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[00:00:00] on landscape. Teles, know the political and social
[00:00:19] Well, the use of
[00:00:31] Since Donald Trump's return to the seems to sign with a pencil what White House, the United States has
[00:00:34] turned tariffs into a political pressure instrument,
[00:00:38] a weapon. Measures against Mexico, Canada, China
[00:00:42] and Brazil have opened a new stage of commercial tensions in the
[00:00:46] continent. Canada responded eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth with tariffs
[00:00:50] on hundreds of American products, while
[00:00:53] Mexico has come under pressure to strengthen
[00:00:56] its border control and avoid new penalties.
[00:01:00] Brazil, for its part, accelerates its financial ties
[00:01:03] with China and the BRICS in defense of its own mechanisms
[00:01:06] such as PIX, which is a new instant payment ecosystem
[00:01:10] and against the dollar's dominance, but this
[00:01:13] tariff war also
[00:01:16] hits the United States, the costs end up in the pockets of its
[00:01:19] consumers, affect supply chains and expose
[00:01:23] the agricultural sector to trade
[00:01:25] reprisals. More than trade, the dispute reveals a
[00:01:29] battle for political and financial control of the region amidst
[00:01:32] the advance of China, the BRICS and the search for
[00:01:36] alternatives to the system dominated by
[00:01:38] Washington, the U.S. tariff war,
[00:02:12] stability and tax exemptions On Saturday, August 22, the bilateral relationship between Washington and
[00:02:14] Ottawa suffered a critical fracture after the failure of
[00:02:18] high-level negotiations held in the U.S.
[00:02:21] capital. On that day, extraordinary
[00:02:24] tariffs of 50% imposed by
[00:02:28] Donald Trump on Canadian exports worth about $20
[00:02:32] billion, equivalent to 5.5% of its
[00:02:35] shipments to U.S. territory, came into force.
[00:02:39] Faced with the breakdown of dialogue, Canadian Prime Minister
[00:02:43] Markney ordered the immediate withdrawal of his delegates in
[00:02:46] Washington and formally described the White House's
[00:02:49] maneuver as an unviable and unfair trade war
[00:02:53] under
[00:02:54] the USMCA rules.
[00:03:00] others. with cheaper consistently to long-term partnerships, while
[00:03:03] the United States has often sought short-term
[00:03:06] transactions, the gap between partners and competitors, unfortunately, has
[00:03:10] remained too wide in recent days, that's why last night I
[00:03:14] instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa, we cannot
[00:03:17] accept what they have offered and we will not give what they have
[00:03:20] asked for.
[00:03:26] The Prime Minister also indicated in a post on his social
[00:03:29] network that Canada will match the new U.S.
[00:03:32] tariffs dollar for dollar, in addition we are implementing
[00:03:36] new and improved measures worth $7.5
[00:03:40] billion to support Canadian
[00:03:44] workers and businesses, this is in addition to the almost $25
[00:03:47] billion in aid
[00:03:49] also what implemented since the imposition of unjustified U.S. tariffs
[00:03:53] defending Canadian jobs, industries and
[00:03:56] families. On
[00:04:00] the... ization of Tuesday, September 8, a package of tariff retaliations designed to
[00:04:04] respond dollar for dollar went into effect, taxing more than 700
[00:04:08] U.S. products, valued
[00:04:10] daily events that between $20,000 and $27 billion, with direct
[00:04:13] impacts on strategic industries such as dairy, steel,
[00:04:17] paper, agricultural machinery
[00:04:20] recompose and electronics. The impact of this tariff clash was immediately
[00:04:22] passed on to consumers and businesses. In the United
[00:04:26] States, a gallon of gasoline exceeded $4.15,
[00:04:30] and analysts project an additional cost of more than
[00:04:32] $100 annually per household, while Trump
[00:04:36] intensified his pressure threatening to veto Canadian
[00:04:39] aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, if it does not move
[00:04:43] its plants to U.S. soil.
[00:04:46] Unfortunately, the government of Donald Trump has
[00:04:50] tries to impose its agenda in accustomed us to this type of practice, the
[00:04:53] threat, the coercion, the
[00:04:56] blackmail, and in this case it is very evident.
[00:05:00] the use of tariffs as
[00:05:04] a tool for blackmail, even against those who are
[00:05:07] important partners, important trade partners
[00:05:11] of the United States itself. Unfortunately, Trump
[00:05:15] has not shown logics of respect
[00:05:18] for legality nor for the
[00:05:22] basis of what international relations are,
[00:05:26] we have seen it in several aspects, this not only economically, but
[00:05:29] economically it is also reflected in this specific
[00:05:32] case with uh as the
[00:05:36] Prime Minister of Canada said, the United States
[00:05:41] it has agreed to, meaning
[00:05:45] that the signature is erased later and that it does not respect
[00:05:48] even what they themselves have agreed to. Beyond
[00:05:51] the clash with Canada, Washington's
[00:05:55] tariff offensive seeks to turn trade
[00:05:58] into a mechanism of geopolitical pressure. In a
[00:06:02] region where trade between Mexico, Canada and the United
[00:06:06] States exceeds a trillion dollars annually, the White House not
[00:06:10] only discusses tariffs, it pressures
[00:06:13] to condition sovereign decisions,
[00:06:16] tighten immigration control and stop the advance of China and the
[00:06:19] BRICS. The regional response oscillates between negotiation,
[00:06:23] border reinforcement and diplomatic confrontation.
[00:06:27] On Sunday, February 2,
[00:06:31] 2025, Donald Trump signed executive
[00:06:34] orders in the Oval Office in Washington invoking the International
[00:06:38] Emergency Economic Powers Act, setting punitive tariffs of
[00:06:41] between 10 and 25% against its
[00:06:44] partners in the Americas to extract immediate
[00:06:48] political concessions. In North America, the Mexican
[00:06:51] government, headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum in
[00:06:54] Mexico City, resorted to diplomatic containment to
[00:06:58] protect its industrial integration. The
[00:07:01] government of the United States,
[00:07:04] after a 30-day pause, unilaterally
[00:07:08] decided to impose 25%.
[00:07:11] despite the trade agreement signed by President
[00:07:15] Trump himself in his first term,
[00:07:19] I want to make it clear today that
[00:07:22] we will always seek a negotiated
[00:07:25] solution, as we have proposed
[00:07:29] within the framework of respect for our sovereignties,
[00:07:33] but the unilateral decision that the United
[00:07:37] States makes
[00:07:40] affects national and foreign
[00:07:43] companies operating in our country and affects
[00:07:47] our people. Therefore, we have decided
[00:07:51] to respond with tariff and non-tariff
[00:07:54] measures. After emergency bilateral calls in
[00:07:57] February 2025, Mexico deployed
[00:08:00] 10,000 National Guard troops on its northern and southern
[00:08:04] borders to curb migration and intercept
[00:08:07] fentanyl chemical precursors, managing to pause
[00:08:11] the 25% tariffs ahead of
[00:08:14] the USMCA renegotiation. In South America, Brazilian
[00:08:18] President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva directly confronted the
[00:08:21] onslaught in Brasilia on Tuesday, April 15,
[00:08:24] 2025, after the Office of the U.S. Trade
[00:08:28] Representative opened investigations against the national
[00:08:31] digital payment system (PIX) and imposed
[00:08:34] steel tariffs. Brazil responded by passing a trade
[00:08:38] reciprocity law and reorienting record exports of
[00:08:41] soybeans, meat and coffee to the Chinese market and
[00:08:45] the BRICS group alliance, Brazil, Russia,
[00:08:48] India, China and South Africa. We want, uh,
[00:08:52] emperor, we are sovereign
[00:08:55] countries.
[00:08:58] Ah, if he thinks he can tax, countries
[00:09:01] have the right to tax too.
[00:09:04] There is a law of reciprocity.
[00:09:07] The United States has become a country, uh, that we could
[00:09:11] say has a failed state at an international
[00:09:15] level, because one never knows
[00:09:18] how the United States will act in that
[00:09:21] framework, we know that from the White
[00:09:25] House the interests of the power groups of the United
[00:09:28] States will be projected, but without any
[00:09:31] rules, without respecting signed trade agreements,
[00:09:35] without respecting historical agreements with
[00:09:38] partners, uh, who are not commercial
[00:09:41] partners but political partners with NATO partners,
[00:09:45] without respecting international agreements
[00:09:48] which the United States itself has adhered to, without respecting
[00:09:52] the laws and norms of the United
[00:09:55] Nations, so it has become a
[00:09:58] state uh that really
[00:10:01] destabilizes everything that is international
[00:10:04] legality and legal legality and the
[00:10:08] possibility of projecting something long-term
[00:10:10] with uh as partners of that
[00:10:14] country. The figures debunk the discourse: the
[00:10:18] tariff war not only punishes U.S. partners, it also
[00:10:22] hits its own economy. With tariffs reaching
[00:10:25] up to 25 and 50%, Washington jeopardizes
[00:10:28] a deeply integrated production chain.
[00:10:32] A large part of imported oil comes from Canada, and in the automotive
[00:10:35] industry, parts such as engines and transmissions cross borders several
[00:10:39] times before final assembly, so
[00:10:43] each new tax increases production costs,
[00:10:46] alters logistics, and weakens the North American bloc, and when
[00:10:50] Washington imposes tariffs on its partners, it also
[00:10:53] charges its own.
[00:12:33] an unusual thunder that day in La
[00:12:37] Guaira, unfortunately at 6:04 in the
[00:12:40] afternoon, we were surprised by nature and
[00:12:44] 39 minutes were enough to change our lives.
[00:12:47] Interviewed by Paola Pérez,
[00:12:51] premiere, Saturday, only on Telesur.
[00:13:26] The White House promises that tariffs will punish
[00:13:29] its competitors and bring jobs back to the United States, that's the
[00:13:33] promise, but the truth is that the bill is not paid by foreign
[00:13:37] powers, it is paid by importers,
[00:13:40] companies and ultimately American families. The
[00:13:44] surcharges end up in the prices of food, consumer
[00:13:47] goods and domestic production. Meanwhile,
[00:13:51] the trade deficit exceeds a trillion
[00:13:54] dollars. Protectionism does not reactivate
[00:13:57] industry, it makes life more expensive and weakens production
[00:13:59] chains. The tariff that promised
[00:14:02] jobs, ends up being paid out of the pockets of
[00:14:11] second term formally began on Saturday, February 1,
[00:14:15] 2025, in Washington, when the tycoon invoked extraordinary
[00:14:19] national security powers to tax continental
[00:14:22] trade. Against the discourse,
[00:14:25] which presents tariffs as a direct charge to foreign
[00:14:29] countries, U.S. customs regulations stipulate that the tariff is settled
[00:14:32] by the U.S. importer at the border,
[00:14:35] unleashing an inflationary effect on processed
[00:14:38] foods, clothing and technology.
[00:14:42] In a few minutes I am going to issue a historic
[00:14:45] executive order that
[00:14:48] institutes reciprocal tariffs on countries
[00:14:51] around the world, meaning if they do it to us, we do it to
[00:14:55] them,
[00:15:02] this is one of the most important days in my
[00:15:05] opinion in American history and it is the
[00:15:08] declaration of economic independence, for
[00:15:12] years, I have worked with American citizens who were forced
[00:15:16] to sit by, while other nations enriched
[00:15:20] themselves at our expense, but today is our
[00:15:22] turn to prosper and... with
[00:15:26] trillions and trillions of dollars reducing our taxes
[00:15:30] and paying our national debt and it will all happen very quickly with
[00:15:33] today's actions we will finally be able to make
[00:15:37] America great again, greater than ever
[00:15:40] before. In the manufacturing industry,
[00:15:44] the application of these tariffs since February 2025,
[00:15:47] fractured integrated assembly in North America, because these
[00:15:51] engine parts, cables and transmissions cross borders up to
[00:15:55] eight times between Mexico, the United States and
[00:15:58] Canada, before an automobile is finished. The customs
[00:16:02] tariff increased the final cost per vehicle by
[00:16:05] $3,000 to $6, reducing activity at
[00:16:09] Detroit plants compared to the Asian industry.
[00:16:12] Well, there is a logic that had been
[00:16:15] built and that had to do with
[00:16:18] companies being able to place the
[00:16:22] manufacturing of different, different parts, but above
[00:16:25] all of the automotive industry,
[00:16:28] located, some in Mexico, others in
[00:16:32] the United States, others in Canada. The
[00:16:35] fact that a product starts manufacturing in the United
[00:16:39] States, goes to Mexico, finishes, advances in its
[00:16:43] process, returns to the United States, returns
[00:16:46] to generate another part of that process to then go to
[00:16:49] Canada, finish that assembly and return to
[00:16:53] the United States means that it crosses the border between
[00:16:56] those countries several times, uh, the tariffs
[00:17:00] imposed by Trump meant
[00:17:02] that, uh, every time a product crossed
[00:17:06] that border it had to pay a
[00:17:09] tax and if it crossed back to the other side it had to pay
[00:17:13] tax again, so that has
[00:17:16] greatly harmed large industries, General Motors,
[00:17:20] Ford have shown drops
[00:17:22] in their income
[00:17:26] due to this high cost of
[00:17:29] tariffs, the U.S. agricultural sector
[00:17:33] absorbed the most severe blow due to retaliatory
[00:17:37] measures imposed by trade partners, the closure of
[00:17:40] markets for soybeans, corn and pork in
[00:17:43] China, Brazil and Canada forced the U.S. Department of Agriculture
[00:17:47] to disburse multi-million dollar federal subsidy packages
[00:17:51] financed by the public treasury to prevent the
[00:17:54] bankruptcy of farmers in the Midwest. Far from reactivating the
[00:17:58] U.S. industrial belt, the tariffs
[00:18:01] in force since early 2025 accelerated the
[00:18:04] flight of manufacturing investments to Southeast Asian economies
[00:18:08] such as Vietnam and India, while consolidating South-South
[00:18:11] trade between South America and Asia that leaves
[00:18:15] North American industry isolated from emerging
[00:18:17] markets.
[00:18:20] Trump sought to generate under
[00:18:23] pressure the reindustrialization
[00:18:27] of the United States, the North American
[00:18:30] industries, especially the automotive industry, but the
[00:18:33] different technologies had gone to look for
[00:18:38] labor and especially to go to
[00:18:41] China, no, that, there is the great
[00:18:44] competition of the United States and the great rivalry, its
[00:18:48] commercial war with China, in that
[00:18:51] case, uh, this this conflict what
[00:18:55] it did was uh try on the one hand
[00:18:58] to generate that China stops
[00:19:01] buying a large part of the soybean production
[00:19:05] from the United States, for which Trump had to give
[00:19:09] subsidies to the North American agricultural
[00:19:13] sectors to alleviate or
[00:19:16] compensate for the drop in
[00:19:19] exports in those products
[00:19:22] and and then
[00:19:26] happened was that the
[00:19:29] tariffs that he tried to impose for companies to
[00:19:32] return to the United States were not effective
[00:19:37] the North American industry, although some of those industries
[00:19:41] stopped being in China, they went to Mexico
[00:19:45] or they went to other places closer
[00:19:49] to the United States, but not to the United States itself and did
[00:19:52] not generate new American labor or
[00:19:58] uh the North American industry as was supposed
[00:20:01] or as Trump thought that those
[00:20:04] measures would impact, because it turns out that behind the
[00:20:07] tariffs there is a whole strategy of political pressure, the
[00:20:11] dependence of many Latin American economies on the U.S.
[00:20:13] market gives Washington a tool to
[00:20:17] condition sovereign decisions and while
[00:20:21] the countries attacked by Washington try to seek financial
[00:20:24] alternatives, the White House
[00:20:28] the region. It is not only trade, it is political
[00:20:31] pressure on Latin America. The use of
[00:20:35] tariffs and sanctions under the Trump administration consolidated a strategy
[00:20:39] of asymmetric pressure to erode the governability of
[00:20:42] progressive projects in the region. In Brazil, the
[00:20:45] siege on steel and the persecution of the Pix system seek to hit
[00:20:49] the administration
[00:20:52] of Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva and oxygenate the Bolsonaro current, a tactic that replicates the economic
[00:20:55] suffocation historically applied to Cuba, Venezuela and
[00:20:59] Nicaragua and that extended commercial pressures against Gustavo
[00:21:03] Petro's Colombia to undermine his electoral base in favor of sectors
[00:21:06] aligned with Washington.
[00:21:09] the tariff tool as
[00:21:13] part of the political interference of the United States, especially
[00:21:17] in Latin America, has been very, very
[00:21:20] blatant, very brazen on the part of Donald Trump, who has also
[00:21:24] had actions of interference in the electoral
[00:21:27] processes of the region beyond tariffs, there was
[00:21:30] interference in the legislative electoral process in Argentina,
[00:21:34] interference in the presidential
[00:21:37] electoral process in Honduras, interference in the
[00:21:40] presidential electoral process in Colombia
[00:21:43] also tries to have it in the case of Brazil and currently
[00:21:47] we clearly see how the tariffs
[00:21:50] that were imposed on Brazil with various
[00:21:54] excuses, in reality all they seek is to try to
[00:21:58] harm the Brazilian economy and try to harm the image
[00:22:02] of the current president Luis Inacio Lula Silva to
[00:22:05] favor a political ally which is
[00:22:09] Bolsonarism, the clan. In
[00:22:12] Mexico, the constant threat of massive tariffs of
[00:22:15] 25%, operates as a blackmail mechanism over Claudia
[00:22:18] Sheinbaum's mandate. The White House conditions trade to force
[00:22:22] the retreat of sovereign energy policies and wear down
[00:22:26] popular support for the ruling party, seeking to open political
[00:22:30] space for the traditional conservative opposition that promotes
[00:22:33] unrestricted alignment with the dictates of the United States.
[00:22:37] The customs offensive also punishes any attempt at monetary
[00:22:40] autonomy against the dollar in the Southern Cone by penalizing
[00:22:44] nations that diversify their reserves or trade in local
[00:22:48] currencies. Washington tries to curb the influence of the BRICS and
[00:22:51] pressure electorates through financial
[00:22:54] anxiety, installing the narrative that only right-wing
[00:22:58] governments guarantee economic
[00:23:02] from the White House. Faced with the economic siege and electoral
[00:23:05] interference, the continent's sovereign blocs reinforce their
[00:23:08] multilateral alliances with China and emerging
[00:23:11] countries. The strategic response of the besieged
[00:23:15] administrations has been to consolidate South-South trade routes and
[00:23:18] protect their strategic sectors, transforming
[00:23:22] resistance to tariff suffocation into a direct
[00:23:25] defense of their political
[00:23:26] self-determination.
[00:23:29] Donald Trump's government seeks a
[00:23:32] neocolonial recomposition
[00:23:35] throughout the region, for this
[00:23:38] it tries to delegitimize sovereign
[00:23:42] processes, as is the case
[00:23:45] of Mexico, as is the case of Brazil,
[00:23:48] to attack popular
[00:23:51] processes, as was the whole system of
[00:23:54] threats and bombardment
[00:23:58] in Venezuela, the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro
[00:24:02] Flores, the threats against Nicaragua, the
[00:24:06] threats and the siege, which
[00:24:10] is increasingly brutal, with that blockade against
[00:24:13] Cuba, so it seeks
[00:24:16] to consolidate a process of
[00:24:20] neocolonial composition in which the United States is
[00:24:24] the center of the colony and the rest of the countries
[00:24:28] are peripheral countries that must respond to
[00:24:31] that to that economic project and in
[00:24:35] that sense the tariffs, the economic
[00:24:38] pressure, the threats, Marco
[00:24:42] Rubio's recent tour of the
[00:24:44] region, the document that the State Department
[00:24:47] issued pointing to the popular people of the
[00:24:51] region, uh, uh, as
[00:24:53] part of a system that seeks
[00:24:56] to destroy, uh, the Western way of life. Trump's
[00:25:00] tariffs did not break the countries of the
[00:25:04] region, on the contrary, they pushed them to seek
[00:25:08] new trade partners, new forms of financing,
[00:25:11] greater rapprochement with China and the BRICS. Economic
[00:25:15] pressure does not guarantee obedience, that is the
[00:25:19] lesson, and... commercial blackmail does not work,
[00:25:22] Washington imposes its logic, threatening, punishing and
[00:25:25] using its force to try to impose its interests. Trump
[00:25:29] did not manage to subdue the region, he managed for the region to seek
[00:25:33] how to defend itself from the United States, and in cases
[00:25:37] where force was imposed, diplomacy gained ground to
[00:25:40] be able to coexist with its