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*Identification process underway for victims of nightclub tragedy in Dominican Republic.
*Pres. Xi Jinping says China does not fear
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00:00In Ecuador, the electoral silence comes in to force ahead of Sunday's April 13 presidential runoff.
00:21The Dominican Republic officials are working to identify victims of the nightclub roof collapse that killed at least 220 people.
00:30Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that his nation is not afraid of a trade war.
00:45Hello and welcome to From the South. Tamara Marrero from the Telesur Headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela.
00:50We'll be with the news. Stay with us.
01:00In Ecuador, the electoral silence began this Friday ahead of Sunday's April 13 presidential runoff.
01:12Over 13 million citizens are called to the polls to choose the executive for the next four years.
01:18The National Electoral Council reported that political organizations and citizens must observe the electoral silence that will be maintained until 5 p.m. local time on Sunday, April 13.
01:30Electoral authorities also ratified the beginning of the trial law as up from noon on Friday.
01:37Let us remember that the electoral process takes pleasings and economic crises and high levels of insecurity,
01:45which according to different analyses would be the decisive factors in the results of the presidential runoff election.
01:54On Friday, assisted voting move forwards in Ecuador for people with disabilities within the process of the presidential runoff.
02:07The Ecuadorian National Electoral Council deployed 174 voting stations and 110 votes in the country.
02:16The operation has the logistic and security support of the national police, the army and the traffic agents.
02:28Cuba marks on Friday the 23rd anniversary of the failed rallying Cuba against Venezuelan President Ngo Chavez in 2002.
02:36The commemoration was held at the Venezuelan Embassy in Havana with the attendance of representatives of various Cuba's government agencies
02:43and organizations of solidarity with the Bolivarian nation.
02:47Participants highlighted the roles of the Venezuelan people and patriotic soldiers in following the Cuba
02:52and bringing back Chavez to his position as elected President of the Republic.
02:56The Cuba then was created by Venezuelan oligarchy sectors with the support of the U.S. government
03:01in an effort to stop the deep social transformation started by Commander Hugo Chavez in 1999.
03:08In the Dominican Republic, public officials are working to identify victims of the nightclub roof collapse
03:18that killed at least 220 people as crew completed a lung surge and survivors earlier on Thursday.
03:25In this regard, it was informed that all the bodies have been removed from the site
03:30and the debris has been cleared while family members of victims remain at the Florence's pathology offices
03:38waiting for the information of their missing relatives.
03:43The exact cause of the disaster is currently under investigation as the Dominican Presidency
03:48announced the creation of an investigative commission into the exact cause
03:53in praise of leading experts from both the Dominican Republic and abroad.
04:04In this context, relatives of the victims accused authorities of delaying in releasing the bodies
04:09after they have been waiting for more than 72 hours in tents set up
04:13the main entrance of the court or office for the remains of their loved ones to be delivered.
04:20The families are demanding authorities to better organize and speed up the release process
04:26which has been affected by alleged confunction with the remains of some of the victims.
04:32The process here is too slow, too slow.
04:44I don't even have words to express what this is like,
04:47because they are going to hand our relatives over to us in bags,
04:50just to bury them right away, because they are unrecognizable,
04:53with the bad smell of decomposition.
04:56We won't be able to hold a wake for them, not even for a couple of hours.
05:01In this regard, on April 8, 2025, music fell silent with the tragic death of Ruby Perez,
05:07the most powerful voice in Merengue.
05:09The musician was performing at the Jets' nightclub in Santo Domingo
05:13at the time when the ceiling collapsed, claiming more than 200 lives.
05:17Her correspondent dates into sounds with the details.
05:24The National Theatre became a shrine.
05:27There amidst flowers and sounds the people bid farewell to their idol,
05:30the coffin covered with the flags of the Dominican Republic and Venezuela
05:34as a symbol of Ruby's love for both nations.
05:39I am overwhelmed by the event, we lost our great idol, Ruby Perez,
05:43we lost many people, neighbors of our country, many, many people.
05:46I've got a broken heart, I think the owners of the nightclub should have made sure there weren't any failures,
05:51they should have prevented that incident although when God commands, there's nothing we can do.
05:55However, if the collapse was for a failure, the owners could have avoided all those deaths.
06:01Ruby not only conquered his homeland but also Venezuela adopted him as its own.
06:07Subsequently, he reciprocated in love and memorable performances the Dominican people love sin.
06:13But his music has even crossed borders, uniting hearts beyond the Caribbean.
06:18For many years, we, actually, when I was a child I had always seen Ruby Perez in Venezuela in all his performances on our TV channels,
06:27and I always considered him as a Venezuelan artist.
06:30My anecdote is that when I arrived in the Dominican Republic I got to know he was born there,
06:35because Ruby Perez was always a Venezuelan for us.
06:58Roberto Antonio Perez Herrera, alias Ruby Perez, was born in Jaina in 1956.
07:04Ruby dreamed of being a baseball player but an accident led him to discover his true passion, music.
07:10He studied at the National Conservatory and stood out in both Los Hijos de Rey band and the Wilfrido Vargas Orchestra
07:17before the start of his successful career as a soloist in 1987.
07:22With hits such as Volveré enamorado de ella and Buscando Tus Besos,
07:37Ruby Perez became the ambassador of Marengue.
07:40His gold and platinum records in Venezuela and international awards are part of his legacy.
07:45In his last farewell his fans came and sang his tracks to remember him, with the joy that characterized him.
07:52He was giving his last farewell with sorrow but the people remembered his life.
08:04Amid tears and songs the people bid him farewell, recognizing him as he always was, happy and craving for his loved ones.
08:11Ruby Perez not only left a mark in music but also an imprint in the souls of those who loved him.
08:17Ruby Perez, the voice that made the world dance now sings in eternity.
08:34His legacy leaps on in every note in every heart that beats to the rhythm of Marengue.
08:53Let's take a very short break but don't go away because we'll be right back and sing with us.
09:04Welcome back to From the South.
09:07In Venezuela, the Ministry of Electric Energy denounced through a press release a new terrorist attacks
09:13against the equipment of the National Electric Corporation Corporal Act.
09:17The community expressed that today, Friday, April 11, we denounced that our national electric system
09:23was suffered a new terrorist and fascist attacks.
09:27However, the situation was attended to and the system was immediately restored.
09:32At this hour, we informed the entire country that three individuals have been arrested,
09:38have been identified as the perpetrators of this debate,
09:42and everything points to the extremist sectors of the Venezuela right wing
09:47that wants to harm the Halloween holiday of our people.
09:51The Brazilian Federal Police repressed the march of the Freeland Come Indigenous Movement,
10:01which demanded the demarcation of their territories.
10:05Indigenous activists gathered in front of the National Congress in rejection to the decision of legislators
10:12to deny the demarcation of their land.
10:15The demonstrators were attacked by police officers who tried to disperse the protests with jury-cast bombs.
10:25The U.S. Supreme Court of Justice issued an order stating that the government must return the incarcerated porter
10:33and allow his immigration case to run its course.
10:37The top court requests the return to the country of Salvadorian citizen Quilmar Abrego Garcia,
10:43who was supposedly brownly sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
10:47The situation of Abrego Garcia, who immigrated to the U.S. due to the constant threat he and his family
10:53received from the criminal gun Barrio 18, required the intervention of the justice systems.
11:02Meanwhile, dozens of migrants leave New York shelters for fear of massive deportations by the United States government.
11:12Immigration authorities in New York also announced the closure of hotels and other facilities
11:16used shelters in the last two years of 08 of migration.
11:21China's President Xi Jinping affirmed on Friday that his country does not fear a trade war,
11:30while increasing tariffs on U.S. products to 125%.
11:34The foreign point hike is another response from Beijing to the so-called reciprocal tariffs imposed by the U.S. President Donald Trump,
11:42which the Asian nation considers to violate the international trade rule and goes against basic economic laws and common sense.
11:48China is expected to meet with the European Union and to approach the Saudi's Asian members to discuss the tariff war launched by the Trump administration.
12:00On the other hand, the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levy-Ede said during a press conference
12:06that President Trump was open to regional agreement with China and the escalation of the trade war launched by Washington.
12:12However, she threatens that it would not be good for the Asian nation to continue responding to U.S. tariff measures.
12:19In this regard, the Chinese Ministry of Finance said that even if the U.S. continues to impose higher tariffs,
12:24it will no longer make economic sense and will become a joke in the history of the world economy.
12:31The United States of America and our business model and our...
12:35Let's take a last break, but before we invite you to stay because we'll be right back.
12:40Welcome back.
12:54Russian President Vladimir Putin and the U.S. State Special Envoy Steve Wyckoff on Friday as they sat down for talks in St. Petersburg.
13:03The meeting lasted for hours and ended up around 22 p.m. local time when the delegation left the presidential library.
13:10According to the Kremlin, Putin and Wyckoff discussed issues relating to the settlements of the Ukrainian conflict.
13:16After coming to the power, the U.S. President Trump chose to accelerate contacts with Moscow.
13:22The restoration of relations between Russia and the U.S. began with meeting of delegations in Saudi Arabia on Ferrari the 18th,
13:30then at the end of Ferrari and again this week negotiations were held in Istanbul, Turkey.
13:43The first edition of the Diplomacy Forum 2025 started the city of Atalaya in Turkey with the theme
13:49Recovering Diplomacy in the Front of the World.
13:52The meeting is beginning at 10 by more than 20 head of state, 70 ministers and 60 representatives of international organizations
14:01who were welcomed by the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
14:05The agenda foresees that in over 50 sessions world leaders and senior officials will address these issues of global concerns such as climate change,
14:15the fight against terrorism, humanitarian aid, digitalization, food security and artificial intelligence among others.
14:22Moving on, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near the East warns that a worsening food crisis
14:46affecting more than 2 million Palestinians.
14:49The UN agency warns that a catastrophic situation is approaching for the Palestinians due to Israeli restrictions
14:55preventing the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
14:58Authorities add that available supplies will run out in days threatening the lives of Palestinians who will face unprecedented.
15:05This agency also warns of the risk of ecological catastrophe due to the build-up of waste,
15:12the bombardments that polluted water and pests causing diseases and epidemics.
15:23Israeli occupation forces have been dropping overnight shelling in Gaza Strip.
15:27As a result, 12 Palestinians lost their lives, including 7 Niners.
15:31The General Army struck a house in Kanyuni City, southern Gaza, in which 10 families' members did not survive such bombing.
15:40The United Nations denounced the occupation of at least 11 positions in Syria and Golan by the Israeli regime
15:55in a flagrant violation of the 1974 agreement to withdraw its troops.
15:59The UN reported that thousands of Israelis were stationed in the Syrian territory or in the military zones,
16:07which divides the Israeli-occupied area in the Syrian Golan Heights.
16:11In this sense, the multilateral organization points out that Israeli violations do not end
16:16date extended civilian population handling agricultural work.
16:25And we have come to the end of this news brief.
16:27For Telesur English and from the South, Amanda Marrero, thank you for watching.