27/03/2025
FTS 8.30
*France hosts Ukraine Security Summit
*Worldwide mobilization called in support of Palestine
FTS 8.30
*France hosts Ukraine Security Summit
*Worldwide mobilization called in support of Palestine
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00:00In Argentina, police forces once again repressed retirees who were demonstrating to demand
00:17an increase in benefits and a better quality of life.
00:24In France, the leaders of 30 of Ukraine's allied countries gathered in Paris for a summit
00:28aimed at boosting the regime's security ahead of a potential ceasefire deal with Russia.
00:37A leader of the Axis of Resistance called for a worldwide mobilization in support of
00:41Palestine on the occasion of Jerusalem Day.
00:50Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Etersu Studios in Caracas,
00:55Venezuela.
00:56We begin with the news, stay with us.
01:12In Argentina, police forces once again repressed retirees who were demonstrating to demand
01:17an increase in benefits and a better quality of life.
01:20Demonstrators denounced being attacked and pepper sprayed by the police authorities.
01:24The retirees were demanding an increase in their pensions and the restitution of benefits
01:29in the midst of the adjustment made by the government of Javier Millet.
01:32These incidents generated indignation in political and human rights sectors, which demanded respect
01:37for the right to protest.
01:39Also during the demonstration, a photographer was beaten by officials on a motorcycle.
01:52Also in Argentina, the State Workers' Association announced that it will hold a strike of state
01:56employees this Thursday 27th.
01:59At the end of the month, 50,000 public workers' contracts expire and there is a risk that
02:04there will be another wave of layoffs in the state.
02:07The General Secretary of this association, Rodolfo Aguiar, stated that the state workers
02:11cannot wait until April.
02:13This Thursday's march will start at noon and will go from the Secretary of Labor to the
02:17Ministry of Deregulation, a time of strong fall in the evaluation of Millet's administration.
02:22There will be one more protest activity in the series of protests that started with the
02:26mobilization in defense of retirees.
02:37Meanwhile in Chile, security forces repressed artisanal fishermen's organizations during
02:41their second day of protests against the fishing quota law approved by the Senate.
02:46Chilean fishermen were outside the Congress in the city of Valparaíso, demonstrated against
02:50the Senator's actions when police authorities tried to repress the protests and injure one
02:55of the demonstrators.
02:57Several fishing areas of the country have started to demonstrate after the repression.
03:01The Maritime Interest Commission decreased the fishing quota that favored the fishermen
03:05and allowed them to catch larger quantities of fish.
03:17And on Wednesday, the Brazilian Supreme Court judges unanimously accepted the complaint
03:21against former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven other people, ordering them to stand
03:25trial for allegedly orchestrating a violent plot to seize power through a military coup.
03:29In addition, the court decided that seven other close allies of the former president
03:33should also stand trial for crimes including involvement in an armed criminal organization,
03:37coup d'etat and violently attempting to abolish Brazilian democracy.
03:41For his part, Bolsonaro rejected the charges in a WhatsApp statement sent to allies as
03:45the hearing began on Tuesday, calling the case against him an aberration the like of
03:50which has never been seen before.
03:52The ruling leaves the far-right populist facing political oblivion and a possible jail sentence
03:57of more than 40 years.
04:06On his last day of state visit to Japan, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Silva declared
04:11that justice must be done in the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro accused of
04:15plotting a coup d'etat.
04:26I only hope that justice is served.
04:30If he is declared innocent, then let the judge declare him innocent.
04:35If he is guilty, let him be punished.
04:38It is evident that the former president attempted a coup d'etat in the country.
04:42All the evidence proves that he attempted to cover up an assassination, the assassination
04:47of a vice-president, the assassination of the vice-president of the Electoral Tribunal
04:52of Brazil.
04:53And everybody knows what happened in this country.
04:56Now he is talking nonsense, claiming that he is a victim of corruption.
05:01He knows what he did.
05:08In Ecuador, on Tuesday, a containment dam located in the Capel River collapsed due to
05:20rains in the middle of the oil spill remediation works on the way after the March 13th incident.
05:25State-owned company PetroEcuador informed of the incident in the Cube sector in the
05:29locality of Esmeralda, stating that contingency teams have been immediately activated.
05:34The collapse has prompted the suspension of the San Mateo Water Treatment Plant to
05:37prevent possible hydrocarbon pollution.
05:40We now have our first break coming up.
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06:04Welcome back.
06:15In El Salvador, the exceptional regime reaches its third anniversary after its approval to
06:19combat gangs on March 27th, 2022.
06:22The humanitarian legal aid organization will offer on Thursday a conference on presumed
06:27serious human rights violations under this measure proposed by the government and approved
06:31by a majority vote by the Legislative Assembly.
06:34A report will be aired on the cause of death of nearly 400 Salvadorans in the country's
06:39prisons.
06:40Many innocent people never profiled as gang members.
06:43Since the 2022 state of emergency, there are reports of arbitrary detentions and restrictions
06:47on freedom of expression, especially in social media.
06:54And in Mexico, people mobilize to demand justice for the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Rural
07:03Normal School who disappeared on the night of September 26th and early morning of September
07:0827th, 2014.
07:10Ten years and six months after their disappearance, the families of the students continue to demand
07:15justice.
07:16They urge the extradition of several accused for participating directly in the events or
07:21for fabricating the so-called historical truth with false elements, in addition to
07:25recovering the connection between organized crime groups and the army as a line of investigation.
07:30It should be noted that the demonstration is part of the 126th Global Action for Ayotzinapa
07:36and Mexico to demand truth, justice and jail for those responsible.
07:50In Colombia, at least 19 people were injured after a motorcycle explosion in the southwestern
07:55part of the country.
07:56The detonation of the motorcycle bomb occurred on a busy street in the municipality of Pientamo
08:01in the Department of Cauca.
08:03According to Governor Octavio Guzman, four of the wounded were sent to hospitals in Popayán,
08:08the departmental capital, including a member of the national police.
08:12This new incident is added to a series of recent attacks in municipalities north of
08:15in Cauca, such as Toribío, Cualdono, Cajibío and Santander de Quilichao, where confrontations
08:22between illegal armed groups persist and threats to social leaders and indigenous communities
08:27are increasing.
08:41We heard an explosion.
08:43We learned about the site and the location at the fire department.
08:48We learned that it was an attack against the police station in Pientamo.
08:52After a minute, we start to see flames, people, chaos and reports of injuries at the sites.
09:01U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he will impose tariffs of 25 percent on all
09:07automobiles not produced in the United States, a new measure that intensifies the trade war
09:11initiated by his administration.
09:14From the Office of the White House, the U.S. President emphasized that this measure will
09:19begin gradually, with a base of 2.5 percent until reaching 25 percent until recovering,
09:25all that was taken from the country.
09:27He also emphasized that the decision will take effect on April 2nd and indicated that
09:32it is permanent 100 percent on their hand.
09:37He indicated that for automobiles produced in the United States, he will evaluate methods
09:41that allow tax relief to consumers.
10:06In France, the leaders of 30 of Ukraine's allied countries gathered in Paris for a summit
10:10aimed at boosting the regime's security.
10:13The meeting's agenda includes the discussion of Europe's plan to support Ukraine ahead
10:17of a potential ceasefire deal with Russia.
10:20Convinced by French President Emmanuel Macron, the heads of states are expected to hold further
10:24talks on the security guarantees their nations could offer Ukraine, including the possible
10:31deployment of military forces.
10:33In addition, the summit will address the ongoing U.S.-Russia negotiations and discuss the Eurasian
10:37countries' ceasefire demands, among them the halting of existing sanctions.
10:49And Russia's foreign ministry denounced the escalation of persecution by the Kiev regime
10:53against Russian journalists.
10:55Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denounced that worker-respondents are being
10:58persecuted by Ukrainian paramilitaries and attacked with Western weapons, and invited
11:03organizations such as UNESCO, the U.N. Office for Human Rights, and others to take measures
11:08against such crimes.
11:09In this context, the foreign ministry declared that the murder of Russian journalists in
11:13the Russian region of Lugansk is part of the systematic and consistent actions of Kiev
11:18to silence the press media.
11:27And Russia remembers the 57th anniversary of the death of Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut
11:32who in 1961 became the first man to travel into space.
11:36Gagarin, born on March 9, 1934 in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia, never went into space again
11:42but took an active part in training other cosmonauts.
11:45He made several tours to other nations following his historic flight, and from 1962 he served
11:50as a deputy to the Supreme Soviet.
11:53Gagarin was killed with another pilot on March 27, 1968, in a crash of a two-seat jet aircraft
12:00while on what was described as a routine training flight.
12:03He was laid to rest in the wall of the Kremlin on Red Square, and after his death, his hometown
12:08was renamed Gagarin.
12:18We now have our second and final short break.
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12:24around the world.
12:25We're gonna be right back.
12:30Welcome back.
12:49Leaders of the Axis of Resistance call for a worldwide mobilization in support of Palestine
12:54on the occasion of Jerusalem Day.
12:56During the virtual event in Jerusalem, the Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Movement,
13:00Siad al-Nakhala, called for unity, an end to the Israeli genocide, and the liberation
13:06of Palestine.
13:07He also reiterated the commitment to the release of Palestinian prisoners and the withdrawal
13:11of the occupation army from Gaza.
13:13In this context, the leader of the Hamas movement, Khalil al-Hayya, asserted that the resistance
13:18has demonstrated its military and political initiative despite all the destruction, blockade
13:23and hunger imposed by the Israeli regime.
13:32And in Palestine, local sources confirmed that the Israeli bombing that took place early
13:36Thursday morning killed the spokesman of the Hamas resistance movement, Abdel Latif al-Kanu.
13:41According to information provided by Hamas movement, the spokesman was in his tent in
13:46the Jabalia al-Balad refugee camp at the time he was killed.
13:50This attack comes days after the targeted killing of two prominent members of the Hamas
13:54political bureau, Ismail Barhum and Salah al-Rawal.
13:59With this latest assault, the Zionist regime of Israel has caused the death of at least
14:0211 members of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance, in addition to raising
14:07the number of Palestinian martyrs in Gaza to more than 50,000.
14:10Meanwhile, in the United States, immigration authorities detained a Turkish doctoral student
14:23who last year published an article in which she called on her university to stop funding
14:28companies linked to Israel.
14:30According to images distributed on social media, the 30-year-old student, Rumeyza Ozturk,
14:36was intercepted by a group of hooded agents who handcuffed her before taking her away.
14:40According to U.S. press media, Ozturk is listed as the author of an opinion piece published
14:45in the Tufts College newspaper in which, in addition to criticizing the school's leaders,
14:49she demanded recognition of the Palestinian genocide.
14:52In this context, the Undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin,
14:57assured that in her ex-account that Ozturk was involved in activities in support of Hamas,
15:02although she did not provide any evidence of this.
15:11And following Ozturk's detention, hundreds of people demonstrated on Wednesday afternoon
15:16to demand her release and to accuse the two main political parties of failing to protect
15:20immigrants.
15:21Federal District Judge Indira Talwani issued an order setting a deadline of Friday, March
15:2628, for the government to report the whereabouts and motive behind Ozturk's detention.
15:33In other news, the head of Sudan's armed forces, Abdel Fattah al-Buhan, declared that
15:43Khartoum is free hours after his forces recaptured the city's airport from paramilitary-backed
15:48forces.
15:49Quickly.
15:50After touring the airport, the army chief spoke on Wednesday from the presidential palace,
15:54which government forces recaptured on Friday after almost two years of war in which it
15:59was in the hands of paramilitary rapid support forces.
16:03According to local media, they are still in control of most of the Darfur region and other
16:07areas of the country.
16:08The war that began in April 2023 has left more than 60,000 people dead, around 12 million
16:13displaced, while more than half of its population faces high levels of acute hunger, and basic
16:18services have collapsed.
16:21And on Wednesday evening, a crowd celebrated the liberation of Khartoum in the city of
16:26Port Sudan.
16:27Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese have fled to the locality since the beginning of the
16:31war.
16:32The liberation of the capital, besides being a symbolic triumph, means the possible return
16:36of governmental institutions that were moved to Port Sudan after the fourth month of the
16:40conflict.
16:41In this context, many of the demonstrators expressed their intention to re-establish
16:46It is a moment of joy, an indescribable moment, after two years of suffering and displacement
16:51due to this brutal war, imposed on the Sudanese people by a group that caused the loss of
16:56the right.
16:58It is a moment of joy, an indescribable moment, after two years of suffering and displacement
17:04due to this brutal war, imposed on the Sudanese people by a group that caused the loss of
17:09the right.
17:20Cuba prepares for the third International Film and Environmental Festival of the Caribbean
17:25Isla Verde 2025, an event that promotes environmental conservation and scientific dissemination.
17:31The festival, to be held from April 6 to the 12 in the special municipality of Isla de
17:37la Juventud, will reward the conservation project of Jardines de la Reina, a plant that
17:42seeks to preserve one of the most intact marine ecosystems of the Caribbean.
17:46The exhibition, From the Island to the Moon 2.0, will be back and a new contemporary art
17:52residency will be launched.
17:54This edition has the support of UNESCO and the European Union and will include activities
17:58such as planting pine trees and cleaning beaches.
18:08And in Mexico, Puebla celebrates World Theatre Day with a marathon that will include 27 performances
18:14by 15 national and international companies.
18:17The director of the Municipal Institute of Art and Culture of Puebla, Anel Nochebuena,
18:21announced that from March 26 to the 30, people can enjoy free plays in Puebla de Zaragoza,
18:27where acting workshops will also be offered at an additional cost.
18:31The city theatre, the Construarte Cultural Center El Zócalo and the Popular Autonomous
18:35University of the State of Puebla are among the venues that will host the presentations.
18:39In this opportunity, the billboard will include plays such as Blind Love Love, Little Red
18:44Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf, The Little Lost Lion and La Escala de Zeta.
18:51Like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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