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00:00:02from the port of Mocha
00:00:35strait, the Strait of Hormuz analyzes the turn of Uribismo in Colombia through
00:00:38the security policy promoted by Abelardo de la
00:00:41Espriella, with military operations against the FARC
00:00:45dissidents in regions such as Haviare and Catatumbo.
00:00:48A hardline strategy that has generated controversy
00:00:52due to the victims registered in these operations,
00:00:56customs, what we share including minors, and that reopens the debate on
00:01:00the human costs of the military response to the
00:01:11in the consolidation of a paramilitary state, returning
00:01:15to the darkest times of the armed conflict and illegality
00:01:18in Colombia. After the earthquake that threatened the country in the
00:01:23up all the American military first days of his government, Abelardo de la Espriella
00:01:26alliances in the war has advanced in what appears to be his vocation to plunge
00:01:29a Colombia that is just recovering from the barbarity in which it had been
00:01:33immersed for so many years of Uribismo, into an even more bloody regime,
00:01:36where the state has the power to bomb and murder whoever
00:01:40it decides to call a guerrilla and paramilitarism to dispossess
00:01:42peasants of their land through assassinations. We talk
00:01:46about this today, I am Sasi Alejandre, welcome to the other voice.
00:01:49bienvenidos y bienvenidas la otra
00:01:51voz.
00:02:05It was during the campaign that Abelardo spoke of bombing Colombia,
00:02:09and now, after taking power, he has not taken even a month
00:02:12to start doing so, starting in the first three weeks of government
00:02:16with three bombings, one in Catatumbo and two
00:02:18in Guaviare, sold as operations to weaken the
00:02:22structures of the ELN and the FARC dissidents such
00:02:26as the Jorge Suárez block or the Iván Mordisco dissidents,
00:02:30but was there really a weakening of these structures with
00:02:33the attacks? The reality is that none of the key targets
00:02:36of the bombings were confirmed as killed. In fact, if
00:02:41the dot on we want to talk about that, there are no official figures of those killed
00:02:45and much less of their identities. The first in Catatumbo, a border
00:02:48area with Venezuela, according to the Ministry of Defense,
00:02:52would have resulted in two deaths, including a 16-year-old
00:02:56boy, both branded as alleged members of the ELN. In
00:03:00other words, without sufficient proof of having been so,
00:03:04people whose identity we, of course, do not know.
00:03:08What we do know for sure, however, is that three peasants were seriously
00:03:11injured in the bombing, which also caused the forced
00:03:15displacement of families from the area. Without ending
00:03:18there, the second bombing, now in Guaviare, had an official
00:03:22report of 10 killed, classified entirely
00:03:25as active combatants. This, of course, without
00:03:29proof of having been so.
00:03:32I believe without much What was confirmed by forensic
00:03:33in the west part of the medicine, however, is that among the killed there were three
00:03:36minors, something that the government justified by calling them
00:03:40human shields.
00:03:42dispute between Western There, the Minister of Defense correctly calls the recruitment of minors a
00:03:46war crime, which, thanks to the Special Jurisdiction for
00:03:49Peace, an body that Abelardo wants to eliminate, is known
00:03:53to have had 18,677 of them between
00:03:571971 and 2016. But is
00:04:01the way to combat the recruitment of minors
00:04:0432% of by killing them? Human rights organizations denounced the massive killing
00:04:08of minors in these bombings for having ignored intelligence
00:04:16in the West Wing of do not threaten that pointed to their presence at the scene, that is, because they were deliberately killed. But we are not finished,
00:04:19the third bombing has been by far the most opaque, but
00:04:23also discovered as the most lethal in almost a decade.
00:04:26And it is that, although the
00:04:29Saudi bombings, claiming that in ministry officially reported eight deaths, unilaterally cataloging them
00:04:32this time as terrorists, forensic medicine would deny
00:04:36this figure, stating that from that bombing they would have
00:04:40received up to 24 bodies, although they
00:04:42were mostly disfigured, it was confirmed that there
00:04:45would be two minors among the killed, and Abelardo
00:04:49says that the gangs they claim to have affected would have
00:04:53sustained terror in Colombia, but is that not exactly what
00:04:56they intend to establish with these operations as well?
00:05:00The truth is that among false figures and opaque
00:05:05that relationship, even if
00:05:05lamentations, information, the identity of almost all of the killed is not known, and they
00:05:08could perfectly be false positives, that is,
00:05:12civilians falsely accused of being combatants,
00:05:16recalling the recent darkest times of the 7837
00:05:19false positives unjustly killed under Uribismo,
00:05:22which would seem as if, just like with Uribe, the state
00:05:25would be guaranteeing itself the power to kill anyone,
00:05:29without any proof of being a guerrilla, but only under
00:05:33the vague accusation of being one. Where does this leave
00:05:36us in a climate where Abelardo himself accuses all militants
00:05:40and voters of the Historical Pact of being guerrillas?
00:05:44And that's not all, speaking of the peasant population,
00:05:48to whom Abelardo claims to have brought justice for the
00:05:52terror experienced under the current guerrilla groups,
00:05:55it is this same population that, since the beginning
00:05:59of his government, has been the object of new paramilitary
00:06:02implantations in their territories, who have started a campaign
00:06:05of terror, torture, forced disappearances,
00:06:08and dispossession of the lands that Gustavo Petro's government
00:06:12would have restored. The most flagrant complaints
00:06:16come from southern Córdoba, where Petro would have recovered
00:06:19the 200-hectare La Palmira hacienda that the AUC
00:06:22had taken from the peasants, who, less than a month after
00:06:26the beginning of Delespriella's government, suffer a re-dispossession
00:06:29by Abelardo's paramilitaries, with new complaints of this
00:06:33in Barranquilla or in Meta.
00:06:36el
00:06:39"Guerrilla hit in Colombia" is how the German media
00:06:42Chevele titles its TV report on the bombing campaign,
00:06:46its source, stated by themselves, the social network
00:06:49of President de la Espriella. So while some might
00:06:53think that the conventional media in the European garden
00:06:56would rather view with alarm that the identity,
00:07:00profile, occupation, and much less judicial
00:07:03charges, if any, against the victims are unknown,
00:07:07the reality is that what these media do is take
00:07:11what a president says on Twitter with a proven
00:07:14disregard for legality and present it as irrefutable
00:07:18truth. "Guerrilla hit," even if we don't know if it was.
00:07:21And not only in terms of the Colombian media right,
00:07:25we have headlines like this one from Semana: "Deaths,
00:07:29bombings, and blows to criminal groups. This is how President
00:07:33Abelardo de la Espriella's military offensive began." Do you see something similar,
00:07:37rather the same? "Blows to criminal groups."
00:07:40And it is these media that will never say that while
00:07:44the complete opacity of the victims' identities is maintained,
00:07:47and if the guerrilla was really hit, what is happening
00:07:50behind the smoke screen is the return of a paramilitary
00:07:54state that slowly tortures and dispossesses
00:07:57of their land the very peasants that these bombings claim
00:08:01to want to protect.
00:08:02proteger.
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00:09:30and in this second part of Mundo Podcast, in the world according
00:09:33to Ramonet, we are going to analyze the military victory of the Huthis
00:09:37in Bab-el-Mandeb, which is the gateway to the Red Sea.
00:09:40The journalist explains how this force managed to take
00:09:44positions on the coast and on the island of Perim,
00:09:48a local advance with repercussions in trade
00:09:51and in world geopolitics, a situation that, added
00:09:54to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, could affect
00:09:58the flow of up to 32% of global hydrocarbons,
00:10:01according to an analysis published by a specialized
00:10:04international media.
00:10:07Hello, well, indeed, today we are going
00:10:11to talk about this military victory,
00:10:14it is the gate of
00:10:18the gate of tears, because in that
00:10:20place where there are a series of small
00:10:23islets, well, many shipwrecks
00:10:27have occurred evidently for thousands
00:10:30of years and the central government has had to retreat
00:10:33to Aden, which is a port located on
00:10:37the side of the Gulf of Aden, before the Red
00:10:40Sea. We are seeing maps here and these maps that
00:10:43you see indicate well the area, how where Yemen is,
00:10:47Eritrea in front, Djibouti, the
00:10:50passage of Mandeb, the Red Sea,
00:10:54the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian
00:10:57Peninsula with the other
00:11:00also closed. So,
00:11:04we were saying, the Houthis, last week,
00:11:07they achieved a great military victory
00:11:11over the governmental forces that are allied with Saudi
00:11:14Arabia, trained, equipped by Saudi Arabia,
00:11:18and they have managed to control the entire Red Sea coast,
00:11:21up to the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb,
00:11:28also the island, Perim Island, which is the island that controls Bab-el-Mandeb,
00:11:31the entrance to the Red Sea. It is a military victory,
00:11:35we could say, of a local war, but this local
00:11:37war has planetary consequences. Why? Because,
00:11:41of course, if Saudi Arabia
00:11:43is involved, even if it didn't
00:11:47want to be, but it is involved by its traditional
00:11:51between Israel and the United States against Iran,
00:11:55Iran has counteracted by bombing a series of
00:11:58refineries of military bases
00:12:01American and consequently has bombed
00:12:04zones in Qatar, zones in the United Arab
00:12:08Emirates also in Saudi Arabia, on the one hand
00:12:11and on the other hand,
00:12:15evidently that has had as a consequence, that confrontation
00:12:18Israel, United States against Iran, the closure as
00:12:22we all know of the Strait of Hormuz, through the Strait
00:12:25of Hormuz passes 20% of the world's
00:12:28hydrocarbons, 20%, that is,
00:12:31a fifth of the hydrocarbons consumed in the world.
00:12:35With the victory of the Houthis, the Houthis now control
00:12:38Bab-el-Mandeb, through Bab-el-Mandeb, Bab-el-Mandeb
00:12:42Canal of Suez, 12%
00:12:45of the world's hydrocarbons passes, 20%
00:12:49plus 12% make 32%,
00:12:52that is, a third of the hydrocarbons,
00:12:55oil, gas, liquefied
00:12:58gas that circulates around the world,
00:13:02that the world needs, that the world consumes, is currently
00:13:05able to be paralyzed, in Hormuz paralyzed,
00:13:08in Bab-el-Mandeb it can be paralyzed, it depends on the type of agreement
00:13:12that is found. The Houthis have declared
00:13:14that any international
00:13:18ship will be able to continue passing through Bab-el-Mandeb,
00:13:21except for Saudi Arabian ships, which are their enemy,
00:13:25and on the other hand, they have been attacking
00:13:29and preventing ships that they
00:13:32estimate belong to or are
00:13:35going to Israel for several years now,
00:13:39since the crisis in Gaza began,
00:13:42Israel has a port in the Gulf of Aqaba,
00:13:46and it is a port
00:13:49at the end of this Red Sea, no, the Red Sea
00:13:53to the north goes for one part,
00:13:58Sinai Peninsula it goes towards
00:14:02the Suez Canal, but to the west
00:14:06of the Sinai Peninsula it goes
00:14:09towards the gulf, it is called the Gulf
00:14:12of Aqaba, there is a city at the bottom that is
00:14:16a city and an Israeli port, and
00:14:19on the other hand there are also Jordanian ports
00:14:23and Egyptian ports, the Sinai
00:14:25Peninsula, to Egypt, so we have
00:14:29the world's hydrocarbons that can be paralyzed,
00:14:33and I repeat, the Houthis
00:14:38for the moment, it is a kind of agreement,
00:14:42quite intelligent for them, that they do not threaten
00:14:45American ships, they say, which means that Saudi
00:14:49Arabia, which is a great military power
00:14:52evidently and was and
00:14:56an oil power, evidently, the world's largest oil
00:14:59exporter, but is now in a situation where
00:15:03no one helps it, so we observe
00:15:06that Prince Salman, who is the crown prince, but since the
00:15:10king is very ill, the one who governs, who
00:15:13leads the executive of Saudi Arabia is Prince
00:15:16Salman, and Prince Salman has apparently, according
00:15:20to information in the press, called
00:15:23Donald Trump several times in person
00:15:26and to ask him
00:15:30to help him
00:15:31effectively dislodge
00:15:35the Houthis
00:15:40that they have just occupied and from Bab-el-Mandeb
00:15:43and President Trump has apparently said that the United States at this
00:15:47moment does not have enough resources, enough forces,
00:15:51two navies in the region, but that they are all
00:15:54focused on the attack on Iran,
00:15:57which we also know today, according to analysts,
00:16:00that the United States does not have enough ammunition
00:16:04to carry out two offensives, one against it and another
00:16:07eventually against the Houthis, so a very blocked situation,
00:16:11the jump in Europe, the price
00:16:14of 1 liter of gasoline at this moment is reaching
00:16:173€, 3€,
00:16:20that is, 3.2
00:16:23or 3.3
00:16:25per liter, I'm not talking about gallons,
00:16:29so we see that this
00:16:32situation creates a great
00:16:36concern on an international scale
00:16:39in inflation and when we are
00:16:43a short time, a little over a month,
00:16:47a month and a half, away from the midterm elections
00:16:50in the United States, which are on November 3rd and which
00:16:54will be judged on the cost of living, on inflation,
00:16:57that is, a small group attacks a very particular
00:17:00and almost forgotten region of the world and an apocalypse
00:17:04occurs on an international
00:17:08scale in the energy aspect, that is today's
00:17:11world, there are finally
00:17:14no places that are small
00:17:17or that are secondary, the world is
00:17:20interconnected and anything that happens in
00:17:24a distant place has repercussions
00:17:27for the whole world. Until next week.
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00:19:11and to conclude this edition of Mundo Podcast, political
00:19:14scientist Juan Carlos Monedero focuses on the geopolitical
00:19:20interests and the rise of new powers.
00:19:23Trump reconfigures US influence in Latin
00:19:26America, while in other regions such as Iran,
00:19:29Washington finds limits to its ability to influence
00:19:32and control.
00:19:35Monedero for Telesur, the world
00:19:38invites disobedience to Donald Trump,
00:19:41while in Mexico they launch the cry from the National
00:19:45Palace, which recalls independence from Spain,
00:19:48cries are heard in this case of rage
00:19:53the White House, cries that have been heard
00:19:57at the BRICS meeting in India, the United States is being
00:20:01left alone, it has victories of course, but each of those
00:20:05victories is also a contradiction and its alliance with
00:20:08the extreme right is beginning to awaken the peoples,
00:20:11it will not be tomorrow, but in a world where
00:20:14linearities have been broken, where a small event can
00:20:17generate a hecatomb on the other side, where
00:20:21the contradictions of the neoliberal model leave too many
00:20:25people without society, there is much game to be played.
00:20:28I think it is very difficult for the countries that during
00:20:31the last 50 years have maintained a close relationship
00:20:35of economic, military and diplomatic trust with
00:20:39the United States to recover
00:20:42the Democrats win in November and then in the next presidential
00:20:46elections in the United States, especially because
00:20:49what seemed impossible, which was for the Western
00:20:52world to have new allies, Donald Trump has unleashed
00:20:55it inevitably, the rebel forces have won in Yemen,
00:20:58the Iranians have not bowed, Jean-Luc Mélenchon leads
00:21:01the polls in France, just as Lula does in Brazil,
00:21:05and in Ireland, the president has told Trump to his face
00:21:09that she conveyed the firm opinion of the Irish people
00:21:12that the normalization of war and genocide can
00:21:16never be accepted. In Marco Rubio's recent trip to Colombia,
00:21:21has been that except for the clown from Delespriella
00:21:25who will sink with Trump, both in Ecuador and Peru,
00:21:29and especially in that country, they have decided to approach
00:21:32the United States militarily, they have no other choice,
00:21:36but without distancing themselves commercially from China.
00:21:38The economic relations of Peru with China, especially
00:21:42through the port of Chancay, are enormous. The Strait
00:21:45of Hormuz has been lost and it is condemning the planet
00:21:49to an economic crisis, the victory, as we said,
00:21:52of the Ansar Allah group in Yemen, with the control of the Strait
00:21:56of Bab-el-Mandeb implies Trump's concerns, none
00:22:00of the Arab countries has any reason left to maintain
00:22:02the agreement that Kissinger made in the 70s to negotiate
00:22:06oil with dollars in exchange for protection, what protection
00:22:10if the Iranians have blown
00:22:13bases in the area. For all this, it must be considered
00:22:16that the main efforts of the United States to maintain
00:22:20its status quo will come from Latin America, because
00:22:24it is where it is finding less opposition, where,
00:22:27well, with the exception of Mexico and Brazil, where
00:22:31it can offer more results and where, due to proximity,
00:22:34its threats are more real. That is why the United States
00:22:38is not simply trying to sell more to Colombia,
00:22:41Ecuador, Peru, it is trying to reorganize the conditions
00:22:44under which these countries trade, invest, build
00:22:47infrastructure and manage their strategic resources,
00:22:51so that China does not nodes of those economies.
00:22:54And what is there? Well, critical minerals, ports,
00:22:58energy, telecommunications, artificial intelligence,
00:23:01increasingly central, and security, all these
00:23:05elements cease to be separate issues, they are part
00:23:08of the same power politics. Venezuela, subjected to a kind
00:23:11of protectorate without a law that establishes it as such,
00:23:15and Colombia, as a central node of US control of
00:23:19Latin America, are the most affected countries.
00:23:22Trump does not stop reminding that for him Venezuela is the
00:23:2551st state of the United States, that he has taken
00:23:29the oil and that President Delcy Rodríguez is his
00:23:32best ally, all this makes the reconstruction
00:23:35of Chavismo difficult, not now but for the next
00:23:38decade, and if things don't change, then prepare
00:23:41for when Trump decides to call elections, the
00:23:45victory of the genuinely pro-American opposition,
00:23:48which will directly hand over all the country's wealth,
00:23:52as María Corina Machado promised at the time to
00:23:55the United States. And from Colombia, let's not
00:23:59forget two essential things: that Delespriella has
00:24:02American nationality and that he has particular,
00:24:05personal businesses with Marco Rubio. If
00:24:09this appropriation of Colombia for Rubio's interests
00:24:13would mean an element of discord between him and
00:24:16Donald Trump, it is open. President Petro has insisted,
00:24:22conviction, that Trump did not even know what OFAC
00:24:25was, that office of control of foreign assets, which
00:24:29would feed the idea that in the distribution of the loot,
00:24:32Trump got Venezuela and Marco Rubio got Colombia,
00:24:35and Trump disassociated himself from everything that
00:24:38happened in Colombia, I say, it may have some truth,
00:24:41but it is not entirely convincing, things are
00:24:45definitely moving and time is against Donald
00:24:48Trump and his partners, because Trump has partners,
00:24:52due to problems with his plans in the Middle East,
00:24:56due to the growing articulation of the BRICS, due to
00:24:59the strong loss of international allies who are making
00:25:02new alliances, a re-articulation of the Democratic Party
00:25:05with a growing socialist wing, due to the recovery,
00:25:09albeit slow, of the European left, which still has
00:25:13to go through the ordeal of the ultra victory in
00:25:17Spain and France, due to the demonstration of
00:25:20US interference in elections in many countries, especially
00:25:24Latin American ones, due to the global rejection of
00:25:28the genocide in Gaza, something that all Israeli
00:25:31tourists are already noticing, and it is good that it is so in all parts of the world,
00:25:35due to the firmness of Canada and Mexico, its two great
00:25:39borders, and because he has run out of tricks by not
00:25:43solving inflation and the price of diesel in the United States,
00:25:46not making Epstein's list public, which would show how a very alleged
00:25:50pedophile and embarking the country
00:25:54on wars that imply an enormous wear and tear.
00:25:57Trump is risking everything in Latin America.
00:26:01Mexico has put a brake
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