 cents per week. The application and
[00:10:15] informational materials are available through
[00:10:18] dao aruba also in different
[00:10:21] languages. Changing the subject.
[00:10:25] Donata became the employee of the month for August at the
[00:10:28] hospital, where she was pleasantly
[00:10:32] surprised by the board of directors and her colleagues
[00:10:35] in a very pleasant moment.
[00:10:48] Hospital, but he starts as an intern,
[00:10:51] vacation, help, contract of the Beast.
[00:13:30] We begin our international round in Peru, where
[00:13:33] after the attacks that transporters have suffered
[00:13:37] in recent days, they had to literally shield
[00:13:41] their buses to avoid these
[00:13:43] attacks.
[00:13:46] The driver's cabin converted into a shield against the attacks of
[00:13:50] extortionists, public transport companies are starting to
[00:13:53] reinforce the place.
[00:13:58] Look at this unit, the driver is already protected by an
[00:14:01] armored cabin that allows him to carry out his operations regularly.
[00:14:05] This is only one of the 250
[00:14:09] vehicles that will be part of the first phase of
[00:14:12] work, the armored cabin is a cabin that will
[00:14:16] be improved because this is still the demo plan, now inside the
[00:14:19] cabin we have a camera with artificial intelligence that is
[00:14:23] inside and a camera
[00:14:25] also for the internal part that is there. This camera will
[00:14:29] focus on everything inside the bus, they have
[00:14:32] 87 artificial intelligence algorithms that will allow, for example,
[00:14:36] detecting people with weapons, knives, hooded people with
[00:14:39] masks. It will also send an alert directly to the municipality's
[00:14:43] police central and to the central we also have in our
[00:14:47] maneuvering yards. Protection is not only
[00:14:50] inside, we also have even some plates here,
[00:14:53] these are armored steel plates
[00:14:57] that protect the entire lower part of the driver, this plate
[00:15:01] surrounds the entire part of the bus, the driver is completely protected,
[00:15:04] there is no way for the criminal to shoot and
[00:15:08] reach the driver with this
[00:15:11] armored cabin. The initiative begins with the
[00:15:14] companies,
[00:15:16] the companies assume the cost of their implements, while Semape
[00:15:20] provides guidance for their installation, assembly and interconnection with
[00:15:24] their central module. At this moment we have five
[00:15:27] subscribed companies representing 250 buses that we will
[00:15:31] progressively implement, but the
[00:15:34] benefit of the works we have been implementing, such as the... around
[00:15:37] Chuquitanda, have benefited
[00:15:41] represents an approximate total of 500
[00:15:45] buses, and we go to Colombia because the
[00:15:49] Minister of Mines and Energy gave an ultimatum and
[00:15:52] specified that if the El Niño phenomenon continues to arrive as it is
[00:15:56] currently doing, then there will be power outages, but also
[00:16:00] an increase in the cost of electricity service, which will
[00:16:04] also affect users.
[00:16:10] The Minister of Mines and Energy, Maria Noemi
[00:16:13] Arboleda, was direct during a political control
[00:16:16] debate in Congress. She said that electricity rates will
[00:16:20] have to rise if drought conditions increase due to the
[00:16:23] El Niño phenomenon, and explained the relationship by saying that as water
[00:16:27] becomes scarcer, there will be more difficulties for hydroelectric
[00:16:30] generation, forcing an increase in the use of
[00:16:35] which makes energy generation more expensive. Let's not
[00:16:39] kid ourselves, the rate has to go up. Why does the rate have to
[00:16:43] go up? Because the resources are no longer the same, those that will meet all the
[00:16:46] demand. That is, the one who will set the marginal price is someone who has
[00:16:49] gas, gas that costs a lot and that is also growing due to the problems that
[00:16:53] exist internationally. The possibility of a rate increase
[00:16:57] appears amidst a growing risk of blackouts in the
[00:17:00] country. At this moment, we have to turn on the
[00:17:03] thermal power plants, those that run on gas, at full capacity to
[00:17:07] compensate for what is coming in the coming months, and that
[00:17:10] means having that gas available, and that gas,
[00:17:14] I insist, is being paid three times more than what we traditionally
[00:17:18] paid for it in Colombia. But it
[00:17:22] in the economic commissions. She warned that the budget requested for
[00:17:26] 2027 does not have sufficient resources to
[00:17:29] cover electricity subsidies, which aggravates the
[00:17:32] outlook in the sector. To try to save energy, the government has already
[00:17:35] issued punitive measures for those who consume more than 10%
[00:17:39] of their monthly average and benefits for those who do the
[00:17:43] opposite, that is, who save more than 10% of their
[00:17:46] average consumption.
[00:17:49] Hundreds of engineers traveled from Mexico to the United States
[00:17:53] after a promise that a supposed company had
[00:17:56] given them to work for super-important
[00:17:59] companies. When they arrived in the United States, they had to
[00:18:02] work in construction, that is, as construction
[00:18:05] workers. This is their story.
[00:18:12] he earned there in Mexico as an engineer, and
[00:18:15] Isidro Arellano says he was in his last year of engineering school
[00:18:18] when he saw an advertisement at his university in
[00:18:22] Mexico. He says the ad was for engineering positions in automobile
[00:18:26] factories in the United States. The ideal
[00:18:29] candidates were young engineers or technicians from
[00:18:32] Mexico willing to work north of the border.
[00:18:36] It sounded like an excellent opportunity, yes, because it
[00:18:39] gave me the opportunity to come to another country where I knew nothing about the
[00:18:42] culture, besides the
[00:18:46] activities they mentioned
[00:18:49] sounded appropriate, in line with what I had
[00:18:52] studied. Full of dreams, Arellano says he traveled to the United States
[00:18:56] in 2021 for what he describes as a quality
[00:18:59] engineering job whose functions included taking
[00:19:03] precise measurements for auto parts. When you were
[00:19:06] in the hiring process, did you ever stop to think
[00:19:10] that all this probably sounded too good to
[00:19:14] be true? Yes, it crossed my mind once or twice.
[00:19:17] A class-action lawsuit filed in
[00:19:20] 2022 in a federal court in Atlanta alleges that
[00:19:24] Arellano and 600 other Mexican workers were
[00:19:27] induced to move to the United States with false
[00:19:31] promises of skilled work, but
[00:19:34] were relegated to performing assembly line work,
[00:19:37] subjected to six 12-hour shifts per
[00:19:41] week with mandatory overtime, while
[00:19:44] US-born workers were not,
[00:19:48] and earning half of what US-born workers earned
[00:19:52] for the same job in the same place. They say that
[00:19:55] when they arrived in
[00:19:58] Georgia, the situation was totally
[00:20:02] different, that they had to do manual
[00:20:06] labor, heavy labor, and that they were not
[00:20:09] paid correctly.
[00:20:13] And look at these shocking images, in a matter of
[00:20:17] seconds a man risks his life to save the
[00:20:21] life of a child who, due to her parents' carelessness, was about to cross the
[00:20:25] street. Truly, this man is known as a hero without
[00:20:28] a cape.
[00:20:38] He didn't think twice and acted. Luis Enrique Cruz
[00:20:41] is the hero without a cape who saved a girl of
[00:20:44] approximately 3 years
[00:20:47] 11 Sur in Puebla City on Sunday, September 6.
[00:20:51] The video of the heroic act went viral
[00:20:55] worldwide. Upon seeing that the minor was in danger,
[00:20:58] Luis ran to help her, also risking his
[00:21:01] life. I felt
[00:21:04] desperate to save her,
[00:21:07] to prevent anything from happening to her.
[00:21:10] And then there was the satisfaction
[00:21:16] happened, that nothing serious happened and that...
[00:21:20] well, today the girl is safe and sound with her
[00:21:22] dad. He was at the right time, in
[00:21:26] the right place. The events occurred around 2 in the
[00:21:29] afternoon when the store he manages was about to close.
[00:21:33] Luis was arranging the merchandise to
[00:21:37] put it in the establishment when he saw that
[00:21:40] the little girl was running towards 11 Sur, one of the
[00:21:43] busiest avenues in Puebla. At that moment I
[00:21:47] notice a girl running out. I don't see
[00:21:51] her returning and I continue with my business,
[00:21:54] but she runs into the road, so
[00:21:58] at that moment I didn't
[00:22:01] think, I reacted on my paternal instinct of
[00:22:05] having, I have a child of more or less that
[00:22:08] age, so at that moment the only thing I did was
[00:22:12] want to save the girl. A couple passed by, a couple was
[00:22:15] passing and well, they passed, they were in their own world
[00:22:19] and he did notice it. Even the girl hurt her foot
[00:22:23] because she is seen falling, so he did not think about it, he threw himself and
[00:22:26] literally caught her, he stopped the walk because you can even hear the
[00:22:30] sound there too that stops her to help the girl. At the moment of
[00:22:34] helping, his children came to mind, well, this
[00:22:37] 34-year-old man is the father of four minors and
[00:22:41] one of them is the age of the little girl he
[00:22:45] saved. Migration can be a topic that
[00:22:49] not only affects people at the level of their documents, but
[00:22:52] according to experts, it could also affect their mental
[00:22:55] health, speaking of how they are not only far from their
[00:22:59] family, but also perhaps going through situations that are
[00:23:03] affecting them emotionally and
[00:23:05] morally.
[00:23:08] In the last 4 years, more than 51,000 people have
[00:23:11] returned to El Salvador, according to statistics confirmed by the
[00:23:15] International Organization for Migration, which poses significant
[00:23:19] economic and community challenges.
[00:23:22] However, migrating does not mean simply changing countries. For
[00:23:26] thousands of people, the process involves leaving behind an entire
[00:23:30] life built over decades, with much fear, with much
[00:23:33] persecution, this, that fear of
[00:23:37] having to separate from their family affects
[00:23:41] not only the moment they do it, if it
[00:23:45] happens to them, but the anticipatory fear
[00:23:49] is terrible, it is a hypervigilance that
[00:23:52] affects the nervous system. Talking about mental health among the
[00:23:55] migrant population also means combating stigma. Many
[00:23:59] people may avoid asking for help for fear of being
[00:24:02] judged. This double uprooting
[00:24:06] causes a profound impact
[00:24:10] mainly on social inclusion processes,
[00:24:13] on productive inclusion processes.
[00:24:17] Because they don't, they don't, they don't
[00:24:22] is called the migratory grief
[00:24:26] they are going through at this moment. Specialists and
[00:24:30] organizations working with migrants highlight that many
[00:24:33] people do not end up being well due to not having a concrete
[00:24:37] place to feel at home. The longer they are
[00:24:41] away, the more difficult the return will be, it will be like another
[00:24:44] immigration, one never,
[00:24:47] never, once one leaves, one cannot
[00:24:53] and one also changed, it is totally another
[00:24:57] cultural reintegration, of
[00:24:59] identity, with family, with friends.
[00:25:11] States.
[00:25:13] Our story was built by
[00:26:04] people, neighbors helping neighbors, standing side
[00:26:07] by side with those who trust us, to protect what matters
[00:26:10] most and help build our communities,
[00:26:14] being there when needed most,
[00:26:18] across borders, across
[00:26:21] generations, still growing,
[00:26:24] still giving, still just getting
[00:26:28] started after 185.
[00:26:31] We continue with more information on
[00:28:32] Prime Time. This month of September is commemorated
[00:28:36] as Anti-Suicide Month, the Yellow Month, where in
[00:28:40] countries like the United States, more awareness is
[00:28:43] generated about the suicide rate that unfortunately continues
[00:28:47] to affect people, especially military personnel. That's
[00:28:51] why it is said that 17 people, that is,
[00:28:54] retired members of the armed forces, unfortunately
[00:28:58] take their own lives due to the situation they go
[00:29:01] through. Today on Prime Time, we talk about your health, so take
[00:29:05] care of it.
[00:29:15] When she was a young soldier, Shante Franco says she felt that life was not
[00:29:18] worth living. At that time, she didn't know she suffered from
[00:29:22] post-traumatic stress disorder.
[00:29:26] She also didn't try to seek support because she felt that if she did,
[00:29:29] she would be a burden to others. She says she
[00:29:33] survived two suicide attempts, and even
[00:29:36] then she couldn't imagine a future. It wasn't until a neighbor
[00:29:40] noticed that something wasn't right that she finally
[00:29:44] found the will to free herself from that burden she had carried for
[00:29:47] years.
[00:29:50] You can't address a problem without talking about the problem in its
[00:29:53] entirety. Warning signs that someone might be
[00:29:57] considering suicide
[00:30:00] family, friends, or activities,
[00:30:04] giving away valuable possessions, engaging in reckless
[00:30:07] behavior, increasing alcohol or other substance
[00:30:11] use, neglecting personal care, significant
[00:30:15] changes in behavior, or talking about feeling
[00:30:18] trapped, like a burden, or without purpose.