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00:00:44The most important historical weapon that imperialists have had against the
00:00:49advancing, it is totally the opposite, peoples of Africa and everywhere else in the world has been
00:00:52division, division between countries, division between
00:00:55ethnicities, division between revolutionary forces, if
00:00:59there's one thing we'd like to emphasize in these brief words, it's that unity
00:01:03must be the permanent motto of
00:01:05Yemen region, the Brigadier all of us who oppose the system of domination that
00:01:08imperialism intends
00:01:11life, and finally these advances to preserve. Fidel Castro. September 14,
00:01:131978. Speech delivered at the inaugural
00:01:17session of the International Conference of Solidarity with the struggle
00:01:20of the African and Arab peoples against imperialism and reaction
00:01:24held at the Africa Hall Addis Ababa,
00:01:27Ethiopia.
00:02:12of this day, and well, what
00:02:23Hello, welcome to "El Mundo desde el Sur", there we had
00:02:27participating, we are very attentive to what images that provide context to our analysis today, armed
00:02:31forces in Yemen, linked to the Ansar Allah movement, carried out
00:02:35a large-scale operation using dozens of
00:02:39ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles against an important
00:02:42military air base in southwestern Saudi Arabia,
00:02:45significantly escalating
00:02:47is happening in Lebanon, we are seeing what the cross-border conflict that continues
00:02:50to expand. The action was carried out in retaliation
00:02:53interests in the region, for what Ansar Allah described as an intensification of the Saudi
00:02:57air campaign throughout Yemen, denouncing
00:03:00that Saudi fighter jets had carried out
00:03:02decision to more than 300 aerial bombardments over several
00:03:05Yemeni provinces in recent days. The movement
00:03:09warned that the Houthis will continue to launch attacks
00:03:12deep into Saudi territory as long as the
00:03:15aggressions continue. The intensification of the conflict marks the definitive
00:03:19break of the fragile ceasefire that had been maintained
00:03:22fundamental in since 2022,
00:03:24the analysis, Eduardo Meneces, who and Ansar Allah will intensify its actions
00:03:26way or another from in the Saudi kingdom's territory as long as the bombings
00:03:29and military aggression and economic blockade imposed against the
00:03:33population in Yemen persist. This is part of the analysis.
00:03:36Before that, remember to the audience, you have time to participate in the poll that
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00:03:43seen of regarding this whole situation
00:03:46that has to do precisely with what some analysts
00:03:49have described regarding this
00:03:52issue of the Houthi resistance in Yemen that claims sovereign
00:03:56operations against the wave of aggression from Saudi Arabia. What is the
00:04:00progress of Ansar Allah against Western interests in the
00:04:03region? There you have the options, we invite you with this
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00:04:18Arabia to Let's go immediately to the analysis
00:04:21on the topic, I am joined by Dax Toscano,
00:04:25Middle East analyst, joining us
00:04:28that media narrative not from Quito, Ecuador. Dax, what a pleasure to have you with us.
00:04:30only of Saudi Arabia but of Welcome, good evening, thank you very much to
00:04:34Telesur for this invitation, well, your analysis is timely, Dax,
00:04:37regarding what is happening, of course, a significant
00:04:41advance in terms of the operations in
00:04:44Yemen, the Houthis, in a way that is still
00:04:47part of the analysis, for
00:04:50some international analysts, it is said
00:04:54that this has been, shall we say, a new way to
00:04:59the port cities in the Red redraw the strategic map in the Red Sea. What do you say about
00:05:00that?
00:05:03Well, it is important that the
00:05:06entirely due to the audience always understands the context
00:05:09and the totality, not just a conjunctural moment
00:05:13and a part of the problem. We must
00:05:16bear in mind that since 2015,
00:05:19Saudi Arabia has maintained
00:05:22a fierce blockade that aims
00:05:26to starve the Yemeni population, primarily
00:05:29women and children.
00:05:33This is not the reaction
00:05:36of Ansarullah or the Houthis
00:05:40to an aerial attack that occurred
00:05:43criminally these days, but rather the reaction,
00:05:47the result of the accumulation of a number of
00:05:51contradictions that have arisen over these
00:05:5412 years and that have to do with the economic blockade,
00:05:58fundamentally with the situation of
00:06:01maintaining a permanent attack against
00:06:04the area controlled by the Houthis by Saudi
00:06:08Arabia, and finally, which is one of the
00:06:11fundamental points, is also the role that
00:06:14Saudi Arabia plays in favor of the criminal Zionist
00:06:18entity of Israel and the United States, not only
00:06:21to attack the Palestinian people but also to attack
00:06:25Lebanon, to attack Syria and to
00:06:28attack, mainly also in
00:06:31recent months, the Islamic Republic of
00:06:34Iran. All these contradictions are adding up
00:06:38and that is what leads the Houthis
00:06:41and Ansarullah to carry out strong,
00:06:44powerful attacks against Saudi
00:06:47Arabia, which presents itself to the world as a
00:06:51military power and which in terms that the
00:06:55Chinese leader Mao Zedong once
00:06:58used, is nothing more than a paper
00:07:01tiger, and the Yemeni
00:07:05fighters, the Houthi fighters, have demonstrated,
00:07:08even in the most difficult conditions of their own
00:07:11existence, the courage and morale to fight,
00:07:15but also not only that, but also the intelligence
00:07:18and the strategic technological capacity, because
00:07:22Yemeni-made missiles and drones from
00:07:24the Houthis have been used
00:07:28to hit economic and military interests of
00:07:32Saudi Arabia in areas that are
00:07:35very, very important for
00:07:38this nation that has
00:07:41become a servant of the axis of
00:07:45arrogant evil, yes, and you mentioned
00:07:48those economic and political interests of Saudi Arabia, but
00:07:52also of the West, right? You also spoke of
00:07:56a broader spectrum
00:07:59regarding what is at stake in Western
00:08:03Asia, taking into account what is happening in Iran, what is happening in
00:08:06Palestine, and of course Yemen always playing a very
00:08:10important role in all of this. How is
00:08:12this situation in Yemen affecting those Western
00:08:15interests?
00:08:18Well, it is important in these spaces, we
00:08:22must acknowledge those dignified peoples who have
00:08:25risen up to confront these arrogant forces of
00:08:29evil, the United States, the criminal Zionist entity of
00:08:32Israel, also, we will see the
00:08:35intervention that occurs in one
00:08:38the old fox that I always repeat here in this space,
00:08:42which is England, Great Britain, because
00:08:46Saudi Arabia has already asked for help from both
00:08:49Israel and England, from the United States itself, to
00:08:53stop the attacks carried out by
00:08:56Ansarullah and the Houthis, the Yemeni
00:08:59people, attacks that are just,
00:09:02because it is a reaction against all that criminal
00:09:06policy that Saudi Arabia has pursued. We
00:09:09must bear in mind that Saudi Arabia maintains a close
00:09:13relationship with the criminal Zionist entity of
00:09:16Israel. Since 2020, there have been
00:09:19permanent visits by high-ranking Mossad
00:09:23officials and high-ranking officials of the
00:09:26Israeli regime of Israel to Saudi
00:09:31maintain contacts and
00:09:34military activities, intelligence activities, for
00:09:38what? Precisely to carry out attacks against
00:09:42the Yemeni existence or to also
00:09:45carry out attacks against countries
00:09:48like Lebanon or Iran. So the attacks
00:09:52that are being carried out, which are legitimate on the part
00:09:55of Yemen against Saudi Arabia, are going
00:09:59to completely upset this because the moment the
00:10:02Yemenis take control of some
00:10:05port cities that are
00:10:08adjacent to the Red Sea and that
00:10:11also enable control of the Strait of Bab
00:10:15al-Mandeb, then that
00:10:19will mean a blow not only
00:10:22economic, but a political, strategic,
00:10:25military blow against Saudi Arabia, but not only against
00:10:28Saudi Arabia, but against the United States and fundamentally,
00:10:32fundamentally against the criminal Zionist entity of Israel,
00:10:36so this is fundamental and that is why we must
00:10:39support what these fighters are doing at this
00:10:43moment, who even without military boots, but barely
00:10:47with bare feet or
00:10:50covered with just a few rags, their feet
00:10:53fighting against those mercenaries, mercenaries
00:10:57that Saudi Arabia enables through millions
00:11:00of dollars, millions of money that
00:11:04is given to these forces to fight the Houthis, to
00:11:08fight Ansarullah.
00:11:10Yes, let's look at some other data regarding this
00:11:14scenario. The spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General
00:11:17Yahya Sarea, reported that 129 attacks were carried out by the
00:11:21Saudi Arabian Air Force in less than 48 hours. Following the
00:11:25recent bombings in several regions of the
00:11:30General reported that US F-15s and British Typhoons
00:11:34departed from Saudi air bases to attack
00:11:37very important Yemeni provinces. A Yemeni spokesman,
00:11:41Nasr al-Din Amer, warned that if there is an escalation, they will attack
00:11:45oil infrastructures to paralyze even the small amount of Saudi
00:11:48oil that is being exported through the Suez Canal. In recent
00:11:52months, these contact zones between Yemeni forces and mercenaries linked to the
00:11:56Riyadh-backed government in Aden, in southern
00:11:59Yemeni territory, have been a constant scenario of drone attacks
00:12:03and, according to reports and local information,
00:12:06both sides are preparing for the imminent large-scale military offensive,
00:12:10and I want to ask you this because Ansar Allah
00:12:14has already commented, DAX, Saudi Arabia will have no security as long
00:12:18as the aggression continues. If the enemy, it
00:12:21says, believes that after 300 attacks,
00:12:25it believes that there will be a safe and stable situation, it lives in an illusion on the part of
00:12:29Saudi Arabia. What do you expect, what should we expect
00:12:32next regarding this
00:12:33situation?
00:12:36Well, the name of the operation carried out by Ansar Allah
00:12:39and the Houthis, who
00:12:43make up this resistance movement against the arrogant forces of evil,
00:12:46is "Allah is more
00:12:49powerful and punishing," which
00:12:53means that, just like in
00:12:56other places where the resistance
00:12:59remains firm against the attacks of these
00:13:03genocidal criminals, both from Israel and the United States,
00:13:07it will not stop. We are seeing what
00:13:12is happening in Palestine, and we are seeing the steadfastness of
00:13:16the Iranian people in confronting precisely these arrogant forces of
00:13:20evil. The same thing characterizes the Yemeni
00:13:23people, the Houthis: steadfastness and the
00:13:27go all the way against an aggressor.
00:13:31The Quran says,
00:13:34whoever aggresses against you must also be
00:13:37met with a response against the aggressor, and a
00:13:40that the issue of
00:13:44martyrdom, which is
00:13:47what religion means in Muslim
00:13:50peoples, especially Shiites,
00:13:54means that death is not an obstacle to
00:13:57confronting these arrogant forces of evil, but rather an honor,
00:14:01because we will fight until the end to stop
00:14:05precisely that injustice to which this people is subjected,
00:14:09but it is not only the Yemeni people, it is a struggle that must be
00:14:12recognized that Yemen has been carrying out since October
00:14:162023 until the present date, in defense
00:14:20of the Palestinian people, in defense of the axis of
00:14:23resistance, and this has therefore allowed
00:14:26it to strengthen not only in the military
00:14:30aspect but also to strengthen its
00:14:33ethics, its morale, its international prestige
00:14:36with the peoples who are in resistance. The blows have been forceful, and that
00:14:40demonstrates the capacity, I insist, also technological, the
00:14:44strategic military capacity of the
00:14:47Yemenis, of the Houthis, because internationally
00:14:51the media call them savages,
00:14:54terrorists, criminals, and they don't
00:14:57understand that it is a people with a millenary history and that today
00:15:01this people has developed a military capacity
00:15:04to strike, for example, at the 1200 km
00:15:08east-west pipeline through which Saudi
00:15:11Arabia is giving a breather to Western
00:15:15powers, fundamentally to the United States, to extract
00:15:18oil from the Persian Gulf to one of
00:15:24Sea. If the Houthis and Ansarullah manage
00:15:27to control all of that, then that situation
00:15:31will not only be to the detriment of Saudi Arabia but
00:15:34also of the interests
00:15:38trapped in the Strait of Hormuz, despite
00:15:41Trump saying that he has control of that
00:15:45strait when he has no control whatsoever.
00:15:48That's the situation, very attentive to what may happen in the coming days
00:15:52in this scenario. Dax, thank you very much for your time.
00:15:55Thank you, Telesur, and keep up the good
00:15:59work. Thank you very much. We will now
00:16:02take a break from our program, but
00:16:06I remind you, you still have time to participate in the poll
00:16:09we published regarding the topic and everything related to
00:16:13this Ansarullah movement in Yemen against
00:16:17Saudi Arabia. At the end, we will analyze the results, for now,
00:16:20a short break, we'll be right back.
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00:17:46Thank you for following us on "El Mundo desde el Sur", today talking about
00:17:49Yemen. Houthi forces expanded their territorial control over
00:17:53the western coast of Yemen after advancing on the
00:17:57strategic port city of Mocha and subsequently taking the island of
00:18:00Mayun located in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a strategic
00:18:03passage. The offensive represents one of the
00:18:07movement's biggest advances since the 2022 ceasefire and
00:18:11somewhat alters the military balance in an area considered
00:18:15key for international navigation. Mocha constitutes a strategic
00:18:19point due to its location facing the Red Sea, while
00:18:22Mayun divides the two main channels of Bab al-Mandeb,
00:18:26reinforcing the Houthi position over this maritime route that connects the
00:18:29Indian Ocean with the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. The
00:18:33advance occurs while forces loyal to the
00:18:35internationally recognized government were deploying
00:18:39southward and Saudi Arabia was intensifying its aerial
00:18:42attacks. The expansion also increases pressure on international
00:18:46trade and energy routes. This is
00:18:48because it is an alternative route to the Strait of Hormuz, which is currently
00:18:52closed, let's remember, due to the conflict, due to the war that
00:18:55the United States and Israel are waging against Iran. Let's go immediately to
00:19:01joins me from a distance, a political scientist specializing in geopolitics.
00:19:04Eduardo, it's great to have you, welcome here to "El Mundo desde
00:19:08el Sur". The pleasure is entirely mine, thank you very much for the
00:19:11invitation, greetings to you and those who listen to us. Timely
00:19:15is your analysis regarding this whole situation and
00:19:18how what we have the Houthi
00:19:22counteroffensive in Yemen against Saudi
00:19:25Arabia, well, it is redrawing a bit of the
00:19:28strategy in, shall we say, in Western
00:19:32Asia, and what this implies for the West
00:19:36and its interests.
00:19:39Well, I think you have already mentioned several of the central
00:19:42points. We know that at this moment,
00:19:45the dispute, the war that has
00:19:49been launched by the United States and Israel against
00:19:52the Iranian people has put a significant
00:19:56part of the global economy at stake due to the
00:19:59almost total decrease or large part of the
00:20:03circulation through the Strait of Hormuz, which indeed has a global impact
00:20:07not only for but for the entire productive
00:20:10chain of oil, in terms of food, for example, in terms
00:20:13of inputs for agriculture, in terms
00:20:17of the simple cost of transport, we know that there is a neuralgic point at the geopolitical
00:20:21level, which, as we have well said and as you well said,
00:20:24the Bab al-Mandeb Strait
00:20:28aims to become an alternative point to
00:20:31try to alleviate some of the pressure that Iran has
00:20:35managed to put on this point. Here there is something that is fundamental to
00:20:38emphasize: if we have reached this situation, it is solely and
00:20:43imperialist US policy in which, faced
00:20:47with a multipolar world that challenges its hegemony, it simply tries
00:20:51to impose its interests by military force. Here it must be
00:20:54emphasized that the response, whether it is the
00:20:58Iranian response or the response of the Houthis in
00:21:01Yemen, is nothing more than
00:21:04a response to the imperialist,
00:21:07US, Israeli aggression in the region,
00:21:11through the same tools, that is, through an armed defense of
00:21:15their interests, in any armed geopolitical
00:21:18dispute like this. The neuralgic points are the ones that will
00:21:22decide the negotiating power that peoples have, here
00:21:25when I speak of negotiation, we know perfectly well that neither Iran nor
00:21:29Yemen will stop as long
00:21:31as the genocide in Palestine does not cease, as long as the
00:21:35murderous interference of the United States in the entire
00:21:38region does not cease, and they are in a certain way in their
00:21:42full and legitimate right to use the tools they
00:21:45have in the field that the United States has created, which is the field of
00:21:48war, to defend this sovereignty. In that sense, the Strait of Bab
00:21:52al-Mandeb is exactly that, it is about
00:21:56strengthening the dispute that is taking place in the Strait of
00:22:00Hormuz to avoid this type of aggression and completely
00:22:03unidirectional measures
00:22:06on the part of the United States in trying to impose its
00:22:10interests, and it has exactly the same
00:22:13dynamic, and we have seen it in recent days, the Houthis continue
00:22:16to advance also with a logic of war,
00:22:20an asymmetric logic against
00:22:23Saudi Arabia, which has a series of military
00:22:27elements, F-15 planes, a series of missiles
00:22:30that are extremely expensive, where each day of war
00:22:34costs Saudi Arabia extremely dearly. These days there have
00:22:38been 300 bombings in five days, while Yemen
00:22:41manages to respond militarily with a much less
00:22:44costly war, and in the long term in this
00:22:47scenario, there is no other scenario than
00:22:50a victory for this axis of resistance, yes,
00:22:54no doubt, and taking into account the price of oil,
00:22:57Eduardo Rosa, at $110 at the close
00:23:02may also appear in the short
00:23:06and medium term in international
00:23:08markets.
00:23:11Yes, here we must be very clear, besides the fact
00:23:13that on the one hand there are two important
00:23:17junctures, there is the electoral juncture
00:23:20of the United States in which the United States is trapped
00:23:24in a contradiction of on the one hand
00:23:27trying to appear Donald Trump in front
00:23:31of the mid-term elections that are coming in the United States, trying to appear as the strong
00:23:34man who can subdue both
00:23:38Iran and the Houthis or, let's say, impose US
00:23:43which militarily he clearly has not achieved unless
00:23:47there is some change that we have not seen so far. True, and
00:23:50at the same time the consequences of this, which are dire
00:23:54consequences for the peoples of the world, also obviously for the American
00:23:57people, and the United States is trapped in this logic,
00:24:01in this logic from which it has not been able to exit, from which no direction
00:24:04that would allow it to exit is seen on the horizon.
00:24:08Indeed, the scenario that presents itself before us
00:24:12today is a scenario in which this will simply deepen
00:24:15while there is this contradiction and this cycle from which the United
00:24:19States cannot exit. We will continue to see a dispute in which
00:24:22oil continues to rise globally and one of
00:24:26the horizons that this can create is precisely popular
00:24:30discontent in the face of the lack of
00:24:33material horizons, the capacity for economic well-being and, on
00:24:36the contrary, the great impact on the pockets of the most
00:24:40popular sectors that, in a certain way, in every corner of the world
00:24:43will become increasingly tense in the face of a blind policy, in the face of a
00:24:47contradictory policy and a policy that does not have a true escape
00:24:51route for the United States and that is putting the entire
00:24:54world in almost every corner of the planet in the face of this
00:24:57dilemma and this tension. Eduardo, finally,
00:25:01to touch on what we were already commenting with
00:25:04Dax Toscano as well, because the speed, the
00:25:08coordination and the depth of the advance
00:25:12of the Houthis in Yemen has taken by surprise
00:25:15and in some way dismantles
00:25:20the West, regarding what a people like Yemen represents
00:25:24and the struggle it is waging in Western Asia. Your
00:25:27take. Well, I believe that for me these advances that we have seen in recent
00:25:30days are a testament to
00:25:34something fundamental, which is that the US
00:25:36forces and their allies in the region
00:25:40are also beginning to wear down, that is, it is very
00:25:43difficult to think that after so many months
00:25:47in this aggression, of which we know
00:25:50the economic cost it entails, the military desgaste it entails, there are many
00:25:54reports from the Pentagon itself that have shown that the United States is already very
00:25:57further below some of the critical limits of many of the
00:26:01military inputs, eh. of
00:26:04war tools that it uses, this wear and tear
00:26:08ultimately makes it so that the United States cannot maintain the same pressure and
00:26:12the same logistic support in all
00:26:15corners eh of the region of West Asia and in
00:26:19that sense we will see certain movements like this
00:26:22in which Ansarullah takes advantage of this
00:26:25wear and tear to be able to make certain strategic advances that perhaps a few
00:26:29months ago nobody believed were possible but today, reading them very well, from
00:26:32their territory they know they can do it and given the response there has been
00:26:36from the Arab Emirates, clearly Ansarullah has also been able to
00:26:40respond, so we are facing this scenario that, despite the narrative of
00:26:44strength, despite the narrative of wanting to make the
00:26:48public believe that the United States can be
00:26:51what we see is an asymmetrical war that is increasingly eroding the military
00:26:55power of the United States in the region, which is something positive for the
00:26:59sovereignty of the region, but let's not forget the danger
00:27:02it poses when we are talking about countries like Israel that have an atomic
00:27:06bomb and that have clearly shown their intention to obey international
00:27:10law and not care about
00:27:14only continue to create tension as I said
00:27:16before, while the United States continues with this contradictory
00:27:20policy of only wanting to impose its will by force in a context
00:27:24in which it will not win, unfortunately, we will continue to see a growing
00:27:28military conflict in the region
00:27:32becoming more and more intense and putting everyone at risk. I understand
00:27:35the analysis, Eduardo, thank you very much for your
00:27:38time, thank you very much for the invitation, thanks
00:27:42to you Eduardo Meneces, geopolitics expert, regarding this
00:27:45situation in West Asia, well, what
00:27:49has been this
00:27:51counteroffensive of Yemen, the Houthi
00:27:55resistance that is claiming sovereign operations against the wave of aggression
00:27:58from Saudi Arabia and there we asked what is the
00:28:01advance of Ansarullah against Western interests in the
00:28:05region, 54% of users say it successfully defies the
00:28:08blockade and the war imposed on Yemen,
00:28:1228% on the other hand say it reclaims the country's
00:28:15territorial sovereignty, these are the two options that have
00:28:19received the most votes, regarding
00:28:23this question that we have posed through social
00:28:26media, thank you all very much for
00:28:30is happening in West Asia and in other parts of the world, I remind you
00:28:34www.telesurtv.net with this real-time signal also on
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00:29:00The most important historical weapon that imperialists have had against
00:29:03the peoples of Africa and everywhere else in the world, has been
00:29:07division, division among countries, division among
00:29:11ethnic groups, division among revolutionary forces,
00:29:14if there is one thing we would like to emphasize in these brief words, it is that
00:29:18unity must be a permanent motto for all of us who
00:29:21oppose the system of domination that
00:29:24imperialism seeks to preserve. Fidel
00:29:27Castro. September 14, 1978,
00:29:31speech delivered at the inaugural session of the International
00:29:34Conference of Solidarity with the Struggle of the African and
00:29:37Arab Peoples against Imperialism and Reaction, held at Africa
00:29:41Hall, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
00:30:29Hello, this is Jorge Gestoso on today's
00:30:32show, the industrial pharmaceutical model
00:30:36with another notable guest, Jennifer
00:30:39Cardona Malaber, coordinator of the People's Health
00:30:42Movement, directly
00:30:46from Bogotá, Jennifer Cardona Malaber, a warm
00:30:50welcome to the program, cordial greetings, how
00:30:52are you, very well, Jennifer, to what
00:30:56extent does our industrial pharmaceutical model...