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[00:00:00] The House of Representatives is renewed, a third of the Senate changes, and key
[00:00:03] prosecutor's offices determine governability. What will be Trump's
[00:00:10] the advance of an incursion in prices and the tenacious persistence of real political weight after this day? A deep analysis, a geopolitical reading, and
[00:00:14] real-time projections of these elections in a special
[00:00:17] program hosted by Paola Pérez, along with
[00:00:21] our correspondents, Jorge Gestoso, Carlos
[00:00:25] Montero, Henry Camelo, José Leveña, Dan
[00:00:28] Olbreid. The United States decides 2026
[00:00:32] midterm elections
[00:00:33] probabilities of a rate hike at through our
[00:00:35] the Fed's monetary policy meeting from multi-platform
[00:00:36] demand the resignation of the President of only on Telesur.
[00:01:39] day before the midterm
[00:01:40] elections.
[00:01:43] Escalation of violence in Colombia leaves at least five
[00:01:46] dead.
[00:01:50] Yemen repels Saudi advance towards Bat
[00:01:53] Alander.
[00:01:57] Various countries around the world commemorate the Day of the Dead.
[00:02:30] the tags we have: midterm
[00:02:33] elections, we also have national congress,
[00:02:36] we also have Democrats versus Republicans. What is happening
[00:02:40] third political forces. there, as you know, in less than 24 hours, American
[00:02:44] voters go to the polls to exercise their right to
[00:02:47] vote, while more than 54 million have already
[00:02:51] voted early, as we will see in this
[00:02:54] material from Telesur.
[00:02:56] sea with
[00:02:58] American democracy is presented as a model of freedom, but the reality of the polls
[00:03:02] hides something else. In that democracy, there are systematic mechanisms that prevent
[00:03:06] the most vulnerable population from exercising their right to vote. This phenomenon,
[00:03:10] known as voter suppression, is one of the most effective political control
[00:03:13] tools of the system. Unlike other countries on the continent where voter
[00:03:17] registration is automatic and election day is a national holiday, in
[00:03:22] see them there. The first one is from the United States, voting can become an obstacle course. Elections are
[00:03:25] mandatorily held on a Tuesday, a normal working day, which forces the working
[00:03:28] class to choose between losing hours of wages or waiting in lines
[00:03:32] of up to 6 hours at intentionally cut polling stations in African-American
[00:03:36] and Latino neighborhoods. This is added to restrictive
[00:03:39] state laws that require very specific official identifications that millions of
[00:03:43] low-income citizens do not possess, the controversial purge of the
[00:03:47] electoral rolls where authorities remove thousands of voters from the lists under
[00:03:50] administrative technicalities that are not very transparent, but the trap is
[00:03:54] not only technical, it is also geographical and is called
[00:03:57] Gerrymandering. It consists of the arbitrary design of electoral
[00:04:01] district maps by the ruling party in power, drawing the boundaries of
[00:04:04] communities as if they were a puzzle to dilute the weight
[00:04:08] of the minority vote and ensure that the party in power retains a majority of
[00:04:12] seats in Congress, regardless of whether the majority of the
[00:04:15] population votes against it. Under these dynamics, the right to vote in the United States
[00:04:18] ceases to be a universal right and transforms into a geographical
[00:04:22] and class privilege designed so that the majorities cannot alter
[00:04:26] the balance of the elites.
[00:04:38] about the cost of living in the United States, which rose 0.6% in
[00:04:42] September, and annual inflation reached
[00:04:44] 3.7%, driven mainly by the
[00:04:47] rising cost of
[00:04:54] living in the United States increased in September by
[00:04:56] 0.6%, reaching an annual rate
[00:05:00] of 3.7%, while the monthly increase in the
[00:05:04] Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 0.6%,
[00:05:07] driven mainly by the increase in energy costs,
[00:05:11] according to the US Bureau of Labor
[00:05:14] Statistics. The figures highlight the persistent impact of the war
[00:05:18] against Iran on gasoline
[00:05:21] inflation, which fell drastically from a peak
[00:05:25] of 9.1% in 2022, but which this year has
[00:05:28] rebounded since the war began in late February. High
[00:05:32] inflation has posed political problems for Republicans in
[00:05:35] Congress and poses a challenge for the Federal Reserve, which Congress
[00:05:39] demands seeks price stability. Financial
[00:05:42] markets increased the
[00:05:48] October 27-28 to approximately
[00:05:52] 52%, from the 22% prior to this
[00:05:55] panorama. The energy tensions caused by the closure of the
[00:05:59] Strait of Hormuz since the United States and Israel attacked the
[00:06:02] Islamic Republic of Iran on February 28, a traditional
[00:06:06] maritime passage for a fifth of the world's crude oil and gas, have
[00:06:10] pushed the price of a barrel of oil above $100,
[00:06:13] causing a generalized increase in fuel prices. All of the above
[00:06:17] occurs in a decisive campaign leading up to the midterm
[00:06:21] elections in November. A Reuters/Ipsos poll
[00:06:24] recently revealed that nearly 78% of
[00:06:28] Americans attribute the rise in prices, which exceeds wage
[00:06:31] growth, to President Donald Trump's policies, including
[00:06:35] tariffs and the conflict in Western Asia. Discontent with
[00:06:38] domestic finances is fracturing political support
[00:06:42] for Republican candidates. Pessimism has even permeated the ranks
[00:06:46] of the party itself; 35% of Republican
[00:06:49] voters now believe that the current course harms the economy,
[00:06:53] a figure that doubled compared to the 18% registered
[00:06:57] at the beginning of the year. Republican strategists fear that inflation
[00:07:00] will end up costing them control of Congress, which represents a significant
[00:07:04] fault line that calls into question Trump's leadership in the ranks of
[00:07:08] his own political
[00:07:19] colleague from New York, Henry Camelo. The US
[00:07:22] Congress is a club protected by Democrats and
[00:07:26] Republicans so that no other force, a third force for example, can be
[00:07:37] presents the midterms as an open
[00:07:40] democratic exercise. The reality is that Congress functions as a club
[00:07:44] heavily protected by the Democratic Party and the Republican
[00:07:47] Party, to prevent at all costs the emergence of
[00:07:53] Unlike the parliamentary systems of other countries
[00:07:55] where seats are proportionally distributed according to the percentage
[00:07:59] of votes obtained by each
[00:08:02] party. In the mid-terms, the relentless method of
[00:08:06] direct vote by districts is used. This
[00:08:09] means that if an independent candidacy
[00:08:13] from an alternative party obtains a historic 20%
[00:08:16] support in a community, that citizen effort is
[00:08:20] reduced to zero in Congress. If one of the two
[00:08:23] traditional parties gets a minimal advantage, the winner takes
[00:08:27] it all and dissenting voices are completely
[00:08:31] erased from the legislative map. But the
[00:08:33] protection is not only mathematical, it is also legal
[00:08:37] and bureaucratic. The corporate bipartisanship
[00:08:40] has imposed restrictive
[00:08:43] state laws that require thousands of physical signatures and
[00:08:46] cumbersome procedures just for an independent party to
[00:08:50] appear printed on the ballot of a district.
[00:08:53] This political siege has a very clear structural
[00:08:56] objective: to prevent legislators from reaching
[00:09:00] the Capitol who would question the true pillars of the
[00:09:03] system. By keeping Congress divided exclusively
[00:09:07] into two factions, the elites ensure that urgent debates
[00:09:11] remain locked away. Faces change
[00:09:15] every two years, but the laws that protect corporate
[00:09:18] interests remain
[00:09:20] intact. As you know, Telesur is following the
[00:09:24] elections in the United States and we have on our website a
[00:09:28] hyperlink that is elections,
[00:09:31] there you can find this application that we are showing
[00:09:34] on screen that allows for a permanent update
[00:09:38] of the results in real time of the elections.
[00:09:41] Remember that already 50 people have voted in the United States.
[00:09:45] There is early voting and tomorrow is the definitive vote. You can then go to
[00:09:48] the website Telesurtv.net and
[00:09:51] see there then elections,
[00:09:55] the hyperlink, the electoral
[00:09:59] process
[00:09:59] in real time.
[00:10:06] We have selected three portals to illustrate this information. Here they
[00:10:10] are, one, two, three. Let's start with the
[00:10:13] Telesur house. The United States says Trump threatens
[00:10:17] with vetoes if he loses Congress. Another
[00:10:20] threat, regarding the legislative elections on November
[00:10:23] 3. The American president, Donald Trump, assured
[00:10:27] that he would resort to systematic blocking if
[00:10:30] Democrats manage to gain a majority in the
[00:10:33] Senate. Also, the other portal is Radio France Internationale.
[00:10:37] It says that Texas has a decisive duel to measure Democratic
[00:10:41] strength in the midterm elections. In this sense, the
[00:10:44] discontent among supporters of the Republican party towards the administration of
[00:10:48] Donald Trump in the state of Texas could favor
[00:10:51] Democrats after more than 30 years of conservative
[00:10:55] control. The third portal we are seeing, Press TV, says
[00:10:59] what is the explanation for Donald Trump's coalition
[00:11:03] fracturing before the midterm elections and what
[00:11:06] could it mean for Republicans? Well, polls reveal widespread
[00:11:10] dissatisfaction with the economic
[00:11:13] management of the current government, while the war against
[00:11:16] Iran has highlighted deep tensions between Donald
[00:11:20] Trump's policies and the conservative base that helped bring
[00:11:23] him back to the White House.
[00:11:32] Let's make a digital connection with our next topic. It's the violence that
[00:11:35] escalates in Colombia with four attacks in two
[00:11:39] days that have left at least five dead in
[00:11:42] Huila, Cauca, and Tolima. Let's address this topic with
[00:11:45] these tags, see them. We have Colombia,
[00:11:49] wave of violence, we also have armed
[00:11:53] groups. It turns out that a chain of terrorist attacks with
[00:11:56] explosives shook the departments of Huila,
[00:12:00] Cauca, and Tolima over the weekend,
[00:12:03] leaving five people murdered, among them, by the way, a 2-month-old
[00:12:07] baby, in addition to several injured and serious damage to homes,
[00:12:11] commercial establishments, and infrastructure of all kinds, as
[00:12:14] we will see in the material on X from
[00:12:16] Telesur.
[00:12:35] To make a digital connection to the next material, you can visit the TikTok
[00:12:39] account of Telesur, specifically the hyperlink to
[00:12:42] Telesur clips videos. You will see this material: social organizations
[00:12:46] reject the presence of US military personnel in Colombian
[00:12:49] territory.
[00:12:57] First, let me tell you that yes, human rights organizations, human
[00:13:00] rights platforms, well, they reject the presence of these
[00:13:04] members of the United States Army
[00:13:08] and that it is assured here that they are conducting
[00:13:11] military exercises since October 27 and
[00:13:15] will be there approximately until November
[00:13:18] 11 at the Tolemaida military base. There they are
[00:13:22] conducting coordinated exercises with members of the
[00:13:25] national army, tasks against drug trafficking and against
[00:13:29] illegal mining, it is said, but well, the
[00:13:33] questions arise around that
[00:13:35] presence, that authorization that should be given by the
[00:13:39] Congress of the Republic, which did not happen. The portals that
[00:13:43] we have selected for this topic are the following,
[00:13:47] Telesur, which says explosions near a military base in
[00:13:50] Tolima, Colombia, leave at least four dead, because at least
[00:13:54] two explosions shook the military base, the battalion of terrestrial
[00:13:57] operations in the south of the department of Tolima in Colombia. Authorities
[00:14:01] described the attack as unacceptable, while demanding
[00:14:05] justice and forceful actions to stop the
[00:14:07] violence. The other portal we have there is El Tiempo de
[00:14:11] Bogotá, which tells us that the video shows the exact moment of the
[00:14:15] attack in Planadas, Tolima. A dump truck with
[00:14:18] explosives exploded and left four dead, including a baby.
[00:14:22] By the way, the magnitude of the attack was recorded by one of the
[00:14:25] security cameras in the area, which shows the exact moment of the
[00:14:28] detonation, while other videos show the magnitude
[00:14:32] of the damage caused to homes and
[00:14:35] buildings. And the third portal is the newspaper La Libertad, which
[00:14:38] says four dead and at least 17 injured in Planadas,
[00:14:42] Tolima, after an explosive attack. Among the
[00:14:44] victims is a two-month-old baby. The first reports
[00:14:48] attributed the attack to dissident structures of the Revolutionary
[00:14:51] Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who allegedly used drones
[00:14:55] and explosive devices, although the specific responsibility must be
[00:14:59] established by the authorities through the corresponding investigations.
[00:15:15] We make a digital connection with the next topic that takes us to
[00:15:18] the Middle East, or rather to Western Asia, because the Yemeni
[00:15:22] army repelled some troops.
[00:15:33] four tags, we have one that is conflict of Western
[00:15:37] Asia, Yemeni force, Saudi
[00:15:40] troops, also military escalation. It turns out that
[00:15:44] Yemen managed to stop
[00:15:48] the border area and reaffirmed the defense of its territory, as we will see
[00:15:52] in this TikTok that we have prepared for this
[00:15:54] opportunity.
[00:15:56] They repelled Riyadh's failed attempts, highlighting that the Saudi
[00:15:59] reinforcements suffered heavy
[00:16:03] losses. In turn, Saudi officials reiterate that they must
[00:16:07] continue to advance despite the losses, which implies thousands
[00:16:10] of their own troops, pressing them to continue the
[00:16:14] advance. The spokesman for the Yemeni forces
[00:16:17] highlighted that these operations respond to the
[00:16:20] legitimate defense of the and also what
[00:16:24] Saudi Arabia commits against the civilian
[00:16:26] population.
[00:16:29] We have made a digital connection on Instagram for some reactions. The Ministry
[00:16:33] of Foreign Affairs of Yemen condemned the continuous Saudi
[00:16:37] airstrikes against civilian infrastructure in
[00:16:40] Hodeidah and Saada and warned that its armed forces
[00:16:44] would respond with forceful incursions against vital
[00:16:47] facilities in Saudi territory. In Sana'a,
[00:16:50] it ratified that its demands are undeniable and
[00:16:54] included critical facilities of the kingdom in its database
[00:16:57] of military
[00:16:58] targets.
[00:17:08] Let's take a short break. We have taken a video that is on the
[00:17:12] X account of Telesur TV. It talks
[00:17:14] about, well, an aircraft
[00:17:18] crashed in South Florida, United States, causing a
[00:17:21] crater in the road. Federal authorities are conducting the
[00:17:25] technical investigation to clarify, of
[00:18:26] Behind every scene there is a story, stories that
[00:18:30] reach the big screen. Discover the
[00:18:33] best kept secrets with
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[00:22:01] Now, a digital connection with the mayor of New York, who also joined the
[00:22:05] celebration by, in fact, setting up an altar in the
[00:22:08] city hall for all those loved ones who are no longer
[00:22:12] with us. This is
[00:22:13] how it was.
[00:23:39] I remind you that it is estimated that in the United States there are about
[00:23:43] 40 million people of Mexican origin, and a large part of them are in
[00:23:46] New York, so this act by the mayor of New York
[00:23:50] will have its reason for being. Well, let's go to Spain now, by the way, Madrid celebrated the
[00:23:53] Day of the Dead with a parade of giant Catrinas and
[00:23:57] monumental floats that paraded through the capital to the
[00:24:00] Plaza Mayor, as we will see in this video.
[00:25:08] who are not left behind anywhere, presented an allegorical
[00:25:11] float. The Chinese surprised the attendees during
[00:25:14] the great Day of the
[00:25:50] on South TV with this QR code, you can find here the information
[00:25:53] that we are going to tell you next. Place your phone
[00:25:56] there and we are going to read: the Ecuadorian
[00:25:59] city of Guayaquil registered floods
[00:26:02] for the second consecutive day as a consequence of an electrical
[00:26:06] damage in different surrounding
[00:26:15] Silva, denied the reports that point to possible cuts in
[00:26:19] public policies and assured that the current social
[00:26:22] programs will continue to function during his new
[00:26:26] mandate. And the third Telegram moment from Telesur TV, which we are going to see
[00:26:34] gathered in New Delhi to
[00:26:38] the National Election Commission, whose name
[00:26:41] is Janesh Kumar, due to the controversial
[00:26:45] revisions to the electoral census that intensify the political
[00:26:48] tension against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
[00:28:45] with material that the French
[00:28:49] police intercepted boats
[00:28:52] in the English Channel, remember the English Channel is the one that
[00:28:54] connects France by
[00:28:58] the United Kingdom. These boats were trying
[00:29:45] How does our reality connect with what we call
[00:29:48] fiction? Very soon.
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