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00:00:04tragedy left an irreparable void in condition did you find the inside
00:00:46Aruba, homeland,
00:00:50appreciated, unites us
00:00:53general
00:00:56city always.
00:01:00Door but also
00:01:03respect the
00:01:06above you
00:01:09xikera two
00:01:11baractra
00:01:13danstim
00:01:16our love for the city is
00:01:20great, it was
00:01:24beaten to
00:01:26unite us.
00:01:33conservation, but what
00:01:48maybe in
00:01:56Today, silence replaced
00:02:02disappointed with the disappointed with Our love for the world is
00:02:05great, united
00:02:08we shall go,
00:02:11always
00:02:13vibrating,
00:02:18we thought the people
00:02:21were, their great days
00:02:23passed.
00:02:28They died. Preserved only
00:02:32freedom,
00:02:33not much
00:02:36will
00:02:38be said, the
00:02:41barriers
00:02:44above,
00:02:46our death in
00:02:49so many
00:02:54before
00:02:56us.
00:03:00will continue
00:03:03to go.
00:03:26an escalation of violence that included
00:03:28covering the the attack against the commander. The police of Norte de
00:03:31Santander against civilians and uniformed personnel who, in the middle
00:03:34of their working day, become the
00:03:37target. Experts warn about a strategy that
00:03:41the ELN would be carrying out to strengthen its
00:03:44presence in Norte de Santander. The goal
00:03:47would go, according to analysts, beyond instilling fear. Of
00:03:51course, it constitutes a message and a challenge
00:03:54to the incoming government. It is there in
00:03:57Cúcuta and Norte de Santander where
00:04:00the ELN will play its military
00:04:03future, and where it has also
00:04:06been generating a very important
00:04:10connection in terms of its fronts in the
00:04:13Colombian east in Vichada, in Arauca, and being able to connect those
00:04:17structures across the Colombian-Venezuelan border with the
00:04:21center and east of the country, particularly
00:04:24in southern Cesar and Magdalena Media. The background
00:04:28would be the Catatumbo. For
00:04:30months, the ELN has maintained an offensive against FARC dissidents
00:04:34for control of that region, a dispute that is already
00:04:37projecting towards Cúcuta due to its strategic location, which
00:04:42one that will be divorced from the island's would be fundamental for the mobility of men, weapons, drugs, and
00:04:45illegal economies. The ELN has
00:04:48decided to undertake a war in the
00:04:52Catatumbo against the dissidents, that
00:04:55war is also expressed, of course, in the rural area of
00:04:58Cúcuta and throughout the border area
00:05:01where, because it is an urban
00:05:04border, it is a great challenge for the public
00:05:07force, these groups have managed to concretize and
00:05:11consolidate logistical, operational
00:05:14and military ties with the neighboring
00:05:18country, and undoubtedly that
00:05:22border security agenda, particularly
00:05:25in Cúcuta, will be vital for the next government
00:05:29and in what has been formulated as a military
00:05:32strategy and a security strategy that
00:05:36has that offensive character. Recovering control of
00:05:39these strategic corridors is one of the main
00:05:42challenges for the public force and for the next government in
00:05:46one of the most complex borders of the
00:05:48country.
00:05:52The marks on his face and body are the memory of the
00:05:55dawn in which he survived the attack in
00:05:58Cúcuta.
00:06:07Each wound brings back memories of the minutes in which, along
00:06:10with his companions, he thought he would never see his
00:06:14family again. This vehicle loaded with explosives was
00:06:18activated in the Tazajero neighborhood and left 14 people
00:06:21injured. The police command of Norte de Santander,
00:06:25local commercial establishments and a banking
00:06:28entity were affected within about four
00:06:31blocks. Barely counted, I counted
00:06:34when after the first one, I heard seven
00:06:37fall around me, and
00:06:40my companions and I, the only thing we could do at that moment was
00:06:44seek refuge, and we found
00:06:48refuge in the middle of a cot because we couldn't go out, we couldn't go
00:06:51out because some of them destroyed our
00:06:55exits, we couldn't go out because if we went out,
00:07:00the activation and in the fall of one of these, they could
00:07:03kill us.
00:07:09the usual movement, the closed
00:07:12businesses, the presence of the public force is constant, and
00:07:16the traces of the explosion are still visible for those
00:07:20who were inside the command, the fear did not end with these
00:07:24detonations, they were attacking us, they
00:07:27turned us into working clothes in 5
00:07:30minutes, so
00:07:34to think, "I'm going to stop seeing my family, my wife, my
00:07:38children, my parents, my loved ones," and to
00:07:41have in your head at that moment to say, "Damn
00:07:45it, they've killed us," no
00:07:48more, it's tough, but it's a
00:07:51cruel reality that one has at this moment, that one has
00:07:55to keep going. While the merchants try to
00:07:59recover from the losses and the authorities
00:08:02maintain reinforced security measures in the city, the
00:08:05survivors try to assimilate what they experienced,
00:08:09some ended up with burns, others with...
00:08:17and all with the memory of a dawn that changed their lives. The only thing we could do was hug the
00:08:19wall and ask my God that it wouldn't happen and that it wouldn't
00:08:23pass straight and blow us up there like other
00:08:27compañeros did, like the auxiliary compañero or our
00:08:30little compañero who was left with burns
00:08:33in different parts of his body, the
00:08:36compañero who lost his fingers, so
00:08:39that is to cling
00:08:43more to life, just as I did, many more people have done it
00:08:46before, soldiers,
00:08:49police, civilians who have fallen in minefields.
00:08:52Cúcuta tries to return to
00:08:55normality, but in the Tasajero neighborhood, the destroyed
00:08:58facades, the closed businesses, and the scars of
00:09:02those who survived remind us that the consequences of
00:09:05terrorism go far beyond material
00:09:09damage. A judge of the Caguas Tribunal
00:09:12found probable cause for the arrest of Esteban
00:09:16Martínez Vázquez, the 80-year-old man
00:09:18charged with the murder of his neighbor last
00:09:22Friday after an alleged neighborhood dispute on a farm
00:09:26located in the Sumidero sector of Aguas Buenas. Anything to tell your
00:09:29family? My family,
00:09:33forgive me for what I did, I had
00:09:37to do it, because he was abusing my rights, of course
00:09:41I regret it. He was almost a brother, a friend, a
00:09:44brother, but limits have limits and
00:09:47that's it, I won't say anything else. Allegedly, the octogenarian arrived at
00:09:51his residence, which borders the farm of Víctor
00:09:55Bruno Rosa, 75 years old, and
00:09:58a discussion began over the land boundaries. Immediately
00:10:02after, Martínez Vázquez allegedly pulled out two
00:10:05firearms and fired multiple shots at the
00:10:09septuagenarian. Víctor Bruno, better known
00:10:12affectionately by you, is a person and
00:10:15a being of love and peace, he never bothered
00:10:18anyone, and
00:10:22truly, his children, his wife, everyone is shocked
00:10:25by this situation. This
00:10:29Don Víctor's family. It
00:10:32snatched away one of the strongest pillars of our family, and we
00:10:35want him to
00:10:38responsibly pay for the act he
00:10:41committed. The octogenarian was charged with
00:10:45first-degree murder and two counts under the firearms
00:10:49law for allegedly firing and pointing a firearm.
00:10:52Martínez Vázquez was imposed
00:10:55a global bail of 3 million, which he did not post, and was
00:10:59admitted to prison. At the time
00:11:01of his arrest, two firearms were seized from Martínez Vázquez,
00:11:05which will now be analyzed by the Institute of
00:11:08Forensic Sciences. In addition, authorities continue
00:11:12to carry out other investigative procedures, such as the
00:11:15analysis of the seized vehicle and other pieces of
00:11:18evidence found in the search conducted at his
00:11:22home.
00:11:25the intense forensic work to identify the victims of the air tragedy in
00:11:28Nazca. From the first hours of the morning, two families remained in the
00:11:32legal medicine unit of Ica, awaiting the delivery of the remains of their loved
00:11:35ones. The relatives of pilot Américo Salazar and co-pilot
00:11:39Irenca del Carpio waited throughout the day for the delivery of the
00:11:42bodies.
00:11:45At the end of the day, they were informed that the remains would not yet be delivered. The
00:11:49delivery of the bodies was scheduled. This has not
00:11:52happened due to the
00:11:55non-compliance with documents and procedures
00:11:59inherent to the complex investigation being carried out by the Public
00:12:02Ministry. The manager of criminology of the Public
00:12:05Ministry, José, informed that the first stage of the
00:12:09identification process has already concluded. For this, specialists carried out various
00:12:12forensic evaluations under fiscal supervision. We began to
00:12:16individualize according to age, according to sex, some
00:12:19particular characteristics of the clothing, also
00:12:22characteristics of the skin such as tattoos, scars,
00:12:26we also observed the characteristics of the fingers of the
00:12:29hand, some presented tooth remains, so we have
00:12:33worked in a multidisciplinary way. The
00:12:35DNA samples have already been sent to the Public Ministry laboratory in
00:12:39Ayacucho. What follows is that the specialists must confirm that the
00:12:42results match the identification carried out in Ica, a process that
00:12:46could conclude this Tuesday or Wednesday. Yesterday we
00:12:49completed the deadline before the
00:12:5324 hours that they entered. Well, now we are going to
00:12:56homologate this with the work of the forensic biologists of DNA
00:13:00who, at the latest on Tuesday or Wednesday, will
00:13:03send us the results. While this process advances, the
00:13:07authorities also continue investigations to determine what caused the
00:13:10accident. The investigations at the impact zone and the analysis of the remains of the
00:13:14aircraft will be decisive to clarify what
00:13:16happened. The families of the victims are still waiting for answers
00:13:20about what really happened in the accident that claimed the lives of 13 people.
00:13:24Meanwhile, the investigations continue to clarify how a tourism
00:13:27trip ended up becoming a
00:13:29tragedy.
00:13:35We are with Antonio López, he is a Spanish
00:13:39citizen who has been residing in Peru for 10
00:13:42months since September of last year. He
00:13:46really likes Peruvian culture, and it is precisely this liking that
00:13:50made him invite his parents to visit
00:13:53Nazca, the Nazca Lines. And it is precisely in this
00:13:57panorama, in this context, that he claims to have
00:14:00been on the same plane that just yesterday suffered
00:14:04a fatal accident,
00:14:0713 people lost their lives, among them 11
00:14:11foreign nationals and two
00:14:14crew members, of course, well, the news, the first thing
00:14:17was very tragic, for me as soon as I heard the
00:14:21news, my body accelerated because it's
00:14:25uh, it's something you know you could have been, you know you
00:14:29could have been you and also with your parents.
00:14:32Tell me about the experience of this trip on this
00:14:35small plane, how long it lasted, how you got to the
00:14:38airport, what you noticed. Well, the
00:14:41airport, arriving, it was very close to the hotel, 10 minutes, but when
00:14:45you arrive, when they say airport, you expect people,
00:14:49it was completely empty, it was us and
00:14:52the person who gave us the tickets, a couple of
00:14:55more people selling, that is, the airport was practically
00:14:59abandoned, and it is true that then with total normality,
00:15:02uh, the ride, the security
00:15:06check, everything normally. We
00:15:09couldn't suspect anything, and even more so when we had been told that these
00:15:13aircraft were the safest, the safest option, they were
00:15:17from 2020, 2021, we couldn't suspect that something was
00:15:21going to go wrong, but it's true that the friend we were with said:
00:15:25"I'm not getting on there" because he knows that previously
00:15:28there have been accidents with these, but we said, "No,
00:15:32we're going because these are new, they're bigger,
00:15:36more stable." In what
00:15:40of the plane? Was it not well equipped? How many other people
00:15:43were you going with besides your two parents? When you
00:15:47enter the plane, you find
00:15:50that it's not a commercial plane like those
00:15:54very big ones, it's much less equipped in terms of
00:15:57infrastructure, in terms of seats and such, but it's perfectly
00:16:01viable, you have nothing to suspect, they don't give you any
00:16:04eh, no safety warning. Like, "hey, in
00:16:08case of emergency" or "in case of," they don't say anything, it's "enjoy the
00:16:11trip, fasten your seatbelts." And they didn't warn you about
00:16:14turbulence maybe, anomalous winds?
00:16:18No, that is, I understand that either they
00:16:21understand that you already know that before flying or the guide must have explained
00:16:25it to you. It's true that we knew about the famous Paracas winds, how
00:16:29violent and unpredictable they are, almost that
00:16:33at one point of the journey, more or less halfway
00:16:36before reaching the Nazca Lines,
00:16:40we would have been flying for about 20 minutes and it
00:16:43started to shake quite violently, the plane, but we said
00:16:47my parents, in fact it surprised me because they were super calm, we laughed, well
00:16:51it's the result of the moment to say, "Oh my God," they didn't even
00:16:54notice that dangerous situation they were exposed to, so to speak,
00:16:58well, you laugh because of nerves,
00:17:01because yes, because of nerves, because it really scared you for a
00:17:04moment and you say, "Oh, yes."
00:17:07It must have been quite a squeeze, I don't want to imagine. They did tell
00:17:11us that day that the weather was spectacular, so if
00:17:14we encountered that shaking
00:17:18on a day with practically no wind, it
00:17:21was very good, I don't want to imagine what
00:17:25the affected people must have encountered. How did you find out about this
00:17:29tragic news? Well,
00:17:31precisely the news came to me from the friend who accompanied us on the
00:17:35trip but decided not to get on. And he told
00:17:39us that he would not get on it in any way,
00:17:43well, he told us the news yesterday,
00:17:45uh, my body accelerated because
00:17:49well, I haven't been able to tell my parents today, my parents
00:17:52don't follow me on social media, so they haven't seen the
00:17:56video, but I haven't been able to because
00:17:59I don't want to tarnish the beautiful memory they have of Peru because
00:18:02they really loved it, they take away a
00:18:06feeling that their son is in a very beautiful
00:18:09country, but yes, the news
00:18:13broke me, I tell you. Very good, these are the words of a
00:18:17Spanish citizen, he was on the same flight, because you have also been able to identify it by the numbers as the same plane, right?
00:18:21Yes, totally, also the serial number, the OB
00:18:242001 that the fire authorities confirmed,
00:18:28uh,
00:18:31it's when I saw that this morning, in fact I saw it exactly
00:18:35an hour ago, very good, thank you for your words, he is a
00:18:38Spanish citizen who was on the same flight of this
00:18:41aircraft that unfortunately ended up suffering
00:18:45an accident and 13 people lost their lives,
00:18:48who better than him to tell us about his
00:18:51experience one week before this tragedy happened.
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00:22:20security in Cali has been underway for a week, more
00:22:24than 11, uniformed personnel will be in charge of securing the
00:22:26city, so far the authorities are evaluating
00:22:30adopting the measure of a car-free and motorcycle-free day in
00:22:33Cali. In the different security
00:22:36councils, the possibility has been considered that day
00:22:39uh, it constitutes also a day of special
00:22:42civility and may have a car-free day measure,
00:22:46however, it is something that is still under study and that...
00:22:50very surely during this week some decision will be
00:22:53made in this regard if it is pertinent and this measure
00:22:57is adopted. The four entrances and exits of Cali
00:23:01are covered with nine checkpoints outside and
00:23:05five inside, there is police in the south for each corridor that leaves
00:23:08by the Simón Bolívar highway and connects with Hamundí
00:23:12and Popayán, in the north by Yumbo, Palmira,
00:23:15Buga and Tuluá, in the west, the road that from
00:23:19Deedagua leads to Buenaventura and in the east, the corridor that connects
00:23:23with Palmira and the airport that serves the
00:23:26capital of Valle. It is not ruled out that the arrival of
00:23:29presidents and delegations affects the operation of flights
00:23:32to and from Cali. The Alfonso
00:23:36Bonilla Aragón Airport has a special device within
00:23:39this coverage that I mentioned, it has three security
00:23:42rings, as well as a checkpoint that is in the Paso del
00:23:46Comercio, which allows us to identify any risk
00:23:50that may circulate on that road. This special coverage is
00:23:53complemented by the different security capsules that each
00:23:57of the dignitaries who confirm their attendance at the
00:24:00event will have. Hamundí is one of the points that will be prioritized
00:24:04before, during and after the presidential inauguration. Of
00:24:08the nine checkpoints, two
00:24:10are on the road corridors that connect us with this city and we will
00:24:14have special operations groups
00:24:18rural area. both in the
00:24:21exit of Jamundí and the department of
00:24:24Cauca, but also in the urban area. This is
00:24:28complementary to everything that is being done in the city. More than
00:24:315,300 police officers will be deployed throughout the
00:24:35city, the measures of drone flight restriction,
00:24:38dry law and prohibition of fuel sales are
00:24:41maintained.
00:24:48Although the Office of Management and Permits approved a location consultation for the
00:24:52megaproyect Esencia, this now implies immediate
00:24:55construction, as revealed by the Secretary of the Department of Economic
00:24:59Development, Carlos Ríos Pier Luisi, this is true, it is not a
00:25:02construction permit, it is a location consultation that was
00:25:06approved, uh, in
00:25:08practical terms, it is a what was approved
00:25:12was the concept presented,
00:25:16however, there are various procedures underway, what cannot be
00:25:19determined is when the final endorsements would be granted if they proceed
00:25:22and that what was granted on Friday, July 31,
00:25:26will only allow a preliminary evaluation of the design,
00:25:32electrical grid, but the biggest challenge is that of
00:25:35water. Uh, that, well, natural resources
00:25:38authorized a test well, they are doing a
00:25:42series of analyzes and then those analyzes and natural resources have
00:25:45to evaluate them to determine if the amount of
00:25:49water they would be capturing would be
00:25:52sufficient for the project, why? Because the project, according to how they are
00:25:55conceptualizing it,
00:25:58is not connected to the water and sewage system. The governor
00:26:01highlighted that... it is not a project of her administration, so it goes through the
00:26:05normal procedures and does not have any preferential
00:26:08support. I have to wait for all agencies to
00:26:12carry out the relevant evaluations, and the agencies are the
00:26:15ones that have to issue those evaluations, I do not have the
00:26:18expertise to make an evaluation on that
00:26:22and that is what the agencies are for, when the agencies finish their
00:26:25evaluations, they will make that determination. This is not a project
00:26:29that arrived under my administration, this comes from... some
00:26:33years ago. The megaproject has encountered strong resistance from
00:26:36environmental sectors, as well as residents of the
00:26:40southwest of the
00:26:41country.
00:26:45We are going to stay locked up against this outrage and from now
00:26:49on there will be fire. After the approval of the location consultation of
00:26:52the Esencia project, published last Friday afternoon
00:26:56by the Office of Management of Permits, the
00:26:59Coalition Defends Cabo Rojo, opponents of this
00:27:03development called a press
00:27:06conference. We are still waiting to receive the resolution
00:27:10that the OCP should have issued as part of this decision, we will consider it,
00:27:14we will examine it meticulously and there we will
00:27:17reach the conclusion of what proceeds next, if we are going to resort to some administrative
00:27:21judicial forum, if we will have to resort
00:27:24to where we are now, the street. The location consultation
00:27:27process, the project proponent submits
00:27:30documentation arguing that, look, this is for
00:27:35I want to do is this and it is compatible,
00:27:39even if this is for conservation, but change it so I can build, that's
00:27:43practically telling the government, give me a dispensation so
00:27:46I can build where I can't. On the issue of water, the Aqueducts
00:27:50and Sewers Authority reiterated that they cannot supply
00:27:54the demand of 1.25 million gallons per day that
00:27:57the project requires, a demand that now the developers indicate
00:28:01they will supply with wells. I feel
00:28:05the mayor, because instead of
00:28:08giving way or to request public hearings for the
00:28:12location consultation and to promote the
00:28:15democratic participation of the people, which is what we are seeing here, the expression of the
00:28:18people. He turned his back on us,
00:28:21it hurts, that's the word, it tears the soul, to know that with
00:28:25the amount of life that is there to the Department of Natural Resources, which is
00:28:29called to protect our natural resources. All the life that
00:28:33exists there is not fulfilling its ministerial duty and that they
00:28:36don't care. On the other hand, we spoke with the mayor of
00:28:40the municipality of Cabo Rojo, who was in favor of said
00:28:43project. We asked him what the benefits would be
00:28:46for the people of Cabo Rojo, since the
00:28:49project has tax decrees and
00:28:53even exemptions for the payment, for example, of
00:28:56Ibu, among others. The economic benefit that a project
00:29:00of this can represent. You are the jobs
00:29:03that it can create for the citizens of Cabo Rojo and the economy that it
00:29:07can generate for the local businesses, it is always.
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