09/01/2025
FTS 8.30
*Mexican president ratifies support for nationals living abroad
*Chad: attack on presidential palace leaves 19 dead
FTS 8.30
*Mexican president ratifies support for nationals living abroad
*Chad: attack on presidential palace leaves 19 dead
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00:00The Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, unveiled a
00:17new plan by the extreme far-right opposition, which proposed former far-right President
00:23Candidate Mundo González be serving as President from a Venezuelan embassy abroad.
00:34President Claudia Sheinbaum ratified her full support for migrants and instructed Diplomatic
00:39Corps abroad to provide them with all necessary assistance.
00:47In Yamena, the capital of Russia, on Wednesday, at least 19 people were killed in an attack
00:53on the presidential palace.
01:03Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Ana Marrero from the Telesur headquarters
01:07in Caracas, Venezuela.
01:09We will be with the news, stay with us.
01:29The Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, unveiled on
01:34Wednesday a new plan by the extreme far-right opposition, which proposed former far-right
01:39President Candidate Mundo González be serving as President from a Venezuelan embassy abroad.
01:52The proposal that Enrique Márquez makes to these gentlemen, and the document is generated
01:57by Enrique Márquez, with this certain Sergio Urdaneta and his friend lawyer.
02:04The proposal, in concrete terms, it is proposed that the elected president on July 28, Edmundo
02:11González Urrutia, can be sworn in as elected president, take possession and dictate acts
02:18of provisional government in a different place in the city of Caracas, as a seat of the national
02:24public power.
02:25In this sense, it is proposed that he can be sworn before an assembly of Venezuelan
02:30citizens in a diplomatic headquarters of the Republic of Venezuela, as an unquestionable
02:36extension of the sovereignty of the Republic abroad, always being within the jurisdiction
02:42of the sovereign territory of the Republic of Venezuela.
02:45As the gentleman cannot come here, or does not want to come here, five criminals are
02:50going to meet in the headquarters of an embassy abroad, of those headquarters of the Venezuelan
02:56embassy.
02:57Remember that, for example, in the United States, the government of the United States
03:02took over the headquarters of our embassy, for saying one thing, I think in Peru, it
03:08would be in Peru, in Peru, yes, they had done the same thing, it was Jorge Ariza, I remember.
03:16So, five criminals are going, and Edmundo is going to be sworn in, because he is in
03:22Venezuelan island territory.
03:25They intend to take over this constitution, because this constitution says that, where
03:30will the president of the republic be sworn in?
03:41In front of the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
03:52And then they come with an explanation, one that only my friends the lawyers here can
03:57make, to entangle everything, to say that it is possible, and the one in front of that
04:03is called Enrique Marquez, part of the coup d'etat that they want to give in Venezuela.
04:09There are no angels here, and even less in the oppositions, those who are defending it.
04:15Did you hear that, Petro?
04:18Defend it.
04:22A public opinion survey conducted by Interlaces, the Venezuelan specialized intelligence agency,
04:29indicates that the majority of Venezuelans anticipate the proclamation of Nicolás Maduro
04:35as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on January the 10th.
04:39A national survey conducted in December 2024, with a margin of error of 3%, covered 1,200
04:49interviews nationwide.
04:51When asked specifically who they expected to be proclaimed president before the National
04:55Assembly, only 1% of respondents said it will be Maduro, while 16% said it will be Edmundo
05:03González.
05:04The remaining 3% expressed no preference.
05:16This Wednesday in Olguin, eastern Cuba, the authorities of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
05:22and the government party, together with the civil defense, asserted the situation following
05:29the explosion of a military unit.
05:32Nearly 500 people have been evacuated in the town of Melones, in the municipality of
05:37Rafael Freyre.
05:38The first secretary of the party in the province, Joel Quipo, assured that a government has
05:44been deployed to meet the needs of the affected people, who are currently sheltering in a
05:50local education center.
06:00The President of the United States, Joseph Biden, has canceled his trip to Italy due
06:05to a serious situation of fires that are threatening thousands of lives in California.
06:10The head of state had several meetings on his Italian agenda, including one with Pope
06:17Francis to ask for the proclamation for world peace, as well as a meeting with Prime Minister
06:23Giorgio Melania and President Sergio Mattarella, upon his return from Los Angeles where he
06:29had met with firefighters, police and emergency personnel.
06:34His spokesman announced the cancellation of the trip, explaining that the President has
06:38taken this decision because he wanted to focus on the federal response in the coming days.
06:52We invite you to follow our special program dedicated to the upcoming presidential inauguration
06:58in Venezuela.
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07:35President Claudia Chaimbaum ratified her full support for migrants and instructed diplomatic
07:41corps abroad to provide all the necessary assistance.
07:45The President held a meeting with ambassadors and consuls of the country abroad to whom
07:50she ratified the importance of supporting and attending to any situation that might
07:55arise for the nationals living abroad.
07:57Furthermore, the need to establish a strategy in case the threats made by the President-elect
08:03of the U.S., Donald Trump, regarding mass deportations are carried out, was established.
08:15The Government of Mexico reacted to statements made by the President-elect of the United
08:19States, Donald Trump, to the fact that he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico
08:24to Gulf of America.
08:26Our correspondent in Mexico, Antonio Aranda, with more details.
08:32Donald Trump said he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.
08:38Claudia Chaimbaum responded with a brief history lesson.
08:45Why don't we call the United States Mexican America?
08:49It sounds nice, doesn't it?
08:51The constitution of Apatzingan was of Mexican America, so let's call it Mexican America.
09:03It sounds nice.
09:12On the assertion that Mexico is governed by drug cartels, Chaimbaum recalled that Mexican
09:17officials arrested or indicted for drug trafficking were part of the neoliberal period.
09:25Yesterday President Trump was misinformed, with all due respect to President Trump.
09:33I think he was informed that in Mexico Felipe Calderon and Garcia Luna still governed, but
09:38no, in Mexico the people govern.
09:48The Mexican president's statements highlighted the differences between the two presidents,
09:52according to this specialist.
09:58These imperialist connotations that they have more strength than others and that they have
10:02the army to make a real occupation and under this idea of appropriating what they like,
10:06what they are interested in, what they perceive as useful because they have the capacity to
10:11do it, begins to be part of their motives first to name it, socialize it, and then evaluate
10:16how it is being received by the audience in the United States as in the rest of the Western
10:21Hemisphere.
10:26The specialist described Donald Trump's narrative as colonialist rhetoric.
10:32Concrete, because that is what the Mexican president is like, concrete.
10:37But always going straight ahead and hitting the nail on the counter argument, Chaimbaum,
10:41unlike Trump who is a true ignorant, she is a scientist, she knows history, she is a doctor,
10:47she is a member of the national system of researchers.
10:50So she gives him a review and with hard data showing him some plates she reminds him that
10:54the Gulf of Mexico is recognized since 1607 by documents of the authorities of the new
11:00Spain.
11:05For Donald Trump, this colonialist discourse is aimed at repositioning the United States
11:10as a power using Latin America, explains this professor.
11:18It is not to reposition it in an artificial way, but in a real and more dramatic way.
11:24I believe that two years ago, the U.S. Southern Command, seeing that some countries were moving
11:29towards progressive governments, the Southern Command said that they were not going to allow
11:35China to take over the resources that are in Latin America.
11:46Threats such as imposing tariffs, increasing the border wall, or using military force against
11:51drug cartels will not make the Mexican government subordinate to that of the United States,
11:56said President Chaimbaum.
12:00Chaimbaum has also insisted that she will seek to maintain a binational relationship
12:04based on mutual sovereignty and respect as of January 20th, when Donald Trump takes office.
12:16Panamanian leaders of the National Union of Workers of Construction and Similar Industries,
12:21SUMTRAC, warned on Thursday that staff of Line 3 of the subways could turn to strike
12:27into General 1.
12:29The police said violently they picked Line workers in violation of their rights to rally
12:36peacefully.
12:37Furthermore, protesters claimed the government was not willing to reach an agreement with
12:42them.
12:43In these regards, SUMTRAC Secretary General Saul Mendes blamed the Ministry of Labor and
12:47Development, Jacqueline Munoz, for not playing her role as a mediator in the conflict.
13:00On Wednesday, the government of Argentina authorized the sale of shares of the steel
13:05company Industrias MetalĂşrgicas P.S.
13:08Carmona S.A. to the U.S. capital company ARK Energy.
13:15In a press release, the Secretary of Commerce stated that the pre-education of the company's
13:21shares nationalized in 2021 to an industrial acquisition fine at AFF Consortium, whose
13:30main partner is ARK Energy, was a recommendation of the evaluation committee for the bid for
13:37the sales of IMSA.
13:39The U.S. firm agreed to pay $27 million for the company's state-owned shares, in addition
13:45to taking an offer of $576 million.
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14:35In Anjaumena, the capital of Chad, on Wednesday at least 19 people were killed in an attack
14:41on a presidential palace.
14:43The attack is attributed to the terrorist group Boko Haram, which has been responsible
14:48for numerous tragedies in the region.
14:50The information was confirmed by Aba Dereman Kulamala, the foreign minister and government
14:57spokesperson, during a statement to the international press, where he stated that the situation
15:02was under control.
15:04Of the group of 24 paramilitary who carried out the attack, 18 were confirmed dead and
15:09six were wounded.
15:11One of the presidential guards was killed in the attack.
15:15What happened was an attack by 25 assailants, 24 to be precise, a sort of group of bandits
15:28who arrived armed with machetes and knives.
15:34They descended violently, stabbing the four guards who were present.
15:43One guard was killed, two others were seriously injured, and one sustained a lesser injury,
15:49though his life is not in danger.
15:52After that, they managed to penetrate a short distance inside the presidency, and one of
15:57the guards began firing, alerting the other guards stationed nearby.
16:21Gaza health authorities closed Wednesday a study that reported 50 Palestinians killed
16:25by Israel.
16:2633 of the murders were committed in the besieged north of the enclave, subject to daily bombardments,
16:34imposed starvation and a long list of war crimes that have been well-recorded.
16:40The medical report states that both the number of deaths and number of wounded are Muslim
16:44women and children.
16:56In other topics, in Chile, the special committee of ministers ratified the rejection of the
17:08controversial Dominga mining project, which poses a serious threat to the environment.
17:14Scientists and environmental organizations claim that the Dominga mining project poses
17:19a serious threat to one of the most important marine ecosystems in the world.
17:23For her part, Chilean Minister for the Environment, Maysa Rojas, welcomed the decision, pointing
17:30out that this is an area of world importance with a high ecological value.
17:43In Bolivia, 16 people lost their lives in the last two months as a result of the rainy
17:48season, and more than 14-thousand families were affected, according to the civil defense
17:52report.
17:53Our correspondent, Fredy Morales, tells us the details.
18:00Orlando is a teacher.
18:01In his spare time, he built his own house in the Logita Bajo neighborhood in the city
18:06of La Paz, a neighborhood that, like Orlando, has yet to recover from a flood that inundated
18:11some 40 homes a little over a month ago.
18:17This is our home.
18:18We have built it to live in, to inhabit it, because we need our own space, so that we
18:27are not sometimes dependent on relatives who welcome us very affectionately, but we are
18:32not used to it.
18:38The house built by Orlando did not suffer structural damage, but others in the neighborhood
18:43were not as lucky, and are now part of a dramatic statistic that began two months
18:48ago when the first rains fell.
18:53In total, there are 36 municipalities affected, 229 communities, 10-thousand-eight-hundred
19:00and eighty families affected, 5-thousand-one-hundred and thirty-three families affected, a total
19:06of 16-thousand-and-thirteen families, 355 houses affected, 194 houses completely destroyed,
19:16and 16 people have lost their lives.
19:23These figures, when the rainy season is just beginning, because here the popular saying
19:27January little, February crazy, is repeated, do not make a dent in the opposition majority
19:33in the Legislative Assembly, where more than 1.3 billion dollars in international credits
19:38are sleeping.
19:39200 million are for disaster prevention.
19:45It was earmarked for rehabilitation work in the municipality of La Paz, in the municipality
19:51of Colchafque in Potosi, and in the municipality of Cobiha.
19:56Unfortunately, this credit was not approved by the Assembly.
20:00This has obviously led the President to make the decision to provide us with up to 20 million
20:05Bolivian pesos to be able to undertake prevention and containment work.
20:13Meanwhile, the immediate future of natural phenomena is uncertain after a severe period
20:21of drought that maintained in this region the so-called El Niño phenomenon.
20:28We have gone from a phase of El Niño phenomenon to a phase of La Niño phenomenon, which was
20:32activated in October and then went to a neutral phase.
20:35What will probably happen in the next months is that we will go to a Niño phenomenon phase,
20:38the warming of the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean.
20:41Let's see what's happened then.
20:47Last year, the country endured the largest fires ever recorded in its history, with some
20:5210 million hectares raised by fire.
20:55The rainy season lasts until March, but these periods, due to climate change, are now variable
21:01and do not obey the calendar.
21:04Fredy Morales, Telesur, Bolivia.
21:09We have come to the end of this news brief, but we will leave you with the winners of
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