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00:00:00The House of Representatives is renewed, a third of the Senate changes, and key
00:00:03prosecutor's offices determine governability. What will be Trump's
00:00:10the advance of an incursion in prices and the tenacious persistence of real political weight after this day? A deep analysis, a geopolitical reading, and
00:00:14real-time projections of these elections in a special
00:00:17program hosted by Paola Pérez, along with
00:00:21our correspondents, Jorge Gestoso, Carlos
00:00:25Montero, Henry Camelo, José Leveña, Dan
00:00:28Olbreid. The United States decides 2026
00:00:32midterm elections
00:00:33probabilities of a rate hike at through our
00:00:35the Fed's monetary policy meeting from multi-platform
00:00:36demand the resignation of the President of only on Telesur.
00:01:39day before the midterm
00:01:40elections.
00:01:43Escalation of violence in Colombia leaves at least five
00:01:46dead.
00:01:50Yemen repels Saudi advance towards Bat
00:01:53Alander.
00:01:57Various countries around the world commemorate the Day of the Dead.
00:02:30the tags we have: midterm
00:02:33elections, we also have national congress,
00:02:36we also have Democrats versus Republicans. What is happening
00:02:40third political forces. there, as you know, in less than 24 hours, American
00:02:44voters go to the polls to exercise their right to
00:02:47vote, while more than 54 million have already
00:02:51voted early, as we will see in this
00:02:54material from Telesur.
00:02:56sea with
00:02:58American democracy is presented as a model of freedom, but the reality of the polls
00:03:02hides something else. In that democracy, there are systematic mechanisms that prevent
00:03:06the most vulnerable population from exercising their right to vote. This phenomenon,
00:03:10known as voter suppression, is one of the most effective political control
00:03:13tools of the system. Unlike other countries on the continent where voter
00:03:17registration is automatic and election day is a national holiday, in
00:03:22see them there. The first one is from the United States, voting can become an obstacle course. Elections are
00:03:25mandatorily held on a Tuesday, a normal working day, which forces the working
00:03:28class to choose between losing hours of wages or waiting in lines
00:03:32of up to 6 hours at intentionally cut polling stations in African-American
00:03:36and Latino neighborhoods. This is added to restrictive
00:03:39state laws that require very specific official identifications that millions of
00:03:43low-income citizens do not possess, the controversial purge of the
00:03:47electoral rolls where authorities remove thousands of voters from the lists under
00:03:50administrative technicalities that are not very transparent, but the trap is
00:03:54not only technical, it is also geographical and is called
00:03:57Gerrymandering. It consists of the arbitrary design of electoral
00:04:01district maps by the ruling party in power, drawing the boundaries of
00:04:04communities as if they were a puzzle to dilute the weight
00:04:08of the minority vote and ensure that the party in power retains a majority of
00:04:12seats in Congress, regardless of whether the majority of the
00:04:15population votes against it. Under these dynamics, the right to vote in the United States
00:04:18ceases to be a universal right and transforms into a geographical
00:04:22and class privilege designed so that the majorities cannot alter
00:04:26the balance of the elites.
00:04:38about the cost of living in the United States, which rose 0.6% in
00:04:42September, and annual inflation reached
00:04:443.7%, driven mainly by the
00:04:47rising cost of
00:04:54living in the United States increased in September by
00:04:560.6%, reaching an annual rate
00:05:00of 3.7%, while the monthly increase in the
00:05:04Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 0.6%,
00:05:07driven mainly by the increase in energy costs,
00:05:11according to the US Bureau of Labor
00:05:14Statistics. The figures highlight the persistent impact of the war
00:05:18against Iran on gasoline
00:05:21inflation, which fell drastically from a peak
00:05:25of 9.1% in 2022, but which this year has
00:05:28rebounded since the war began in late February. High
00:05:32inflation has posed political problems for Republicans in
00:05:35Congress and poses a challenge for the Federal Reserve, which Congress
00:05:39demands seeks price stability. Financial
00:05:42markets increased the
00:05:48October 27-28 to approximately
00:05:5252%, from the 22% prior to this
00:05:55panorama. The energy tensions caused by the closure of the
00:05:59Strait of Hormuz since the United States and Israel attacked the
00:06:02Islamic Republic of Iran on February 28, a traditional
00:06:06maritime passage for a fifth of the world's crude oil and gas, have
00:06:10pushed the price of a barrel of oil above $100,
00:06:13causing a generalized increase in fuel prices. All of the above
00:06:17occurs in a decisive campaign leading up to the midterm
00:06:21elections in November. A Reuters/Ipsos poll
00:06:24recently revealed that nearly 78% of
00:06:28Americans attribute the rise in prices, which exceeds wage
00:06:31growth, to President Donald Trump's policies, including
00:06:35tariffs and the conflict in Western Asia. Discontent with
00:06:38domestic finances is fracturing political support
00:06:42for Republican candidates. Pessimism has even permeated the ranks
00:06:46of the party itself; 35% of Republican
00:06:49voters now believe that the current course harms the economy,
00:06:53a figure that doubled compared to the 18% registered
00:06:57at the beginning of the year. Republican strategists fear that inflation
00:07:00will end up costing them control of Congress, which represents a significant
00:07:04fault line that calls into question Trump's leadership in the ranks of
00:07:08his own political
00:07:19colleague from New York, Henry Camelo. The US
00:07:22Congress is a club protected by Democrats and
00:07:26Republicans so that no other force, a third force for example, can be
00:07:37presents the midterms as an open
00:07:40democratic exercise. The reality is that Congress functions as a club
00:07:44heavily protected by the Democratic Party and the Republican
00:07:47Party, to prevent at all costs the emergence of
00:07:53Unlike the parliamentary systems of other countries
00:07:55where seats are proportionally distributed according to the percentage
00:07:59of votes obtained by each
00:08:02party. In the mid-terms, the relentless method of
00:08:06direct vote by districts is used. This
00:08:09means that if an independent candidacy
00:08:13from an alternative party obtains a historic 20%
00:08:16support in a community, that citizen effort is
00:08:20reduced to zero in Congress. If one of the two
00:08:23traditional parties gets a minimal advantage, the winner takes
00:08:27it all and dissenting voices are completely
00:08:31erased from the legislative map. But the
00:08:33protection is not only mathematical, it is also legal
00:08:37and bureaucratic. The corporate bipartisanship
00:08:40has imposed restrictive
00:08:43state laws that require thousands of physical signatures and
00:08:46cumbersome procedures just for an independent party to
00:08:50appear printed on the ballot of a district.
00:08:53This political siege has a very clear structural
00:08:56objective: to prevent legislators from reaching
00:09:00the Capitol who would question the true pillars of the
00:09:03system. By keeping Congress divided exclusively
00:09:07into two factions, the elites ensure that urgent debates
00:09:11remain locked away. Faces change
00:09:15every two years, but the laws that protect corporate
00:09:18interests remain
00:09:20intact. As you know, Telesur is following the
00:09:24elections in the United States and we have on our website a
00:09:28hyperlink that is elections,
00:09:31there you can find this application that we are showing
00:09:34on screen that allows for a permanent update
00:09:38of the results in real time of the elections.
00:09:41Remember that already 50 people have voted in the United States.
00:09:45There is early voting and tomorrow is the definitive vote. You can then go to
00:09:48the website Telesurtv.net and
00:09:51see there then elections,
00:09:55the hyperlink, the electoral
00:09:59process
00:09:59in real time.
00:10:06We have selected three portals to illustrate this information. Here they
00:10:10are, one, two, three. Let's start with the
00:10:13Telesur house. The United States says Trump threatens
00:10:17with vetoes if he loses Congress. Another
00:10:20threat, regarding the legislative elections on November
00:10:233. The American president, Donald Trump, assured
00:10:27that he would resort to systematic blocking if
00:10:30Democrats manage to gain a majority in the
00:10:33Senate. Also, the other portal is Radio France Internationale.
00:10:37It says that Texas has a decisive duel to measure Democratic
00:10:41strength in the midterm elections. In this sense, the
00:10:44discontent among supporters of the Republican party towards the administration of
00:10:48Donald Trump in the state of Texas could favor
00:10:51Democrats after more than 30 years of conservative
00:10:55control. The third portal we are seeing, Press TV, says
00:10:59what is the explanation for Donald Trump's coalition
00:11:03fracturing before the midterm elections and what
00:11:06could it mean for Republicans? Well, polls reveal widespread
00:11:10dissatisfaction with the economic
00:11:13management of the current government, while the war against
00:11:16Iran has highlighted deep tensions between Donald
00:11:20Trump's policies and the conservative base that helped bring
00:11:23him back to the White House.
00:11:32Let's make a digital connection with our next topic. It's the violence that
00:11:35escalates in Colombia with four attacks in two
00:11:39days that have left at least five dead in
00:11:42Huila, Cauca, and Tolima. Let's address this topic with
00:11:45these tags, see them. We have Colombia,
00:11:49wave of violence, we also have armed
00:11:53groups. It turns out that a chain of terrorist attacks with
00:11:56explosives shook the departments of Huila,
00:12:00Cauca, and Tolima over the weekend,
00:12:03leaving five people murdered, among them, by the way, a 2-month-old
00:12:07baby, in addition to several injured and serious damage to homes,
00:12:11commercial establishments, and infrastructure of all kinds, as
00:12:14we will see in the material on X from
00:12:16Telesur.
00:12:35To make a digital connection to the next material, you can visit the TikTok
00:12:39account of Telesur, specifically the hyperlink to
00:12:42Telesur clips videos. You will see this material: social organizations
00:12:46reject the presence of US military personnel in Colombian
00:12:49territory.
00:12:57First, let me tell you that yes, human rights organizations, human
00:13:00rights platforms, well, they reject the presence of these
00:13:04members of the United States Army
00:13:08and that it is assured here that they are conducting
00:13:11military exercises since October 27 and
00:13:15will be there approximately until November
00:13:1811 at the Tolemaida military base. There they are
00:13:22conducting coordinated exercises with members of the
00:13:25national army, tasks against drug trafficking and against
00:13:29illegal mining, it is said, but well, the
00:13:33questions arise around that
00:13:35presence, that authorization that should be given by the
00:13:39Congress of the Republic, which did not happen. The portals that
00:13:43we have selected for this topic are the following,
00:13:47Telesur, which says explosions near a military base in
00:13:50Tolima, Colombia, leave at least four dead, because at least
00:13:54two explosions shook the military base, the battalion of terrestrial
00:13:57operations in the south of the department of Tolima in Colombia. Authorities
00:14:01described the attack as unacceptable, while demanding
00:14:05justice and forceful actions to stop the
00:14:07violence. The other portal we have there is El Tiempo de
00:14:11Bogotá, which tells us that the video shows the exact moment of the
00:14:15attack in Planadas, Tolima. A dump truck with
00:14:18explosives exploded and left four dead, including a baby.
00:14:22By the way, the magnitude of the attack was recorded by one of the
00:14:25security cameras in the area, which shows the exact moment of the
00:14:28detonation, while other videos show the magnitude
00:14:32of the damage caused to homes and
00:14:35buildings. And the third portal is the newspaper La Libertad, which
00:14:38says four dead and at least 17 injured in Planadas,
00:14:42Tolima, after an explosive attack. Among the
00:14:44victims is a two-month-old baby. The first reports
00:14:48attributed the attack to dissident structures of the Revolutionary
00:14:51Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who allegedly used drones
00:14:55and explosive devices, although the specific responsibility must be
00:14:59established by the authorities through the corresponding investigations.
00:15:15We make a digital connection with the next topic that takes us to
00:15:18the Middle East, or rather to Western Asia, because the Yemeni
00:15:22army repelled some troops.
00:15:33four tags, we have one that is conflict of Western
00:15:37Asia, Yemeni force, Saudi
00:15:40troops, also military escalation. It turns out that
00:15:44Yemen managed to stop
00:15:48the border area and reaffirmed the defense of its territory, as we will see
00:15:52in this TikTok that we have prepared for this
00:15:54opportunity.
00:15:56They repelled Riyadh's failed attempts, highlighting that the Saudi
00:15:59reinforcements suffered heavy
00:16:03losses. In turn, Saudi officials reiterate that they must
00:16:07continue to advance despite the losses, which implies thousands
00:16:10of their own troops, pressing them to continue the
00:16:14advance. The spokesman for the Yemeni forces
00:16:17highlighted that these operations respond to the
00:16:20legitimate defense of the and also what
00:16:24Saudi Arabia commits against the civilian
00:16:26population.
00:16:29We have made a digital connection on Instagram for some reactions. The Ministry
00:16:33of Foreign Affairs of Yemen condemned the continuous Saudi
00:16:37airstrikes against civilian infrastructure in
00:16:40Hodeidah and Saada and warned that its armed forces
00:16:44would respond with forceful incursions against vital
00:16:47facilities in Saudi territory. In Sana'a,
00:16:50it ratified that its demands are undeniable and
00:16:54included critical facilities of the kingdom in its database
00:16:57of military
00:16:58targets.
00:17:08Let's take a short break. We have taken a video that is on the
00:17:12X account of Telesur TV. It talks
00:17:14about, well, an aircraft
00:17:18crashed in South Florida, United States, causing a
00:17:21crater in the road. Federal authorities are conducting the
00:17:25technical investigation to clarify, of
00:18:26Behind every scene there is a story, stories that
00:18:30reach the big screen. Discover the
00:18:33best kept secrets with
00:18:36Sala A. Every Saturday, only on Telesur.
00:22:01Now, a digital connection with the mayor of New York, who also joined the
00:22:05celebration by, in fact, setting up an altar in the
00:22:08city hall for all those loved ones who are no longer
00:22:12with us. This is
00:22:13how it was.
00:23:39I remind you that it is estimated that in the United States there are about
00:23:4340 million people of Mexican origin, and a large part of them are in
00:23:46New York, so this act by the mayor of New York
00:23:50will have its reason for being. Well, let's go to Spain now, by the way, Madrid celebrated the
00:23:53Day of the Dead with a parade of giant Catrinas and
00:23:57monumental floats that paraded through the capital to the
00:24:00Plaza Mayor, as we will see in this video.
00:25:08who are not left behind anywhere, presented an allegorical
00:25:11float. The Chinese surprised the attendees during
00:25:14the great Day of the
00:25:50on South TV with this QR code, you can find here the information
00:25:53that we are going to tell you next. Place your phone
00:25:56there and we are going to read: the Ecuadorian
00:25:59city of Guayaquil registered floods
00:26:02for the second consecutive day as a consequence of an electrical
00:26:06damage in different surrounding
00:26:15Silva, denied the reports that point to possible cuts in
00:26:19public policies and assured that the current social
00:26:22programs will continue to function during his new
00:26:26mandate. And the third Telegram moment from Telesur TV, which we are going to see
00:26:34gathered in New Delhi to
00:26:38the National Election Commission, whose name
00:26:41is Janesh Kumar, due to the controversial
00:26:45revisions to the electoral census that intensify the political
00:26:48tension against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
00:28:45with material that the French
00:28:49police intercepted boats
00:28:52in the English Channel, remember the English Channel is the one that
00:28:54connects France by
00:28:58the United Kingdom. These boats were trying
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