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00:01:18It's time for news on Telesur, welcome, I'm Luis Francisco Blandón in
00:01:22Caracas, Venezuela, immediately, headlines of the day,
00:01:25one
00:01:29day before the... midterm elections, the United States shows
00:01:32record figures in early voting in a contest
00:01:35marked by the cost of living and ICE aggressions against
00:01:38Latinos.
00:01:43Violence escalates in Colombia with four attacks in two days
00:01:47leaving at least five dead in Huila, Cauca, and
00:01:50Tolima.
00:01:54And in Argentina, the economy and unemployment hit citizens hard
00:01:58in 3 years of Javier's government.
00:02:25States doing, regarding what is happening at
00:02:32Ahead of the midterm legislative elections, of Donald Trump's second various polls reflect a marked and
00:02:33term, what we see in
00:02:36growing rejection of Latino voters towards
00:02:39the administration of US President
00:02:43Donald Trump. This trend represents a drastic shift
00:02:47from the historic advances that
00:02:49a meeting with representatives of the Republican party had consolidated among Latinos
00:02:52in the 2024 presidential elections, according to
00:02:56an analysis by the Pew Research Center published in October
00:02:592026. Trump's approval rating among Latinos
00:03:03fell by 24%, showing a severe deterioration
00:03:06compared to the 38% recorded at the beginning of his second
00:03:10term. The change in trend is mainly due to two
00:03:13promises and initiatives of the federal administration in the last 2
00:03:17the years, regarding the high cost of living, immigration policies,
00:03:20as well as aggressive mass detention campaigns against
00:03:24migrants by ICE, which has sown terror and
00:03:27fear in communities.
00:03:34The health landscape in the United States reveals a
00:03:38central contradiction: the richest country in the world has its
00:03:41population in debt due to medical costs, while the government
00:03:45systematically dismantles the institutions that protect public
00:03:49health in
00:03:49the country.
00:03:54The health situation places the cost of medical care
00:03:58on par with the price of gasoline,
00:04:00as the main economic concerns of voters.
00:04:03In this environment, reports
00:04:06from authorities reveal some figures on the cost of the
00:04:10health situation in the
00:04:12voters. Regarding what country. More than 530,000 families annually suffer bankruptcies
00:04:16linked to medical debts. More than 51,000
00:04:20people die annually due to loss of coverage due to budgetary
00:04:24law. More than 82 million
00:04:27adults have cut other expenses to pay for medical
00:04:31care, almost 24 million have
00:04:35postponed retirement due to medical
00:04:37costs, and
00:04:41in favor of Donald Trump 14% have postponed buying a home.
00:04:44In the electoral context, the American people arrive with a
00:04:48weakened
00:04:50nothing. The background report of healthcare system. Since 2025, Trump has
00:04:54years ago, 2 years ago, but what dismantled federal health agencies. Vaccination
00:04:56recommendations have been reduced.
00:05:00Funds for disease research have been cut,
00:05:03and 75% of Americans believe that the
00:05:07state does not prioritize
00:05:08health.
00:05:11At least seven are key states for the midterm elections in the United
00:05:17the Trump administration in the Senate. While the Republican
00:05:20Party bets on maintaining a majority, Democrats seek to capture votes
00:05:24in decisive and historically Republican states to
00:05:27gain control of Congress. Among them, Kansas
00:05:31and Texas stand out, which, after decades of conservative
00:05:34control, now data reveal the electorate's preference
00:05:37for Democratic candidates. In Ohio, Republicans
00:05:41are behind in the polls despite President
00:05:44Donald Trump's victory in that state during the 2024
00:05:47elections. Maine and Alaska also report
00:05:51declines in voting intentions for
00:05:54the Republicans, while in Michigan and Georgia, Democrats
00:05:57are projected as winners with a lead of up to
00:06:0170%.
00:06:09In these midterm elections in the United
00:06:11States, artificial intelligence is being used to generate
00:06:15deepfakes of candidates, clone voices, produce fake
00:06:19news on a massive scale, thereby making it difficult to
00:06:22verify given the speed with which this
00:06:25data is precisely produced, a growing difficulty
00:06:29for voters to distinguish what is real from what is fabricated is
00:06:32part of the risk of disinformation, the rapid
00:06:35spread of false information can undermine public
00:06:38confidence in elections, it is more
00:06:41dangerous in 2026 because it is a cheaper, more
00:06:44accessible technology. Since the purchase of Twitter by
00:06:48Elon Musk in 2022, Meta and Google's cuts to detect and
00:06:52eliminate disinformation generated by artificial
00:06:55intelligence have decreased. The skyrocketing use of political
00:06:58ads created with this technology estimates the
00:07:01investment at around $140 million.
00:07:04The campaigns of Democrats and Republicans have seen an
00:07:08explosion of ads generated precisely by
00:07:12this artificial intelligence and of course also through
00:07:15social
00:07:16networks.
00:07:24Well, we continue updating on these
00:07:28elections in real time, we invite you to visit our website, how are
00:07:31the results of the midterm elections in the United
00:07:37this hour,
00:07:3857,410,640
00:07:42votes cast so far, there we have the
00:07:46distribution precisely on the American
00:07:48map and later we will continue with the
00:07:51analysis seeing how this is precisely going just hours
00:07:55before the voting in the United
00:07:59States.
00:08:08As we said, these are elections in the United States that register high
00:08:12participation in early voting. Let's go immediately to New York
00:08:16with our colleague Henry Camelo, he will tell us more details about what this
00:08:19day has been like, Henry, go ahead, we
00:08:21are listening to you.
00:08:24Hello, greetings to you and the Telesur audience, we are less than
00:08:2824 hours away from the midterm elections in the United
00:08:31States here in New York, early voting has already closed,
00:08:35according to the reported figures, 690,526
00:08:38people voted early in the city, in the entire state the figure
00:08:42reached 1,965 people who voted, a
00:08:46jump of almost 70% compared to the midterm
00:08:49elections of 2022. Brooklyn
00:08:52led the participation followed by Manhattan and then
00:08:55Queens, but there is an element that deserves special attention, the
00:08:58Latino vote, in districts where every vote
00:09:01counts, this community could tip the balance. For
00:09:05many Hispanic voters, this election goes beyond choosing
00:09:08representatives. Despite Donald Trump's immigration policy,
00:09:11deportations, ICE operations and the fear felt in
00:09:15many communities, the high cost of living, rents, food and
00:09:19access to healthcare also play a role. Here in New
00:09:23York, Democrat Kathy Hochul seeks to remain in power against
00:09:26Republican Bruce Blakeman, in a contest that
00:09:30is also read as a thermometer of support for the country's current
00:09:34policies. For now, the high early participation
00:09:37reflects mobilization, but does not yet define
00:09:40results. Tomorrow the polling centers will open at
00:09:446 in the morning and close at 9 at night and it will be then
00:09:48when we will see to what extent the Latino vote influences key
00:09:51elections for the political future of the United States. That's all I
00:09:55have from New York City, I'll be back with you in the studios.
00:09:59Henry, thank you very much for this comprehensive report, Henry Camelo, our
00:10:02colleague from New York and we are also in this
00:10:06preview with our colleague Jorge Gestoso, by the way
00:10:09of all this data, the Latino vote is so important. Faced with the
00:10:13mass deportation policies of the Donald Trump administration and of
00:10:16course the high cost of living have been the
00:10:20main priorities among
00:10:23the population that has voted massively, Jorge, a pleasure to
00:10:27greet you at this hour, go ahead, how has the atmosphere been,
00:10:29tell us.
00:10:33We are, I tell you Luis, definitively
00:10:35in the final stretch, there is great
00:10:38anticipation, great enthusiasm and precisely to help us
00:10:42put into perspective what the previous situation
00:10:46is and what we anticipate the situation will be tomorrow,
00:10:50we have the honor of being joined by none other than Calvin Dark,
00:10:53political analyst. Calvin, thanks for being with
00:10:57us, thanks for the invitation, what are you
00:11:00observing most closely regarding the
00:11:04electoral landscape? I think
00:11:07because of economic difficulties, there
00:11:10is a lot of interest in these elections,
00:11:13sometimes for the midterm
00:11:17elections, there isn't
00:11:20the same level of enthusiasm as for the
00:11:24White House. But in these elections in my
00:11:27state, for example, I'm from North Carolina, because of
00:11:31economic difficulties, voters want the
00:11:34president and the Republican party to know
00:11:37they need a
00:11:41different path, especially on economic
00:11:45issues, also,
00:11:48we have the early absentee
00:11:51vote, which we're talking about... there are 6
00:11:55million people at least who have already voted, yes, because I voted in September,
00:11:59so I think it's a sign
00:12:03of the enthusiasm in these elections and I
00:12:06think, I hope for a
00:12:09blue wave, a wave against the party
00:12:13in power, the Republicans,
00:12:15and, but we don't know at this hour
00:12:19how big that blue wave will be, how
00:12:23do you interpret the immigration issue?
00:12:26I think that on the issue
00:12:30of immigration, the president has
00:12:34succeeded, because the border is
00:12:37closed, but he has problems, the
00:12:41president has problems with how he
00:12:44reached that state with immigration,
00:12:48because we know that during
00:12:51January of the beginning
00:12:58the streets against immigrants, against
00:13:01Americans with citizenship
00:13:04in this country, so I think
00:13:08that on the issue of
00:13:11immigration, the president
00:13:14has succeeded, but in how he got
00:13:17there, no, and I also think economic
00:13:21issues are more important than...
00:13:25immigration because in the US
00:13:28there is not an economy for Americans or for
00:13:31immigrants or undocumented people, there is
00:13:35one economy, so I think that
00:13:39Americans with families,
00:13:42possibly without papers, if
00:13:46for example in my state there is a very strong
00:13:50community of migrants
00:13:52because of the wave of
00:13:56how the police, for example, in my state
00:14:00treat immigrants, they treat Americans like
00:14:03me who speak Spanish, for example, I'm on the
00:14:07street in my city with my Latino
00:14:10friends, I understand I am
00:14:14American but maybe the
00:14:17police don't recognize that I am
00:14:20American so I think that's why
00:14:24the Republican party has problems,
00:14:28but ultimately, the economy is
00:14:31the issue, the biggest concern
00:14:34for all
00:14:37you say, then racism and xenophobia
00:14:41have increased during
00:14:45the 2 years of President Trump's government. Yes, of
00:14:48course, in Trump's words, as in the first
00:14:52term, but in the second term, the actions. it's
00:14:55also and I think
00:14:58it's going to happen, Donald
00:15:01Trump talks about a wave
00:15:06from the Latino community especially in the state of
00:15:10Texas and it's true, he won with
00:15:13the support of the Latino community in Texas 2
00:15:19we have seen is
00:15:22that the support for
00:15:25Donald Trump, from the Latino community
00:15:29in Texas, for example, in my state, for example, is not
00:15:32the same, because I think the
00:15:38television of how the police treat
00:15:42immigrants, is not the image of
00:15:45Donald Trump during the campaign
00:15:48from almost 2 years ago, so I
00:15:53receive the same level of support
00:15:56from Latinos in Texas, a very important
00:16:00state in these elections, where the candidate now from
00:16:04Texas leads by at least 7 to 11 points
00:16:07of advantage over the Republican, something that could be
00:16:10historic, yes, I think the last time
00:16:14before the 80s or in the
00:16:1780s, they had a Democratic
00:16:21party senator, so I think
00:16:24it is the level of
00:16:27opposition to Donald Trump's policies, to the
00:16:31Republicans' policies, I think in Texas,
00:16:35there is another problem because the
00:16:38Republican candidate has problems with
00:16:41Republicans, so I think James Taylor, the
00:16:45Democratic candidate,
00:16:47the polls say
00:16:50that he will do something very
00:16:54historic in Texas,
00:16:56but I tell my friends here in
00:17:00Washington, we don't know if the
00:17:03polls represent more. it will be the
00:17:08MAGA, those who support
00:17:11Donald Trump, because the problem with the polls in the United
00:17:15States, according to the polls, Kamala Harris
00:17:18won in 24,
00:17:20so we don't know, but I think the polls
00:17:24show the wave against the
00:17:28Republicans and the wave against Donald Trump
00:17:31from the Latino community in Florida, in
00:17:34Texas, in my state. And going back to the issue of racism and
00:17:38xenophobia, here we are talking about the words that a
00:17:42president of a country uses to disqualify
00:17:46someone who is not politically convenient
00:17:49for him, here we have the best case of
00:17:53Michigan where the opposition candidate, a
00:17:56Democrat named Abdul El
00:17:59Sayad is winning against his
00:18:02Republican rival, with the name
00:18:05Abdul. He automatically
00:18:08labels him as something negative, he says: your name is Abdul, he
00:18:12says this publicly, but I choose to call
00:18:16you Mohamed, for me you are Mohamed, and
00:18:18as that is not enough, trying to classify his
00:18:22origin or his relationship with Muslims, now he
00:18:25classifies him as a jihadist and
00:18:28a threat to national
00:18:31security, dangerous, yes, dangerous for
00:18:35the Muslim community in the state of
00:18:39Michigan, but I think why, because
00:18:42it's a shame, but why does the president
00:18:46talk like that, because he cannot justify the
00:18:49re-election of the Republicans in
00:18:55economy, in the war against Canada,
00:18:58commerce, in the war in Iran,
00:19:01so he wants the voters in
00:19:04Michigan to talk
00:19:08about Abdul being a Muslim,
00:19:11he is a threat to the
00:19:14security of this country and I think what
00:19:18we have seen from the
00:19:21Republican party in Texas, Senator Ted
00:19:24Cruz of Texas, he said
00:19:27that Abdullah Said as
00:19:31senator, he is going
00:19:34to give secret information.
00:20:01But we know that in this Republican party you
00:20:04have to be, you have to be, like
00:20:07Donald Trump, a second Donald Trump, so
00:20:11he is talking, he is talking like Abdul
00:20:14Said, an American is a threat to
00:20:18the security of America, it is without
00:20:21any foundation,
00:20:24false allegations, accusations, but I think
00:20:27because the Muslim community
00:20:31in the state of Michigan
00:20:34even Republicans don't
00:20:37like the way they talk against
00:20:40Muslims, because the Muslim community in this state
00:20:44is very influential, so I think the
00:20:48result of the
00:20:50dirty, racist words of Donald Trump will
00:20:54help Abraham's campaign.
00:20:56Calvin, thank you very much for being with us.
00:21:00Thank you for the invitation. We were talking then with
00:21:03Calvin Dark directly here,
00:21:07from Washington, where we are running through the last
00:21:10hours before these midterm legislative
00:21:14elections begin and he was helping us with his
00:21:17analysis to put into
00:21:20perspective what the results of
00:21:23tomorrow might be, back to you Luis, a pleasure Jorge,
00:21:26thank you very much for this preview you offer us and of course
00:21:30the analysis regarding this scenario in the United States, our colleague
00:21:34Jorge Gestoso from Washington, let's move on to
00:21:37other topics, let's go to Panama because
00:21:40communities in Gavé that live outside the region, downstream
00:21:44of the Chan 75 hydroelectric plant, continue
00:21:47to get sick from the lake left by the dam. And they were
00:21:50isolated when the Changuinola River lost its
00:21:54flow, their legal recognition over the lands and without
00:21:57a response from the state, today they face a new threat, the expansion
00:22:01of concessions to the same company. Our colleague Rica
00:22:05Chandiramani tells us more details in the following
00:22:07story.
00:22:11Almost two decades after the launch of the Chan 75 hydroelectric
00:22:14plant in western Panama, the communities upstream
00:22:18of the Changuinola River in the province of
00:22:22Bocas del Toro, continue to bear the
00:22:24consequences. In a parallel event to the
00:22:28197th session of the IACHR,
00:22:32they denounced that the artificial lake formed by the dam,
00:22:35operated by the Panamanian subsidiary of the
00:22:37American AES, became a hotbed of
00:22:41diseases, isolation and abandonment that continues
00:22:44to affect them. The Chan 75 trapped
00:22:48us and left us without education,
00:22:52without opportunities, our families, without
00:22:55health, and these have brought great
00:22:58consequences where children have been
00:23:01suffering from leishmaniasis within the area, but these are caused by
00:23:05the lake, the mosquitoes that have produced this lake,
00:23:08since the gates of the Chan 75 were closed,
00:23:12we were left without means of communication, without means
00:23:16of transport, because the only river we used was for communication and
00:23:19transport, for food, that river
00:23:22dried up, lost its flow. Among the
00:23:25most affected communities are Charcolapa,
00:23:29Vallerrey and Changuinola Arriba, the water that was once
00:23:32potable is no longer safe and the containment of
00:23:36organic waste in the dam, downstream, has
00:23:39generated diseases and a permanent foul odor,
00:23:43while access to emergency medical services has
00:23:47seriously deteriorated.
00:23:50you can dive there because now there is almost no fish, that's what we lived on,
00:23:54there are no doctors, there are no supplies of medicines
00:23:57and that's the problem we have, we don't
00:24:01have drinking water, we don't have a way to travel, if we take some
00:24:05transport we can't get it out, an accident
00:24:07that happens is costly because the river
00:24:11is dry, currently we have seen violations of
00:24:14our rights, loss of land, diseases, we have
00:24:18had, we are without education right now, the
00:24:22vulnerability of these communities has a legal
00:24:25root, they live outside the limits of the Novebuglé
00:24:29region, in the Paloseco protective forest
00:24:32reserve, where the Panamanian state does not
00:24:35recognize their ancestry or their
00:24:38rights under the collective land law.
00:24:42We believe that precisely the conditions of insecurity and
00:24:45legal unprotectedness in accessing and recognizing
00:24:49sectoral rights were the ideal scenario
00:24:52to distort or transgress rights that
00:24:56are also fundamental, such as
00:24:58participation, consultation and free, prior
00:25:02and informed consent. Far from
00:25:04solving the problem that the first construction continues to
00:25:07cause, the government intends to expand concessions
00:25:11to the same company that already accumulates complaints for
00:25:14monopolizing a potential dominant position in the
00:25:18Panamanian energy market.
00:25:20if it currently has a low flow then by
00:25:23giving a second Chan we will completely lose the
00:25:26river and we will have nothing and we continue to be
00:25:30a community forgotten by the state and by
00:25:33the company because we don't have drinking water, we don't have healthcare, we don't
00:25:37have education, we don't have transportation, we have
00:25:40the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued in
00:25:442021 recommended that Panama compensate these
00:25:47communities.
00:25:50However, after 15 extensions, those affected continue
00:25:53to wait for a dialogue on land, justice,
00:25:57reparation and non- repetition, a
00:25:59wait that an advance of new electric
00:26:03projects threatens to condemn to a second oblivion. For
00:26:06Telesur, from Panama City, Rega
00:26:09Chandiramani.
00:26:11In Colombia, authorities remain on alert after the report of four
00:26:15attacks registered between October 31 and November
00:26:181 in Huila, Cauca and Tolima, leaving at least five
00:26:22dead. A violent wave has left this tragic toll
00:26:25of five people dead after four attacks were perpetrated
00:26:29between the dates already mentioned. Authorities
00:26:32confirmed an attack by illegal groups with drones and
00:26:36explosives in the municipality of Planadas in the department of
00:26:39Tolima, with a toll of at least four dead and several homes
00:26:42affected, while the attack in Algesiras
00:26:45in Huila was perpetrated by a motorcycle
00:26:48loaded with explosives, activated right in front of a commercial establishment
00:26:52in the Zona Rosa of the municipality, leaving one
00:26:55dead, and also the attack in Cauca that was carried out near a
00:26:59municipal hospital in the town, a crime spree that keeps
00:27:02the commands of the military forces of the
00:27:05country on alert.
00:27:11The Office in Colombia of the High Commissioner of the United Nations
00:27:15for Human Rights condemned the assassination of indigenous leader
00:27:19and former governor Ramiro Forastero and his
00:27:22son. It called on the Colombian state to guarantee the
00:27:25protection of indigenous peoples. Through X, the
00:27:28organization declared the following: we condemn the homicides of the
00:27:32leader and former indigenous governor of Villanueva Jurividá,
00:27:35Ramiro Forastero, and his son Elmer Forastero,
00:27:38kidnapped on October 24 in Nuqui Choco, and
00:27:42whose lifeless bodies were found on October
00:27:4628. We also express deep concern about the forced
00:27:49displacement since yesterday of approximately 500 people from the
00:27:53Embera Dovida indigenous people and the risk of
00:27:56displacement of other indigenous communities alerted by
00:27:59the Ombudsman's Office. We call
00:28:02on the relevant authorities to investigate, prosecute, and punish
00:28:05those responsible for both the homicides of Ramiro and Elmer
00:28:09Forastero and the forced displacement and other attacks faced
00:28:13by the communities of the Embera Dovida indigenous
00:28:16people. We call on the state authorities, at the local,
00:28:20departmental, and national levels, to take all
00:28:23effective measures to protect indigenous peoples in Chocó.
00:28:26We express our solidarity with the families,
00:28:29communities, and indigenous people in Embera
00:28:33Dobida.
00:28:41The acting president of Venezuela, Delsis Rodríguez, signed four
00:28:44regulations to strengthen the social protection of
00:28:48women. This event took place at
00:28:51the Table of Women for Peace and Democratic Coexistence, which took
00:28:55place at the Miraflores presidential palace. The signing
00:28:59carried out by the head of state covers the regulations for organic laws
00:29:02against violence against women, care for the elderly, and
00:29:05people on the autism spectrum, as well as for the
00:29:09prevention and eradication of child sexual abuse. The
00:29:12president emphasized that these regulations arose from the discussion
00:29:16and effort of the women themselves and expressed her
00:29:19satisfaction with the common path achieved. She reaffirmed the commitment of the
00:29:23Bolivarian government to the protection and empowerment of
00:29:26women and called for political contradictions to be resolved
00:29:29in democratic spaces that the
00:29:32institution establishes, prioritizing the peace and well-being of Venezuelan
00:29:36families, finally we have a draft regulation
00:29:39to be promulgated. Yes, there is room
00:29:43for unity, yes, there is room for Venezuelan
00:29:45women from diversity to act
00:29:49together for these four regulations that we have
00:29:52signed today, which I have done with complete satisfaction, because
00:29:56I know it was born from your discussion, from your
00:29:59effort, from your different
00:30:02visions, but that led us to the common path. This regulation is
00:30:06an expression of that common path and I hope that this regulation, these
00:30:10regulations that we have signed, will also be an expression of a
00:30:14Venezuela that seeks its spiritual rebirth, that this
00:30:18spiritual rebirth continues to be profoundly
00:30:21human, that is what I ask of the Venezuela of today for the
00:30:25Venezuela of tomorrow, that political
00:30:28contradictions be resolved where they need to be
00:30:31resolved. in the democratic spaces that the
00:30:35constitution establishes for that. The general
00:30:38secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello,
00:30:42defended the dialogue process carried out between the government and
00:30:45Venezuelan opposition, he denounced sectors that bet on
00:30:49the failure of these conversations. During a PSUV press conference,
00:30:53Cabello stressed that the party's permanent agenda responds to direct
00:30:57contact and dialogue with the grassroots and communal councils.
00:31:00He ratified that recovery work continues.