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00:00in ecuador citizens revolution candidate lisa gonzalez does not recognize the

00:18results of the 2025 presidential runoff amid voting irregularities

00:26in venezuela president nicolas maduro held a meeting with the candidates for

00:29governors of the great patriot pole ahead of the election scheduled for may 25th

00:42and in vietnam president tolam and his chinese counterpart xi jinping signed monday several

00:47corporation packs aim at strengthening trade ties and make global tensions caused by u.s tariffs

00:52hello welcome to from the south i'm with alberto matos from the asus studios

00:59in caracas venezuela we begin with the news stay with us

01:11the citizens revolution movement in ecuador rejected the results of sunday's presidential runoff election

01:17claiming irregularities that question the alleged victory of candidate daniel noboa

01:21the political movement denounced the manipulation of the voting tallies the anticipated announcement

01:26by the national electoral council of noboa's alleged victory to influence public opinion military

01:32intimidation and obstruction to the presence of servers in order to undermine the transparency of

01:37the polls citizens movement urged authorities to conduct the necessary investigation on social

01:43priorities with severely limited transparency of the electoral products

01:51and statistics have shown it

02:06and the network of intellectuals and artists in defense of humanity of ecuador express its solidarity with

02:12the ecuadorian people and citizens revolution candidate grisa gonzalez in a statement the organization

02:17called for the immediate repeal of decree 599 and the restoration of the fundamental rights of the

02:22ecuadorian people the decree contradicts legal doctrine and international standards which establish that

02:28states of emergency should not affect political rights or democratic processes as in the case with

02:33the electoral process held on april 13th 2025 the grouping also called on the national electoral council to

02:40make the electoral process and its results transparent considering everything from the complete vote

02:45count to the analysis of compliance with the requirements set forth in the code of democracy and

02:50legislation the statement continued we call on ecuadorian institutions to ensure the continued

02:55existence of democracy respect for human rights and an end to all forms of political and media

03:01persecution against local authorities finally the organization urged international organizations

03:06international observers and democracy advocates to ensure ecuador's return to constitutional order

03:11and the end of all authoritarian actions

03:18further part the guazu front of paraguay issued a statement qualifying the process as an outrage to

03:24the popular will after the fraud denounced by luisa gonzalez the organization affirmed that

03:29daniel noboa uses the state to control and prevent the advance of progressive forces

03:34the ecuadoran government under the control of aboratio's oligarchy has carried out scandalous and crude electoral fraud

03:52we are now again live into ecuador with our special envoy jorge gestoso to have all the details of everything

03:57that has happened so far this monday after the electoral process of sunday

04:01hello gestoso welcome again to from the south what can you tell us what's news in ecuador

04:08well at this hour inside the revolución ciudadana the citizenship revolution the name of the party of the

04:18candidate luisa gonzalez they are working already to try to gather all the information that they need in

04:25order to present to the national electoral council in order to bring the proof that they understand

04:34that will documented that it has been a fraud according to the candidate luisa gonzalez and she

04:42said it incredible fraud decides the largest of the country she's asking also for a recount and also the

04:52president rafael correa the former president that is basically the founder of the party revolución ciudadana

05:00is saying that he also endorsed the announcement of luisa gonzalez definitely it has been around the

05:11world many many many many countries that they have shown their support of luisa gonzalez and in that case

05:19also they are bringing up like the situation of democracy in our region where many many times

05:28the elite the oligarchy is still running the country that is a typical case for example of peru

05:36where it has been uh the case of uh the former president pedro castillo that has been uh through a law

05:45fair uh received a soft uh coup for the mentary coup d'etat uh we were talking here with different uh analysts

05:56and experts and they believe that uh the the if you want the price of the market that are going to be

06:06going to be difficult that the path to present to the national council is going to be slow and the

06:15proofs are going to be clear in order to basically define or bring to the attention that

06:22the result has been absolutely way far from reality so things are moving slowly but along and

06:31the denunciation is still very much like and kicking we get back to you now thank you gestoso for the

06:40latest information on everything that is happening right now in ecuador we're going to stay in touch

06:43in upcoming news brief to continue following up everything that is developing over there let's now take

06:49our first break we'll be right back so don't go away

07:13welcome back the president of venezuela nicolas maduro held a meeting with the candidates

07:18for governors of the great patriotic poll ahead of the election scheduled for may 25th from the

07:24mountain barracks in the city of caracas the venezuelan president was received by the candidates

07:28of the 23 governorships of the country during the event the venezuelan president urged the candidates

07:34to commit themselves to preserve peace in the country in the face of their right-wing intentions to

07:38carry out a coup d'etat more than 21 million voters are summoned to participate in the parliamentary and

07:44regional elections in venezuela scheduled for may 25th 2025

07:57and as of monday argentina eliminates foreign exchange restrictions as part of the so-called phase

08:02three of the economic program of javier mille's government the move authorizes the purchase of

08:07foreign currency without limits with local currency at flexible exchange rate plus an increase of one

08:12percent per month according to experts the removal of restrictions could lead to an acceleration of

08:18inflation in argentina which currently stands at around 60 percent these financial measures are

08:24implemented after the current government obtain a financial aid of at least 20 billion dollars from

08:30the international monetary fund

08:41u.s president donald trump met with his salvadoran counterpart najib bukele on monday to tackle strategic

08:46cooperation issues namely the massive deportations of latin american migrants the salvadoran head of state

08:52has been in the u.s since past saturday his visit was reportedly aimed at strengthening his alliance with

08:58trump u.s media asserted that bukele would be the first latin america president to be received at the

09:04white house for their good relations in this context both leaders who were accompanied by u.s secretary

09:09of state marco rubio and vice president jd vance discussed the return of salvadoran migrant kilma

09:15abrigo garcia wrongly deported to a high security prison in this regard bukele stated that abrigo was a

09:22criminal in the u.s and that he won't be freeing him

09:45and the palestinian civil defense denounced that israeli occupation regime had been arbitrarily

09:50attacking the health sector in the gaza strip earlier the saunee's forces had demanded to

09:55evacuate say toontown southern gaza right afterwards israeli airstrikes hit the area

10:00namely the al-hali baptist hospital the last one able to provide medical assistance so far

10:06authorities reported no fatalities in this context the return health and community association in gaza

10:12condemned the israeli campaign against gaza's healthcare centers and it underscored that over

10:18sixty percent of hospitals and primary care centers have been destroyed since october 2023

10:32houthis registered new u.s air strikes on sana city which brought about six deaths and 30 others

10:38injured gemini media reported that u.s bombings targeted a factor in the industrial al-sabwari

10:44westernson in bani mata region houthis confirmed the aforesaid death toll and wounded in the serramatics

10:50factory after the three consecutive attacks in addition to the impact of shellings on sunday evening

10:56houthis further claimed that the factory had recently resumed its operations after receiving

11:00a similar aggression in 2016 that had kept close for several years likewise they highlighted that the

11:06u.s offensive has claimed some 100 lives and injured 250 people mostly women and children

11:24and in vietnam president tolam and his chinese counterpart xi jinping signed monday several

11:29cooperation facts aimed at strengthening ties in areas such as trade and production chains amid global tensions

11:35caused by u.s tariffs among the documents signed was a memorandum of understanding aimed at enhancing

11:40cooperation between the china council for the promotion of international trade and the vietnam

11:45chamber of commerce and industry the leaders also sought rapprochement in areas such as green economy and

11:51artificial intelligence in vietnam in vietnam for a state visit the chinese president stressed the

11:58importance of deepening mutual trust and generating tangible benefits for both peoples

12:04furthermore he urged the defense of the multilateral trading system

12:15like this we have come to the end of this news review you can find this and many other stories

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12:24and tick tock for twitter so english and luisa alberto matos thank you for watching

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