FTS 8:30 20-08: Pres. Maduro celebrates exit of social network X from Brazil
20/08/2024
FTS 8.30
*Paraguay: Police kill Ruling Party deputy Eulalio Gomes in raid
*United States: Protests in support of Palestine in Chicago
FTS 8.30
*Paraguay: Police kill Ruling Party deputy Eulalio Gomes in raid
*United States: Protests in support of Palestine in Chicago
Transcript
00:00In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the exit of Social Network X from Brazil after
00:16the Supreme Court of Justice proved that it inoculates hate messages and spreads false
00:21information.
00:25In Paraguay, the deputy of the ruling party, Laulio Lalo Gómez, was killed in his home
00:30by members of the police force during a raid.
00:36And in the United States, a thousand protested in the middle of the Democratic National Convention
00:41calling for an end to the war in Gaza while assuring they will not vote for Democrats.
00:52Hello and welcome to From the South.
00:54My name is Belen De Los Santos and from the Celso studios in Havana, Cuba, we begin with
00:58the news.
00:59In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the exit of Social Network X from Brazil after
01:05the Supreme Court of Justice of the country proved that it inoculates hate messages and
01:10spreads false information.
01:12During the broadcast of his program Con Maduro Más, the Venezuelan president denounced that
01:17Elon Musk incited a hate campaign through social networks, summoning Venezuelan influencers
01:23and artists abroad to betray their homeland.
01:27In this sense, the Venezuelan president asserted that the extreme right wing is no longer based
01:32on political parties, leaders or ideologies, but on influencers who manage a large number
01:38of followers.
01:39President Maduro also celebrated the exit of Social Network X in Brazil and assured
01:44that Latin America will defeat these media campaigns that seek to undermine peace and
01:49the institutionality of the nations of the region.
02:04I have a report that they sent me from Brazil.
02:07Look here I have it.
02:09See, it is quite long, it turns out that.
02:14A judge of the Supreme Court of Brazil, surnamed Moraes, applying the law and the laws that
02:21exist in Brazil against false information, hate crimes, which are laws that every country
02:29has the right to approve, to defend their society, discovered all the campaigns of hate
02:36and lies which were applied in Brazil in the last election campaign of Elon Musk through
02:43X, previously called Twitter, against Brazilian citizens, as Elon Musk openly supported, in
02:51a vulgar way, violating the laws of Brazil, to Jair Bolsonaro, as he later supported the
02:59assault to power on January 8th.
03:03Then in those investigations the court took precautionary measures, with Twitter, with
03:10X, then Elon Musk, as he gives himself a bravo, seeing that he was lost, before the
03:17highest court of Brazil announced yesterday that he is leaving Brazil.
03:23Very good Brazil, excellent.
03:26You have one mental health and peace.
03:31Out Elon Musk and out X from Latin America.
03:35On the other hand, the Venezuelan head of state denounced that the National Electoral
03:38Council has been the major victim of a cyber attack, so that the electoral power system
03:44will not be available for August 25th consultation.
03:55Venezuela has been the object of a great cybernetic attack.
03:59Not only has it been, it has been and still is.
04:03Here I have the Vice President of Science and Technology for the government, Professor
04:08Gabriela Jimenez, and I was asking the team of the communal consultation about how one
04:14can know how to vote, and today they told me, that was very easy in April because the
04:20National Electoral Council system was working and you put in your ID number, and it said,
04:26vote in such and such polling station.
04:29But the National Electoral Council system was pulverized by the cybernetic war, and
04:35For this consultation, there is no electoral system.
04:38We are trying to rebuild a system where you as a citizen, you as a neighbor, you as a
04:44neighbor can put in your ID number normally, as IT has always worked, and you can consult
04:51where to vote.
04:52Now let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok, I'll tell us your
04:56English, where you will find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
05:03We'll be right back, stay with us.
05:05Welcome back to From the South.
05:26On Monday, the deputy of the ruling party of Paraguay, Eulalio Lalo Gomez, was killed
05:31in his home by members of the police force during a raid.
05:35The police operation was part of a series of raids carried out in the city of Pedro
05:39Juan Caballero.
05:41One took place in the home of the congressman of the Colorado party and another in the home
05:46of his son, Alexander Rodrigo Gomez.
05:49In this regard, preliminary information revealed that both had offered resistance, which provoked
05:54an exchange of fire with the authorities that resulted in serious wounds to the deputy,
05:59who passed on the way to the hospital.
06:03It should be noted that the father and son were being investigated for money laundering
06:06linked to a Brazilian criminal organization.
06:24In Ecuador, 13.7 million citizens are eligible to go to the polls again and choose their
06:29presidential and legislative binomial.
06:32There is an electoral calendar underway.
06:35At what stage is it?
06:36We asked our correspondent Elena Rodriguez in Quito.
06:41This August 17th was the deadline for political organizations to carry out their internal
06:46democratic processes.
06:52We are finishing the primary phase, that is, the internal elections of each of the political
06:58parties and movements, to choose the people who will represent them in the next elections.
07:06After that, this Monday the process of acceptance of candidacies took place.
07:10The militants and pre-candidates of the citizen revolution movement arrived at the National
07:14Electoral Council to comply with what is established in the Code of Democracy.
07:20With experience and knowledge, we are going to move this country forward.
07:24We can no longer resist improvisation.
07:27We can no longer play at random with the lives of 18 million Ecuadorians, and today
07:33begins this path to recover this wonderful country, to restore hope, faith and the joy
07:39of better days.
07:42And although the political parties have decided who will participate in the race scheduled
07:46for next February 9th, they are not the definitive candidates.
07:51This does not mean that the possibility of alliances is closed.
07:55It's still open and I aspire that at this moment the greatest possible unity is required
08:00to face the great problems the country has.
08:04Insecurity, the lack of economic reactivation, the lack of employment, the abandonment that
08:12exists in social issues, health, education, these are issues that require unity.
08:20The unity that five leftist political organizations are seeking to achieve in the face of the
08:24elections.
08:25I hope that in the next few days, when this possibility is closed, we will be able to
08:31incorporate some lists in order to integrate this great alliance.
08:37The groups have until August 30th to establish alliances and register them before the electoral
08:42authorities.
08:43So far there are 17 pre-candidates for the presidency.
08:46The definitive registration of candidacies will take place from September 13th to October
08:512nd.
08:52With images from Henry Pillajo, Elena Rodríguez, Telesur, Ecuador.
08:57Now we move on to other topics.
08:58In Haiti, hundreds of protesters marched in the streets of Port-au-Prince on Monday demanding
09:03more security from the authorities after the latest increase in criminal group violence.
09:09The demonstration was called by residents of the Solino neighborhood after some criminal
09:13groups took control of the area in the last few days to gain a strategic position on an
09:19important route through the city.
09:21The attacks in the Solino community were led by criminal leaders Jimmy Cherizar and
09:26Kempe Sanon, displacing hundreds of people who lived in the neighborhood.
09:31Despite the statements of Prime Minister Gary Conil, assuring that the protection and safety
09:35of the citizens would be prioritized, criminal groups continue to control 80% of the capital
09:41of the country.
09:46We are marching to fight against insecurity.
09:50We don't want insecurity in Solino.
09:52We want changes.
09:55We're fighting against the Haitian state.
09:58We're fighting against the United States.
10:00We're fighting against the Secretary of State of the United States, the United Nations and
10:04all the oligarchs who are corrupt.
10:06Also, when you look at the weapons, you can see that they are made in the United States.
10:11In the United States, the Democratic National Convention began on Monday at the United Center
10:15in Chicago, Illinois.
10:18More than 50,000 people gathered in the city, including thousands of anti-war activists.
10:23Demonstrators called for an end to the war in Gaza, while some residents of Little Palestine
10:29had a different message for presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
10:32The residents of the Chicago suburb, home to the largest Palestinian community in the
10:37U.S., said they wouldn't vote for the Democrats since they don't want them in the Oval Office.
10:44Flags fluttered and posters called for demonstrations against steadfast U.S. military support of
10:50Israel as the death toll mounts in Gaza.
10:54In this context, President Joe Biden said that protesters against Israel's war in Gaza,
11:00who demonstrated outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, have a point.
11:05Free Palestine!
11:07Free, free Palestine!
11:09Free, free, free Palestine!
11:11Free, free, free Palestine!
11:14Killer Kamala is her name!
11:17To end the civilian suffering of the Palestinian people and finally, finally, finally deliver
11:26a ceasefire and end this war.
11:29Those protesters out in the street, they have a point.
11:45A lot of innocent people are being killed on both sides.
11:50And we stay on topic as former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton addressed
11:55the Democratic National Convention, commenting on Donald Trump running for president despite
12:00facing 34 felony convictions and discussing Kamala Harris potentially becoming the 47th
12:06president of the United States.
12:08Donald Trump fell asleep at his own trial.
12:12And when he woke up, he made his own kind of history.
12:16The first person to run for president with 34 felony convictions.
12:23And you know what?
12:24On the other side of that glass ceiling is Kamala Harris raising her hand and taking
12:31the oath of office as our 47th president of the United States.
12:38So it is no surprise, is it, that he is lying about Kamala's record?
12:43He's mocking her name and her laugh.
12:47Sounds familiar.
12:53But we have him on the run now.
12:58And now we have a cycling short break coming up, but before we invite you to visit our
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13:39Welcome back from the South.
13:41Monkeypox is putting several countries on alert due to its rapid spread and the emergence
13:46of a new variant.
13:48The sector of the Democratic Republic of the Congo awaits the arrival of vaccines against
13:53the Ampox virus in a context of a sharp increase in the number of cases.
13:58Let's see.
14:03The World Health Organization declared last week that the increase in cases in Africa
14:07of the virus, formerly known as monkeypox, is a global public health emergency.
14:13Since July, cases have been reported in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, and in the last
14:19week cases have also been reported in Sweden, Pakistan and the Philippines.
14:29Today, the disease affects more than 17 African countries, so we are talking about a continental
14:34emergency.
14:37Secondly, as far as our situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is concerned, we have
14:4316,700 cases and just over 570 people have died.
14:51The novelty of this disease is that it is affecting more and more young people, and
14:55many children under the age of 15 are infected.
15:03The virus was discovered in 1958 in Denmark in research monkeys.
15:08It was first found in humans in 1970 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
15:14But since September 2023, Africa has been facing the spread of a new variant of the
15:20virus, called clade 1b, which is deadlier and more transmissible than previous variants
15:26and in which children are most at risk.
15:29This is a different variant, this is clade 1b, and this seems to be even more lethal
15:36than any of the variants of mpox that we've seen before.
15:43It's got a mortality rate of about 3 to 4% overall, and it's higher, perhaps around
15:508 to 10% in children and in pregnant women.
15:55The professor noted that the incubation period is between one and two weeks, which facilitates
16:00the spread of the virus.
16:02But he estimated that if health personnel around the world are alert, it is possible
16:06to prevent the virus from spreading and causing the kind of pandemic seen with COVID-19.
16:12Officials said Monday that they expect the first doses to begin arriving in the country
16:16next week.
16:25Now, we move on to other topics.
16:35In Venezuela, there is a magical religious manifestation called the Dancing Devils of
16:40Guerra.
16:41Let's see what it's all about.
16:44In the states of Aragua, Carabobo, Guarico and Vargas in Venezuela, every year the Corpus
16:56Christi is celebrated, which is a religious festivity where groups of adult men, youth
17:01and children wear peculiar costumes and masks, performing dance steps backwards in an attitude
17:06of penitence.
17:07At the same time that a hierarchy of the Catholic Church advances towards them carrying the
17:12holy sacrament.
17:13In this way, the pledgers render honor for the favors conceived to the most holy sacrament
17:18of the altar.
17:19The musical accompaniment of the procession is made with stringed instruments and percussions,
17:23while the faithful sound maracas to drive away evil spirits.
17:27At the culminating moment of the celebration, the devils surrender submissively before the
17:32blessed sacrament, symbolizing the triumph of good over evil.
17:43The origin of this tradition dates back to the 18th century, in the colonial era, when
17:48the large haciendas were worked by black slaves brought from Africa and indigenous people
17:52captured during the conquest.
17:54There was a year of great drought, a situation that began to worry them, for fear of reprisals
18:00from the owners of the land.
18:01The Spaniards, if they lost the harvest, worried, they made rituals and petitions to their gods
18:07for rain, but time went by and the drought continued.
18:10The slaves, indoctrinated by the Spaniards, through the Catholic faith, decided to resort
18:16to the blessed sacrament.
18:17Finally, on the day of Corpus Christi in the year 1749, it began to rain torrentially,
18:23the crops were saved, good fruits were produced and the harvest was abundant.
18:28From that date on, the day of Corpus Christi, a dance is performed in honor of the most
18:33holy sacrament of the altar, as a religious manifestation which takes place nine Thursdays
18:38after Holy Thursday.
18:44The dancing devils of Yaré in Venezuela are born from the mixture of three cultures, the
18:48indigenous, the African and the European, each one of them incorporated elements that
18:52identify and define them.
18:54During the dance, maracas are used, an element that represents the indigenous people, the
18:59drum, the dance and the masks are representative of the African culture and the religion is
19:03the contribution of the Europeans.
19:05The dancing devils of Venezuela were added to the representative list of the intangible
19:09cultural heritage of humanity approved by UNESCO in 2012, a recognition that projects
19:14the great potential of Venezuela around the world.
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