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*New Israeli shelling in Gaza leaves 29 dead
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*New Israeli shelling in Gaza leaves 29 dead
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00:00In the United States, Republican candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala
00:15Harris received the same number of votes in Dixville-Notch as polls prepared to open on
00:19Election Day.
00:20In Palestine, at least 29 people were killed by Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip during
00:27the early hours of Tuesday morning.
00:33And in Venezuela, parliamentarians took part in the anti-fascist platform held during the
00:36World Parliamentary Forum against Fascism.
00:46Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Televisual Studios
00:50in Havana, Cuba.
00:52We begin with the news.
01:04In the United States, early Tuesday morning, Republican candidate Donald Trump and his
01:07Democratic rival Kamala Harris won the same number of votes in northeastern town of Dixville-Notch.
01:12Dixville-Notch is the first town to exercise its right to vote.
01:16A committee of six gave three votes to Trump and three to Harris.
01:20In 2020, incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden won a 5-vote-to-0 victory over former President
01:25Donald Trump.
01:26Meanwhile, polling stations in the rest of the country are opening their doors early
01:29in the morning.
01:30The latest polls show that both candidates have an equal chance of reaching the White
01:33House.
01:41Let's take a look at the opening hours of polling stations in the U.S. for this presidential
01:45election, which vary by state and municipality, but as a general rule, they open between 6
01:50a.m. and 8 p.m. local time.
01:51More than 240 million people are eligible to vote in this presidential election, held
01:56every four years, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, which will also
02:01include elections for the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate.
02:05Among the first citizens to cast their ballots were residents of Vermont, who could do so
02:09as early as 5 a.m. in some parts of the state.
02:13This year, only seven swing states with very narrow margins of victory are the focus of
02:17the campaigns—Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
02:30We are now joined from the South here with Juan Carlos Valares, the Chair of the International
02:36Department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador.
02:40Welcome Juan Carlos to From the South.
02:43Thank you very much.
02:44It's a pleasure to have you.
02:45Juan Carlos, first question.
02:48Yesterday was the last day of campaigning for both of the main candidates, Donald Trump
02:52and Kamala Harris.
02:53As polls are opening across the nation, what impact can those last days of rallies have
02:58in the outcome of this election?
03:00Well, I think it's very important to notice that both candidates are appealing to their
03:08target vote.
03:10In the case of Kamala Harris, I think she has more of a chance to appeal the Latino
03:15vote in the sense that she's proposed policies that are not as hard or restrictive as Donald
03:22Trump's.
03:23At the same time, Donald Trump seems to be addressing the issue of migration as one of
03:28the most important elements of his platform by taking an approach that's very condemning
03:35of the situation.
03:38And we expect, because we have been seeing coming into the days people have been preparing
03:42and people have had a higher turnout in early voting in these elections, are people concerned
03:47that there could be violence during this electoral process?
03:50Well, I think this is considered to be one of the most important elections in the United
03:56States and for the United States in the world, since we are faced with two very opposing
04:03views of presidency.
04:06On the one hand, we have a very radical, unpredictable Donald Trump that in a way scares
04:14a lot of the markets, a lot of the governments, even though he has support of Latin American
04:21governments such as Millet or the Bolsonaro supporters.
04:27However, I think Kamala Harris in that sense brings more of a certainty or at least more
04:34establishment following.
04:35And in that aspect, I think it's more reassuring in a way that the last days of campaign have
04:44shown how volatile the speech has become, especially with Donald Trump.
04:51Taking into consideration the global context of the different crises, especially of violence,
04:55of war, of aggravation, like in the Middle East, what impact can foreign policy of the
05:01U.S. have depending on the outcome of these elections?
05:06It's a very interesting question because I think it depends on the topic we're talking
05:09about.
05:10When it comes to trade, I think the markets and especially big corporations put their
05:17hope more in Trump since he has more of a bilateral and transactional relation with
05:25their partners.
05:26At the same time, when talking about war or security, even though both candidates have
05:35expressed that they will have a hard take on situations that involve the United States
05:44interests, I think in that aspect Kamala Harris has more of a multilateral approach.
05:50We should expect continuation in terms of approaching multilateral forum and trying
05:58to negotiate with their strategic partners, the European Union.
06:05It's also interesting when we talk about China, for instance, to see that both candidates
06:10have an approach where they want to stop China's increase in terms of the world's economy.
06:17That's something that we should see regardless of who wins.
06:20Now, when it comes to the approach on wars, we've heard Donald Trump with a very drastic
06:29speech as to how to stop wars, but he hasn't really said how he would do it.
06:34That is related to the unpredictability that I was referring to before, whereas in the
06:38case of Harris, she is in a dilemma, especially regarding the war on Gaza, the Israeli intervention
06:47on Palestine, because at the beginning she started by aligning with Israel and defending
06:55the position of the United States on Israel.
06:57But as we see with the Muslim vote also being into consideration a key aspect for the election,
07:06Harris has shifted a little bit into the element of also stopping the war in order to protect
07:13human rights in Gaza.
07:16Migration and border control is also another topic where both candidates have different
07:20views.
07:21How can this impact on the vote during the day?
07:26I think migration, you've talked about the most spoken issue for the audience in the
07:34United States.
07:36The American society is very concerned about the topic of migration and the way they've
07:41approached it also differs depending on the candidate.
07:45For instance, in the case of Trump, he continues with his 2016 speech and approach on having
07:53a harsh policy regarding migration, whereas Harris, even though aligns with Trump in terms
08:00of strengthening the border patrols and the controls at the border, has had more of a
08:10cooperative approach when it comes to also talking with Latin American countries, especially
08:16with Mexico, since it's the biggest migration that we've seen in the last decades, in order
08:22to also cooperate in terms of how these migrants cross the border.
08:28I think it's very important also to emphasize the fact that the Latin vote in the United
08:34States, even though it has historically been in favor of the Democrat Party, it has now
08:41had a tendency, depending on the state, like Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, to increase favoring
08:49the Republican Party, and that's something that says a lot as well, because when we talk
08:54about the Latin community in the United States, whether it is first, second, third generation
09:00of Latin people, we're going to see there a shift in terms of their tendency of who
09:05to vote for, right?
09:08I consider that regardless of who wins, we're going to see more of a policy that, in order
09:15to satisfy the American society, will have a strong take on the issue of migration.
09:22One last question, Juan Carlos.
09:24In your opinion, could we possibly expect a shift in direction in terms of strategies
09:29of the U.S. foreign policy towards, for example, Cuba and Venezuela and other nations in terms
09:33of the international sanctions and the coercive measures that are imposed against these nations
09:38and others in the region and in other parts of the world?
09:44I think yes, they do differ depending on whether it is Trump or Harris.
09:48Let's remember that during the Democratic presidency of Obama, the relations with Cuba
09:55started taking a shift towards the traditional isolationist and imposing sanctions approach
10:01of the United States regarding Cuba.
10:03However, when Trump was in the presidency, he totally erased those efforts and went back
10:11to a very strict and imposing sanctions approach, both to Cuba and Venezuela.
10:17It's interesting to see how, after the elections, the very controversial elections that took
10:23place in Venezuela, Harris stated that there should be a showing of the polling records
10:34from the Venezuelan government in order to be recognized, a thing which we know has not happened.
10:42However, in the case of Donald Trump, he hasn't really stated much about these countries.
10:47However, it is expected that he will take a hardline approach regarding the countries
10:53considered to be leftist in this aspect of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela.
11:00We've heard comments of Donald Trump calling all of the leaders from these countries dictators,
11:06and that's something that tells us a lot about what the approach would be should Donald Trump
11:12win the election.
11:14Thank you, Juan Carlos, for your times and inputs here from the South.
11:18Thank you very much for having me.
11:20It's our pleasure.
11:21Let's now take a short break, but first, remember you can join us on TikTok at TELUS
11:25for English, where you'll find news in different formats, news updates, and much more.
11:31Stay with us.
11:52Welcome back.
11:53Let's stay on topic on the elections in the United States.
11:55Let's go live now with our special envoy, Carlos Montero, for details as the Election
12:00Day kickstarts.
12:01Hi, good morning from Washington.
12:05Election Day, a lot of expectation here.
12:09Seven o'clock Eastern Time.
12:11Most of the states opened the polls and all the newspapers, of course, here they are analyzing
12:19what's going to happen the day that the people of the USA has the final word.
12:27The one who has the final words in the campaign also were the candidates.
12:31Last night, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, offered a different situation of the country.
12:38What would be a presidency of Kamala?
12:41How would be a president of Donald Trump?
12:43Let's start talking about the former president.
12:46Donald Trump did the last act in Michigan.
12:51He was really, I mean, he showed his age.
12:54He was really somber.
12:56He was really worried.
12:57He was saying, we have to make America great.
13:01We are trying to protect our democracy because the country is not going in the right direction.
13:08He promised the situation with immigration.
13:14He said, this country has been taken over by immigrants.
13:18We have to stop that.
13:20This country belongs to America, not to immigrants who are taking our job.
13:24People were crazy when he was saying that.
13:27People, I guess, immigration for the Republican is something really important.
13:32He said democracy is in danger.
13:35The system is broken.
13:37We have to change that.
13:39And he exhorted all his followers to go today to the poll centers and vote.
13:45They need to vote.
13:47Before going to Kamala Harris, I tell you so far, the last information we have,
13:52they're voting in advance something record.
13:5682 American, 82 millions American already vote.
14:02Another million more would do it during today.
14:05Now let's go to the vice president, Kamala Harris.
14:08She closed the event in Pennsylvania.
14:11State that she spent the whole day going to different places, different meeting.
14:17It was in a Spanish restaurant, talking to the Puerto Rican community.
14:21It's very important in Pennsylvania, the Puerto Rican community.
14:25But the closing act was really late last night.
14:30She was really upbeat.
14:31She didn't mention Donald Trump.
14:33She said we have to turn the page.
14:35We cannot hate each other.
14:37We are all American.
14:39If I'm a president, I'm going to be the president of all the American.
14:44We have to protect the right of our women.
14:46We have to protect the different condition of sexuality of our people.
14:52We have to protect, get back to have the woman.
14:56She wants to decide to get an abortion.
14:58She has the right to do it.
14:59I'm going to work for that.
15:02And please, tomorrow we are going to have a new America
15:08when Kamala Harris is going to be the president of the USA.
15:11We don't know that.
15:12All the polls are very close.
15:14I give you new information.
15:16There is something very symbolic.
15:17It's not going to change the result.
15:19But everybody at midnight, they are waiting the result of a small location
15:25in the north of the USA, in the border from Canada.
15:29It's a small town.
15:31And it was a tie.
15:33It was three votes for Kamala, three votes for Donald Trump.
15:38But let's see what's happened today.
15:40Hopefully, it's not going to be any kind of incidents.
15:42You can see all the stores in the capital.
15:45They are with those covered, all the glass windows.
15:48They are scared there were some violence.
15:50But we are going to have a very important coverage,
15:53Telesur in English, Telesur in Spanish.
15:56And at night, we are going to have a special program.
15:59But we are going to keep informing in English too, English and Spanish.
16:03But that's all from here right now.
16:05We'll be back in any minute.
16:07Come back to the studio.
16:08Thank you very much.
16:10Thank you, Carlos, for the information.
16:12Let's continue now with other news.
16:14In Venezuela, parliamentarians took part in the anti-fascist platform
16:18held during the World Parliamentary Forum against Fascism.
16:21Parliamentarians from more than 70 countries
16:23participated in the anti-fascist and anti-imperialist tribune
16:26on the first World Parliamentary Forum against Fascism.
16:29In this sense, parliamentary representatives
16:31from countries such as Russia, Palestine, Egypt, Cuba,
16:34Democratic Republic of Congo, and Venezuela attended the event.
16:38Also during his participation,
16:40the Venezuelan minister, Diosdado Cabello,
16:42warned about the mutation that fascism adopts to influence the people
16:46and thus grow with the support of the media and networks
16:49and with the financing of the empires.
16:54We now have a second short break coming up,
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17:08Final short break. Don't go away.
17:23Welcome back.
17:48Palestinian authorities report that Israeli genocidal forces
17:51dropped shellings on the Gaza Strip,
17:53claiming at least 70 lives in the last 24 hours.
17:56Wafan News Agency informed that the occupying forces killed 25 people,
18:00including 13 children,
18:02at the Bombarding House Shelter of Displaced Persons
18:05in the Baha'i town on early Tuesday morning.
18:08In addition, authorities confirmed the death toll amounting to nine
18:11in the central and southern areas of the devastated Palestinian enclave,
18:15where three tent camps for displaced persons were targeted.
18:18Israel continues its genocidal aggression by land,
18:20sea, and air against the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023,
18:24bringing about 43,374 deaths and injuring over 102,000 people.
18:35And in Paraguay, farmers of the National Farmers Federation
18:38gave away food in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture
18:41in protest against the government's lack of public policies
18:44and support for national production. Let's see.
18:48In Paraguay, three out of every ten families live in rural areas,
18:53and most of them are engaged in farming.
18:55However, this population suffers from the lack of public policies
18:59to ensure markets for their products.
19:03Please look at what we suffer as farmers.
19:06We produce without any support, without any accompaniment.
19:11Our production is the hope of our families, a hope that is lost,
19:15as well as in thousands of small farms.
19:20Workers of Asuncion received the solidarity of the peasantry,
19:25who, as a protest but also as a demonstration of their productive capacity,
19:30gave food to the citizens of the capital.
19:33It is clear that they have no support and receive no help.
19:37For us here, what they do is a great help.
19:42I just found out that they were distributing the vegetables here,
19:46and I say thank you very much to the farmers,
19:50and may they have a lot of strength.
19:54Amelio Dominguez is from the municipality of 3 de Febrero,
19:59in the department of Caguazu.
20:01His town is known as the tomato capital because of its large production.
20:05He said that the fruits of the land are rotting in the fields
20:08due to the indolent attitude of the government of Santiago Paine.
20:13At present, the small producer is left to his own luck.
20:17Why do we say this?
20:19Because we have no credit line, no technical assistance, no market.
20:25Right now, just when we have tomato production,
20:28they are smuggling products into the country.
20:31We small producers are orphaned, abandoned, indebted.
20:38In Paraguay, 8% of landowners concentrate almost 95% of arable land,
20:44according to official data.
20:46Despite land concentration and lack of support,
20:50peasant families continue to produce half of all food production in the country.
20:55We produce in the country tomatoes, locos, onions, cabbages,
21:01and other agricultural products for national consumption.
21:05There is a deficit of about 50% due to lack of investment and technology.
21:11But the biggest problem is that when there is national production,
21:14we cannot trade either because the market is crowded by foreign production.
21:20We need market protection.
21:25The constitution of Paraguay states that agrarian reform is fundamental for rural welfare.
21:31However, the state government does not develop public policies to implement it
21:35or guarantee food production and market protection for Paraguayan families.
21:44At least we have come to the end of this news brief.
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