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*Cuban govt. assures it is ready to face any U.S. administration
*Attacks on Gaza continue amid ceasefire with Lebanon
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*Cuban govt. assures it is ready to face any U.S. administration
*Attacks on Gaza continue amid ceasefire with Lebanon
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00:00In Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum denied Trump's statements that she had agreed to
00:18close the borders to stop migration.
00:23The Cuban President Miguel DÃaz-Canel assured on Wednesday that the country is ready to
00:27face any administration that occupies the White House.
00:33Thousands of Lebanese have returned home since Beirut and Tel Aviv agreed to a 60-day ceasefire
00:39while in Gaza, genocidal troops continue to bomb camps full of women and children.
00:44Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:50We begin with the news, stay with us.
00:53In Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum denied Donald Trump's words in a message on the
01:00X network.
01:01Sheinbaum said that she explained to the US President-elect the comprehensive strategy
01:06that Mexico has followed to address the migration phenomenon and reiterated that her country's
01:12position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and between peoples.
01:23The Cuban President Miguel DÃaz-Canel assured on Wednesday that the country is ready to
01:28face any administration that occupies the White House.
01:32From the municipality of Las Lajas in the province of Cienfuegos, the head of state
01:36assured a group of farmers and neighbors of the area that neither Republicans nor Democrats
01:42have represented a change for the island.
01:45In addition to reiterating that they are ready for the administration that will begin in
01:51January and recognizing the worriness about the also extraordinary effort of the Cuban
01:57people in the face of the sanctions, he also insisted that Havana remains open to any dialogue
02:03with Washington, but with equality and respect.
02:13For us, the results of these elections are not new results.
02:15It was a foreseen scenario.
02:18It was a likely scenario, and we have been preparing ourselves for this scenario.
02:22And the relationship that exists with the government of the United States, you know,
02:26is a totally asymmetric relationship, because they have imposed a blockade on us for more
02:30than 60 years.
02:32But it is a blockade that worsened in 2019 and that has been maintained with the current
02:37administration.
02:38That is to say, it is not a problem of administration.
02:40Two administrations of different parties have maintained the same position of hostility
02:45towards Cuba, and we have been in that position for all the years of the revolution.
02:50That is to say that the country is prepared.
02:52The country does not accept any type of interference.
02:55Our country does not renounce our model of social construction that we have to perfect
03:00and the country, in the midst of the most difficult circumstances, will continue to
03:04work.
03:10The Cuban president keeps the door open to dialogue with Washington, but without impositions.
03:19And we have always stated that we have nothing against the people of the United States, and
03:24that we are willing to work on equal terms with the government of the United States,
03:27but in equality and confidences, without impositions, with respect and, of course, nothing that
03:32affects our sovereignty or our independence, and that is our position.
03:40In Panama, organizations in solidarity with Cuba held the first peace forum at the University
03:46of Panama to condemn the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United
03:51States against the Cuban people.
03:53During the conference, organized by the National Education Workers Union, the social sector
03:58made a call to respect the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples, while qualifying
04:04the blockade against Cuba as the most comprehensive and prolonged system of unilateral coercive
04:09measures in history.
04:11They also denounced the unjust inclusion of Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
04:16The peace we need to counteract violence against the peoples, for peace is not only
04:30the absence of war and conflict, but also sovereignty, self-determination, social justice
04:45and respect among all human beings.
04:50And now we have a short break coming up, but first remember you can join us on TikTok
04:54at TeleCity English, where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and more.
04:58We'll be right back, stay with us.
05:15Welcome back to From the South.
05:28In Venezuela has positioned itself among the vanguard countries in the struggle against
05:33fascism and its diverse expressions.
05:35And just this week, a new meeting called International Antifascism for a New World is taking place.
05:41Details in the following report.
05:47The revolutionary process promoted in Venezuela has once again become a benchmark in the fight
05:52against the various expressions of world fascism and has called on many international political
05:57and social organizations to organize and join forces.
06:05Fascism is nothing more than a derivation.
06:08It is like an element that imperialism uses and capitalism uses to maintain its domination,
06:13to maintain its exploitation of the working men and women.
06:17So the anti-fascist struggle is also an anti-capitalist struggle.
06:21It is a struggle for the construction of socialism, which is the only way we know of to be able
06:34to extinguish.
06:35As Comrade Randa said, definitively both capitalism and its most violent expressions or those
06:41with the greatest terror in which it is expressed, which is fascism itself.
06:52One of the most representative fighters against capitalism was the revolutionary fighter Ernesto
06:57Che Guevara.
06:58And his daughter, the revolutionary Dr. Oleda Guevara, is worthy of inheriting Che's anti-fascist
07:05legacy.
07:08What fascism means, look at the examples.
07:10This is what we have lived.
07:12This is what you can live if you allow it.
07:14This is what you want, for example, to be left without housing, for example, to be left
07:18without culture, for example, to hand over everything you have to another state so that
07:23it can come and dominate you and crush you and try to disappear you as a people.
07:29That is what you want?
07:30Surely not.
07:31So what we have to do is to try to be like my father.
07:34It is easier to make you follow than not having to force.
07:37And that is very important.
07:39We have to demonstrate our truths, but in such a way that the young people understand
07:43them, understand them and join the struggle out of conviction.
07:47Not because we are forcing them, but because we have convinced them that a better world
07:52is possible.
07:58Within the analysis and reflection of the world geopolitical context, it was agreed
08:03that one of the ways in which fascism disguises itself is through governments elected under
08:08democratic mechanisms, but which act with authoritarian expressions that favor the interests
08:13of those who hold economic and political power.
08:19The government as such has made policies that go against the Salvadoran people, public policies
08:24that are not in accordance with what the population is asking for, as in the case of the high
08:29cost of living, as in the case of regulations to apparently raise taxes.
08:34There are even regulations that had to go back a little because of the popular voice.
08:47When there are demonstrations of social organizations, there are many checkpoints and the population
08:53is detained and they are doing all kinds of actions that do not facilitate conditions
08:59for people to demonstrate.
09:07Another of the manifestations of fascism as an expression of capitalism is the disregard
09:13of the cultural manifestations of the native peoples who struggle for their identity and
09:17dignity.
09:20We are fully supporting the worldwide struggle against fascism.
09:27We are the representation of the native peoples of Guatemala and we are here supporting and
09:31making a worldwide network so that we are respected as native people.
09:41This concludes the first day held in Caracas to confront international fascism.
09:48The Brazilian Supreme Court of Justice began on Wednesday debating on a regulation of social
09:53media in view of the spread of fake news and hate speech.
09:57The starting point of the regulation was a police inquiry into an alleged thwarted coup
10:02plot in 2022.
10:04The case involves former President Jair Bolsonaro.
10:07Authorities could determine that criminals used social media to misinform about the reliability
10:13of the electoral system to justify serious offences.
10:17In addition, the court will decide whether social media platforms will be sanctioned
10:21for illegal publications or not by 2025.
10:26Concurrently, the entity has examined cases related to the rules for social media platforms
10:31and the responsibility for the contents published by users.
10:37The Brazilian government confirmed that it will make cuts in public spending to generate
10:44savings, most of which will come from a reform of the military pension system.
10:49The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, said that the measure will allow savings of
10:54R$70 billion, equivalent to nearly $12 billion over the next two years.
11:00In the same instruction, the ministerial office confirms that the income tax exemption for
11:05those who earn up to R$5,000 or slightly more than $800.
11:11According to Minister Haddad, these measures help to fight privileges incompatible with
11:17the principle of equality and part of the objective is to guarantee that all civil servants
11:22are subject to the constitutional principle.
11:30In Brazil, the launch of the Global Plan Against Hunger and Poverty during the G20 summit reopens
11:35the debate within South and North on agricultural development models.
11:39Let's see more details in the following report.
11:46During the G20 summit, President Lula da Silva gave concrete expression to Pope Francisco's
11:51idea by launching the Global Plan to Combat Hunger and Poverty, a platform that was endorsed
11:57by 82 countries plus the European Union and the African Union.
12:04We cannot talk about any public policy if we do not fight hunger, if we do not fight
12:08social inequality.
12:16But the way out for that was not very clear because the fund will be formed with money
12:20from the World Bank.
12:21Most of the fund will be for loans and we already know how that works.
12:29The neoliberal structural adjustment programs imposed by the World Bank in the 1960s encouraged
12:35the production of monoculture export crops.
12:38In the 1980s and 1990s, together with the International Monetary Fund, they pressured
12:42the countries of the Global South to abandon food production and focus on export crops
12:47such as coffee, tea, cocoa, and the purchase of basic foodstuffs on the world market.
12:53The result was dramatic.
12:55Today, a handful of transnational corporations dominate highly financialized agri-food markets.
13:03In 2023, some 2,330 million people around the world were moderately or severely food
13:10insecure.
13:11A recent report by the Fiocruz Health Institute states that one in 10 deaths in Brazil in
13:172019 were the result of the consumption of ultra-processed foods.
13:22Among the voices of world leaders at the G20, Latin American peasant movements adhere to
13:28two positions, Colombian President Gustavo Petros and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.
13:38It is the peasantry and the small farmer of each country that has the vocation to work
13:42the land and fulfill its social function, which is the number one basis for feeding
13:46their own people and the world.
13:49We call this agrarian reform.
13:57The statement that freedom is only in the market is a falsehood.
14:01What freedom?
14:02The freedom to starve to death?
14:05That is not freedom, it is oblivion, it is dehumanization.
14:12In the opposite direction to the prescriptions of neoliberal organizations, the landless
14:17movement is approaching 20 years of cooperation with Venezuelan communes for the exchange
14:22of agroecological production practices.
14:27The landless movement is here today in Venezuela, as it is in Zambia, as it is in Haiti or in
14:32Cuba.
14:33We are talking about peoples who are seeking, despite all the difficulties, despite all
14:37the siege that international organizations are carrying out, their paths, their search
14:42to transform the concrete reality of the people.
14:49This week during a debate in Brasilia, the Brazil-China Center for Research, Development
14:54and Promotion of Mechanization Technology for Family Farming launched this week a laboratory
14:59and will test Chinese machines and equipment that will operate in landless movement settlements.
15:07China has a wonderful experience on how it fought poverty and social inequality.
15:12At the root is the agrarian reform they carried out between 1945 and 1952, when they distributed
15:18all the land.
15:24The Plan Against Hunger and Poverty proposed to reach 500 million people with income distribution
15:29programs by 2030 and to expand school meals to 150 million children.
15:34In this context, the debate on land concentration and the role of agroecology is reopening.
15:44The Prime Minister of Haiti, Alex Didier Fils-Aim, reported that he is working on a humanitarian
15:50aid operation for the people displaced by the escalating violence of criminal groups
15:54in the nation.
15:56The World Food Programme will embrace the operation that is set to distribute hot meals
16:00to over 23,000 refugees.
16:03The food will be handed out for 14 days at four strategic points in Port-au-Prince.
16:08The dynamic seeks to temporarily defuse the critical situation due to the existing violence
16:14in the country.
16:15According to the International Organization for Migration, at least 41,000 people have
16:20been forced to leave their homes in a 10-day period.
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17:09Welcome back to From the South.
17:11The summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization began on Thursday in Astana,
17:16the capital of Kazakhstan.
17:18Its leaders reaffirmed that the coalition will ensure the security of all its members.
17:23The heads of state of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan met to discuss
17:29the political and military situation in the collective security regions and prospects
17:34for further cooperation within the powerful bloc.
17:38The host, President Kasym Chekhajev, reaffirmed the collective commitment to maintain peace
17:43and security in the area.
17:45The organization, whose origins date back to 1991, has among its objectives the strengthening
17:50of stability in the space of these five republics.
18:08Israeli tanks broke the ceasefire agreement reached with Lebanon as artillery hit at least
18:17three towns in the country's southern region.
18:19Precisely the areas of Markaba, Wasani and Farshuba were attacked by the Zionists in
18:25an aggression that has yet to be reported by Israeli forces and which left at least
18:30three people wounded.
18:31Despite the validity of the ceasefire agreement that started on Wednesday at 4am local time,
18:37the Zionist forces attacked these cities a few kilometers from the Blue Line, the area
18:41that delimits Lebanon from the occupation.
18:47Intervention of the United States and France, Israel has not completely withdrawn its troops
18:52from the line border.
18:56Thousands of Lebanese have returned home since Beirut and Tel Aviv agreed to a 60-day ceasefire,
19:02While in Gaza, genocidal troops continued to bomb camps full of women and children.
19:08Today completes 56 days of armed siege and blockade to humanitarian aid in Beit Lahya
19:14in the north of Gaza.
19:15Along the strip, the occupying forces have assassinated more than 20 civilians, among
19:21them a pregnant woman, in the last 24 hours.
19:24Israel's genocide in Gaza has killed at least 44,282 Palestinians and wounded 104,880 others
19:33since October 7, 2023.
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