15/08/2024
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*Argentina: July inflation stood at 4%, 263.4 year-on-year
*Death toll of Israeli genocide in Gaza exceeds 40,000 negotiations underway
FTS 10.30
*Argentina: July inflation stood at 4%, 263.4 year-on-year
*Death toll of Israeli genocide in Gaza exceeds 40,000 negotiations underway
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00:00In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro denounced a media campaign being waged by the national
00:15and international far-right wing against the country.
00:23In Argentina, inflation in July stood at 4%, reaching 263.4% year-on-year.
00:34And Israel maintains its total siege on the Gaza Strip while negotiations for a ceasefire
00:39are taking place in Qatar.
00:45Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:47My name is Belén de los Santos.
00:48I'm from the Televisor Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:51We begin with the news.
00:52In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro denounced a media campaign being waged by the national
00:56and international far-right wing against the country.
01:00During the inauguration of the Ludovico Silva Integral Diagnostic Center in Caracas, the
01:05Venezuelan head of state denounced that the international media has been in charge of
01:09spreading false information about the events of July 29 and 30 after the presidential elections
01:16in the country.
01:17Likewise, the Venezuelan head of state questioned the double standards of the social networks
01:22that have censored their accounts, but on the 29th and 30th allowed the transmission
01:27and broadcasting of violent scenarios in the country.
01:37In this context, President Maduro denounced the censorship in social networks and pointed
01:41out that their morality in transmitting the events of July 29 and 30.
01:48When it was broadcast live on TikTok, TikTok banned my account before yesterday because
01:55they said that I was broadcasting a scene, a violent scene, and through which media they
02:03broadcast the violence, it was not through TikTok, it was live.
02:07I took my phone and I went into my account, TikTok account, where all the other accounts,
02:14you know, when they send their messages, out of ten accounts, eight were live and direct,
02:19and I was looking at it, I was telling, look, you have to go to the street number, street,
02:25you know, this, they're trying to burn down that, please go there, alert the popular powers,
02:32the police should go there, TikTok was broadcasting live, all the evidence that we have was provided
02:41by TikTok, the criminals, because they were trained, they were told to transmit, to broadcast
02:46all the violence actions live and direct, so to generate terror in the country, so that
02:53the people inhibited themselves and to go out to defend theirs.
02:59It was recorded and it was broadcast live on TikTok, TikTok banned my account before yesterday.
03:09And we stay with the latest in Venezuela.
03:10The first vice president of the PSUB, Diosdado Cabello, denounced the far-right plans made
03:16with foreign organizations that attempt against the lives of sympathizers of Chavez, so let's see.
03:24Today I received some information, I am sure that those who are here will understand it,
03:29it has to do with Petare, but I received the information that there are people coming from
03:33outside who are being paid off.
03:35Notice that one of the letters says it clearly, that they have contact with people from outside,
03:40it talks about Uribe, groups of hitmen.
03:43So, see what they are preparing, this information, see what they are preparing.
03:49And I denounce it because, ladies and gentlemen, we told you before the elections, take care
03:54of your children, do not allow them to be manipulated.
03:58They had prepared the murder of young people for Saturday, therefore, they are looking
04:02for people to generate violence and kill other people of their own.
04:07Furthermore, Diosdado Cabello also recalled that the far-right fugitive from Justice Julio
04:12Borges requested further U.S. and EU sanctions against the country in the year 2019, and
04:19that he is repeating the formula again this year.
04:23Borges calls for skyrocketing international pressure on Maduro's regime in 2019, and in
04:29August 2024, Julio Borges stated that the international community needs to further press
04:34Maduro to achieve a political transition in Venezuela.
04:37Borges stressed the need that the U.S. and Europe put more pressure and forcefulness
04:41on Venezuela, so that Latin American countries could force a political transition in Venezuela.
04:45Is there a difference?
04:46No, it's the same strategy.
04:49And we go now to Uruguay, where students and social organizations march through the streets
04:54in commemoration of the day of the student martyrs.
04:58As every August 14th, the Union marched through the streets of Montevideo in memory of those
05:04who were victims of the police repression in 1968, and also of the students who were
05:10disappeared by the military during the last civil-military dictatorship.
05:15In the activity, there were also demands for a bigger budget at all levels of education.
05:21Today it commemorates the assassination of Liver Arce, a student of the Faculty of Dentistry
05:27who was shot by the police during the student demonstration in 1968 in protest for the student's bus ticket.
05:47Ideally, what we have been asking for for many years, at least since 2018, is 6% for education.
05:54Today, there is a huge budget for the military, but education is only going down.
06:00Scholarships are needed.
06:02The University of the Republic needs to continue to develop in the interior.
06:06The conditions need to be maintained and improved.
06:09The hours and salaries of teachers and civil servants need to be increased.
06:14Now let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok at TELUS Re-English
06:18where you will find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
06:25We'll be right back, stay with us.
06:50Welcome back to From the South.
06:52In Argentina, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, the INDEC,
06:57announced that inflation in July stood at 4%.
07:01Through a press release, the INDEC pointed out that the items with the highest increase
07:05were restaurants and hotels with 6.5%, together with alcoholic beverages and tobacco with 6.1%,
07:12caused by the increase in cigarettes.
07:15The statistical agency also stated that housing, water, electricity and fuels
07:20registered an increase of 6.0% as a result of increases in housing, rent and related expenses.
07:32We continue in Argentina as social movements are participating in another rally
07:37while banging pots and pans against the food crisis
07:40and the serious situation of the most vulnerable sectors in the country.
07:44Protesters are gathering in front of the Human Capital Ministry
07:48to condemn the government's cuts and denials of handing over food in soup kitchens.
07:54The Somos Barrios de Pies social movement noted that since Millet took office,
07:597 out of 10 families left a meal out a day.
08:03In addition, UNICEF warned that a million of Argentinian children go to bed without having dinner every day.
08:11In all, studies revealed that 54.9% of the population is poor
08:16and the homeless rate amounts to 20.3%.
08:26Also in Argentina, the Public Prosecutor's Office announced that former President Alberto Fernandez
08:31has been charged with double aggravated serious injury and coercive threats against his ex-partner Fabiola Yáñez.
08:38During a press release, Federal Prosecutor Ramiro González also requested evidence
08:43to corroborate the materiality of the facts reported
08:47and to attribute to the accused for the crimes of physical aggression, threats and abuse of power.
08:53In this sense, the prosecutor assured that Yáñez suffered a relationship marked by harassment,
08:59psychological and physical aggressions in a context of gender and domestic violence.
09:05González also added that this harassment took place in the context of an asymmetrical and unequal power relationship
09:12that was exponentially increased by the election of Fernandez as President of Argentina.
09:23We go now to Chile, where workers at the world's largest open-pit copper mine have been on strike since Tuesday.
09:30Through an official communiqué, the number of one union of Minera Escondida Hidden Mining,
09:38that is in English, owned by the multinational BHP Billiton,
09:43declared that the demands made by workers were not accepted by the company.
09:48Due to the failure of both parties to reach a mutually beneficial agreement,
09:52the strike was voted by 99.8% of the 2,379 union members.
09:59Immobilized workers charged that the offer presented by the multinational was based on
10:04extension of working hours, loss of basic benefits such as food on site
10:09and increased operational demands, among other points.
10:17And we continue in Chile, where Hector Yatul, Mapucho leader of the Coordinadora Arauco Mayeco,
10:23is in a critical condition after 70 days of continuous hunger strike in the Concepcion prison.
10:29The information was made public by his son, Ernesto,
10:33who emphasized that his father had previously participated in several strikes
10:37that progressively deteriorated his state of health.
10:41On May 7th, Yatul was sentenced to 23 years in prison, 15 years for incitement,
10:475 years for theft of wood and 3 years for attacking the authorities.
10:52The 56-year-old leader went on strike on June 3rd, demanding the annulment of the trial against him,
10:59the release of Mapucho prisoners and dignified prison conditions for members of the indigenous community.
11:10Representatives of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
11:14affirmed that Brazil is close to leaving the hunger map.
11:18These results are due to social programs and public policies during Lula da Silva's administration.
11:24With more details, our correspondent Ignacio Lemos.
11:30Around 733 million people in the world are food insecure and extreme poverty is on the rise.
11:36But Brazil, Indiana 2023, was the country with the best result on the planet
11:42and is at the exit door to the unhunger map.
11:45Lula da Silva's campaign promise for his third term in office is about to be fulfilled.
11:54Brazil, in the period from 2021 to 2023, presents a value of 3.9%, the average for those three years.
12:06We work with a three-year index, so we are very close to 2.5%, which is the value to get out of the hunger map.
12:17In 2014, during Dilma Rousseff's administration, Brazil had left the hunger map.
12:22However, austerity policies, post-parliamentary coup and Bolsonaro's administration,
12:28aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, caused the country to return to that category.
12:34At the time, more than half of the Brazilian population was food insecure.
12:42We have an 85% reduction in severe food insecurity,
12:47that which threatens life as it was in the case of the Yanomami natives.
12:54We also had 17.4 million people living moderate and severe food insecurity.
13:01This data showed that Brazil has all the conditions,
13:05even during this term of office of President Lula, to leave the map of hunger behind.
13:13Currently, the production of commodities for export by agribusiness
13:17receives far more government resources than the budget for small farmers,
13:23despite the fact that the latter is responsible for most of the food produced in Brazil.
13:28In a context of climate crisis and global food price inflation,
13:33government procurement of family farming products could be the solution
13:37that feeds back into agrarian economies.
13:45Today we market 70 tons per month in our cooperative,
13:50a little for local business and some for institutional projects,
13:55such as the food acquisition program.
13:59It is profitable for the producer who has a small property to produce vegetables.
14:07It is a good project that also allows us to produce food that we consume every day.
14:18At the same time, as pro-temporary president of the G20,
14:22Brazil is leading a task force to launch a global alliance against hunger and poverty
14:27that seeks to reduce inequalities between regions and countries.
14:31The articulation can count on the adhesion of countries outside the G20 group.
14:40In Bolivia, government and entrepreneurs held the National Dialogue for the Economy and Production
14:45to exchange proposals for the benefit of the country.
14:48President Luis Aracel led the meeting that lasted more than three hours
14:52at the Casa Grande del Pueblo in the city of La Paz.
14:56The authorities gave a detailed explanation of the central problem
15:00of the shortage of foreign currency in the context of the external framework,
15:05as well as the national reality and the exchange rate issue.
15:09Meanwhile, the business sector made proposals for solutions
15:12that will be complemented until Thursday.
15:15The parties agreed to meet again on Friday
15:17in order to continue with a detailed analysis of the initiatives.
15:22We appreciate the willingness and openness of Mr. President of the National Government
15:28to listen directly to the concerns of the business sector
15:32and to attend to our proposals and initiatives.
15:35I would like to highlight the participation of all the sectors
15:38that make up the Confederation of Private Businessmen of Bolivia
15:42and salute the presence of the institutions of the productive sector
15:47of Santa Cruz, which accompanied this meeting
15:50demonstrating the unity and coincidence of the business sector
15:54regarding the need and urgency to address the problems that afflict us,
15:58such as the dollar shortage, but also to propose structural
16:02and sustainable measures to strengthen the economy.
16:05And also in Bolivia, the government approved a package
16:08of new productive and social measures in accordance with the commitments
16:13assumed under the National Emergency Economic Policy Measures Plan.
16:17During a press conference, the Bolivian government informed
16:20about the approval of a supreme decree for the import of equipment
16:25for the implementation of biodiesel plants with zero tariffs.
16:30In this sense, this new decree is intended to encourage
16:33biofuel production in the national territory.
16:36In turn, this incentive aims to increase the production
16:39In turn, this incentive aims to increase the production of new crops,
16:43such as soybean, cusi, totahĂ, among others,
16:46to be marketed exclusively to Bolivian fiscal oilfields
16:50for the production of biodiesel.
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17:38Welcome back from the South.
17:55In the Middle East, Israel maintains its total siege on the Gaza Strip,
17:59while negotiations for a ceasefire are taking place in Qatar.
18:03In this context, at least six people have been killed
18:06by Israeli bombardments in the cities of Gaza and Han Yunis
18:10in the last few hours,
18:12one day after massacres that left around 40 people dead
18:16throughout the devastated coastal enclave.
18:19The latest figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health
18:23stated that 40,500 people have been killed
18:28since the start of the genocide on October 7th,
18:31most of them children and women.
18:38Meanwhile, a new round of ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip
18:42begins on Thursday in Doha, Qatar,
18:45in an attempt to curb hostilities between Israel
18:49and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas,
18:52and secure the release of Israeli hostages held by the Gaza Movement.
18:57The negotiations will involve representatives from Israel,
19:01the United States, Qatar and Egypt,
19:03but it is not still known whether Hamas
19:06will be directly represented in the negotiations.
19:10U.S. State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedan Patel
19:13said on Tuesday that Qatari diplomats had assured the U.S. side
19:17that they would work to have Hamas representation
19:20at the new round of talks aimed at ending the conflict.
19:28And in this context, the Hamas Resistance Movement pointed out
19:31that there is already a proposal for a ceasefire
19:34and that Israel's acceptance is required for the agreement to be fulfilled
19:38so that if there is no progress in its implementation,
19:42they will not participate in talks.
19:46We expect to be told by the mediators that Israel has accepted what is being offered
19:51and any meeting should be based on talking about implementation mechanisms
19:55and setting deadlines rather than negotiating something new.
19:58Otherwise, Hamas finds no reason to participate.
20:03And the representative of the Palestinian Resistance Movement, Osama Hamdan,
20:07also stated that the Israeli regime resorts to massacres in Gaza
20:11to boycott negotiations for a ceasefire.
20:17During the talks, Hamas was taking them seriously and responding,
20:21negotiating and giving its opinion, but it was working towards a goal.
20:25The Israeli side either sent a non-voting delegation
20:28or changed delegations from one round to another so we would start again,
20:32or it has imposed new conditions and often used the method of massacres,
20:36killing and aggression to get out of the negotiation process.
20:41In other news, U.S. State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedan Patel
20:44assured that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq was at no time under discussion
20:49in the recent rounds of negotiations between representatives of the two countries.
20:54Patel said that negotiations with Baghdad are continuing,
20:58building on earlier bilateral strategic discussions
21:01and moving towards what he called their mutual commitment to security cooperation
21:06and shared interest in regional stability.
21:10Hours later, former State Department Spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus tweeted
21:15that she had received comments from her sources about White House plans
21:20to announce soon an agreement to withdraw troops from Iraq.
21:25We move on to other topics.
21:40On Thursday, the Russian Emergency Ministry announced a declaration
21:44of the state of emergency at the federal level in the Belgorod province
21:48following Ukrainian attacks.
21:50In this regard, Russian Emergency Minister Alexander Kurenkov
21:54stated that the measure came after a meeting of the Legal Commission
21:58for Emergency Preparedness, Response and Security
22:01at which the situation in the Belgorod region was a key topic of discussion.
22:06Moreover, Kurenkov denounced that as a result of terrorist attacks by Ukrainian forces,
22:12citizens have been killed and wounded,
22:16while residential buildings and infrastructure had been damaged.
22:24On Thursday, Japan commemorated the 79th anniversary
22:27of its unconditional surrender during World War II.
22:30Over 4,000 relatives of the deceased attended a ceremony held in Tokyo
22:35and organized by the Japanese government
22:37in which messages of pacifism and defense of the international order were sent.
22:43The ceremony seeks to honor the more than 2.3 million Japanese military personnel
22:50and 800,000 Japanese civilians who died during the conflict.
22:55The annual ceremony coincides with the message of surrender of the then Emperor Hirohito
23:01after the atomic bombings launched by the United States
23:05against Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945.
23:14And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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