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*South Korea: National Assembly ousts interim leader Han Duck-Soo
*Argentina sets lowest minimum wage in 20 years
FTS 12.30
*South Korea: National Assembly ousts interim leader Han Duck-Soo
*Argentina sets lowest minimum wage in 20 years
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00:00Israeli forces have stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing 350 people
00:14out, including all the patients and medical staff.
00:20South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly voted to oust interim leader Han
00:25Duk-So, and the Argentinian government, led by Javier Mele, set the lowest minimum wage
00:34in the past 20 years.
00:40Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:42My name is Belinda de los Santos, I'm from Terracer Studios in Havana, Cuba, we begin
00:46with the news.
01:02We begin today's information with Palestine as Israeli forces stormed the Kamal Adwan
01:07Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing 350 people out, including all the patients and medical
01:13staff.
01:14Police are reporting that around 50 people have been killed in this process, including
01:19five medical staff, as a result of an Israeli airstrike on a building near the hospital.
01:25Israel has ordered the evacuation of the hospital, endangering not only the staff, but the nearly
01:3075 patients who remained hospitalized.
01:34In these last weeks, the attacks against the health facility, the most important in the
01:38area, have been constant, and the Gaza authorities denounced an ethnic cleansing operation in
01:44the north of the Palestinian enclave.
01:51And in Israel, at least 18 people were injured as they ran to take shelter from several Yemeni
01:56missiles early Friday morning.
01:58The Zionist defense forces claimed to have intercepted the missile at around 3 a.m. local
02:02time.
02:03Hours later, the Majan David Adam service, in charge of medical emergencies in Israel,
02:08confirmed the number of people wounded.
02:11As a consequence, the Ben Gurion airport, the most important one in the country, temporarily
02:15suspended its operations.
02:17The strike comes hours after Israel bombed Yemen in an attack that nearly killed the
02:22president of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was on a mission
02:27in the country.
02:33And we now move on to other topics.
02:35Military expert Andrei Makarovsky reported on Friday that Russian troops crossed over
02:40the Volgaya River to prepare a new offensive in northeastern Kharkov, Ukraine.
02:46Makarovsky specified that the advance generated a positive trend as they are making progress
02:51within the city downtown.
02:54The incursion attached great importance for future military operations, as they managed
02:59to take over almost half of the village.
03:02The expert further noted that Ukraine sent its military forces to stop the advance, however,
03:08the Russian military successfully held their positions and destroyed several enemy strongholds.
03:18And on Friday, South Korea's opposition-controlled National Assembly voted to oust acting President
03:23Han Duk-seo.
03:24The Democratic Party initiated the motion just two weeks after the Prime Minister assumed
03:29the role following the impeachment of President Yun Suk-hyo, who is facing rebellion charges
03:35related to a controversial martial law declaration.
03:39Opposition lawmakers accused Han of failing to appoint judges to the Constitutional Court.
03:44That is a critical step for addressing Yun's impeachment process and claimed he had acted
03:50in support of Yun during the political crisis.
03:57I announced that Prime Minister Han Duk-seo's impeachment motion has passed.
04:00Out of the 192 lawmakers who voted, 192 voted to impeach.
04:10And in Spain, the autonomous community of Madrid is experiencing a wave of mobilizations,
04:15where rectors, professors and students from public universities denounce an unsustainable
04:19situation due to the lack of funding resulting from the budgetary management of community
04:24president Isabel Ayuso.
04:26Let's see.
04:29The community of Madrid has six public universities that serve tens of thousands of students.
04:34However, the regional budgets for 2025 propose an increase of only 47.3 million euros, far
04:42from the 200 million that the rectors consider necessary to reverse the underfunding accumulated
04:47over the last 15 years.
04:51Isabel Ayuso is at work with the public university.
04:53She's advocating us at the budget level, with an underfunding of more than 35 in the
04:57last 15 years.
05:00The protests have reached the gates of the Assembly of Madrid on the day Ayuso used his
05:05absolute majority to approve the accounts for 2025.
05:09The protesters denounced the use of public universities as a weapon against the government.
05:14Worse, they now have in their hands a lot of universities, that is an open war with
05:18the central government, in which the public university of Madrid is going to pay for their
05:21program.
05:22We cannot accept it.
05:25In Madrid, there are already 13 private universities compared to the six public ones.
05:29And the precariousness denounced by the central government affects all staff.
05:35As you know, we have a problem in the public universities of our country of temporary and
05:40precarious contracts.
05:41In the university, it is practically 50%.
05:45One out of every two professors in the public universities of our country has a precarious
05:50and temporary contract.
05:55Students also raised their voices.
05:56A new law promoted by the community of Madrid threatens to limit the organizational capacity
06:02of the student movement.
06:03Just after the students led camps in solidarity with Palestine and questioned the links of
06:08universities with companies that support the Zionist state of Israel.
06:13The law is a serious repression of the student movement.
06:16It is no coincidence that this law was passed just after the Palestinian protests.
06:21They clearly want to repress the student movement that has been demonstrating in defense of
06:25Palestine and against the relations of our universities with companies that finance the
06:29genocide that Israel commits.
06:33Meanwhile, the universities face a bleak outlook.
06:38The six rectors have issued a joint statement denouncing that the regional budget does not
06:43guarantee the sustainability of public universities after more than a decade of neglect.
06:48Ayuso, aware of the importance of the cultural battle, attacks those who defend public education.
06:55With the case of the Complutense, they are so interested in the public university, in
06:59public education, and they are doing the same as with feminism, as with all institutions,
07:05colonizing it to use it in their service.
07:10With a budget crisis threatening the future of public education at all levels, the community
07:15of Madrid is experiencing a conflict between a growing privatization model and the defense
07:21of accessible education.
07:24Mobilizations of the entire educational community promise to mark the coming weeks.
07:32And now we have a short break coming up, but first, remember you can join us on TikTok
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07:53Welcome back to From the South.
08:02In Mozambique, steady clashes between inmates and security forces led to 21 deaths in the
08:07latest hours as a result of a wave of violence following the elections.
08:12The National Police Chief Bernardino Rafael briefed that a confrontation between escaped
08:16convicts and security forces brought about the death toll of 33 inmates out of the 6,000
08:23fugitives from the Maputo prison, while other 15 were injured.
08:28In this regard, both the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki-Mahamat,
08:33and the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, expressed their concern
08:38for the escalation of violence in this country.
08:45So we go now to Panama as the canal of the country celebrates 25 years in the hands of
08:50the nation, but it continues to be overshadowed in a country that is the fourth most unequal
08:56in the world and that now faces the imperialist threat of the United States to conquer it
09:01again.
09:02Our colleague Rekha Chaminade-Arandi with the details.
09:05When the Panamanians recovered the canal in 2000, the waterway ceased to be a U.S. military
09:12asset and became an enterprise at the service of world trade, connecting 1,920 ports, 180
09:20maritime routes, and serving 170 countries.
09:23And although the canal generates billions of dollars a year, these benefits seem imperceptible
09:29to the majority of the population.
09:34But history did not end up making the most collective use possible of the assets that
09:38were reverted.
09:44It turns out that here, after the invasion, once the military regime was suppressed, the
09:54democracy of those at the top organized things in such a way that those reverted goods passed
09:59into the hands of the oligarchy, and $30 billion went to the great robbery of that century.
10:07The milestone comes with a bittersweet taste.
10:12U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's onslaught on recovering the canal, citing alleged Chinese
10:17control and high tariffs, has brought to the fore debates on the background and remaining
10:23forms of interventionism after the reversion.
10:28The canal is problematically involved with a treaty called the Canal Neutrality Treaty,
10:34which is not legal, is not in accordance with international law, and is not convenient
10:39for Panama.
10:40On top of that, it turns out that the reverted areas are in the hands of the new North Americans,
10:46in quotation marks, the new white people, and not in the hands of the Panamanian people.
10:56But we have to disassociate ourselves from that treaty, and that should be the government's
11:00position to start talking about it.
11:03We cannot accept that every time they want they threaten us because we are a small nation.
11:12After the signing of the Torrijos-Carter treaties in 1977, the U.S. Congress unilaterally introduced
11:18at least six amendments before ratifying it in 1979, the Conchini Amendment and the Church
11:24and Number Reservations being the most controversial and interventionist in tenure.
11:32We continue to be seen by the United States as their position to take care of their backyard
11:36in South America, and that is what Donald Trump is referring to in the face of the possibility
11:41of a global conflict, to put us as a military objective of their enemies.
11:51The Mulino government has been cautious in its responses to Trump, whose statements come
11:56as a bucket of cold water in the face of the accommodating attitude that has characterized
12:00all post-invasion Panamanian governments.
12:03Trump replaced current Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte with Kevin Marino Cabrera, a Miami-Dade
12:09County Commissioner in Florida, an active Republican member and businessman, which signals
12:14a 180-degree turn in relations between the two countries.
12:18With control of the canal, now the central focus.
12:30Also in this context and following the US President-elect's claims that China had illegal
12:35influence over the Panama Canal, the Asian Agent's Foreign Ministry stressed it respects
12:40the Latin American country's sovereignty over the waterway.
12:46I also noticed that Panama's President Mulino pointed out that the Panama Canal is not directly
12:50or indirectly controlled by any major power.
12:53From China's side, we will continue to respect Panama's sovereignty over the canal and recognize
12:57the canal as a permanently neutral international waterway.
13:03We go now to the United States, as weeks after President-elect Donald Trump signaled Tom
13:08Hauman to be in charge of managing immigration policies, the former police officer has announced
13:13he will detain foreign families starting on January 20, 2025.
13:18Baptized by the GOP as the border czar, Hauman assured Thursday on an interview to a US outlet
13:25that he is planning to detain adults with their minors.
13:28The politician added that authorities won't mind if children are born in the United States,
13:33they will be detained regardless and later deported.
13:36Moreover, the immigration official detailed that parents will have to relinquish custody
13:42of their children to leave them in the United States, otherwise their minors will be deported
13:47with them.
13:53And in Haiti, the Presidential Transitional Council dismissed the Minister of Public Health
13:57and Population, Lucanson Lorteblema, following the attack perpetrated last Tuesday by the
14:03criminal group Living Together against the State University Hospital.
14:08Government officials who gave this information did so on the condition of anonymity due to
14:13the tense situation of violence.
14:15They indicated that the Minister of Justice, Patrick Pellissier, will take over as the
14:19new Minister of Health on a provisional basis.
14:22This attack on the hospital was one of the worst ever recorded, killing two journalists
14:27and a police officer when members of the coalition of criminal groups came in shooting at those
14:33on the premises.
14:35Meanwhile, in Ecuador, more families denounced forced disappearances of their children and
14:43adolescents.
14:45The indignation caused by the forced disappearance of three teenagers and a child who were detained
14:50by a military patrol in Guayaquil has prompted the emergence of more reports of similar cases.
14:56Just as has happened with Steven, Saul, Ismael and Josue, two mothers, Sandra Arteaga and
15:01Janet Azcobar, have denounced a similar case.
15:05Their children have been missing since December 6th, two days before the ones that went missing
15:10in Guayaquil.
15:17We are the mothers of the boys, three missing.
15:21I ask you to help me to share this because they are children, three minors, two sons
15:26and my son-in-law.
15:39This happened in Orense de Garaycoa, in the Hacienda Fortaleza, the military came in to
15:44do raids and took six children.
15:46Of those six children, my two children and my son-in-law are included.
15:51Since those days, we have no communication.
15:53We don't know where they are, nothing, no trace of them.
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16:37The Public Prosecutor's Office of Venezuela has issued a statement informing the arrest
16:41of the Argentinean gendarme linked to terrorist actions in the Bolivarian nation.
16:47The communique states that Mr. Noel Agustin Gallo has been arrested for having attempted
16:52to enter the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela irregularly, hiding his real criminal plan
16:58under the guise of a sentimental visit.
17:01The communique states also that the citizen is under investigation for his connection
17:07to a group of people who tried to carry out a series of destabilizing and terrorist actions
17:13from our territory with the support of international ultra-right wing groups.
17:18The accused is at the disposal of the judge based on the provisions of the Venezuelan
17:23constitution and national laws.
17:25Furthermore, the official communique stressed that the statements and actions made by the
17:30Argentine government using the relatives of the accused, as well as the judicial resolution
17:35taken by the Federal Chamber of Mendoza, make clear the complicity of the authorities of
17:40this nation in the subversive plans that seek to attack by any means the Venezuelan state
17:46and its legitimate institutions.
17:48In closing remarks, the statement also added that the Prosecutor's Office, as well as all
17:53the public powers, stand firm in the supreme duty to preserve and defend peace, sovereignty
17:59and the principle of self-determination of the peoples as fundamental pillars on which
18:04the Republic of Venezuela is built.
18:11And the Argentinian government, led by Javier Milet, set the lowest minimum wage in the
18:15past 20 years.
18:17The resolution stipulates a pay raise for minimum wages of 9.3% to be paid every month
18:23from December to March, and this salary increase covers up to only 16.9% of this basic food basket.
18:33In this regard, the spokesperson of Milet's executive stated that this raise is planned
18:38to be revoked in the near future.
18:40In this context, experts from the Study and Training Institute of Buenos Aires deemed
18:45that the resolution imposed what constitutes as the lowest minimum salary recorded in the
18:51last two decades.
18:57The Peruvian Congress is investigating former official Jorge Torres Aravia suspected of
19:01running an alleged prostitution ring within the legislature.
19:05Torres, who previously headed the legal and constitutional office and is linked to the
19:10right-wing Alianza para el Progreso party, is accused of exploiting young women to provide
19:15sexual services to lawmakers in exchange for political favors.
19:21The investigation intensified following the murder of Andrea Vidal, a former employee
19:26who was reportedly involved in recruiting women for the operation.
19:30As public outrage grows over this scandal, Torres has denied any wrongdoing, asserting
19:36that hiring practices were managed by human resources.
19:44And in Bolivia, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced the closing of the judicial election
19:49with the delivery of credentials to those elected, in order to immediately open the
19:53general electoral process to elect the government and the Legislative Assembly in the middle
19:57of next year.
19:59Our correspondent, Freddy Morales, with the details.
20:04The election of the highest judicial authorities by citizen vote is a unique process in the
20:09continent.
20:10But Mexico is in the process of implementing it.
20:15This is a very suede generous type of election that does not exist in Latin America.
20:21Soon the state of Mexico will address them.
20:24But it is a situation that needs to be studied.
20:28In Bolivia, the election was held on December 15, in its third version, with the common
20:35problem of scarce information on the 94 candidates.
20:38But in comparison to the two previous ones, this time the valid votes exceeded the invalid
20:43and blank votes.
20:48In the previous election, the white and null vote reached 65% in round figures and the
20:53useful vote reached 35%.
21:00In this election, I stress, in this election, the result is totally different.
21:10The valid votes reached 64.29% and the white and null votes barely reached 35%.
21:23Out of a total of 26 judicial authorities that were to be elected in these elections,
21:28only 19 were elected by decision of the Constitutional Court, and the remaining seven will have to
21:34wait for the preselection of candidates by the Legislative Assembly.
21:38With the partial election, this process is closed.
21:44The delivery of credentials is scheduled for December 30th of this year, thus closing the
21:48judicial electoral process.
21:55The new judicial authorities will take office next January 2nd, and the Supreme Electoral
22:00Court will start preparing for the general elections of the national government and Legislative
22:05Assembly, which are scheduled for August 2025.
22:13As from January, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal must dedicate all its efforts to the general
22:18election which is programmed in principle for August 10th, 2025.
22:28This will be ratified at the time of the launching of the call which is scheduled to take place
22:33in the first 10 days of April.
22:39While the authorities of the judiciary are elected for six years, the president, vice
22:44president, deputies and senators are elected for five years.
22:48In 2026, this country will also have elections again and will be to elect governors and mayors,
22:55also for a period of five years.
23:05Also in Bolivia, authorities issued an orange alert for the flooding of the Acre River in
23:10the Amazonian city of Covija in the north of the country.
23:13Authorities argued that the alert intended to warn the population and minimize the risks
23:18of a possible overflow.
23:20Since the beginning of 2024, the north of Bolivia has been suffering the worst floods
23:24in the last 10 years due to the overwhelming overflow of the Acre River, whose waters rose
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