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*Pres. Maduro condemns racists expression by Far-Right journalists
*Ivory Coast’s first malaria vaccination campaign begins
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*Pres. Maduro condemns racists expression by Far-Right journalists
*Ivory Coast’s first malaria vaccination campaign begins
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00:00In Venezuela, pressing a candidate for the great patriotic poll, Nicolás Maduro denounced
00:15racist and discriminatory speech by journalists linked to the far-right.
00:21Also in Venezuela, 265 citizens arrived from Mexico as part of the Return to the Homeland
00:27mission.
00:30In the Ivory Coast, authorities launched the first malaria vaccination campaign for the
00:34country's children.
00:40Hello and welcome from the south, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from the Vesuvius studios in
00:44Havana, Cuba.
00:45We begin with the news.
00:58In Venezuela, the president and candidate for the great patriotic poll, Nicolás Maduro
01:02denounced racist and discriminatory expressions by journalists linked to sectors of the Venezuelan
01:07far-right.
01:08During his visit to Ciudad Bolívar, the head of state rejected the fascist, violent and
01:12racist threat campaign orchestrated in social medias by so-called journalists supported
01:18by leaders of the far-right, emphasizing they should be brought to justice as their speech
01:22constitutes hate crime.
01:24He further called on Venezuelans not to fall into deceptions promoted by the opposition.
01:29President Maduro was received by a crowd in Bolívar who ratified their support and backing
01:35for his candidacy.
01:37There he expressed his security and confidence in his people before the presidential elections
01:42of next July 28th.
01:44They are hate, intolerance, violence, racism.
01:53Look at what they post.
01:54I want you to see it because they go on social media and sometimes one does not even stop
01:58them but that is how they think.
02:00Look at how the far-right unleashes the demons of fascism.
02:03The far-right wing requests sanctions for Venezuela.
02:07That far-right is getting ready for violence to shout fraud.
02:10Are you willing Guarimba uprisings to return to Bolívar city?
02:14Are you willing hate, intolerance, division to come back?
02:17Or do you prefer love, tolerance and peace to come back?
02:23In Venezuela, on Monday, the opposition candidate Luis Eduardo Martínez visited the state of
02:28Cojeres as part of his campaign ahead of the presidential elections on July 28th.
02:33In this regard, the candidate of the Democratic Action Party during his visit to the central
02:36western state promoted the participation of the Venezuelan people in the upcoming elections.
02:41In the meantime, Martínez highlighted the potential that Venezuela has to turn agronomy
02:45into a national supply option.
02:47In this sense, he assured that as part of his government plan, he will pay more attention
02:50to the states that can strengthen the agronomy issues.
02:55Meanwhile, the candidate to the presidency of Venezuela for the Party for Change, Javier
03:02Bertucci, highlighted that as part of his electoral campaign, he will continue his meetings
03:06with all the pastors of the country.
03:08In this way, he assures that more than an economic advance, Venezuela needs a spiritual
03:11rebirth, giving to the Christian Church the responsibility of guiding this process.
03:16Bertucci made reference to the construction of a force for Venezuela to take the course
03:20of faith.
03:28Also in the elections context in Venezuela, the candidate for the presidency for the Solutions
03:32Party, Claudio Fermin, expressed his disagreement with the candidacy of Edmundo González, the
03:37chosen of the far-right, assuring that he is under the auspices of a foreign power.
03:43Furthermore, Claudio Fermin stated that he disagrees with the request for sanctions against
03:47the Venezuelan people made by the sector that supports candidate González.
03:51On the other hand, Fermin emphasized that his objective is to replace sectarianism with
03:56openness and to weave networks in common cause, without blackmail, putting just causes in
04:01forefront.
04:02He affirmed that his government program will address issues related to gender diversity,
04:06such as equal marriage, as part of what he called inclusive governance.
04:14Still on the topic of Venezuela's elections and the presidential race, during an interview,
04:19the candidate for the Conte Party, Benjamin Rousseau, exhorted the Venezuelan people to
04:24vote less by emotion and more by reason.
04:27In that sense, he emphasized that people expect immediate results.
04:30However, he affirmed that if elected, he would initiate a process of reunification, adding
04:35that he would identify the existing problems in order to find someone to be held responsible
04:39for causing them.
04:45In Venezuela, dozens of electoral polls have provoked a debate due to their dissimilar
04:50results and the discovery that many of them turned out to be false.
04:53We analyzed these instruments in the following report by our correspondent, Leonel Retamal.
05:00In the streets of Caracas, there is no common opinion on the electoral polls.
05:05I don't trust those things very much, but it's better to go with what you think is
05:09best, the vote is one's own.
05:13In Venezuela the polls are offering very dissimilar results, and in some cases with such wide
05:17margins that they seem unreal compared to previous instances.
05:21So what role are they playing?
05:25The actual electoral participation is the one that ends up defining the result and not
05:29the intention to vote.
05:32Because the intention to vote is a declaration of sympathy, a declaration of leaning towards
05:36a candidate, but it does not mean that the voter actually manages to put the vote in
05:40the ballot box.
05:42There is a very important distance between one act and the other.
05:47In private uses, polling firms provide reliable information for economic or institutional
05:51decisions, but those that are being circulated do not seem reliable for presidential election
05:55predictions.
05:58The polls have no more importance or validity than what the public opinion gives them.
06:03What we are witnessing is the search to manage a climate in which the opposition has more
06:07opportunities than it really has.
06:09In this sense, there is the issue of the polls, also the issue of the use of bots in social
06:13networks.
06:17These are the same pollsters that have referred to supposed levels of rejection of 70-80%
06:22of the population against President Maduro when in reality these expressions have not
06:26been reflected in the electoral results.
06:29This means that there is a very important accumulation of failed polls that have resulted
06:33in failed predictions.
06:36The results have created scenarios of triumphalism for the opposition, as in previous occasions,
06:40some spokespersons would practically ignore the election result.
06:44This strategy hides an objective.
06:48In Venezuela, we are also in a very delicate period, a seditious one, in the search to
06:53disregard the electoral result.
06:55And one of the proofs to disregard, in quotation marks, that electoral result, may be the use
07:01of this type of polls that deceive the electorate with such a wide difference of votes for the
07:05candidates.
07:07Polls are an instrument that is always being put to the test as forecaster of elections.
07:11I am Enrique Amal, Telesur, Caracas, Venezuela.
07:15Let's now take a short break but remember you can join us on TikTok at Telesur English
07:19where you will find news in different formats, news updates, and much more.
07:25We'll be right back, stay with us.
07:47Welcome back.
07:48Let's go now live with our special envoy Juno Soner who is in Caracas for more updates
07:54relating to the return to the homeland mission.
07:56Hello Junos, what can you tell us?
08:01Hello, good day from Caracas, Venezuela.
08:04We just returned from the Simón Bolívar International Airport that lived a historic
08:10day with the arrival of 261 passengers from Mexico.
08:17Why was that a historic day?
08:19Because these passengers were returning home.
08:23They were returning home within the plan of return to home and they were received warmly
08:31with a band playing the hymn and other musical works of Venezuelan culture and they were
08:40also received by the Venezuelan foreign minister Ivan Gil at the airport.
08:46They have been brought to Venezuela.
08:49They decided to return to Venezuela voluntarily, of course, and they took part in a government
08:56plan that enables people who have no means to return by themselves to be attended, assisted
09:07and take government-organized planes.
09:09So, this was a flight of Convianza, the flag carrier of Venezuela that brought these 261
09:16passengers to the airport of Simón Bolívar International.
09:20Here, the foreign minister of Venezuela made a short statement, held a short speech welcoming
09:27the Venezuelan citizens.
09:29He said, this is your land, this is your country, this is your soil.
09:36Ivan Gil made quite an enthusiastic speech, actually.
09:40He emphasized that Venezuela is in recovery, in economic recovery, that it needs all the
09:46hands and all the minds it can get to continue this recovery.
09:52He said that he does not blame any of the immigrants, the emigrants who had left Venezuela.
09:59He does not blame them at all.
10:01He says he knows that they were misled by false hopes of a good life and he also emphasized
10:08that the reason for that was the basic fundamental reason for that were the sanctions of the
10:15United States directed against the economy of Venezuela.
10:19But again, the foreign minister was more optimistic and he invited the immigrants to take part
10:25in the recovery, in the resurgence of the Venezuelan economy in the days ahead.
10:34Their return is part of a plan, of a great mission of coming home, as it's called here.
10:42That started as a plan to return to homeland.
10:45Now it's called the great mission to return to homeland.
10:49And it does not just consist in organizing a transfer from abroad to Venezuela.
10:54It also includes different steps of reintegrating these citizens into the Venezuelan society
11:02and economy.
11:03It starts with judicial assistance.
11:05It starts with bureaucratic assistance so that these citizens can register themselves
11:10in the Venezuelan system.
11:12And it continues with cultural assistance as well as socio-economic assistance to reintegrate
11:18them into the economy, into the society.
11:22And we just talked to some of them and they stated clearly that the promises of a better
11:29life abroad, be it in Mexico, be it some of them even had made it to the United States,
11:35were false.
11:36So they were quite happy to return.
11:38And we observed at the airport a quite positive, warm atmosphere on both sides, of course,
11:45on the side of the minister and his assistants, as well as on the side of the Venezuelan citizens
11:51who carried all them, carried Venezuelan flags.
11:55They were smiling.
11:56They were happy.
11:57There were many little children among them.
11:59They were happy to be back in Venezuela.
12:02And they are now being transferred to their home cities if they live abroad of Caracas
12:08or to their neighborhoods if they stay in Caracas by government buses.
12:13Twenty buses, I think, are organized for that purpose that will carry these citizens first
12:19to their homes.
12:20As the foreign minister emphasized, first task is that they re-meet with their families,
12:26their friends, their neighbors, their beloved ones.
12:31And then, as the minister said, the integration process will start that will lead to them
12:38joining the recovery of Venezuela.
12:40The Venezuelan foreign minister also stated that since that program started in 2018, the
12:46government had assisted more than 500,000 citizens in returning home.
12:51He emphasized that there were diplomatic meetings and agreements with Mexico enabling
12:58these transfers.
12:59He called also other countries to join the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in its efforts
13:06to return, to enable their citizens to return home.
13:09As I said, this is a voluntary return.
13:12This is a service that the government offers to those who want to return to Venezuela
13:17and have no economic means.
13:19The minister said that beyond those that the government had assisted, more than a million
13:25had returned to Venezuela also by their own means.
13:30Thank you, Yunus, for the updated information from Caracas.
13:38Let's continue with your news.
13:39We stay in Venezuela.
13:40Both the governments of Caracas and Belarus established on Monday a long-term bilateral
13:45agenda in the context of high-level cooperation between the two nations.
13:49This was announced by the Venezuelan foreign minister Ivan Gil on his account on the social
13:54media X.
13:55After a meeting with the prime minister of the Eastern European state, Roma Golovchenko,
13:59who arrived in the South American country the day before on an official visit, he said
14:03that the agenda covers food production, trade, the petrochemical industry and the reactivation
14:09of factories and heavy machinery.
14:11He added that they also discuss shared challenges and goals to ensure the well-being and development
14:15of their respective peoples.
14:21And Brazil's Supreme Federal Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes authorized two people
14:26implicated in the 2018 murder of Councilwoman Marielle Franco to testify on July 15 and
14:3216 at the Chamber of Deputies.
14:34De Moraes authorized Rivaldo Barbosa, former chief of the civil police of Rio de Janeiro,
14:39and Domingo Brachao, former counselor of the court auditors of that territorial division,
14:45to give their testimonies through hearings conducted by videoconferences coordinated
14:49by the Council of Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum of the lower house.
14:53During the course of these days, the defendants, who have been detained since March for their
14:58involvement in their crime against Marielle Franco, will testify publicly for the first
15:03time.
15:05Meanwhile, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry called its ambassador in Buenos Aires, Julio
15:12Vitelli, for consultations due to diplomatic tensions with the government of Javier Mele.
15:17The Brazilian representatives in Buenos Aires met with Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira to
15:21discuss the situation and how to improve relations with Casa Rosada.
15:25Vitelli declared that the idea is to talk about the bilateral relationship, how to move
15:29it forward in the best possible way, with the attention it deserves.
15:33He added that both presidents have different views, and the concern is that this does not
15:37damage the relationship.
15:38He continued saying that President Lula is clear regarding the relationship between the
15:42two countries must remain as strong and important as it is, regardless of differences in priority.
15:53On Monday, the Republican Party officially nominated U.S. former President Donald Trump
15:58as its candidate for the position of president in the November 24 elections.
16:02During the Republican National Convention, which has been taking place since Monday,
16:06nearly 2,400 delegates cast their votes in favor of Trump, who received 2,387 votes.
16:12Next Thursday, Trump is due to officially accept his nomination as a candidate with
16:16a closing convention speech.
16:18The former president also announced that Ohio State Senator James David Vance would be his
16:23vice presidential running mate.
16:25According to Trump, during the campaign, Vance will focus on U.S. workers and farmers in
16:30Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and beyond.
16:39Now let's get to know about James David Vance, the Republican vice presidential candidate
16:43for the United States' upcoming election on November 5th.
16:47James David Vance is a conservative politician, businessman, and writer.
16:51Vance is a 40-year-old former member of the U.S. Navy who served in the Iraq War.
16:56He has a doctorate in Laws and a chief of Political Science and Philosophy Studies.
17:00In 2022, Vance debuted as a politician when he was elected Ohio State Senator.
17:06Vance repeatedly spoke out against the funding of the Ukrainian conflict and the confiscation
17:11of Russian assets, while he also suggested that the United States should prioritize its
17:15defense capabilities to counter China.
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17:48Welcome back.
18:15In Palestine, at least 35 people were killed in Israeli overnight attacks in different
18:18areas of the Gaza Strip.
18:20In this context, local sources report that a bombardment targeting the house of the Hamad
18:24family in the Nusra refugee camp claimed the lives of 11 people and left dozens of wounded
18:29who were transferred to the Martyrs al-Aqsa Hospital.
18:32Medical authorities also reported that 19 people were killed in attacks over the city
18:36of Rafah and Hanounis, among other areas.
18:39It should be noted that after 284 days of the genocidal aggravation launched by Israel,
18:43the number of people killed in the devastated Palestinian enclave has reached 38,664, most
18:49of whom are children and women.
18:56In our news, Ivory Coast launched on Monday its first malaria vaccination campaign for
19:00the country's children.
19:02The first doses were administered in Abidjan, the country's commercial capital.
19:06The Ivorian Minister of Health, Pierre Ndimba, informed during an official ceremony that
19:10malaria transmitted by mosquitoes kills four people a day, including three children under
19:15five years of age, becoming also the first cause of medical consultation in the country.
19:19The official highlighted that Ivory Coast is the first nation to deploy a vaccine against
19:23the disease, being the most neglected infection in the world, with 95% of the cases and 96%
19:29of deaths occurring in Africa.
19:37Unfortunately, it is in Africa, where 94% of cases and 95% of deaths are concentrated,
19:45Africa bears the heaviest malaria burden, and children are particularly vulnerable.
19:50Every year, nearly 2.5 million children die from malaria in Africa.
19:56Meanwhile, the Ivorian Minister of Health, Pierre Ndimba, informed that 250,000 children
20:00from 6 to 23 months old will be inoculated during the first phase of vaccination.
20:07The introduction of the malaria vaccine into the routine expanded program of immunization
20:12represents a major step forward in our fight.
20:15By vaccinating our children from 6 to 23 months old, we can protect them against severe forms
20:20of malaria and significantly reduce deaths associated with this disease.
20:25This introduction will be phased in gradually to reach all regions of our country.
20:30This first phase of vaccination affects 250,000 children aged 6 to 23 months.
20:51On Tuesday, Afghan authorities raised to 40 the death toll and more than 300 the number
20:55of people injured by the rains and floods that hit eastern Afghanistan.
20:59The storm hit several towns in Nangarhar province on Monday, including the provincial capital,
21:03causing unquantified economic losses.
21:06Among the dead are five people from the same family who were inside their home when it
21:11collapsed due to the rains.
21:13The Afghan Meteorological Department forecasts heavy rainfall in at least seven provinces
21:17over the next few days.
21:19The heavy rainfall in Nangarhar province is the latest in a series of extreme weather
21:22events that have hit Afghanistan in recent years.
21:30Yesterday, there was storm and rain one right following the other, the storm happened after
21:36the rain, this house collapsed on people, 15 people lived here, and seven perished at
21:41the collapse.
21:43With this we have come to the end of this newsbrief.
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