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00:00In Cuba, people commemorate the day of national rebellion on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, a heroic action led by Fidel Castro that laid the foundations for the revolution.
00:21And Venezuela's National Electoral Council welcomed Friday a group of international observers ahead of upcoming Sunday's municipal elections.
00:36In Palestine, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that at least 89 Palestinians lost their lives in the last 24 hours as a result of attacks by the Israeli army and the famine that this plague in the region.
00:51Hello, welcome to From the South. I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Derezu Studios in Havana, Cuba. We begin with the news.
01:14Cuba celebrated National Rebellion Day with a ceremony in the central province of Diego de Ávila.
01:19More than 10,000 people attended. The president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro, were in attendance as well.
01:27Every July 26, the Cuban people commemorate the 72nd anniversary assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks.
01:36This event marked the beginning of the final effort of the Cuban revolutionary process and resulted in the first socialist revolution in Latin America.
01:42July 26, 1933, a group of young Cubans led by Fidel Castro carried out a joint assault at the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes in Bayamo with the aim of unleashing the armed struggle against the dictatorship of Urgencio Batista.
01:57Every year, Cuban people commemorate these days, symbolizing their unity and denouncing the criminal blockade imposed by the United States.
02:03During the ceremony, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marjero Cruz reaffirmed Cuba's fidelity to the ideas based on the principles of the revolution.
02:18On this day of memory and commitment, we reaffirm our unwavering loyalty to the ideas of Martí, Fidel, and Raúl, a continuity based on the principles of the revolution.
02:38And the Cuban Prime Minister also highlighted the stability of Ciego de Ávila province as well as the fulfillment of tasks in the political, economic, and social fields.
02:46Ciego de Ávila deserved to be the host city for July 26, given its stability in fulfilling the main tasks in the political, economic, and social fields, to which an effective system of work and coordination between the party, the government, and the people has contributed,
03:12where the active participation of the youngest members is notable, expressing and guaranteeing continuity.
03:21And in Cuba, with the participation of over 370 friends from 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, including the United States,
03:29a solidified meeting to commemorate National Rebellion Day takes place.
03:34The meeting was held in Giraldo Córdoba Cardín Multipurpose Hall in Ciego de Ávila, the province where the national events for July 26 are held on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the attack on the Moncal and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks.
03:46During the event, voices were raised against the blockade imposed on the Cuban nation for over 60 years in an arbitrary manner.
03:55Cuba demonstrates its political anti-imperialism on the international stage and welcomes young people from the Middle East for their training as medical professionals.
04:03And in Bolivia, a ceremony was held to commemorate the attack on the Moncara barracks, which marked the beginning of the revolution led by Fidel Castro in Cuba.
04:26Bolivian President Luis Arcez recalled the words of Commander Fidel Castro when he said that history is not made by one particular man, but by the people.
04:36At the same time, Arcez reflected on unity, explaining that it is the condition for victory and that it is not an empty formulation but rather historical political value.
04:45July 26, 1953, more than 100 young Cubans turned the Moncara and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks to overthrow dictator Fulgencio Batista,
04:52a moment that politically laid the foundation for the fight for freedom over the next five years.
05:05The powerful in the north will never forgive the fact that the first socialist country in the hemisphere was precisely the first colony they conquered when they first became an empire.
05:17What an irony of history. Cuba, the first prey of Yankee imperialism. Cuba, the first to emancipate itself and set the course for the decline of that Yankee imperialism.
05:31It was not for nothing that she affirmed that the Cuban revolution is the most important cardinal event in Latin America and the Caribbean.
05:39In this sense, the Bolivian president emphasized that this celebration aims to invite reflection on the processes of change that are currently shaking the world.
05:50Sisters and brothers, on this 72nd anniversary of Moncara, may these celebrations serve to make us think, reflect, look and evaluate with sincerity what we are going through as a process of change.
06:06To remedy what has been done wrongly and to walk together towards victory.
06:13Sisters and brothers, on this...
06:15Venezuela's National Electoral Council welcomed Friday a group of international observers ahead of upcoming Sunday's municipal elections.
06:33National Electoral Council's President Elvis Amoroso highlight that the observers are renowned intellectuals and personalities from universities of different parts of the world and stress that they represent another guarantee for the good results of the upcoming elections.
06:46Amoroso also emphasized that they will be exceptional witnesses of how a highly democratic and peace-loving people will once again vote to elect their authorities in defense of their sovereignty and self-determination.
06:57We have our first break coming up. Remember you can join us on Tik Tok at Telesur English where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and much more. We'll be right back. Stay with us.
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07:49In a special interview for Iguana TV, the president of the multimedia news platform Telesur, Patricia Villegas explained some of the fundamental elements necessary for Telesur to continue its work as a voice for the peoples of the global south.
08:02Telesur has not been immune to the economic aggressions against the Bolivarian revolution, the economic aggressions against the Cuban revolution, the Curetat against Bolivia, of the permanent session against Nicaragua, which are the countries that sustain us at this moment.
08:20There were others who left, but their departures did not even manage to disrupt or undermine the project.
08:28Being able to move to Cuba to settle such an important capacity has been fundamental to resistance.
08:35So I would say that the architecture with which it was created, the way it was designed, but then implementing that architecture has been key.
08:44Another thing that is fundamental is that Telesur has a very committed arterial column of workers.
08:51We lost a lot of workers during the rough toughest years of the economic war against Venezuela, like many of the media, institutions and other areas.
09:01But there is a group of workers who are what I call the backbone of the channel, who never left despite the difficult circumstances.
09:11They have made Telesur more than just a job. It is their life's work and that has allowed us, even when there have been moments when we have done it, we have done it better, easier, more difficult, but we have always been there.
09:26In turn, the president of Telesur's multi-platform news organization, Patricia Villegas, praised Telesur's work over the past two decades in defending sovereignty in the field of communication, maintaining the legacy of Commander Hugo Chavez.
09:40Commander Chavez arrives with that joy, that energy and says, OK, one hears Telesur and it is divine music, it is music to our ears because these ideas that we have cultivated for so long and now they are becoming reality.
09:55And I believe Commander Chavez, although he was an extraordinary visionary, he never imagined that Telesur would be so necessary for Venezuela in the dispute over the narrative in defense of its sovereignty from the communicational point of view, as we have experienced all these years.
10:12And when I say Telesur, I don't just mean Telesur, but us as a part of the ecosystem.
10:17I believe that Telesur has also inspired many small television stations that are called something else, but which, like seeing what we have done, others do better in other places.
10:27I don't want this to be understood as idolatry or false modesty.
10:32There is work that has been done that is perfectible, of course, but it has inspired other people to do it in a world that needs more and more communicative expressions that defend what is right, that defend ethics, that defend, let's say, the values that we have given ourselves as humanity.
10:53Similarly, the president of the multi-platform Telesur recalls some of the threats that this media outlet has faced from extreme right-wing sectors, which has been countered by the close relationship that Telesur maintains with the Venezuelan people.
11:06There has been pressure, not precisely from that side, but pressure from the Venezuelan right and ultra-right-wing.
11:13When President Maduro wins in the first election after the death of Commander Chavez, when he faces Enrique Caprile Sadowski in an election he won with 400,000 votes more or less, Caprile, with that anger, remember that statement and the anger, reached Telesur with some motorbike riders who wanted to enter the headquarters.
11:36We had to set up live cameras and I had to use a microphone to say that we were going to attack the headquarters, that we were a multi-state.
11:47And then the Chavistas arrived to defend the headquarters and we didn't know which one to be more afraid of because of the number of people, because this also happens with Telesur.
11:56People have a very intimate relationship with the channel, that is why I say that Telesur is a heritage of the people of the south.
12:03In this sense, Patricia Villegas highlighted the work of the multi-platform and its commitment to bringing human stories to all its users.
12:11We were in Libya for months. We were bombed by NATO. We saw the killing of Gaddafi. We were there.
12:19We talked about the first concentration camps of slavery that were set up when the fall of the government of Muammar al-Gaddafi.
12:30It was not a coverage of only a moment. And it is also another key, I would say. Telesur is not only in the moment when all the media is there. Telesur stays for a long time because a story needs to be told.
12:44It unfolds. And it is the same that happens with the tragedies in hurricanes. For example, they show you the victims, the people who suffer, who cry.
12:53But they never show you the people who resist, who create again, who rebuild their houses again and who clean the streets so that life can return to a normal course.
13:02Continuous coupes in Venezuela have been developed in recent years. There are attacks on the electrical system and assassination attempts on political leaders of the country.
13:14All of them aim at the destabilization that the population has experienced.
13:18People were marked by the violence with which the political process of the Bolivarian revolution was threatened.
13:25Let's remember what the Venezuelan people went through 15 years ago when a media coup took place in that country. Let's see.
13:33Venezuela has experienced conspiracies that have worked against the peace of the Republic since the attempted assassination of President Nigonaz Maduro in August 2018.
13:44Even invasion items through the failed and neutralized operation Gideon in 2020, Telesur reported all these events to the world.
14:01Venezuela has been weathering the storm in all these aspects.
14:06And from Telesur we have tried in some way to provide coverage as faithful as possible to what the Venezuelan people from the Civic Military Police Union have been doing to counteract these scenarios.
14:23False flag operations, destabilization plans, the more than 1,000 sanctions and coercive measures against Venezuela have been recounted step by step by our journalistic team.
14:35When this type of destabilizing situation is generated against a South American nation, which of course is part of a whole Latin American ideology, it does not cease to be worrying in the first instance as a citizen.
14:52Something is happening, a nation that has also traced a path of independence, that its own population is trying to resist the locate maintained by the United States.
15:03And there is a responsibility of Telesur presenter to carry that news, to tell the facts, to tell the events in a responsible way.
15:12Why? Because at the end of the day, it is the citizen who is going to make a decision in a free manner with a self-determination to prepare one to give the news on Telesur.
15:23I believe it is more than our journalistic responsibility. It is more linked to human responsibility.
15:29In 2015, the Obama administration declared Venezuela a threat to the security of the United States, an act that was rejected by the people of the world.
15:39Every time we narrate a news item, every time we cover a news item related to the aggressions against Venezuela, we understand that we have to say it. Why? Because, well, so that they realize that in Venezuela there is a process of transformation towards a more just society, and that Venezuela wants to be part of this great whole process of changing things on the planet.
16:02The news in Venezuela does not stop. The national government continues to dismantle acts of conspiracy against the citizens. The international media continues to carry out a discrediting campaign against the country until Telesur becomes the voice of the people of Latin America and the Caribbean to inform with the truth these events against the peace of Venezuela.
16:25Now for our second and final short break coming up, before we invite you to visit our Facebook page at Telesur English, you will be able to watch our top stories, special live coverage, and much more. Follow our page and activate the information button to stay up-to-date on the world's most recent events.
16:38And final break, don't go away.
16:40Welcome back.
17:00Brazil's largest agricultural export to the United States is coffee. Nevertheless, there are reasons to believe that the tariffs threatened by the Trump administration won't damage the industry as much as U.S. citizens.
17:09think it will. Our correspondent, Brian Mir, has more.
17:14Since President Trump announced that the U.S. will impose 50% tariffs on all Brazilian products, many people are wondering what will happen to its largest agricultural import, coffee, a commodity which has undergone boom and bust cycles for centuries.
17:29One hundred years ago here in Paraiba they produced a lot of coffee. There are historical records showing that there used to be over 6 million coffee trees here. Then, there was a problem with a fungus, and the government support dropped. So when there was a price crash, the industry was wiped out.
17:51Even though around one third of all coffee drank in the U.S. comes from Brazil, this only represents around 17% of the coffee that is actually grown there.
18:01Half of all coffee grown in Brazil is exported to the European Union, and around a quarter of it is consumed in Brazil, where unlike the coffee shipped abroad, it is roasted, ground, and packaged, generating more jobs and profit for the sector.
18:16A tariff, a tariff that is set on all products equally won't affect all products the same way, coffee that is roasted, ground and bagged in Brazil for local consumption has boomed during the last few years, due to climatic factors, causing the price to nearly double.
18:35So if the tariffs cost the price to drop, I think that in the case of the coffee value chain, there is a margin that will help absorb any possible losses.
18:52Many of the old coffee towns are now historic landmarks. In Paraíba, where strains of Arabica coffee that had disappeared across the rest of Brazil have been preserved, and after nearly a century of neglect are now cultivated for the gourmet market, people remain optimistic.
19:08We believe that even in the case of a market disturbance, coffee is a popular beverage all over the world, and certainly, if the product has good quality, people will continue to pay for it.
19:25It's hard to predict exactly what will happen when and if the Trump administration imposes and maintains its tariffs.
19:32But one thing for certain is that people are not going to stop drinking coffee.
19:37Brian Mir, tell us, sir. Are ya paraíba.
19:55In Palestine, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that in the last 24 hours, at least 89 Palestinians have lost their lives as a result of the Israeli army's attacks and the famine at least plaguing the region.
20:13According to the Health Authority, among the dead are nine people who were looking for food and water, and with 45 others who were injured.
20:20The Gaza Government Information Office reported that nearly 122 deaths from starvation and malnutrition are the direct result of the blockade imposed by Israel, which has harmed the lives of many women, children and elderly people.
20:33The Zionist army was condemned for attacking citizens in the west of Gaza City, while they were receiving a truckload of flour, killing four and injuring several.
20:42Like this, we have found the end of this news brief.
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20:57For Telesur English, I'm with Roberto Matos. Thank you for watching.
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