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00:00:00This is going to be very interesting to follow because she did vote for Donald Trump,
00:00:04so if she doesn't vote, it will be a significant protest vote against Donald
00:00:07Trump. Now, I think there's something interesting:
00:00:10why did he lose so much support from Latinos?
00:00:14We would have to see, mainly we have to take into account that
00:00:18Americans and I believe all people in the world who live in
00:00:21countries.
00:00:48Pentagon, minutes south of
00:01:01Welcome to our First Page broadcast with Alejandra Forero.
00:01:05Next, our headlines.
00:01:09Fines for those who hire undocumented people.
00:01:12Chamber of Commerce opines on the increase in the minimum
00:01:16wage. More details are known about the attack in Colombia.
00:01:19Concern about people swimming in floods that are
00:01:31one of the most fascinating destinations in pleases me to greet our viewers giving them, as always, a warm
00:01:34welcome to our First Page broadcast with Alejandra Forero, with great
00:01:38pleasure we greet all of you, hoping that you had an
00:01:42excellent Friday and that you get ready to have the best weekend.
00:01:45We start with local news and this
00:01:49time with what was mentioned recently by Minister
00:01:52Arthur Dowers specifically indicating that
00:01:55those individuals or companies that, for example,
00:01:58hire people who do not have their documents in order, will
00:02:02receive fines. An individual, for example, up to
00:02:0510,000 florins in fines, and a company up to
00:02:0825,000 florins in fines.
00:02:12Aruba will toughen penalties against those who employ undocumented
00:02:16Next, in workers. The government of Aruba will strengthen these
00:02:19penalties against companies or individuals
00:02:22who employ workers without the necessary
00:02:25documents, as announced by Justice Minister Arthur
00:02:29Dowers. During a press conference, he reported
00:02:32on changes in sanction policies
00:02:34once again became a protagonist on and the application of administrative fines.
00:02:37Over the past year, the government offered a group of undocumented
00:02:41migrants the opportunity to regularize their immigration
00:02:45and labor status through the "Junto pa Progreso" program. This
00:02:48initiative sought to respond to the demand for
00:02:51workers in various sectors of the economy, while also providing
00:02:55an opportunity to regularize their situation.
00:02:59However, now that the program is in its final phase, the
00:03:02government deems it necessary to reinforce compliance with current
00:03:06regulations. According to the announced policy, a
00:03:09person who employs an undocumented worker
00:03:13may receive a fine of up to 10,000 florins for each
00:03:16worker. In the case of companies, the penalty may
00:03:20reach 25,000 florins for each undocumented
00:03:23employee. The minister also pointed out that some
00:03:27heavily on that labor. employers initiate work permit applications when their
00:03:31foreign employees are already in Aruba and have even
00:03:34started working, which can result in the
00:03:38rejection of the application. Therefore, people applying for their
00:03:42first work permit must complete the process from
00:03:45abroad and wait for the approval of the temporary admission
00:03:49permit, known as a VTA, before traveling to
00:03:52Aruba to continue the required procedures,
00:03:56including medical examinations.
00:04:00Changing the subject, this week the Chamber of Commerce held a
00:04:03press conference where they stated their
00:04:06position regarding the increase in the minimum wage and the
00:04:10proposals currently on the table. They indicate
00:04:14that it is an important issue that needs to be studied and finalized
00:04:18with different unions in order to create a balance
00:04:22will come at 100 days, but what between purchasing power and the minimum
00:04:24wage. The Chamber of Commerce
00:04:28recognizes the concern about the high cost of living and
00:04:32the need to improve the purchasing power of workers.
00:04:34However, it warns that
00:04:37progressively increasing the minimum wage to match the
00:04:41subsistence level could have significant
00:04:44consequences for small businesses and the labor market.
00:04:48During a press conference, the director of KVK, Mr.
00:04:52Martin, pointed out that the current minimum wage is around
00:04:562,070 florins, while the subsistence level for a
00:05:00single person is estimated at approximately
00:05:032,670 florins, a difference of about
00:05:06600 florins. He
00:05:08days, precisely on questioned that these decisions are based on data about income
00:05:11and family expenses that go back to studies from
00:05:15approximately two decades ago. Therefore, he considers it essential
00:05:19to update the information to determine which households
00:05:22truly need financial assistance. The Chamber of
00:05:26Commerce also warns that a significant wage increase
00:05:29could raise the operating costs of businesses,
00:05:33especially small businesses, and lead to staff reductions,
00:05:37fewer working hours, increases in the
00:05:40prices of products and services. As an alternative,
00:05:44Caveika proposes studying complementary measures such as
00:05:48tax relief for low-income individuals, support for
00:05:52indebted families, and investments in education and
00:05:55staff capacity. The institution clarifies that
00:05:59it does not oppose improving minimum wages, but insists
00:06:02that any reform must be based on updated
00:06:05information, consultations with the sectors involved, and
00:06:09analysis of its possible consequences.
00:06:14and this week the official announcement was made of the great
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00:06:25you can participate and
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00:06:37big end of the year and this here is no different, if you see here we are
00:06:41joining forces together with...
00:09:01Holiday Spain launched its end-of-year campaign
00:09:04jointly.
00:09:08They can participate from November 2nd.
00:10:12We begin our international round in
00:10:15Colombia with an attack that occurred in recent
00:10:21the border between Colombia and Venezuela, where one person also
00:10:25was injured. It seems there were two attacks that were
00:10:29perpetrated this week.
00:10:32Two acts of violence marked the border in recent
00:10:36hours. The first is related to the homicide of the former secretary of
00:10:39government of the North Santander capital, Miguel Castellanos. He was traveling
00:10:43with his son in an armored
00:10:46vehicle. The hitman used a decoy by hitting the
00:10:50vehicle with a motorcycle. The former official got out, and when that
00:10:53happened, the murderer shot him multiple
00:10:56times. Fortunately, the minor was unharmed. The
00:11:00authorities offered a reward of up to 100 million
00:11:04pesos to locate those responsible for this act. And while this was happening,
00:11:08hours later, an attack with explosive devices was reported
00:11:12in the vicinity of the Francisco de Paula Santander international
00:11:15bridge in the Escobal sector. A suitcase was abandoned that
00:11:18detonated, leaving four police officers injured. They are now recovering
00:11:21in a medical center in that border area with Venezuelan territory. For
00:11:25this case, a reward of up to 50 million
00:11:29pesos has been offered.
00:11:31Experts in public health entities in Ecuador
00:11:34warn of the imminent risk
00:11:37that people who take as entertainment
00:11:41to enter the waters generated by
00:11:44floods may run. This not only can bring health
00:11:50they have indicated, could also generate certain epidemics.
00:11:53Below are the
00:11:55details:
00:11:58Children and adults swimming in flooded streets, traveling in
00:12:01rafts and boats, or friends improvising
00:12:04dives, are videos that are becoming common on social
00:12:08media, taking with humor the emergency caused by the rains,
00:12:12but for the director of risk management of the International University
00:12:15of Ecuador, this can be fatal, a current could come,
00:12:19what happened in Nepal, of course, everyone
00:12:23eh said no, it won't happen. They normalized the risk
00:12:26and suddenly there was this rockfall and the whole
00:12:30flood came and of course many
00:12:33perished. The case of the young man who was swept away by the current
00:12:37after yesterday's rain in Guayaquil is not the only one. In other
00:12:40cantons of Guayas, people have also been trapped in the middle of
00:12:44the current, because the river rose in a matter of
00:12:47seconds. On September 29, a pickup truck with
00:12:51workers was caught in the middle of the current in an area of the
00:12:55Lubula river in La Troncal, a place that is usually
00:12:58dry, but the river drastically rose in a matter of seconds
00:13:02due to upstream rains, trapping the occupants,
00:13:06claiming the lives of five. That's why experts are going to
00:13:09extreme precaution measures because nature is not behaving
00:13:13as usual. Another risk is that of coming into
00:13:17contact with stagnant water. Risk analysts say that there are
00:13:20actions that, of course, are entirely the responsibility of the
00:13:24authorities at their different levels. But given the scenario that
00:13:27Ecuador is experiencing with the El Niño phenomenon, the co-responsibility
00:13:31of people is essential.
00:13:35The president of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, sees great
00:13:38advantages in the arrival of the Pope, the Supreme
00:13:41Pontiff, to Peruvian territory, indicating that the Supreme
00:13:45Pontiff has Peru in his heart. They are preparing for
00:13:49the visit of the religious leader.
00:13:53Less than two weeks remain until the arrival.
00:14:13The country he holds in his heart will receive him with great joy. For us,
00:14:16it is a balm, it is a
00:14:19gift he gives us in the midst of the adversity
00:14:23we are beginning to face.
00:14:29We receive the Pope's arrival as a great blessing. The Holy Father's arrival will take place next November
00:14:3211th, six days after Keiko Fujimori completes 100
00:14:36days as head of state. In light of this, she advanced part of her
00:14:39assessment, highlighting the points she considers to be
00:14:43successes of her administration. The assessment
00:14:47I do believe is that we
00:14:50are strongly impacting criminal
00:14:53organizations. The second is eh all the
00:14:57effort for the arrival of the El Niño phenomenon. The
00:15:01third is eh the work in
00:15:04education, in health, and in housing, water
00:15:08and sanitation. Without a doubt, there will be things to improve, and
00:15:11we are in that effort, she assured
00:15:14that education will be one of the legacies of her government. That is why the
00:15:18executive seeks to officially announce the school discipline plan in the
00:15:21coming days. Little by little, what
00:15:25was lost in 15 years is being recovered: discipline, order, respect
00:15:29for authority. In that sense, we are very satisfied that
00:15:32just the knowledge that there will be a
00:15:36regulation measures are being taken in
00:15:39schools. The president reiterated that 200 schools
00:15:42will be built and another three thousand will be reconditioned
00:15:45during her government.
00:15:49Changing the subject, we know that the anti-immigrant policy of what has
00:15:52been President Donald Trump in the United States and what is known as the
00:15:56ICE migratory era, has generated certain repercussions
00:16:00for those inhabitants who perhaps do not have their documents in order,
00:16:04perhaps are in processes and some procedures. They say
00:16:07they are afraid, and now another piece of
00:16:10news is added.
00:16:13Empty streets, businesses with few customers. Something feels
00:16:17different these days in this Latino neighborhood in Virginia.
00:16:21We are in the Arlandria neighborhood, very close to the
00:16:26the capital. Let's put the
00:16:28salad on. Here we find Maria
00:16:32Linares, owner of Pulgarcito, which is also a well-known nickname for
00:16:36El Salvador. People are not going out right now, that
00:16:39is the saddest thing we have, that people do not
00:16:43want to go out, it is something we hear over and over
00:16:46again here, merchants who say that ICE operations are also
00:16:50hitting their pockets.
00:16:53They have given that blow a name, the ICE tax or ICE
00:16:57tax, it is a term that is beginning to be adopted to
00:17:01describe the economic cost of the aggressive immigration policies of
00:17:04President Donald Trump's government.
00:17:07Linares has been running the restaurant for 27
00:17:10years. She tells us that only during the COVID-19
00:17:13pandemic has she seen anything like this. This is for
00:17:16takeout, but there is a difference: back then,
00:17:20she was able to keep her staff. This
00:17:23time, no. The figures show the
00:17:25impact. Rookins, a research center
00:17:29based in Washington, analyzed 64 cities where ICE
00:17:32arrests increased the most. Six months
00:17:35later, those cities had, on average,
00:17:380.43% fewer jobs than would have been
00:17:42expected without that increase in operations. The ICE
00:17:46tax refers to the consequence of the lack of labor. With the
00:17:50decline in the immigrant workforce, many products that depend on
00:17:54that labor become more expensive. Added to this are Trump's tariff policy
00:17:57and high gasoline prices, a disastrous combination
00:18:01for employers. In a statement
00:18:03to CNN, the government rejected that the hardening of the...
00:18:37her space and sublet a part to a cell phone repair stand.
00:18:40One can't give so much discount
00:18:43because how does one survive, how can one buy
00:18:47products, how does one pay utilities, how does one pay
00:18:51rent, because rent doesn't
00:18:53forgive. But the impact is not limited to small businesses like
00:18:57these. Americas Boys, an organization that advocates for
00:19:00immigrants, says it can also affect sectors that rely
00:19:05In agriculture, for example, they record that
00:19:0868% of workers are immigrants and that
00:19:1142% of them are undocumented. Immigrants
00:19:15also represent almost 40% of home caregivers
00:19:18and 39% of those who
00:19:22work in landscaping. Of the latter, 24%
00:19:24are undocumented. It may seem like a
00:19:28problem that only affects immigrants, but its
00:19:31effects can go further. Immigrants not only
00:19:34work, they also pay rent, buy products, and
00:19:37services, and sustain businesses like these. Ione
00:19:41Molinares, CNN. Arlandria,
00:19:44Virginia.
00:19:47In recent hours, the Barranquilla photographer Alex
00:19:51Bisbal was recognized for a spectacular photo he
00:19:54recently took that made him worthy of this tremendous
00:19:58award.
00:20:01"The Great Divide" is the title of this photograph with which the
00:20:05Colombian Alex Bizbal was recognized. He won first place in the
00:20:08prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026
00:20:11contest. The Barranquilla native, based in Madrid,
00:20:14Spain, received this distinction at the Natural History
00:20:18Museum in London, the institution that organizes the event. And
00:20:21this photo, let's say, allows you to see it in
00:20:25a very visual way, that effect of a
00:20:29simple human intervention within an ecosystem. The image portrays
00:20:33the Great Salt Lake in Utah, United States, showing how
00:20:37human intervention transforms ecosystems. To achieve
00:20:40this shot, Bisbal made several flights and captured more than
00:20:44100 images from a moving small plane. Photography in
00:20:48nature conservation plays a very important role because it
00:20:52takes you to places to meet animals,
00:20:55characters, lives, ecosystems that you would have been able to know
00:20:59or observe. Alex Bisbal's work combines
00:21:02engineering, research and aerial photography to
00:21:05document human impact on water bodies. In this
00:21:08edition, the event received more than 65 thousand photographs from
00:21:12121 countries, an international recognition that
00:21:15highlights Colombian talent and brings to light the
00:21:19environmental challenges of the
00:21:21planet.
00:21:24We're going to our commercial break, but we'll be back with more
00:21:28information.
00:21:30Awareness about bone and joint health.
00:22:24Our story was built by people, neighbors helping
00:22:27neighbors, standing side by side with those who trust
00:22:31us, to protect what matters most and help build our
00:22:34communities, being there when needed
00:22:38most, across borders,
00:22:41across generations,
00:22:45still growing, still giving,
00:22:48still just getting started.
00:24:07We continue with more information through Primera Plana.
00:24:11Tomorrow, October 31st, this month ends, but it is important
00:24:15to raise awareness about the topic of our health,
00:24:18talking about bones, joints, and also muscles,
00:24:21as that is a fundamental part. But how do the
00:24:25experts tell us how to take care of them and have
00:24:29better treatment? Today on Primera Plana we talk about your health,
00:24:33so
00:24:33take care of it.
00:24:42When you've had to learn to walk again, you don't take even the
00:24:46simplest movements for granted. Robert Banelli had already been a three-time
00:24:50karate triple crown champion, but after leaving the
00:24:53sport, he had to face another rival: his own
00:24:57body. We knew my hips were completely
00:25:00deteriorated, there was nothing we could do about it, and
00:25:03the more I waited, the worse they got. Banelli weighed almost
00:25:06150 kg and often had to use a wheelchair
00:25:10to get around, but he was told that surgery to
00:25:14replace both hips was not an option until he lost
00:25:17weight. At Orlando Health, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Kenneth
00:25:21Sans asked Vanelli to lose at least
00:25:2413.5 kg. Since exercising was painful for
00:25:27him, the athlete focused on low-impact activities like
00:25:30walking in the pool. He also improved his
00:25:34diet, hydration, and rest. In about six
00:25:38months, he lost more than 100 pounds, which allowed
00:25:41a newer surgical technique to be used. 15
00:25:44minutes after my surgery, I was already walking, smiling, and
00:25:47laughing. Now, the simple act of being able to climb stairs
00:25:51is exciting. When I do it, I have to stop for a moment and
00:25:54say, "Wow, I just did that." For the health minute,
00:25:58I'm Berta
00:25:59Ramos.
00:29:50On behalf of our entire team that makes Primera Plana possible, we want
00:29:53to thank you, as always, for your loyal viewership. Remember that you can
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