TELESUR — broadcast 20261104 163000 UTC 521 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:00] These 120 teams wove the traditional [00:00:03] carpet of death on the streets, a ritual that [00:00:06] turns the city into an open-air altar. Under the slogan [00:00:10] "Return to Mictlan," the initiative reached its [00:00:13] 18th edition, organized by the [00:00:16] Manos Unidas de Guanajuato [00:00:19] that is, it is a sector association, bringing together collectives from several states in the country and other [00:00:22] latitudes. The concept of the carpet of death is that each [00:00:25] team determines to whom they [00:00:28] will offer. an offering that is at ground [00:00:31] level, the grandmother, [00:00:34] pet, we have in this [00:00:37] edition a carpet for the [00:00:39] disappeared, sexual [00:00:41] diversity, [00:00:44] eh, yes, so it's another part of [00:00:47] receiving our dead, well, we were thinking of [00:00:51] addressing the issue of the disappeared and more specifically the issue of [00:00:54] clandestine graves, which [00:00:57] are found in our country like... a [00:01:00] lot, so this is like the representation of the [00:01:04] lands, we made an abstraction with several [00:01:07] lands, as we made a landscape abstraction here, we have some [00:01:11] figures that represent the searchers, [00:01:15] the tradition was born in 2008 when a group of [00:01:18] friends sought to bring new generations closer [00:01:21] to Mexican customs in the face of the growing advance of [00:01:25] Halloween celebrations, the activity transformed the streets [00:01:28] into stages of artistic and cultural [00:01:32] expression through representations with elements of the Mexican [00:01:35] worldview and messages about various social [00:01:38] causes, [00:01:41] for tourists this event allowed them to learn about various [00:01:44] topics related to the spiritual life of the inhabitants of the [00:01:48] region, their hopes and their way of remembering loved [00:01:52] ones who are no longer here, very beautiful, it is [00:01:55] truly many artisanal hands that [00:01:58] prepare all of this. a spectacle for us as [00:02:01] tourists to come and well, a way [00:02:04] to remember our loved ones who are no longer [00:02:07] here in life but are in our [00:02:11] hearts, it is a marvel of art and [00:02:14] talent of the artists who form [00:02:17] these carpets of death, it is [00:02:20] incredible. The activity concluded with a procession [00:02:23] and artistic performances where the participants [00:02:26] danced on the carpets and destroyed [00:02:30] waves in their path, a symbolic act that recalls the [00:02:33] transitory nature of life. [00:02:35] vida, [00:02:44] That's all for culture, I'll be back with you, guys, thank [00:02:48] you very much, Karshal, as always, for the cultural space, thank you, [00:02:51] Pique, for sports, thank you all for [00:02:55] joining us as always, we'll see you again soon, have a great [00:02:59] day, bye. Bye, bye! [00:03:12] automation of [00:03:26] date on Sunday in [00:03:46] data, [00:03:51] Hello, this is Jorge Gestoso, on [00:03:55] today's program, unmanned armed forces [00:03:58] with another invited panelist. [00:04:01] Verónica Esforcin, geopolitical analyst and [00:04:05] artificial intelligence specialist, [00:04:08] directly from La Plata, Argentina. Verónica [00:04:11] Esforcin, a warm welcome to the program. [00:04:15] Hello, Jorge, it's a pleasure to be back on this [00:04:18] strategic and central Telesur program. Greetings to you and the [00:04:22] audience. Thank you, Verónica. What exactly [00:04:25] do these unmanned armed forces [00:04:28] mean? Is it a new way of waging war? Well, [00:04:31] I think we need to contextualize [00:04:35] a bit the situation in which the Pentagon and the [00:04:38] Department of Defense in the United States are [00:04:41] trying to regain control of technological development [00:04:45] and innovation, thinking [00:04:48] about the history of the United [00:04:51] States, let's remember that in the Cold War, from [00:04:55] the 50s, from that national [00:04:58] security doctrine where there were the two [00:05:01] poles, the former Soviet Union and [00:05:04] the United States, military innovation and [00:05:08] industry were led by the Pentagon, by the Department [00:05:12] of Defense. We have many examples in that regard, such as [00:05:15] BARPA, such as the Manhattan [00:05:18] Project, many of the projects of what at [00:05:21] that time was cutting-edge technology, were [00:05:24] led by this military-industrial [00:05:28] complex. In the 90s, [00:05:31] a paradigm shift occurred after the [00:05:35] United States established itself as the hegemon in [00:05:38] the West, and it was investment financial funds like [00:05:41] Black Rock, Vanguard, that began to heavily [00:05:45] finance everything related to information and communication [00:05:49] technologies, and displaced the [00:05:51] Pentagon in the geopolitical [00:05:55] leadership of this technology. That's [00:05:59] when many of the corporations we know today [00:06:02] appeared, such as Alphabet, and also, well, Microsoft was [00:06:06] around before, but they were heavily leveraged [00:06:09] by financial funds. [00:06:12] And these defense structures lost the [00:06:16] ability to manage innovation. So [00:06:19] from the 90s until now, we see that the [00:06:23] US budget has drastically fallen [00:06:25] in terms of defense [00:06:29] and the development of innovation and technology applied to defense. [00:06:33] Today, we are at three or [00:06:36] four percent of the US [00:06:38] GDP applied to these technologies. [00:06:43] So, I think what Donald Trump is currently trying [00:06:46] to do is to regain control [00:06:49] where the Department of [00:06:52] Defense or the Department of War, right, [00:06:56] and the Pentagon [00:07:00] are the ones that set the pace and [00:07:04] regain an innovation capability. The problem [00:07:07] is that today it is impossible [00:07:10] for these structures [00:07:13] to subordinate big data corporations, Microsoft, [00:07:16] Google. [00:07:19] So, they are thinking about how to associate with these [00:07:23] big data companies, and to associate, I think [00:07:27] they are proposing this new doctrine in terms [00:07:30] of national security in function of the trade war with [00:07:34] China for these [00:07:37] corporations to do their business and to [00:07:40] be able to apply and automate [00:07:42] war in a more agile way, right? That's what they are [00:07:46] proposing from this new command that will be [00:07:50] launched, which is called a command for [00:07:53] the automation of war. And is there [00:07:56] a specific date that is already being [00:07:59] considered? Yes, for this command, [00:08:02] it would be a high rank, a four-star [00:08:06] general. In the United States, they are planning to launch it at the end of [00:08:10] 2027. [00:08:12] Let's also consider that we are in the middle of an election campaign in the United States, [00:08:16] where they also need to show military [00:08:19] power, thinking of the [00:08:22] voters who follow Donald Trump and the Republican [00:08:25] Party. So, it is being [00:08:28] proposed a [00:08:31] 1.5 trillion dollar [00:08:35] funding for these war automation projects, [00:08:38] which would involve the purchase of drones, [00:08:42] artificial intelligence, software, software [00:08:45] for spying or software, as it is [00:08:48] unfortunately used in the Gaza genocide to detect [00:08:51] targets and eliminate [00:08:55] them. Also, everything related to robotics. That's [00:08:59] why I said, all these capabilities today the government doesn't have them, it would [00:09:03] have to buy them from corporations like [00:09:06] Alphabet, Meta. Meta makes everything related [00:09:10] to virtual [00:09:12] reality glasses, augmented reality, which are used to train [00:09:15] the army. These billions of [00:09:18] dollars will also be used to [00:09:22] consolidate the neo-reactionary tripod within Silicon [00:09:25] Valley, which is Palantir with [00:09:28] Peter Thiel, and Musk with [00:09:32] his companies like [00:09:35] SpaceX or X.AI, [00:09:39] his artificial intelligence development, and a new company, [00:09:43] relatively new, Anduril, which is an [00:09:46] association between Trump [00:09:49] Junior and Peter Thiel, which is specifically designed [00:09:53] for this automation of war. Let's not forget that [00:09:56] these companies propose accelerationism, so [00:09:59] it's about accelerating now, applied to [00:10:03] the different scenarios of warlike conflict. I don't know if [00:10:06] it's making a small detour, as they would say in [00:10:09] English, a small digression from the conversation, or [00:10:12] precisely an example that is at the center. We have seen [00:10:16] that in recent weeks this phenomenon occurred [00:10:19] of this service that Elon [00:10:22] Musk has developed through his company [00:10:25] SpaceX, which is Starlink. It is definitively [00:10:29] access to the internet through [00:10:32] space. So, [00:10:35] the issue arises that suddenly [00:10:38] he was providing this service to [00:10:42] Ukraine. The dilemma [00:10:45] begins of who is behind that, [00:10:48] because the US government says it has [00:10:52] nothing to do with the fact that they have reduced [00:10:55] the speed [00:10:58] of the information that it can collect through [00:11:02] Starlink, and therefore has left the Ukrainian [00:11:05] army without access to information it needs, for example, [00:11:09] which it says it needs to send missiles or to [00:11:12] detect incoming missiles. [00:11:16] So, Elon Musk says, we do [00:11:19] not develop, we do not control that, [00:11:23] it is a matter for the US government. The US government says we [00:11:27] do not control that, a private individual [00:11:30] controls it, Elon Musk. [00:11:33] Could that be a reference to who [00:11:36] controls what in terms of information [00:11:39] eventually in the future in military matters? [00:11:42] Absolutely, these tensions that you are [00:11:45] describing are already occurring. [00:11:48] They are happening in the Gaza genocide, they happened in [00:11:52] Iran, they happened in... [00:11:55] They are tensions between corporations that [00:11:58] negotiate, they negotiate state funding, [00:12:01] they negotiate quotas of power within [00:12:05] the US state, [00:12:09] because today, let's remember that the four big companies [00:12:12] that manage the clouds, that is, the [00:12:16] places, the high-capacity data [00:12:19] processing centers for training [00:12:22] artificial intelligence in real [00:12:26] time are Google [00:12:28] Alphabet with Google Chrome, [00:12:31] Amazon, and to a lesser [00:12:35] extent Meta and Oracle on a second [00:12:37] scale. After that, there are no other [00:12:41] corporations. And I think I said [00:12:44] Amazon, didn't I? Amazon Web Services is also [00:12:47] key. There are no other American corporations [00:12:51] that have these large data [00:12:55] processing centers, which is where the artificial [00:12:59] intelligence used in military terrain can [00:13:02] be trained to process in real [00:13:05] time what happens in military terrain. [00:13:09] So, it is the state that has to, including the US [00:13:13] state, that has to seek [00:13:16] ways to associate, ways to [00:13:19] negotiate with these corporations today. That's [00:13:23] why the funding goes directly to these corporations [00:13:27] that are not profitable today. So today, [00:13:30] these big data corporations, [00:13:33] they spend more than they earn. 40% [00:13:36] of their profit is being spent on the construction of these large-scale [00:13:40] data processing centers. That's why the United States is seeing [00:13:43] where they are installed, [00:13:46] and they are not making [00:13:49] a profit. So it is the US government that [00:13:52] needs to buy from them. And [00:13:55] it is the one that needs to make [00:13:59] the most structural deals possible so that [00:14:03] they provide their services [00:14:06] in military conflict scenarios. In the case of [00:14:10] Starlink, which are low-Earth [00:14:12] orbit satellites, they are not geostationary [00:14:16] satellites but low-level satellites, [00:14:18] it already happened in the war with Ukraine [00:14:22] several tensions where [00:14:25] Elon Musk had to be forced, so to speak, to [00:14:29] provide these services to the Ukrainian [00:14:32] army. In fact, at one point it was said that he was providing [00:14:36] the same services to Russia, and [00:14:39] Donald Trump tries to, well, that's also [00:14:43] why he was given all that space in Donald Trump's [00:14:46] government at the beginning, he tries to keep him aligned [00:14:50] and subordinate, but today these are corporations that [00:14:53] have more technological capacity than the US [00:14:57] state, which is why it is very dependent. Verónica, I invite [00:15:00] you to take a short break. We are talking with [00:15:03] Verónica Forsín, directly from La [00:15:07] Plata, Argentina. Verónica is a geopolitical analyst and [00:15:10] artificial intelligence specialist. We are talking about unmanned [00:15:14] armed forces. We'll be [00:15:16] right back. 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Verónica, [00:17:57] geopolitical analyst and artificial [00:18:00] intelligence specialist, we are talking about [00:18:03] unmanned armed forces. We were [00:18:07] talking in the first segment about this development [00:18:10] that we are seeing within the United States, and what about, for example, [00:18:14] the other side of the coin in China regarding this issue? Well, this [00:18:18] proposal that the current [00:18:21] Secretary of Defense is [00:18:24] making to build a four-star [00:18:27] command and to seek new [00:18:30] funding, we are talking about 1.5 trillion [00:18:33] dollars to train [00:18:37] the military forces and to accelerate the connection [00:18:41] of the purchase of material for the training [00:18:45] of military forces in terms of allowing the [00:18:50] war, it is done under [00:18:53] the argument of this [00:18:56] commercial competition with China or this trade [00:18:59] war with China and a possible military [00:19:03] confrontation that would undoubtedly [00:19:06] be marked of artificial [00:19:10] intelligence. This is the pretext [00:19:12] that, let's say, today [00:19:16] the United States and the Donald [00:19:19] Trump administration are developing to accelerate [00:19:23] all this funding for the [00:19:26] military spectrum. China, since [00:19:29] always, its technological [00:19:32] developments are commercial and military dual-purpose. [00:19:36] The United States, also since the Cold [00:19:40] War, as we just said, has always been dual-purpose, [00:19:43] commercial and military. China, in its five-year [00:19:47] plans, emphasizes the centrality of [00:19:50] technology development, but viewing it as an [00:19:54] instrument of a new, more accelerated [00:19:57] mode of production, hyper-technologized, [00:20:00] which even always subordinates [00:20:04] itself to its [00:20:07] proposals for prosperity, common [00:20:10] well-being, and, in international terms, [00:20:14] a shared destiny for humanity. Technology is [00:20:17] used more as an instrument for the community, [00:20:21] for society. We are not [00:20:23] seeing, studying in depth, that China [00:20:26] uses technology in the same way that the West [00:20:30] is using it, for a war that is not only military [00:20:34] but also cognitive, in a sustained and [00:20:37] permanent way. Although, of course, it is used [00:20:40] for surveillance, right? Drones are also [00:20:43] being developed, robotics, [00:20:47] and all sorts of software, [00:20:50] artificial intelligence that can be applied in the military [00:20:54] sphere, if necessary. The biggest conflict [00:20:57] scenario is Taiwan, right? Today, for [00:21:01] China. And in that sense, all its military [00:21:05] industry is designed and aimed [00:21:08] at sustaining the Pacific as [00:21:12] a zone that does not escalate in terms [00:21:15] of armed conflicts. That is to say, from a geopolitical [00:21:19] point of view. I mean, here only the very big [00:21:22] actors remain to decide who wins and loses a [00:21:26] war, because all the smaller [00:21:29] armies, to use a word, [00:21:31] logically with the availability of artificial [00:21:35] intelligence and all the technology, nobody [00:21:38] can compete to win a war except these [00:21:42] great powers. And today, in technological-military [00:21:45] terms, we are in a technological [00:21:49] bipolarity. [00:21:51] On the one hand, the United States, which can also [00:21:54] sustain this global value chain for the development of cutting-edge [00:21:58] technology, based on the Pacific [00:22:01] Silica eh, it establishes an [00:22:05] association with other countries or [00:22:08] new international relations to sustain [00:22:11] that entire value chain, rare earths, [00:22:15] all the development of microchips, data processing centers, [00:22:18] in contrast, China also proposes new [00:22:22] international relations, proposing the [00:22:25] international organization of artificial intelligence governance, [00:22:29] more based on this [00:22:33] idea of win-win with 29 [00:22:36] countries, including Russia, which also allows [00:22:40] China to sustain the global value chain [00:22:43] of cutting-edge technologies, frontier technologies, [00:22:46] and in that way, not have bottlenecks. [00:22:50] China is strong in rare earths, but these [00:22:53] international relations also allow it to overcome its [00:22:57] bottleneck, which are microchips. They also allow [00:23:00] the development of mathematical models [00:23:03] and the development, well, of patents, [00:23:07] which China is also strong in. That [00:23:11] is to say, they are two countries [00:23:15] that manage to sustain international relations that [00:23:18] allow them to consolidate the value chains of cutting-edge [00:23:22] technologies, and as you rightly say, Jorge, they are the [00:23:25] only two countries that, in military [00:23:29] terms, can manage big data in [00:23:33] real time in a scenario of [00:23:35] military conflict, and that train their armed [00:23:39] forces in virtual scenarios, [00:23:43] right? Both China and the United States [00:23:46] have a permanent military exercise, [00:23:50] using virtual reality or [00:23:54] augmented reality, based on [00:23:57] technologies like virtual reality glasses and so on. So they are [00:24:01] a trained army, right? I bring up this issue, [00:24:04] which is closer to our region, and we are [00:24:08] talking about Brazil, about another war that [00:24:11] precisely has its conclusion [00:24:16] the second round of the election between Lula and [00:24:20] Bolsonaro, where it is precisely denounced [00:24:23] that this large corporation [00:24:27] Meta would be using or has [00:24:30] used, because there is a complaint with apparently concrete [00:24:36] the manipulation of information to favor [00:24:39] Flavio Bolsonaro and harm Lula. [00:24:43] That is to say, here we are talking about a war [00:24:47] from a geopolitical point of view and [00:24:51] where these large corporations that [00:24:54] manage artificial intelligence are [00:24:57] participating in the electoral results [00:25:00] of other countries. I ask you, well, I believe [00:25:04] that Latin America is under a hybrid [00:25:07] warfare situation, [00:25:09] eh, the West is under a hybrid warfare [00:25:13] situation where the great [00:25:15] tool of today is technology, it is [00:25:19] artificial intelligence. This allows for [00:25:22] an interventionism that is no longer new; we have been seeing [00:25:26] it since 2015 with Cambridge Analytica, an [00:25:29] interventionism by American corporations in the [00:25:33] political-electoral processes in our countries. In [00:25:36] 2015, interventionism was denounced in the Argentine [00:25:40] elections, in the elections in Ecuador, in the elections [00:25:44] also in Brazil. Cambridge Analytica no longer [00:25:47] exists, but undoubtedly Meta and American [00:25:51] corporations [00:25:54] have managed to continue with that [00:25:56] ability to interfere in political-electoral [00:26:00] processes, specifically. [00:26:02] They target in a runoff scenario [00:26:06] 10-15% of the population that is [00:26:10] more disorganized and more [00:26:13] susceptible [00:26:16] to cognitive warfare, psychological warfare, [00:26:21] of the population that, being more disorganized, [00:26:25] is more vulnerable to these [00:26:27] technologies, to these impacts on social [00:26:30] networks and they were false flag [00:26:34] operations, many times that happen on social [00:26:38] networks, but sometimes they happen in reality, we saw it in Argentina last [00:26:41] year in the midterm elections, [00:26:45] and social networks amplifies and [00:26:48] generates an emotional destabilization of this 10, 15% of the population [00:26:52] that leads to defining their vote not by [00:26:56] rational issues but by [00:26:59] emotional issues. Here, I think there's... an [00:27:03] alert to national and [00:27:05] popular projects, because many times we talk to the [00:27:09] population, explaining public policy, [00:27:12] explaining rationally what we are going [00:27:15] to do if we are in government, [00:27:18] but we see that these social networks do is [00:27:21] to target emotionality, we would say [00:27:25] to hyper- incentivize the reptilian [00:27:28] brain, no, the most emotional part of the brain to [00:27:32] make voters vote irrationally. [00:27:34] This is political interference, [00:27:37] it's not regulated, eh, [00:27:41] this digital terrain is totally unregulated terrain in [00:27:45] Latin America and it allows precisely this American [00:27:48] intrusion. So, well, on Sunday [00:27:51] surely eh we will have [00:27:54] again [00:27:56] eh this North American interference. I think Lula is very aware of [00:28:00] this situation, that's why... he has imposed [00:28:03] sanctions on Elon Musk, he has imposed [00:28:06] restrictions on social networks and [00:28:09] specifically on Meta to try to make this interference not [00:28:13] so strong. Let's see if this [00:28:17] allows that really [00:28:20] the national and popular Latin American project that [00:28:24] Lula is proposing can reach a good port [00:28:27] and not have this foreign [00:28:30] interference. Thank you very much for having been with [00:28:34] us, thank you very much, Jorge, greetings. [00:28:53] It is no longer just a test of courage to face a [00:28:57] risk, another type of courage is needed, the courage of [00:29:01] constancy. 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