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00:00In Venezuela, a new flight carrying in 198 repatriate migrants arrived in the country
00:17as part of the Back to the Homeland Plan.
00:28Authorities worldwide are reacting to the newly announced set of tariffs imposed by
00:33U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
00:41In Myanmar, the death toll from the earthquake rose to 3,085, while authorities continue
00:48to search and rescue efforts.
01:18On Thursday, 198 Venezuelan migrants arrived in the country as part of the Back to the
01:26Homeland Plan.
01:27With this flight, there are now more than 1,800 Venezuelan nationals that have returned
01:34in 2025 through the humanitarian plan that provides dignity and security.
01:40This is the second flight of migrants arriving in the country on Thursday, coming from Texas
01:45and had a stepover in Honduras, 12 women and 186 men arrived on this flight.
01:52It is known that the migrants will go through a process of criminal and health checks and
01:58then be taken home directly.
02:00Let us remember that these migrants who have returned to the country in the last few weeks
02:06have been victims of the fascist plan of the U.S. government, which is developing a plan
02:12of persecution and kidnapping against Venezuelans who are on U.S. soil.
02:23Now we are receiving a second flight from our airline Conviasa.
02:29This flight comes from Honduras where a plane from the United States landed and 198 repatriated
02:35persons are on board, of which 12 are women and the rest are men, according to the evaluation
02:47made by the Venezuelan authorities in terms of police records and background information.
02:56There is not a single one who has an international request if there are any of this group of
03:01repatriated persons who are arriving today with police records.
03:08Once they arrive here, as has been indicated on all occasions, they will be thoroughly
03:16checked by our authorities and those who have a debt with the justice system will undoubtedly
03:21go to another session, which is the follow-up of the debt they have associated.
03:33In turn, the Minister of Transportation emphasized that the Administrative Service of Identification,
03:39Migration and Foreigners of Venezuela was in charge of verifying that all those included
03:45in the list were Venezuelans, pointing out that none of those repatriated belongs to
03:50the Exxintra and Daragua.
03:53However, we must also clarify, according to the analysis because, before boarding all
04:00these returnees, there were personnel from the Administrative Service of Identification,
04:06Migration and Foreigners, who checked one by one, with their fingerprint, to verify
04:14first of all that they are Venezuelan citizens and none, according to the list of returnees,
04:20that we are about to receive, none belong to the notorious Tren de Aragua.
04:26Today, more than ever, we are committed to the return of our Venezuelan men and women
04:34to the country and here there is a group of institutions that respond to a single guideline,
04:40to receive our nationals to give them the humane treatment, to treat them as citizens
04:47of this great homeland, which will allow them once they arrive here in their territory
04:52to be able to rejoin the community, the country, the public activities and the private activities
04:58of each one of them.
05:02Also early in the day, a flight carrying repatriated migrants arrived at the Simón Bolívar International
05:08Airport in Maquetilla, in the state of La Guaira, through the Back to the Homeland government
05:13plan.
05:14The flight arriving from Mexico was received by the Venezuelan Minister of Interior Relations,
05:19Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed 313 people, among them 151 children, 102 women
05:28and 60 men.
05:29In this context, Cabello emphasized that the different security and child protection agencies,
05:36as well as the medical agencies, were present at the airport.
05:48Likewise, the Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello,
05:52highlighted that, with this flight, 1,610 Venezuelans have already returned to the country
05:58under the Back to the Homeland plan.
06:03It is a flight that, with this one, 1,610 Venezuelans have been transferred from the
06:09United States, because those who are in Mexico are not really in Mexico.
06:15They return from the United States to Mexico and we have been doing that work and we hope
06:19to see the regularization.
06:22As of last week, they have already started to regularize, there is a flight today from
06:27Mexico, then there is a flight where we are going to take the comrades in Honduras directly
06:32from the United States to Honduras and tomorrow morning, as the President announced, there
06:37will be a direct flight from the United States.
06:40The return to the Homeland plan, a policy of the Venezuelan state so that the Venezuelan
06:45citizens, wherever they are, can return to our country with the guarantees of a state
06:51that takes care of them, with the guarantees of a state that reviews each case individually
06:56and in a particular way.
07:02In this context, Diosdado Cabello denounced El Salvador, demanded El Salvador to return
07:08the kidnapped Venezuelans.
07:13We continue to demand from here in Venezuela, raising our voices, demanding that the government
07:18of El Salvador, which has kidnapped, the government of El Salvador, of Mr. Nayib Bukele, that
07:24has kidnapped the Venezuelans, return us our children, the children that you and the
07:29government of the United States had kidnapped there, in an arbitrary manner.
07:33They have not committed any crime in El Salvador, not a single crime, they cannot be judged
07:38in El Salvador because they have not committed any crime in El Salvador and, if they committed
07:44a crime in the United States, it is up to the government of the United States to judge
07:49them, to submit them to the justice of the United States, it is the arbitrariness of
07:53those who assume themselves to be the owners of the world.
07:57The Venezuelan-Azerbaijan Friendship Group was established in Baku on Thursday, within
08:03the framework of a mutual understanding and strengthening of parliamentary relations.
08:09The group, chaired by the second Vice President of the Venezuelan Parliament, América Pérez,
08:14seeks to promote political, economic and cultural exchange between both nations.
08:20It is also intended as a platform to define a common vision in development and international
08:26cooperation.
08:27Both parties agree on new meetings to join measures and initiatives, and reiterate their
08:35interests in expanding their bilateral and multilateral relations.
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09:09Welcome back to From the South.
09:18In Chile, Workers' Union organizations called for a national strike to demand better working
09:23conditions and quality of life for disadvantaged sectors.
09:28The Workers' Union Center informed that the date of mobilizations will take place in all
09:33the regions with the participation of different social sectors, including at least 16 organizations
09:39affiliated to the Federation of Protestants are carried out as a pressure measure to build
09:45a better development of the country and not as an economic indicator.
09:50The call also demands the negotiation of a 40-hour work week in the public sector.
10:05Workers' unions in Panama are holding a 48-hour national strike against the approval of Law
10:10462 of the Social Security Fund.
10:14The strike calls for a teacher's action to reject the government's promotive initiative,
10:20which establishes the privatization of the public entity that severs retirees and thieves
10:25of its resources to be handed over to the banks, in addition to raising the retirement
10:31age and thus delaying the access to pensions for the duration of the strike, partners were
10:38asked not to send their children to school.
10:41The action is also aimed at denouncing the relocation of shelters to other communities
10:46in the Rio Indio area, where the government wants to build a reserve for alleged elites
10:51for the venocity of the Panama Canal, but without the conscience of the indigenous peoples and peasants.
11:06The President of Argentina, Javier Millet, will face a class action lawsuit in the United
11:11States for his involvement in the Libra crypto scam.
11:15The former federal prosecutor for the Department of Justice, Timothy Treynor, will file the
11:20class action lawsuit in federal court in New York.
11:24The president is accused of being a necessary participant in the fraud involving the Libra
11:28cryptocurrency, which was prompted on February 14th.
11:33The complaint alleges that he was instrumental in manipulating the market, causing an estimate
11:40of $250 million in losses to investors.
11:46The former prosecutor argues that the president's influence and his public announcement were
11:52crucial, placing not only six justices for fraud and market manipulation, but also invoked
12:00the REACH Act, which targets organized crime activities.
12:14Following U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff measures, stock markets around the world plummeted.
12:20In Europe, the Milan Stock Exchange fell by 2.84%, followed by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
12:29with more than 2.77 percentage points, while Paris Stock Exchange fell by as much as 2.14%.
12:39Meanwhile, in Asia, the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell by as much as 2.77%, while in Hong Kong
12:46it lost 1.69% of its value.
12:51Experts estimate a possible increase of at least 3% in global inflation, in addition
12:57to fueling uncertainty in the international economy.
13:02Trump's decide to impose tariffs of at least 10% of all countries and a higher percentage
13:07on all partner countries declared a trade war on the world with the highest import taxes
13:12in a century.
13:23On Thursday, during her morning press conference, the Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum welcomed
13:28the exclusion of her country from the new set of U.S. tariffs imposed on several countries.
13:34Sheinbaum highlighted the good relationship her nation has built with the government of
13:39the United States, which she stressed is based on respect for their people and their national
13:44sovereignty, which she said allowed for Mexico to avoid additional tariffs.
13:50It is worth recalling that President Trump previously introduced a 25% tax on Mexico's
13:58exports, but explained that Mexico will not have to pay the tariff on goods included in
14:05the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement.
14:08In this regard, Mexican Secretary of Commerce Marcelo Ebrard added that the country will
14:13ask for better conditions for aluminum and steel.
14:23In the case of Mexico, there are no additional tariffs, nor for Canada, although in the case
14:37of Canada they make some specifications.
14:43And that is good for the country, for Mexico.
14:53Some do not want to recognize it.
14:55This is due to the good relationship that we have built between the government of Mexico
15:00and the government of the United States, which is based on respect.
15:06The Mexican President assured that the dialogues on economic issues with the U.S. continue
15:11and highlight the growth of the relationship between the Secretary and Marcelo Ebrard with
15:16his U.S. counterpart.
15:21Remember that our automotive industry is very integrated.
15:25And we are still in dialogue, in talks with the government of the United States.
15:31The Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, has built a very good relationship with the
15:36Secretary of Commerce, which is the result of the calls that we have had with President
15:40Trump.
15:42We continue working, dialoguing, in fact, it is very likely that the Secretary of Economy,
15:48Marcelo Ebrard, will be in Washington next week.
15:53So we continue working on those two issues, the automotive industry, steel and aluminum.
16:03And on Thursday, also in response to the U.S. economic measure, Canadian Prime Minister
16:07Mark Carney announced 25% tariffs on all vehicles imported from the United States that are not
16:14compliant with U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement on free trade.
16:18And today I am announcing that the government of Canada will be responding by matching the
16:23U.S. approach, by matching the U.S. approach, with 25% tariffs on all vehicles imported
16:30from the United States that are not compliant with CUSMA, our North American Free Trade
16:35Agreement.
16:37And on the non-Canadian content of CUSMA-compliant vehicles from the United States as well.
16:45Our tariffs, though, unlike the U.S. tariffs, will not affect auto parts because we know
16:50the benefits of our integrated production system.
16:55And they will also not affect vehicle content from Mexico, who is respecting the CUSMA agreement.
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17:57The Lebanese Ministry of Health condemned Israeli attacks against a health center affiliated
18:02to the civil defense in the city of Nakoura in the south of the country.
18:07The Lebanese civil defense denounced the attack against its territory and affirms that as
18:13a consequence of the Israeli outlaws in the city of Nakoura, they destroyed a recently
18:18installed health center and damaged two ambulances and fired an engine.
18:23Through a communique, the health authorities added these aggressions are part of a series
18:28of violations and daily attacks of the Israeli war against Lebanon.
18:32The General Directorate of Civil Defense together with the Islamic Health Authority denounced
18:38that Israel has not legally afforded our ethnic trial to advance with its Zionist and genocidal
18:46plans.
18:55The Syrian de facto government denounced that Israel is carrying out an escalation of aggressions
19:01against five areas to destabilize the country and harm the population.
19:05Through a communique, the Syrian foreign ministry informed that the Israeli attack caused almost
19:11total destruction of the military airport in the city of Hama.
19:15Furthermore, it qualified these crimes as unjustified and accused the Zionist forces
19:20of trying to prolong the violence and perpetrate a policy of impunity.
19:26Israel also urged the international community to pressure Tel Aviv to put an end to the
19:31aggressions due to the constant bombings that left thousands of dead and wounded.
19:44On Wednesday, a family of 12 members was whipped out in a massacre carried out by the Israeli
19:49genocidal occupiers in Gaza Strip after the illateral Libra index is fired.
19:55According to the civil defense report, the family had gone to visit close relatives and
20:00within minutes of returning to their rent house, the occupied forces shot them.
20:06Witnesses confirmed that the Kouida family had survived the genocidal operation together
20:12for like a year.
20:13Like residents of Rafah, they suffered numerous displacements until this Wednesday when the
20:18occupation army killed them all.
20:28After more than 36 airstrikes on a civilian airbase in Gaza Strip, the U.S. carrier Truman
20:34is one of the spokesmen of the Yemeni armed forces.
20:39The city reported that the allies of the Israeli genocidal operation attacked residential areas
20:46in the provinces of Sana'a and Zara, without specifying or confirming that there were numerous
20:51deaths and injuries.
20:52Moving on, in Myanmar, the death toll from the earthquake rose to 3,085 while authorities
21:18continue search and rescue efforts.
21:21According to the authorities, there are 4,715 injured and 341 missing people.
21:29Also 49 planes have arrived in Myanmar with international aid, carrying 1,815 rescue teams
21:36and more than 714 tons of material distributed in the emergency areas.
21:41The junta also declared a three-week truce in the national conflict, a day after the
21:47rejecting a ceasefire that was proposed by rebel groups in order to facilitate relief
21:52efforts, following requests from numerous humanitarian organizations and nations to
21:58ensure the protection of civilians and affected aid workers.
22:11Also in Myanmar, Russian rescuers deployed by the Ministry of Emergency Situations are
22:15providing medical help to earthquake victims.
22:19The brigade has set up a mobile hospital where more than 65 injured people have sought help
22:25in the last three days, also tackling the outbreak of chronic diseases aimed at the
22:31rebel left by the seismic.
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