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00:00:00These 120 teams wove the traditional
00:00:03carpet of death on the streets, a ritual that
00:00:06turns the city into an open-air altar. Under the slogan
00:00:10"Return to Mictlan," the initiative reached its
00:00:1318th edition, organized by the
00:00:16Manos Unidas de Guanajuato
00:00:19that is, it is a sector association, bringing together collectives from several states in the country and other
00:00:22latitudes. The concept of the carpet of death is that each
00:00:25team determines to whom they
00:00:28will offer. an offering that is at ground
00:00:31level, the grandmother,
00:00:34pet, we have in this
00:00:37edition a carpet for the
00:00:39disappeared, sexual
00:00:41diversity,
00:00:44eh, yes, so it's another part of
00:00:47receiving our dead, well, we were thinking of
00:00:51addressing the issue of the disappeared and more specifically the issue of
00:00:54clandestine graves, which
00:00:57are found in our country like... a
00:01:00lot, so this is like the representation of the
00:01:04lands, we made an abstraction with several
00:01:07lands, as we made a landscape abstraction here, we have some
00:01:11figures that represent the searchers,
00:01:15the tradition was born in 2008 when a group of
00:01:18friends sought to bring new generations closer
00:01:21to Mexican customs in the face of the growing advance of
00:01:25Halloween celebrations, the activity transformed the streets
00:01:28into stages of artistic and cultural
00:01:32expression through representations with elements of the Mexican
00:01:35worldview and messages about various social
00:01:38causes,
00:01:41for tourists this event allowed them to learn about various
00:01:44topics related to the spiritual life of the inhabitants of the
00:01:48region, their hopes and their way of remembering loved
00:01:52ones who are no longer here, very beautiful, it is
00:01:55truly many artisanal hands that
00:01:58prepare all of this. a spectacle for us as
00:02:01tourists to come and well, a way
00:02:04to remember our loved ones who are no longer
00:02:07here in life but are in our
00:02:11hearts, it is a marvel of art and
00:02:14talent of the artists who form
00:02:17these carpets of death, it is
00:02:20incredible. The activity concluded with a procession
00:02:23and artistic performances where the participants
00:02:26danced on the carpets and destroyed
00:02:30waves in their path, a symbolic act that recalls the
00:02:33transitory nature of life.
00:02:35vida,
00:02:44That's all for culture, I'll be back with you, guys, thank
00:02:48you very much, Karshal, as always, for the cultural space, thank you,
00:02:51Pique, for sports, thank you all for
00:02:55joining us as always, we'll see you again soon, have a great
00:02:59day, bye. Bye, bye!
00:03:12automation of
00:03:26date on Sunday in
00:03:46data,
00:03:51Hello, this is Jorge Gestoso, on
00:03:55today's program, unmanned armed forces
00:03:58with another invited panelist.
00:04:01Verónica Esforcin, geopolitical analyst and
00:04:05artificial intelligence specialist,
00:04:08directly from La Plata, Argentina. Verónica
00:04:11Esforcin, a warm welcome to the program.
00:04:15Hello, Jorge, it's a pleasure to be back on this
00:04:18strategic and central Telesur program. Greetings to you and the
00:04:22audience. Thank you, Verónica. What exactly
00:04:25do these unmanned armed forces
00:04:28mean? Is it a new way of waging war? Well,
00:04:31I think we need to contextualize
00:04:35a bit the situation in which the Pentagon and the
00:04:38Department of Defense in the United States are
00:04:41trying to regain control of technological development
00:04:45and innovation, thinking
00:04:48about the history of the United
00:04:51States, let's remember that in the Cold War, from
00:04:55the 50s, from that national
00:04:58security doctrine where there were the two
00:05:01poles, the former Soviet Union and
00:05:04the United States, military innovation and
00:05:08industry were led by the Pentagon, by the Department
00:05:12of Defense. We have many examples in that regard, such as
00:05:15BARPA, such as the Manhattan
00:05:18Project, many of the projects of what at
00:05:21that time was cutting-edge technology, were
00:05:24led by this military-industrial
00:05:28complex. In the 90s,
00:05:31a paradigm shift occurred after the
00:05:35United States established itself as the hegemon in
00:05:38the West, and it was investment financial funds like
00:05:41Black Rock, Vanguard, that began to heavily
00:05:45finance everything related to information and communication
00:05:49technologies, and displaced the
00:05:51Pentagon in the geopolitical
00:05:55leadership of this technology. That's
00:05:59when many of the corporations we know today
00:06:02appeared, such as Alphabet, and also, well, Microsoft was
00:06:06around before, but they were heavily leveraged
00:06:09by financial funds.
00:06:12And these defense structures lost the
00:06:16ability to manage innovation. So
00:06:19from the 90s until now, we see that the
00:06:23US budget has drastically fallen
00:06:25in terms of defense
00:06:29and the development of innovation and technology applied to defense.
00:06:33Today, we are at three or
00:06:36four percent of the US
00:06:38GDP applied to these technologies.
00:06:43So, I think what Donald Trump is currently trying
00:06:46to do is to regain control
00:06:49where the Department of
00:06:52Defense or the Department of War, right,
00:06:56and the Pentagon
00:07:00are the ones that set the pace and
00:07:04regain an innovation capability. The problem
00:07:07is that today it is impossible
00:07:10for these structures
00:07:13to subordinate big data corporations, Microsoft,
00:07:16Google.
00:07:19So, they are thinking about how to associate with these
00:07:23big data companies, and to associate, I think
00:07:27they are proposing this new doctrine in terms
00:07:30of national security in function of the trade war with
00:07:34China for these
00:07:37corporations to do their business and to
00:07:40be able to apply and automate
00:07:42war in a more agile way, right? That's what they are
00:07:46proposing from this new command that will be
00:07:50launched, which is called a command for
00:07:53the automation of war. And is there
00:07:56a specific date that is already being
00:07:59considered? Yes, for this command,
00:08:02it would be a high rank, a four-star
00:08:06general. In the United States, they are planning to launch it at the end of
00:08:102027.
00:08:12Let's also consider that we are in the middle of an election campaign in the United States,
00:08:16where they also need to show military
00:08:19power, thinking of the
00:08:22voters who follow Donald Trump and the Republican
00:08:25Party. So, it is being
00:08:28proposed a
00:08:311.5 trillion dollar
00:08:35funding for these war automation projects,
00:08:38which would involve the purchase of drones,
00:08:42artificial intelligence, software, software
00:08:45for spying or software, as it is
00:08:48unfortunately used in the Gaza genocide to detect
00:08:51targets and eliminate
00:08:55them. Also, everything related to robotics. That's
00:08:59why I said, all these capabilities today the government doesn't have them, it would
00:09:03have to buy them from corporations like
00:09:06Alphabet, Meta. Meta makes everything related
00:09:10to virtual
00:09:12reality glasses, augmented reality, which are used to train
00:09:15the army. These billions of
00:09:18dollars will also be used to
00:09:22consolidate the neo-reactionary tripod within Silicon
00:09:25Valley, which is Palantir with
00:09:28Peter Thiel, and Musk with
00:09:32his companies like
00:09:35SpaceX or X.AI,
00:09:39his artificial intelligence development, and a new company,
00:09:43relatively new, Anduril, which is an
00:09:46association between Trump
00:09:49Junior and Peter Thiel, which is specifically designed
00:09:53for this automation of war. Let's not forget that
00:09:56these companies propose accelerationism, so
00:09:59it's about accelerating now, applied to
00:10:03the different scenarios of warlike conflict. I don't know if
00:10:06it's making a small detour, as they would say in
00:10:09English, a small digression from the conversation, or
00:10:12precisely an example that is at the center. We have seen
00:10:16that in recent weeks this phenomenon occurred
00:10:19of this service that Elon
00:10:22Musk has developed through his company
00:10:25SpaceX, which is Starlink. It is definitively
00:10:29access to the internet through
00:10:32space. So,
00:10:35the issue arises that suddenly
00:10:38he was providing this service to
00:10:42Ukraine. The dilemma
00:10:45begins of who is behind that,
00:10:48because the US government says it has
00:10:52nothing to do with the fact that they have reduced
00:10:55the speed
00:10:58of the information that it can collect through
00:11:02Starlink, and therefore has left the Ukrainian
00:11:05army without access to information it needs, for example,
00:11:09which it says it needs to send missiles or to
00:11:12detect incoming missiles.
00:11:16So, Elon Musk says, we do
00:11:19not develop, we do not control that,
00:11:23it is a matter for the US government. The US government says we
00:11:27do not control that, a private individual
00:11:30controls it, Elon Musk.
00:11:33Could that be a reference to who
00:11:36controls what in terms of information
00:11:39eventually in the future in military matters?
00:11:42Absolutely, these tensions that you are
00:11:45describing are already occurring.
00:11:48They are happening in the Gaza genocide, they happened in
00:11:52Iran, they happened in...
00:11:55They are tensions between corporations that
00:11:58negotiate, they negotiate state funding,
00:12:01they negotiate quotas of power within
00:12:05the US state,
00:12:09because today, let's remember that the four big companies
00:12:12that manage the clouds, that is, the
00:12:16places, the high-capacity data
00:12:19processing centers for training
00:12:22artificial intelligence in real
00:12:26time are Google
00:12:28Alphabet with Google Chrome,
00:12:31Amazon, and to a lesser
00:12:35extent Meta and Oracle on a second
00:12:37scale. After that, there are no other
00:12:41corporations. And I think I said
00:12:44Amazon, didn't I? Amazon Web Services is also
00:12:47key. There are no other American corporations
00:12:51that have these large data
00:12:55processing centers, which is where the artificial
00:12:59intelligence used in military terrain can
00:13:02be trained to process in real
00:13:05time what happens in military terrain.
00:13:09So, it is the state that has to, including the US
00:13:13state, that has to seek
00:13:16ways to associate, ways to
00:13:19negotiate with these corporations today. That's
00:13:23why the funding goes directly to these corporations
00:13:27that are not profitable today. So today,
00:13:30these big data corporations,
00:13:33they spend more than they earn. 40%
00:13:36of their profit is being spent on the construction of these large-scale
00:13:40data processing centers. That's why the United States is seeing
00:13:43where they are installed,
00:13:46and they are not making
00:13:49a profit. So it is the US government that
00:13:52needs to buy from them. And
00:13:55it is the one that needs to make
00:13:59the most structural deals possible so that
00:14:03they provide their services
00:14:06in military conflict scenarios. In the case of
00:14:10Starlink, which are low-Earth
00:14:12orbit satellites, they are not geostationary
00:14:16satellites but low-level satellites,
00:14:18it already happened in the war with Ukraine
00:14:22several tensions where
00:14:25Elon Musk had to be forced, so to speak, to
00:14:29provide these services to the Ukrainian
00:14:32army. In fact, at one point it was said that he was providing
00:14:36the same services to Russia, and
00:14:39Donald Trump tries to, well, that's also
00:14:43why he was given all that space in Donald Trump's
00:14:46government at the beginning, he tries to keep him aligned
00:14:50and subordinate, but today these are corporations that
00:14:53have more technological capacity than the US
00:14:57state, which is why it is very dependent. Verónica, I invite
00:15:00you to take a short break. We are talking with
00:15:03Verónica Forsín, directly from La
00:15:07Plata, Argentina. Verónica is a geopolitical analyst and
00:15:10artificial intelligence specialist. We are talking about unmanned
00:15:14armed forces. We'll be
00:15:16right back.
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00:17:51We continue talking with Verónica Choanzín directly
00:17:54from La Plata, Argentina. Verónica,
00:17:57geopolitical analyst and artificial
00:18:00intelligence specialist, we are talking about
00:18:03unmanned armed forces. We were
00:18:07talking in the first segment about this development
00:18:10that we are seeing within the United States, and what about, for example,
00:18:14the other side of the coin in China regarding this issue? Well, this
00:18:18proposal that the current
00:18:21Secretary of Defense is
00:18:24making to build a four-star
00:18:27command and to seek new
00:18:30funding, we are talking about 1.5 trillion
00:18:33dollars to train
00:18:37the military forces and to accelerate the connection
00:18:41of the purchase of material for the training
00:18:45of military forces in terms of allowing the
00:18:50war, it is done under
00:18:53the argument of this
00:18:56commercial competition with China or this trade
00:18:59war with China and a possible military
00:19:03confrontation that would undoubtedly
00:19:06be marked of artificial
00:19:10intelligence. This is the pretext
00:19:12that, let's say, today
00:19:16the United States and the Donald
00:19:19Trump administration are developing to accelerate
00:19:23all this funding for the
00:19:26military spectrum. China, since
00:19:29always, its technological
00:19:32developments are commercial and military dual-purpose.
00:19:36The United States, also since the Cold
00:19:40War, as we just said, has always been dual-purpose,
00:19:43commercial and military. China, in its five-year
00:19:47plans, emphasizes the centrality of
00:19:50technology development, but viewing it as an
00:19:54instrument of a new, more accelerated
00:19:57mode of production, hyper-technologized,
00:20:00which even always subordinates
00:20:04itself to its
00:20:07proposals for prosperity, common
00:20:10well-being, and, in international terms,
00:20:14a shared destiny for humanity. Technology is
00:20:17used more as an instrument for the community,
00:20:21for society. We are not
00:20:23seeing, studying in depth, that China
00:20:26uses technology in the same way that the West
00:20:30is using it, for a war that is not only military
00:20:34but also cognitive, in a sustained and
00:20:37permanent way. Although, of course, it is used
00:20:40for surveillance, right? Drones are also
00:20:43being developed, robotics,
00:20:47and all sorts of software,
00:20:50artificial intelligence that can be applied in the military
00:20:54sphere, if necessary. The biggest conflict
00:20:57scenario is Taiwan, right? Today, for
00:21:01China. And in that sense, all its military
00:21:05industry is designed and aimed
00:21:08at sustaining the Pacific as
00:21:12a zone that does not escalate in terms
00:21:15of armed conflicts. That is to say, from a geopolitical
00:21:19point of view. I mean, here only the very big
00:21:22actors remain to decide who wins and loses a
00:21:26war, because all the smaller
00:21:29armies, to use a word,
00:21:31logically with the availability of artificial
00:21:35intelligence and all the technology, nobody
00:21:38can compete to win a war except these
00:21:42great powers. And today, in technological-military
00:21:45terms, we are in a technological
00:21:49bipolarity.
00:21:51On the one hand, the United States, which can also
00:21:54sustain this global value chain for the development of cutting-edge
00:21:58technology, based on the Pacific
00:22:01Silica eh, it establishes an
00:22:05association with other countries or
00:22:08new international relations to sustain
00:22:11that entire value chain, rare earths,
00:22:15all the development of microchips, data processing centers,
00:22:18in contrast, China also proposes new
00:22:22international relations, proposing the
00:22:25international organization of artificial intelligence governance,
00:22:29more based on this
00:22:33idea of win-win with 29
00:22:36countries, including Russia, which also allows
00:22:40China to sustain the global value chain
00:22:43of cutting-edge technologies, frontier technologies,
00:22:46and in that way, not have bottlenecks.
00:22:50China is strong in rare earths, but these
00:22:53international relations also allow it to overcome its
00:22:57bottleneck, which are microchips. They also allow
00:23:00the development of mathematical models
00:23:03and the development, well, of patents,
00:23:07which China is also strong in. That
00:23:11is to say, they are two countries
00:23:15that manage to sustain international relations that
00:23:18allow them to consolidate the value chains of cutting-edge
00:23:22technologies, and as you rightly say, Jorge, they are the
00:23:25only two countries that, in military
00:23:29terms, can manage big data in
00:23:33real time in a scenario of
00:23:35military conflict, and that train their armed
00:23:39forces in virtual scenarios,
00:23:43right? Both China and the United States
00:23:46have a permanent military exercise,
00:23:50using virtual reality or
00:23:54augmented reality, based on
00:23:57technologies like virtual reality glasses and so on. So they are
00:24:01a trained army, right? I bring up this issue,
00:24:04which is closer to our region, and we are
00:24:08talking about Brazil, about another war that
00:24:11precisely has its conclusion
00:24:16the second round of the election between Lula and
00:24:20Bolsonaro, where it is precisely denounced
00:24:23that this large corporation
00:24:27Meta would be using or has
00:24:30used, because there is a complaint with apparently concrete
00:24:36the manipulation of information to favor
00:24:39Flavio Bolsonaro and harm Lula.
00:24:43That is to say, here we are talking about a war
00:24:47from a geopolitical point of view and
00:24:51where these large corporations that
00:24:54manage artificial intelligence are
00:24:57participating in the electoral results
00:25:00of other countries. I ask you, well, I believe
00:25:04that Latin America is under a hybrid
00:25:07warfare situation,
00:25:09eh, the West is under a hybrid warfare
00:25:13situation where the great
00:25:15tool of today is technology, it is
00:25:19artificial intelligence. This allows for
00:25:22an interventionism that is no longer new; we have been seeing
00:25:26it since 2015 with Cambridge Analytica, an
00:25:29interventionism by American corporations in the
00:25:33political-electoral processes in our countries. In
00:25:362015, interventionism was denounced in the Argentine
00:25:40elections, in the elections in Ecuador, in the elections
00:25:44also in Brazil. Cambridge Analytica no longer
00:25:47exists, but undoubtedly Meta and American
00:25:51corporations
00:25:54have managed to continue with that
00:25:56ability to interfere in political-electoral
00:26:00processes, specifically.
00:26:02They target in a runoff scenario
00:26:0610-15% of the population that is
00:26:10more disorganized and more
00:26:13susceptible
00:26:16to cognitive warfare, psychological warfare,
00:26:21of the population that, being more disorganized,
00:26:25is more vulnerable to these
00:26:27technologies, to these impacts on social
00:26:30networks and they were false flag
00:26:34operations, many times that happen on social
00:26:38networks, but sometimes they happen in reality, we saw it in Argentina last
00:26:41year in the midterm elections,
00:26:45and social networks amplifies and
00:26:48generates an emotional destabilization of this 10, 15% of the population
00:26:52that leads to defining their vote not by
00:26:56rational issues but by
00:26:59emotional issues. Here, I think there's... an
00:27:03alert to national and
00:27:05popular projects, because many times we talk to the
00:27:09population, explaining public policy,
00:27:12explaining rationally what we are going
00:27:15to do if we are in government,
00:27:18but we see that these social networks do is
00:27:21to target emotionality, we would say
00:27:25to hyper- incentivize the reptilian
00:27:28brain, no, the most emotional part of the brain to
00:27:32make voters vote irrationally.
00:27:34This is political interference,
00:27:37it's not regulated, eh,
00:27:41this digital terrain is totally unregulated terrain in
00:27:45Latin America and it allows precisely this American
00:27:48intrusion. So, well, on Sunday
00:27:51surely eh we will have
00:27:54again
00:27:56eh this North American interference. I think Lula is very aware of
00:28:00this situation, that's why... he has imposed
00:28:03sanctions on Elon Musk, he has imposed
00:28:06restrictions on social networks and
00:28:09specifically on Meta to try to make this interference not
00:28:13so strong. Let's see if this
00:28:17allows that really
00:28:20the national and popular Latin American project that
00:28:24Lula is proposing can reach a good port
00:28:27and not have this foreign
00:28:30interference. Thank you very much for having been with
00:28:34us, thank you very much, Jorge, greetings.
00:28:53It is no longer just a test of courage to face a
00:28:57risk, another type of courage is needed, the courage of
00:29:01constancy. The tenacity, the courage of
00:29:04resistance, it is about an important moral
00:29:07problem, it is precisely that which brings
00:29:10us closer to the true concept of
00:29:13revolutionary, to the concept of man, and more than of
00:29:16man, of revolutionary, who, as Che said, is
00:29:20the most honorable title, the highest seat to which a man
00:29:24can aspire, to be a revolutionary, Fidel
00:29:28Castro. November 4,
00:29:301969, Speech delivered at an event with
00:29:34members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, FAR,
00:29:38held at the headquarters of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed
00:29:41Forces, Havana,
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