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[00:00:25] Hello and
[00:00:27] processes, right? What welcome to another broadcast of Telesur Noticias. I am Gustavo
[00:00:30] Prada, and immediately, we begin the broadcast with
[00:00:33] headlines.
[00:00:38] In an unprecedented inauguration, Abelardo de la Espriella
[00:00:42] threatened those who attack his government,
[00:00:45] while assuring that he will advance with fracking and the eradication
[00:00:49] of illicit crops with
[00:00:51] herbicides.
[00:00:56] Cuba welcomes social movements from Latin America
[00:01:00] and the Caribbean at the Fourth Continental Assembly of Alba
[00:01:03] Movements, which is taking place in Havana.
[00:01:06] Citizens in Lebanon took to the
[00:01:12] streets in rejection of the negotiations. We begin with information from Colombia
[00:01:16] because in an unprecedented act held in the city of
[00:01:19] Cali, Abelardo del Espriella was sworn in this Friday
[00:01:25] the cost of the climate forward as a people. On the as president of Colombia for the period 2026-2030,
[00:01:28] ending the cycle
[00:01:30] of Gustavo Petro's government. The inauguration
[00:01:33] was attended by the ultra-right presidents,
[00:01:36] Javier Milei of Argentina, Daniel
[00:01:39] Noboa of Ecuador, and José Antonio Cast of Chile,
[00:01:43] as well as diplomatic representations from Washington and the attendance of
[00:01:48] years of the armed forces in King Felipe VI of Spain. After the event held in an auditorium of the
[00:01:52] Santiago de Cali University, del Espriella
[00:01:55] moved to the facilities of the Pichiña military canton,
[00:01:58] where he delivered his first speech as president
[00:02:02] before the country's military chiefs. From that venue,
[00:02:05] he threatened those who seek to attack his government.
[00:02:10] Santo Domingo becomes the venue for and electrical networks, which I tell all citizens,
[00:02:11] seeing that in in the tiger's government,
[00:02:19] all rules
[00:02:21] of democracy
[00:02:24] will be respected.
[00:02:26] There will be no room for maneuvers
[00:02:30] that threaten
[00:02:32] the talent of our athletes in search of the stability of the nation, nor against
[00:02:35] the legitimate
[00:02:37] and their corruption networks, exercise of the mandate that begins
[00:02:39] today. We tell you that there is tension in the
[00:02:42] streets and a change of command in Colombia. While Abelardo del
[00:02:46] Espriella officially assumes as the
[00:02:50] new president of the country, thousands of citizens
[00:02:52] once again take to the streets. Their slogan is one: the defense of
[00:02:56] life and national sovereignty.
[00:03:00] Details with our colleague Tatiana
[00:03:03] Portela. While at Santiago de Cali
[00:03:05] University, Abelardo de la Estriella
[00:03:07] entrenches himself behind closed doors and with his back to the
[00:03:11] people, a few kilometers away, citizens gathered to
[00:03:15] reject what they describe as a direct provocation to the Colombian
[00:03:19] southwest. The streets respond with the strength of their
[00:03:22] history. Abelardo chooses the city of Cali, not
[00:03:25] because that represents decentralizing the action of
[00:03:29] the national government, but because what he intends
[00:03:32] is to deepen what he has called a cultural battle, a provocation.
[00:03:36] That's why we are here today. He said on August 7th, "I'm going to
[00:03:39] bring it down." Well, here we are on August 7th, when they take office in
[00:03:43] Cali, giving support
[00:03:46] in this city that has been highlighted for
[00:03:50] being the capital of resistance in Colombia and one of the strongholds
[00:03:53] also of Latin America, to tell the country that we are not
[00:03:57] afraid. The scenography of this attempt at imposition
[00:04:01] had local accomplices. Mayor Alejandro Eder
[00:04:05] militarized urban areas, closed schools, prohibited vehicle
[00:04:08] circulation, and handed over cultural spaces to dispatch his
[00:04:12] orders. They intended to make citizens invisible
[00:04:15] and erase the resistance monument from the map, the totem that reflects
[00:04:19] the more than 80 victims of the social outbreak in 2021.
[00:04:23] But the order to repress crashed against an insurmountable
[00:04:26] wall of art, culture, and... Abelardo and the ultra-right know that
[00:04:31] one of the main strongholds of social movement and electoral
[00:04:34] strength is the Colombian southwest. He wanted to
[00:04:38] provoke in Cauca, that it is a military garrison, he couldn't.
[00:04:42] He came to Cali anyway, but this is a message to the entire southwest,
[00:04:45] the department of Valle, Cauca, Nariño, Putumayo,
[00:04:49] even the Pacific, where they vote massively
[00:04:52] for Petro, for Iván Cepeda, and for the Pact, and in
[00:04:56] that case, they don't come here with a message of reconciliation or dialogue. They come to
[00:05:00] intimidate. The people will not be intimidated.
[00:05:03] We are in the containment of fascism in Colombia, which is the southwest,
[00:05:07] and we will resist peacefully, but firmly.
[00:05:10] Faced with the threats of... as an ultra-conservative model,
[00:05:14] subordinated to foreign interests, the communities'
[00:05:17] response was clear: a free and sovereign Colombia
[00:05:21] refers to the fact that it is no secret to anyone that in the past
[00:05:24] elections there was foreign money. The United States and
[00:05:28] Israel manipulated the past elections
[00:05:31] and we also have a president who is a foreigner, who
[00:05:35] is a US citizen and who swore allegiance to that
[00:05:39] country. The voice of the native peoples rises firm.
[00:05:42] Senator and indigenous leader Ida Quilcue warns that the true
[00:05:46] threat to sovereignty and life does not come from the
[00:05:48] communities, but from those who seek to impose a model of
[00:05:52] exclusion. This presence has to do with the fact
[00:05:56] that they want to send a message to the country and the world that
[00:05:59] terrorists and drug traffickers are this popular, social, and
[00:06:03] community class and not them, and knowing that in practice it is they who
[00:06:07] have been part of that process and who today defend
[00:06:10] it. So here we are as dignified peoples, as
[00:06:14] peoples who represent dignity and life and rights
[00:06:18] above all, and we go for their defense. A historic day
[00:06:22] that reveals the deep fracture between the power that entrenches
[00:06:26] itself behind guns and a people who, from the streets and
[00:06:30] monuments, defend with joy and memory the national
[00:06:33] sovereignty and dignity that, as they say, will not surrender,
[00:06:37] damn it. Tatiana Portela, Telesur, Cali,
[00:06:40] Colombia. And now we move on to information from
[00:06:44] Bolivia, where the Ministry of Defense of the Nation announced that
[00:06:48] the country will participate in Panama in the next meeting of the
[00:06:51] Coalition of the Americas against cartels. The
[00:06:55] announcement was made during the event for the 201
[00:07:01] the first air brigade of El Alto. There, Minister
[00:07:04] Ernesto Justiniano indicated that the Bolivian delegation
[00:07:08] will attend with its own agenda focused on
[00:07:11] strengthening control of borders and airspace,
[00:07:14] incorporating technology, expanding international
[00:07:17] cooperation, and improving intelligence exchange.
[00:07:21] He also emphasized the need to pursue the
[00:07:24] financing, logistics, and corruption
[00:07:27] networks that sustain
[00:07:28] drug trafficking,
[00:07:35] and attack something fundamental: the
[00:07:37] money of criminal
[00:07:39] organizations, because we can
[00:07:42] take away their drugs, but if they keep
[00:07:46] their financing, their logistics,
[00:07:49] they can rebuild. Time for a short break. We'll be
[00:07:53] back with more Telesur News.
[00:08:16] By adopting the line of sacrifice again, we assume before
[00:08:19] history the responsibility of our actions, and by making
[00:08:23] our profession of faith in a happier world for the Cuban
[00:08:27] people, we think like Martí, that the true man
[00:08:30] does not look at which side one lives better on, but at which side
[00:08:34] duty lies, and that that is the only practical man
[00:08:38] whose dream of today will be the law of tomorrow.
[00:08:41] Fidel Castro. August 8, 1955,
[00:08:45] taken from Manifesto Number One of the July 26th Movement to the
[00:08:49] people of Cuba, drafted in Mexico
[00:08:51] City.
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[00:10:00] We are back to inform you that in Venezuela, more than
[00:10:04] 90% of businesses without structural damage in La
[00:10:08] Guaira have resumed their activities six
[00:10:11] weeks after the double seismic event that shook the central
[00:10:14] coast of the country. Our colleague Leonardo Urrieta has more
[00:10:18] details.
[00:10:22] This is La Guaira, progressively,
[00:10:26] commercial activities are developing in this region. In the Maiquetía
[00:10:29] community, the largest commercial volume is concentrated. In Catia
[00:10:33] La Mar, economic activity is gradually growing, as is the
[00:10:37] case of Alejandro, who opened his business a couple of
[00:10:40] days ago. We are here at a
[00:10:42] reopening, providing service as we have always
[00:10:46] done for 34 years.
[00:10:48] Right now we have affordable prices and we have
[00:10:52] food with the same quality and taste as
[00:10:55] always, and we invite you to return to our state. The
[00:10:59] solidarity among Venezuelans is constantly
[00:11:01] manifested. This family business offers
[00:11:05] accessible prices, very hopeful to be able to
[00:11:09] contribute to the activation of economic activity in La Guaira
[00:11:13] state, specifically in the Catia La Mar parish where we
[00:11:16] are. Eh, really well, with a lot of pain, with
[00:11:19] a lot of sadness still for the loss of family members, friends,
[00:11:23] clients, but we have to move forward as a people. The people
[00:11:26] of La Guaira have understood this since what happened to us in the
[00:11:30] tragedy of 1999 and now in this
[00:11:34] 2026 that we have had to go through this very painful
[00:11:37] situation for our entire state, for our entire
[00:11:40] country, but we are still hopeful and have faith
[00:11:44] that we will move
[00:11:48] coastal strip of La Guaira, a tourist area, we met
[00:11:51] Wilfredo. He is the owner of this place where fish
[00:11:54] soup is the most requested by diners.
[00:11:57] From day zero of the earthquake, his restaurant
[00:12:01] worked to support the people.
[00:12:04] Delsis Rodríguez congratulated the delegation of the Naval
[00:12:08] School of the Bolivarian Navy located in Catia
[00:12:11] La Mar, La Guaira state, which was affected by the double
[00:12:15] seismic event. The naval school suffered the collapse of
[00:12:18] the command of soldiers and officers, deep cracks
[00:12:22] in main walls and
[00:12:25] structural damage, detachment of masonry as well as
[00:12:29] affectations to the hydro-sanitary
[00:12:34] motivated the temporary suspension of presidential
[00:12:37] activities to safeguard the integrity of cadets,
[00:12:41] officers, and civilian personnel. We now move
[00:12:44] on to other information where the interim president of
[00:12:47] Venezuela, Delsis Rodríguez, congratulated the Vinotinto
[00:12:51] football delegation after defeating Mexico in the
[00:12:55] 25th Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo
[00:12:57] 2026. Through her official Telegram
[00:13:01] channel, Rodríguez expressed the following:
[00:13:05] "Go Venezuela! With immense pride I congratulate our
[00:13:08] Vinotinto, football champions of the 25th Central American and
[00:13:12] Caribbean Games Santo Domingo
[00:13:16] 2026. Our boys demonstrated
[00:13:19] courage, dedication, and determination to achieve a
[00:13:22] victory that fills our entire country
[00:13:26] with joy. Our 'Gloria al Bravo Pueblo'
[00:13:29] resounds throughout the
[00:13:31] world."
[00:13:41] Time to move on to another topic. With the aim of strengthening
[00:13:44] resistance against imperialist aggressions in the global
[00:13:48] South, delegates from all of Latin America and the
[00:13:51] Caribbean are meeting in Cuba. Belén de los Santos
[00:13:55] tells us the details of this
[00:13:57] meeting:
[00:14:01] What unites the struggles of Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, or Haiti? How
[00:14:05] do we build a common path from different
[00:14:07] territories? This is the task facing delegates from 27
[00:14:11] countries in the Cuban capital.
[00:14:15] We started the day by making a historical overview of our
[00:14:18] experiences of socialism, which is not
[00:14:22] just history, it is present. It is our future
[00:14:26] and our references. One of the keys is to converse,
[00:14:30] to listen to learn from the experience of others. From Cuba,
[00:14:33] the importance of building always close to the
[00:14:36] people, a characteristic of Fidel, is highlighted. Among us is
[00:14:40] a fundamental principle of Fidel, which is communion with the
[00:14:43] people, that it's not that you like the people, it's not that
[00:14:47] you understand the people's problem, but that you are capable of building
[00:14:51] with the people a liberation project in which the people
[00:14:55] themselves signify, build themselves as a protagonist subject
[00:14:58] and change the reality they had to live. From the Caribbean also come
[00:15:02] the lessons of the Haitian revolution, still powerful to
[00:15:05] understand the present of the region. And a fundamental
[00:15:08] element of this construction is the emergence of a counter-hegemonic
[00:15:12] culture, not based on a new
[00:15:16] language, Creole, in a new spirituality
[00:15:20] and in new forms of work organization. This is how the
[00:15:23] discourse is built. It is not a
[00:15:26] utopia, it is a necessity, but it is also a
[00:15:29] daily practice, and that from the little we are
[00:15:32] doing in a settlement or in a camp, the way to
[00:15:36] organize, the way to produce a perspective
[00:15:40] different from capitalism, can also be a seed of
[00:15:43] socialism.
[00:15:45] In a context of imperialist advance against the region, the goal
[00:15:49] is to exchange experiences to strengthen joint
[00:15:52] strategies. That is what the fourth continental assembly of
[00:15:55] Alba Movements in Havana is about. It is
[00:15:59] fundamental to create channels of exchange
[00:16:02] between revolutionary
[00:16:05] I call the pedagogy of revolutions,
[00:16:09] to be able to nourish ourselves with all this
[00:16:12] richness and to be able to advance against the challenges
[00:16:16] of today, and today more than ever in our continent,
[00:16:20] we need to unite these processes in a necessary
[00:16:23] unity to build a necessary integration to stop an
[00:16:27] offensive that we are experiencing on the continent,
[00:16:30] which is perhaps one of the worst of all
[00:16:34] times in our history. Belén de los Santos for
[00:16:38] Telesur from Havana,
[00:16:39] Cuba.
[00:16:42] Now we move on to information from the United States, where Donald
[00:16:46] Trump's government is redoubling its migratory strategy with
[00:16:50] more detention centers, more agents on the streets, and a
[00:16:54] greater National Guard presence in Washington. The
[00:16:57] measures are already causing concern among residents,
[00:17:00] educational communities, and lawmakers. Our
[00:17:04] colleague José Leveña brings us the details.
[00:17:09] In the US capital, the increase in federal agents is already impacting
[00:17:12] migrant communities, and civil organizations denounce a climate of fear marked by
[00:17:16] detentions and family separation. I was in a
[00:17:19] prison without being a criminal,
[00:17:23] simply for coming to a country wanting to
[00:17:26] improve ourselves.
[00:17:31] Playing soccer with my
[00:17:33] friends.
[00:17:36] The other one was detained. The impact also reaches schools.
[00:17:40] Students and teachers assure that the fear of possible immigration operations
[00:17:43] already affects attendance and academic performance. We are
[00:17:49] elementary schools there are students who don't want to go to school. There is
[00:17:53] anxiety,
[00:17:55] there is, it is affecting academics, but
[00:17:58] also emotions. It is very
[00:18:00] difficult to study and focus on your studies when you are
[00:18:03] afraid of the country or where you are. He
[00:18:07] wants to make this safe and beautiful, but we know that his efforts here are
[00:18:11] making our communities more dangerous. His efforts have killed
[00:18:15] people here. His efforts are putting people in jail
[00:18:18] unjustly. As criticism grows, the Trump administration
[00:18:22] advances in the expansion of the immigration detention system.
[00:18:25] ICE prepares detention and deportation. All of this proposed was a huge
[00:18:29] disaster. They don't need more money. The
[00:18:33] agencies need reforms
[00:18:36] because the agencies are killing
[00:18:40] citizens and committing
[00:18:43] various human rights abuses. We found
[00:18:47] that the highest mortality rates were recorded in centers
[00:18:50] with the highest overcrowding. It is not
[00:18:53] necessarily the largest detention centers that have the highest
[00:18:57] rates. In fact, it is those that have
[00:18:59] experienced a very rapid increase in their
[00:19:03] population. There are too many people in small
[00:19:05] places.
[00:19:08] The hardening of immigration policy is reflected in the figures. ICE
[00:19:12] reported close to 51,000 arrests in July, the largest
[00:19:15] monthly record in its history. The offensive also reaches
[00:19:18] transportation. The White House reported that in a single day,
[00:19:22] 51 people were detained and 36 drivers were sanctioned
[00:19:26] for not meeting the English proficiency requirements. With more resources,
[00:19:29] more detention centers, and more operations, the Trump administration deepens
[00:19:32] the largest migratory offensive of recent years. While the White House
[00:19:36] presents it as a security strategy, its detractors
[00:19:40] warn that fear, family separation, and complaints of human
[00:19:43] rights violations extend much further than the border. In
[00:19:47] Washington, José Leveña,
[00:19:49] Telesur.
[00:19:54] We'll take a short break, we'll be right back.
[00:20:53] Dozens of activists representing the different
[00:20:57] political currents and religious sects
[00:20:59] that make up the social fabric of the Lebanese people
[00:21:03] gathered in the heart of the capital, Beirut, in rejection of the
[00:21:06] direct negotiations underway between the Lebanese
[00:21:10] government and Israel under the sponsorship of the United
[00:21:13] States. Jishan Wanus brings us more
[00:21:16] details.
[00:21:20] Their motto: the land is ours and the future is ours. The
[00:21:23] protesters denounced the plans for normalization of
[00:21:27] relations with Israel, and expressed their strong rejection of the framework
[00:21:31] agreement reached at the end of last June, as
[00:21:34] part of the direct negotiations between Beirut and
[00:21:38] Tel Aviv under Washington's auspices.
[00:21:41] We come to express our rejection of the
[00:21:44] direct negotiations and we do not accept that they continue with the framework agreement
[00:21:48] and with their peace plans and normalization of relations with Israel. We reject
[00:21:52] all of this and we will remain in the streets protesting and
[00:21:56] we will not leave until our demands are met. We
[00:21:59] will not remain silent in the face of the political decisions of the Lebanese
[00:22:03] government, because we are the children of this homeland
[00:22:06] and we comply with its law that penalizes any dealings with the enemy
[00:22:10] Israel, and unfortunately it is now permitted in Lebanon.
[00:22:13] We are against this normalization, we are with the
[00:22:16] homeland and we will fight for the liberation of all national territory,
[00:22:20] while you, those who negotiate, go to the dustbin of history. The
[00:22:24] participants in the sit-in that took place in Riada
[00:22:28] Sul Square in front of the seat of the Lebanese government in Beirut,
[00:22:31] denounced that the diplomatic course adopted by the
[00:22:34] cabinet of their country, which criminalizes
[00:22:37] resistance and blames it for the current Israeli
[00:22:41] aggressive escalation against Lebanon, does nothing but
[00:22:44] legitimize occupation, ignore the national
[00:22:48] interests of the Lebanese people,
[00:22:50] and endanger the future of the
[00:22:52] nation.
[00:22:56] We denounce that our government sold the southern region of the country and prevents
[00:22:59] us, through the framework agreement, from prosecuting the
[00:23:03] aggressors at a time when the southern region is being completely
[00:23:06] destroyed and they are doing nothing. Where is the
[00:23:10] government? Why is it silent? And that is why we come today to
[00:23:13] ratify our rejection of the framework agreement and to
[00:23:16] ensure that even if they kill us all, we will continue
[00:23:20] fighting and resisting and we will not abandon Lebanon and all its
[00:23:24] territory will be liberated, led by the southern region, because without
[00:23:27] southern Lebanon there is no Lebanon, either we all die or we all live.
[00:23:31] Internal dialogue, national unity, and the union
[00:23:35] between the people, army, resistance, and government,
[00:23:38] are key to ending the occupation, stopping the war,
[00:23:42] restoring security, stability, and
[00:23:45] rebuilding the country's future, as the protesters
[00:23:48] affirmed, in rejection of any kind of
[00:23:52] foreign dictates and in defense of their
[00:23:55] legitimate right to self-
[00:23:56] determination.
[00:24:00] Despite the continuous popular demonstrations of
[00:24:03] rejection of direct negotiations with Israel, the Lebanese
[00:24:06] government continues with these conversations, which it
[00:24:09] defends, constitute the best option to stop the
[00:24:13] war and restore security in the country, an official
[00:24:16] vision that much of the Lebanese people.
[00:24:29] This concludes the broadcast. Stay tuned to Telesur.
[00:24:49] Faced with adversity, the will of the people will never
[00:24:52] be broken.
[00:24:58] With firm steps and real actions, we rebuild
[00:25:01] every Venezuelan home. We remain
[00:25:04] united in a single plan, with the invincible strength that
[00:25:07] defines us, because Venezuela
[00:25:10] is reborn.