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[00:00:00] so you don't miss our content, only on Telesur.
[00:00:20] important days, in my opinion, in
[00:00:37] pencil what Since Donald Trump's return to the
[00:00:40] White House, the United States has turned tariffs into
[00:00:45] governability of progressive projects in an instrument of political pressure, into a weapon. The measures against Mexico, Canada, China
[00:00:49] and Brazil have opened a new stage of commercial tensions on the
[00:00:53] continent. Canada responded eye
[00:00:55] than ever before in for an eye and tooth for a tooth with tariffs on hundreds of American
[00:00:58] products, while Mexico has been under
[00:01:02] pressure to strengthen border control and
[00:01:05] avoid new penalties. Brazil,
[00:01:08] for its part, is accelerating its financial ties with China and the
[00:01:12] Well, the use of BRICS in defense of its own mechanisms such as PIX, which is
[00:01:15] tool as part of a new ecosystem of instant payments and against the
[00:01:19] dominance of the dollar. But this tariff
[00:01:21] war also hits the United States. The costs end up
[00:01:25] in the pockets of its consumers, affect
[00:01:28] supply chains and expose the agricultural sector to
[00:01:32] commercial reprisals. More than
[00:01:34] trade, the dispute reveals a battle for political and
[00:01:38] financial control of the region, amidst the advance of China, the
[00:01:41] BRICS and the search for alternatives to the system dominated by
[00:01:45] Washington, the US tariff war,
[00:01:49] commercial pressure and geopolitical dispute,
[00:01:51] let's put the point on the
[00:01:54] sur, as every year, the United law.
[00:02:18] On Saturday, August 22, the bilateral relationship between Washington and
[00:02:21] Ottawa suffered a critical fracture after the failure of high-level
[00:02:25] negotiations held in the US
[00:02:28] capital. On that day, extraordinary tariffs of
[00:02:32] 50% imposed
[00:02:35] by Donald Trump on Canadian exports worth some 20
[00:02:39] billion dollars, equivalent to 5.5% of its
[00:02:43] shipments to US
[00:02:46] guests in territory, came into force. Faced with the breakdown of dialogue, Canadian Prime Minister
[00:02:50] Markney ordered the immediate withdrawal of his delegates in
[00:02:54] Washington and formally described the White
[00:02:57] House's maneuver as an unviable and unfair
[00:03:00] trade war under USMCA
[00:03:01] rules.
[00:03:06] We have consistently proposed long-term partnerships, while
[00:03:10] the United States has often sought short-term
[00:03:13] transactions. The gap between partners and competitors, unfortunately, has
[00:03:17] remained too wide in recent days. That is why last night I
[00:03:21] instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot
[00:03:24] accept what they have offered and we are not going to give what they have
[00:03:27] asked for.
[00:03:33] The Prime Minister also indicated in a post on his social
[00:03:36] network X that Canada will match the new US
[00:03:40] tariffs, dollar for dollar. In addition, we are
[00:03:43] implementing new and improved measures worth
[00:03:47] 7.5 billion dollars to support
[00:03:49] Canadian workers and businesses. This is in addition to almost
[00:03:53] 25 million dollars
[00:03:55] in aid implemented since the imposition of unjustified US
[00:03:59] tariffs, united in defending Canadian jobs, industries
[00:04:03] and families. On
[00:04:05] Tuesday, September 8, a package of retaliatory tariffs designed
[00:04:09] to respond dollar for dollar,
[00:04:13] taxing more than 700 US products, valued
[00:04:17] between 20,000 and 27 million dollars with direct
[00:04:21] impacts on strategic industries such as
[00:04:23] dairy, steel, paper, agricultural machinery,
[00:04:26] and electronics, came into effect. The impact of this tariff clash
[00:04:30] immediately shifted to consumers and businesses. In the United
[00:04:33] States, a gallon of gasoline exceeded
[00:04:35] $4.15 and analysts project an additional cost
[00:04:41] then of more than $1,100 annually per household. Meanwhile, Trump
[00:04:43] intensified his pressure, threatening to veto Canadian
[00:04:46] aircraft manufacturer Bombardier if it does
[00:04:49] not move its plants to US
[00:04:52] The relocation of soil. Unfortunately, Donald Trump's
[00:04:56] government has accustomed us to this type of
[00:04:59] practice: threats, coercion,
[00:05:03] blackmail. And in this case, the
[00:05:06] use of
[00:05:08] not generate new American tariffs as a tool for blackmail is very
[00:05:12] evident, even against important partners, important
[00:05:16] commercial partners of the United States itself.
[00:05:20] Unfortunately, Trump has not
[00:05:22] shown respect for legality
[00:05:26] or the basis
[00:05:29] of what international relations are.
[00:05:32] We have seen it in several aspects, not only
[00:05:35] economic, but in economic it is also reflected in this
[00:05:39] specific case with how, as he said,
[00:05:43] the Prime Minister of Canada, the United States
[00:05:47] seems to sign with
[00:05:50] it has agreed to, meaning that the signature is
[00:05:53] later erased and that it does not respect even what they themselves have
[00:05:57] agreed to. Beyond the clash with
[00:06:00] Canada, Washington's tariff offensive
[00:06:04] seeks to turn trade into a mechanism of geopolitical
[00:06:08] pressure, in a region where trade
[00:06:11] between Mexico, Canada and the United States exceeds a trillion dollars
[00:06:15] a year, the White House not only discusses tariffs,
[00:06:19] it pressures to condition sovereign decisions,
[00:06:22] toughen migration control and stop
[00:06:25] the advance of China and the BRICS. The regional response
[00:06:29] oscillates between negotiation,
[00:06:32] border reinforcement and diplomatic
[00:06:34] confrontation. On Sunday, February 2,
[00:06:38] 2025, Donald Trump signed in the Oval Office
[00:06:41] in Washington, Executive Orders invoking the International
[00:06:45] Emergency Economic Powers Act, setting punitive tariffs of
[00:06:48] between 10 and 25% against its partners
[00:06:52] in the American continent to extract immediate
[00:06:55] political concessions. In North America, the Mexican government,
[00:06:58] headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum in
[00:07:02] Mexico City, resorted to diplomatic containment to
[00:07:05] safeguard its industrial integration. The
[00:07:08] United States government,
[00:07:11] after 30 days of pause, unilaterally
[00:07:15] unilateralmente
[00:07:17] decided to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican
[00:07:20] exports,
[00:07:23] despite the trade treaty signed by President Trump himself
[00:07:26] in his first term. I want to make
[00:07:30] clear today that we will always
[00:07:33] seek a negotiated
[00:07:36] solution, as we have proposed within
[00:07:40] the framework of respect for our sovereignty. But the
[00:07:44] unilateral decision taken
[00:07:46] by the United States affects national
[00:07:49] and foreign companies operating in our country
[00:07:52] and affects our peoples.
[00:07:56] Therefore, we have decided to respond with
[00:07:59] tariff and non-tariff measures. After
[00:08:03] emergency bilateral calls in February
[00:08:06] 2025, Mexico deployed 10,000 National Guard
[00:08:09] troops on its northern and southern borders to
[00:08:13] curb migration and intercept fentanyl
[00:08:16] chemical precursors, managing to pause the 25% tariffs
[00:08:19] pending the renegotiation of USMCA.
[00:08:23] In South America, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da
[00:08:27] Silva directly confronted the onslaught in Brasília on
[00:08:30] Tuesday, April 15, 2025, after the
[00:08:33] office of the United States Trade Representative opened
[00:08:36] investigations against the national digital payment system
[00:08:40] (PIX) and imposed tariffs on steel.
[00:08:43] Brazil responded by approving a commercial reciprocity law and
[00:08:47] reorienting record exports of soybeans, meat and coffee
[00:08:50] to the Chinese market and the alliance with the BRICS group:
[00:08:54] Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
[00:08:58] We want, uh, emperor.
[00:09:01] We are sovereign countries.
[00:09:05] Well, if he thinks he can tax, countries
[00:09:09] have the right to tax too. There is.
[00:09:14] The United States has transformed into a country, uh, that we could
[00:09:18] say has a failed state at an international
[00:09:21] level, because one never knows how the United States
[00:09:24] will act. And in that framework,
[00:09:28] we know that from the White House the
[00:09:31] interests of the power groups of the United
[00:09:34] States will be projected, but without
[00:09:37] any rules, without respecting signed trade
[00:09:40] agreements, without respecting
[00:09:42] historical agreements with partners who are
[00:09:46] not commercial but political partners like
[00:09:49] NATO partners, without
[00:09:52] respecting international agreements that the
[00:09:56] United States itself has adhered to, without respecting the
[00:09:59] laws and norms of the United
[00:10:02] Nations. So it has become a
[00:10:05] state, uh, that really
[00:10:08] destabilizes everything that is international
[00:10:12] legality and legal legality and the
[00:10:15] possibility of projecting something long term
[00:10:19] with, uh, as partners of that
[00:10:21] country. The figures dismantle the
[00:10:25] discourse, the tariff war not only punishes US partners, it also
[00:10:29] hits its own economy. With tariffs
[00:10:33] reaching up to 25 and 50%, Washington puts
[00:10:36] at risk a deeply integrated production chain.
[00:10:39] A large part of imported oil comes from Canada, and in the automotive
[00:10:42] industry, parts such as engines and transmissions cross borders several
[00:10:46] times before final assembly. So
[00:10:50] each new tax makes production more expensive,
[00:10:54] alters logistics, and weakens the North American
[00:10:57] bloc. And when Washington imposes tariffs
[00:11:01] on its partners, it also charges its
[00:11:34] own economy. We are not satisfied with the headline of the moment
[00:11:37] or the trending topic that others set. Here we
[00:11:40] analyze the real impact of what happens in the
[00:11:44] world and on your screen. From Monday to Friday,
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[00:12:46] States, José Leveña and Henry
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[00:13:03] the South American giant is in constant
[00:14:18] The White House promises that tariffs will punish its
[00:14:22] competitors and bring jobs back to the United States. That's the
[00:14:25] promise, but the truth is that the bill is not paid by foreign
[00:14:29] powers, it is paid by importers,
[00:14:31] companies and ultimately American
[00:14:34] families. The surcharges end up in the prices
[00:14:38] of food, consumer goods and national
[00:14:41] production. Meanwhile, the trade deficit
[00:14:45] exceeds a trillion dollars.
[00:14:47] Protectionism does not reactivate industry, it makes life more expensive
[00:14:51] and weakens production chains. The tariff that promised
[00:14:55] Leo ends up being collected in the pockets of
[00:14:58] workers. That's how things are. The
[00:15:01] tariff offensive of Donald Trump's second term formally
[00:15:05] began on Saturday, February 1, 2025, in Washington, when
[00:15:09] the magnate invoked extraordinary national security
[00:15:12] powers to tax continental trade. Faced with the
[00:15:16] discourse that presents tariffs as a direct charge to
[00:15:19] foreign countries, US customs regulations
[00:15:23] stipulate that the tariff is paid by the US importing company
[00:15:27] at the border, unleashing an inflationary effect on processed
[00:15:30] foods, clothing and technology.
[00:15:34] In a few minutes I will begin.
[00:15:37] historical that institutes
[00:15:40] reciprocal tariffs in countries all over the
[00:15:44] world. That is, if they do it to us, we do it to
[00:15:48] them.
[00:15:54] This is one of the most
[00:15:58] American history and it is the declaration of economic
[00:16:01] independence. For
[00:16:04] years I have worked with American citizens who
[00:16:07] were forced to sit aside while other nations grew
[00:16:11] very rich at our expense. But
[00:16:14] today it is our turn to prosper and by
[00:16:17] doing so with trillions and trillions of
[00:16:20] dollars, reducing our taxes and paying our national debt, and
[00:16:24] everything will happen very quickly with today's actions. We are finally
[00:16:28] going to be able to make America great again, greater
[00:16:33] the manufacturing industry.
[00:16:36] The application of these tariffs since February 2025
[00:16:39] fractured integrated assembly in North America, because these
[00:16:43] engine parts, cables and transmissions cross the borders
[00:16:47] between Mexico, the United States and
[00:16:50] Canada up to eight times before a car is finished. The customs
[00:16:54] tariff increased the final cost per vehicle by
[00:16:57] between $300 and $6,000, reducing the competitiveness of
[00:17:01] Detroit plants compared to the Asian industry.
[00:17:04] Well, there's a logic that had been
[00:17:07] established in NAFTA and that had to do with
[00:17:11] companies being able to locate the
[00:17:14] manufacturing of different parts, but especially in the
[00:17:17] automotive industry, uh, some located
[00:17:20] in Mexico, others in the United
[00:17:24] States, others in Canada. The
[00:17:27] fact that a product starts to be manufactured in
[00:17:31] the United States, goes to Mexico, finishes,
[00:17:34] advances in its process, returns to the United States,
[00:17:37] returns to generate another part of that process to then go to
[00:17:41] Canada, finish that assembly and return to
[00:17:45] the United States means that the border between those countries is crossed
[00:17:49] several times. The tariffs
[00:17:52] imposed by Trump made
[00:17:55] it so that every time a product
[00:17:59] crossed that border, it had to pay a tax
[00:18:02] and then went back the other way, it had to pay the tax
[00:18:06] again. So that has greatly
[00:18:10] harmed large industries. General Motors, Ford, have
[00:18:13] shown declines
[00:18:16] in their revenues due to
[00:18:20] this high cost of tariffs. The
[00:18:24] US agricultural sector absorbed the most
[00:18:27] severe blow due to immediate retaliations imposed by trading
[00:18:31] partners. The closure of markets for soybeans,
[00:18:34] corn and pork in China, Brazil and Canada
[00:18:37] forced the US Department of Agriculture to disburse
[00:18:41] multi-billion dollar federal subsidy packages, financed by the
[00:18:45] public treasury, to prevent the bankruptcy of farmers in the Midwest.
[00:18:48] Far from reactivating the US industrial
[00:18:51] belt, the taxes in force since early
[00:18:54] 2025 accelerated the flight of manufacturing investments to
[00:18:58] Southeast Asian economies such as Vietnam and India, while
[00:19:02] consolidating South-South trade between South
[00:19:05] America and Asia that leaves
[00:19:07] North American industry isolated from emerging
[00:19:09] markets.
[00:19:12] Trump sought to generate, under pressure,
[00:19:15] the reindustrialization
[00:19:19] of the United States, North American industries, especially
[00:19:22] the automotive industry, but the
[00:19:25] different technological ones had gone to
[00:19:28] look for other places with cheaper labor and
[00:19:31] especially to go to China.
[00:19:34] No, that's where the great competition is. of
[00:19:38] the United States and the great rivalry, its trade
[00:19:40] war with China, in that case
[00:19:44] uh, this conflict what
[00:19:47] it did was try on the one hand
[00:19:50] to generate that China stop
[00:19:53] buying a large part of the soybean production
[00:19:57] from the United States, for which Trump had
[00:20:00] to give subsidies to the North
[00:20:04] American agricultural sectors
[00:20:06] to... increase or compensate for the
[00:20:10] drop in exports of those
[00:20:13] products. And
[00:20:18] what happened was that the
[00:20:21] tariffs he tried to impose to get companies
[00:20:24] back to the United States were not effective.
[00:20:30] North American industry, although some of those industries
[00:20:33] stopped being in China, went to
[00:20:37] Mexico, went to other places closer
[00:20:41] to the United States, but not to the United States itself. They did
[00:20:46] labor or restore
[00:20:50] North American industry, as was supposed or as Trump
[00:20:53] thought those measures would
[00:20:56] impact. Well, it turns out that behind the
[00:21:00] tariffs there is a whole strategy of political pressure. The dependence
[00:21:04] of many Latin American economies on the US market gives Washington
[00:21:08] a tool to condition sovereign
[00:21:11] decisions, and while the countries attacked by
[00:21:14] Washington try to seek financial alternatives, the White
[00:21:18] House tries to impose its agenda on the region. It's not
[00:21:22] just trade, it's political pressure on Latin
[00:21:25] America. The use of tariffs and sanctions under the
[00:21:29] Trump administration consolidated an asymmetric pressure
[00:21:31] strategy to erode the
[00:21:35] the region. In Brazil, the siege on steel and the
[00:21:39] persecution of the Pix system seek to hit the administration of Luiz
[00:21:42] Inácio Lula da Silva and oxygenate the Bolsonaro current.
[00:21:46] A tactic that replicates the economic asphyxiation historically
[00:21:50] applied to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua and that extended
[00:21:53] commercial pressures against Gustavo Petro's Colombia to undermine his electoral
[00:21:57] base in favor of sectors aligned with Washington.
[00:22:02] the tariff
[00:22:05] US political interference, especially in
[00:22:09] Latin America, has been very very treacherous, very
[00:22:13] blatant on the part of Donald Trump, who has also had
[00:22:16] acts of interference in electoral processes. The
[00:22:20] region, beyond tariffs, had interference in the legislative
[00:22:24] electoral process in Argentina, interference in the
[00:22:27] presidential electoral process in
[00:22:30] Honduras, interference in the presidential electoral
[00:22:34] process in Colombia also tries to have it
[00:22:37] in the case of Brazil, and currently we clearly see
[00:22:41] how the tariffs that were imposed on
[00:22:44] Brazil with various excuses, in reality, all they
[00:22:48] seek is to try to harm the Brazilian economy and
[00:22:52] try to harm the image of the current president, Luiz Inácio
[00:22:56] Lula da Silva, to favor a political
[00:22:59] ally, which is Bolsonarism, the
[00:23:02] clan. In Mexico, the constant threat of
[00:23:06] massive tariffs of 25% operates as a
[00:23:09] blackmail mechanism over Claudia Sheinbaum's mandate. The White
[00:23:13] House conditions trade to force the rollback of sovereign
[00:23:16] energy policies and to erode popular support for the ruling party,
[00:23:20] seeking to open political space for the traditional conservative opposition that
[00:23:24] promotes unrestricted alignment with the dictates
[00:23:27] of the United States. The customs offensive also punishes
[00:23:31] any attempt at monetary autonomy against the dollar in the
[00:23:34] Southern Cone by penalizing nations that diversify their
[00:23:38] reserves or trade in local currencies. Washington
[00:23:41] tries to curb the influence of the BRICS and pressure electorates
[00:23:44] through financial unease, installing the narrative
[00:23:48] that only right-wing governments guarantee economic
[00:23:52] stability and tax exemptions from the White
[00:23:54] House. Faced with the economic siege and electoral interference,
[00:23:58] the sovereign blocs of the continent strengthen their multilateral alliances
[00:24:02] with China and emerging countries. The strategic
[00:24:05] response of the besieged administrations has been to consolidate
[00:24:09] South-South trade routes and shield their strategic
[00:24:12] sectors, transforming resistance to tariff
[00:24:15] asphyxiation into a direct defense of their political
[00:24:19] self-determination.
[00:24:21] Donald Trump's government seeks a
[00:24:24] neocolonial recomposition
[00:24:27] throughout the region. To do this, it tries
[00:24:31] to delegitimize sovereign
[00:24:34] processes, as is the case in
[00:24:37] Mexico, as is the case in Brazil,
[00:24:41] to attack popular
[00:24:43] processes, as was the entire system of
[00:24:47] threats and bombing
[00:24:50] in Venezuela, the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and
[00:24:54] Cilia Flores, the threats against Nicaragua,
[00:24:58] the threats and the siege,
[00:25:01] which is increasingly brutal, right? With that
[00:25:04] blockade against Cuba, so it seeks
[00:25:08] to consolidate a process of
[00:25:12] neocolonial recomposition, in which
[00:25:14] the United States is the center of the colony
[00:25:18] and the rest of the countries are peripheral
[00:25:21] countries that must respond to
[00:25:24] that, to that project, and in
[00:25:27] that sense, the tariffs, the economic
[00:25:30] pressure, the threats, the recent
[00:25:34] tour of Marco Rubio through the region, the
[00:25:37] document issued by the State Department
[00:25:40] pointing to the popular processes in the region
[00:25:44] as part of a
[00:25:47] system that seeks to destroy the
[00:25:50] Western way of life. Trump's tariffs did not
[00:25:54] subdue the countries of the region, on the contrary,
[00:25:58] they pushed them to seek new trade partners,
[00:26:02] new forms of
[00:26:04] financing, greater rapprochement with China and the
[00:26:08] BRICS. Economic pressure does not guarantee
[00:26:11] obedience, that is the lesson. And when commercial blackmail does not
[00:26:15] work, Washington imposes its logic: threaten,
[00:26:18] punish and use its force to try to impose its
[00:26:22] interests. Trump did not manage to subdue the region,
[00:26:25] he managed to make the region seek how to defend itself from
[00:26:29] the United States. And in the cases where he imposed force,
[00:26:32] diplomacy gained ground to be able to coexist with his
[00:26:36] aggression, we put the point in the law.
[00:27:02] The most important historical weapon that imperialists have had against the
[00:27:06] peoples of Africa and in all parts of the world, has been
[00:27:10] division, division among countries, division among
[00:27:13] ethnic groups, division among revolutionary forces.
[00:27:17] If there's one thing we'd like to emphasize in these brief words, it's that
[00:27:20] unity must be a permanent motto for all of us who
[00:27:23] oppose the system of domination that
[00:27:26] imperialism seeks to preserve. Fidel
[00:27:29] Castro. September 14, 1978.
[00:27:33] Speech delivered at the inaugural session of the international
[00:27:36] solidarity conference with the struggle of African and
[00:27:40] Arab peoples against imperialism and reaction held at Africa
[00:27:44] Hall, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
[00:30:40] rejected the threats of the president of
[00:30:43] Spriella to university autonomy after
[00:30:46] announcing the creation of security protocols that
[00:30:50] will allow the entry of police forces to the
[00:30:53] campuses. More in I'll
[00:30:56] tell you.