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00:00The National Protection Union of Colombia issued a statement reporting that the security
00:12would be reinforced for Alvaro Uribe's case judge Sandra Heredia.
00:20The Argentine government orders the sale of 100% of Intercargo, the state-owned ramp services company.
00:30Saudi Arabia and France have opened a three-day conference at the United Nations with the aim of recognizing Palestinian statehood.
00:42Hello, welcome to From the South. I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Dele Sur Studios in Havana, Cuba. We begin with the news.
01:00A Colombian court has found the country's former president, Alvaro Uribe, guilty of witness tampering.
01:06Uribe, who served as president from 2002 to 2010, was convicted on Monday of trying to persuade witnesses to lie for him in a separate investigation,
01:14and the prosecutor is asking for a nine-year prison sentence.
01:18The case dates back to 2012, when Uribe accused the left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda of hatching a plot to falsely link him to right-wing paramilitary groups in the country.
01:28The court decided against Prosecuting Cepeda and pursued his claims against Uribe, who becomes Colombia's first-ever former head of state to be convicted of a crime.
01:37Also on Monday, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, denied that there is political persecution from his government against former president Alvaro Uribe Vélez.
01:52This is in response to the accusation of a senator of the party of Uribe, who accused the head of state of influencing the judicial decision against the former president.
02:00In his context, President Petro wrote on his ex-account that his government does not persecute anyone for political, sexual, gender, or religious reasons,
02:09emphasizing that he does not pressure this justice system, which is completely independent from the government.
02:14President Petro also criticized journalism for its work during the judicial process against Uribe and the pressures exerted against the judge, Sandra Lidiana Heredia.
02:23And in addition, Colombian President Gustavo Petro formally responded to statements made by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had criticized the court ruling against former President Alvaro Uribe.
02:39Through his social media accounts, the Secretary of State asserted that Uribe was a victim of persecution by radical judges, claiming that his only crime was defending his country.
02:48The Colombian president responded quickly, describing these statements as unacceptable interference in the country's internal affairs.
02:55He emphasized that the world must respect Colombia's judges and recalled that many magistrates have been murdered for their commitment to justice.
03:02Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio, joining the rejection, pointed out that Rubio's comments were an attack on Colombia's sovereignty.
03:11And the National Protection Unit of Colombia issued a statement reporting that security would be reinforced for Alvaro Uribe's case, Judge Sandra Heredia.
03:26A request for protective measures was submitted on February 11th, and after a risk assessment, the unit concluded it was necessary to strengthen the 44th Criminal Circuit Judge's protection.
03:36In recent dates, media related to the former president, who has been found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud in a landmark trial Monday, were dedicated to profile the magistrate in addition to publishing her personal and family information.
03:55And during the 61st meeting of the OPEC and OPEC Plus Joint Ministerial Monetary Committee, Venezuela reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining stability in the global energy market.
04:07The Minister of Hydrocarbons, Delsis Rodriguez, emphasized the importance of reviewing recent trends in crude oil supply and demand, particularly given the uncertainties and pressures severely facing the global economy.
04:18During the meeting, the established production quotas were evaluated and ways to enhance transparency and coordination among member countries were discussed.
04:26According to a report by the International Energy Agency, OPEC Plus countries increased their oil production by 1.2 million barrels per day in June.
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04:48Welcome back. In Ecuador, the number of state ministries was reduced from 20 to 14 with the argument of improving the country's efficiency.
05:14However, according to various analysts, this is unfounded and is not part of our structure for Ecuador's growth.
05:20Our colleague Gabriela Mena with the report.
05:23On July 24, the government announced the reduction and merger of different ministries of the state, leaving 14.
05:33The government spokeswoman stated that the objective is to improve the quality of service without giving clear details of how many layoffs this will imply within the public sector, apart from the 5,000 that were announced.
05:43Meanwhile, for President Daniel Novoa, his decision is correct.
05:50The state becomes more efficient, more direct, and also consolidates procedures so that it can better serve the people.
06:00The actions of the Ecuadorian executive have generated strong criticism.
06:07The first criticism is that the decision was based on a prescription, a request, from the International Monetary Fund to give way to the disbursement of loans to Ecuador, but it is not a conscious decision with a deep analysis, affecting the labor stability of families because the reduction of ministries implies a labor cutback.
06:23There is not a technical vision of modernizing the state or really trying to make the state more efficient.
06:33What it is going to do is to produce this job instability for all of us.
06:38The issue is that public services are going to deteriorate because I do not see any reorganization.
06:48Or it has not been shown to say why these items are being eliminated.
06:52What is the criteria?
06:53To which he added that if the government had a clear and not an improvised explanation about the actions it will take on the merger of the ministries, the outlook would be different.
07:04For some analysts, one of the main concerns is the merger of the Ministry of Education with the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage, along with the Secretariat of Higher Education.
07:17For example, the Higher Education Secretariat of the Ministry of Education is oppressed if the Ministry of Education has not provided a good service in relation to primary and secondary education.
07:30Imagine that it also takes charge of higher education. Then all these things will demonstrate and show that the public system will deteriorate.
07:42For analysts, Washington Andrade, the decision started from a sense of decline in public institutions as part of the first steps to the privatization of state affairs.
07:51What does this end up being? The pretext for saying that we need private investment, that health is neglected, and we need to privatize certain areas of health, which is what is also going to happen in the oil sector, privatize the oil sector and so on in all areas.
08:09In other words, there is an onslaught of an atrocious neoliberalism.
08:16Meanwhile, different social organizations have already begun to call for marches against the government's decisions, the objective of the protest is clear, to make the executive branch become aware and take a step back in its decision.
08:29They denounce that the people should be heard and that the president should not only work in favor of his elite circle.
08:36In Argentina, the government ordered the sale of 100% of the shares of Intercargo, the state-owned ramp services company.
08:47The measure, signed by Economy Minister Luis Caputo, establishes a period of eight months to complete the transfer, following in the footsteps of other public companies authorized for privatization under basic law.
08:58In addition, Secretary Luis Pierrini was instructed to terminate Intercargo's exclusive concession contract for ramp services.
09:05Public tender, which will be national and international in scope, will be conducted by the Transportation Secretariat and the Public Enterprise Transformation Agency.
09:14In Panama, the Mulino administration has launched an offensive against labor and social rights attacking unions and coding pensions to favor the economic elites.
09:32Our colleague Rekha Chandirahmani with the details.
09:35The right-wing government's onslaught against unions, the deterioration of pensions, the virtual reform of the labor code, the militarization of the country, and the imposition of extractivist projects are not isolated.
09:51There are links in a right-wing chain that seeks to solidify a pro-United States right-wing acts in the region.
09:57It is clear that there is a wave of extreme right-wing rights that is advancing beyond the neoconservatism of the 90s, where what proposed was only a change in the economic paradigm.
10:12Here there is also a cultural, political and social battle that is trying to reverse the progress and social policies.
10:21Mulino's government possesses an advance in the region because there are those who emulate him in the political discourse.
10:27Trump, Milley, Chávez in Costa Rica, who has the same political position as Novoa in Ecuador.
10:33As in Pinochet's Chile, today the script is repeated privatize everything, dismantle rights, and silence resistance.
10:47The Social Security Fund was created in 1941.
10:58In 1979, Panama enters the new liberal economic policy.
11:06From then on, the philosophy is to dismantle labor rights, pensions, housing, health, education, recreation, and the environment.
11:14To dismantle rights.
11:18Panama is today the testing ground where the United States and its allies are testing the militarization of Latin America.
11:27With a discourse of cooperation that hides a new colonial distribution armies protecting mining companies, criminalization of protests, and a government that legitimizes plundering.
11:36Even so, with the resistance of the Panamanian people, who as a collective political subject have awakened in recent years.
11:43This small country that faces a violent onslaught by the U.S. Empire and that seeks above all to make Panama the central axis of U.S. international neo-fascism here in Panama.
11:58We are standing up for the country. We are in a movement of fatherland or death and we will win.
12:04I believe in the youth, even though they are stigmatized. It is they, above all they, who have given the most wonderful and hopeful example that Panama can be different.
12:23And that we can have a society that we truly deserve, and not continue to be a brothel of the United States.
12:33Panamanian youth not only set the tone in recent years, but also changed the rules of the game.
12:40In the last elections they won seats in the assembly, and in the streets they stopped the copper mega-mining project.
12:45Today, they are the living proof that another Panama is possible.
12:50Para Telesur, desde Ciudad de Panamá, Reca Chandiraman.
12:54On Monday, the World Vision Organization published an urgent report revealing the humanitarian crisis facing children in Haiti.
13:03The study, which is based on the testimonies of 840 displaced individuals, reveals that 71.6% of surveyed children have experienced hunger and one in three has dropped out of school.
13:14Additionally, 43.5% exhibit symptoms of trauma and 50% of families have experienced direct violence.
13:21Violence from criminal groups, hunger, and institutional neglect have created a moral crisis in the country that presents the future of an entire generation.
13:29In this context, the World Vision Organization is calling on the international community to take urgent and decisive action in response to this critical situation.
13:43And in the United States, on Monday, in New York City, a gunman went on a shooting rampage that killed five people, including himself.
13:50The shooting took place in a Manhattan skyscraper that houses the headquarters of the National Football League and the offices of several large financial companies.
13:58Among the dead are two men, one woman, and a police officer identified as Diderul Islam.
14:03In addition, one person was reportedly seriously injured and transported to the New York's hospital.
14:08This shooting is the 254th mass shooting in the United States this year, going to the gun violence archive.
14:15And on Monday, President Donald Trump confirmed that he had never visited the private islands of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
14:30Trump added that he had turned down an invitation to visit the islands.
14:34These statements are part of the president's efforts to distance himself from Epstein, with whom he was close in the 1990s.
14:40The president has also changed his story about how the relationship ended.
14:44Initially, his advisers claimed that he expelled Epstein from his Florida residents because of his inappropriate behavior.
14:50However, now the president says he banned Epstein because he hired his employees.
14:54He did not provide names or details.
14:57The president and some of his allies have few conspiracy theories about Epstein's death, creating tensions even among his supporters.
15:10And on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that the new trade agreement between the United States and the European Union
15:16will accelerate the deindustrialization of the old continent.
15:20During his speech at the 11th Pan-Russian Unionville Education Forum, Lavrov stressed that the cost of energy supplies from the U.S.
15:29would be significantly higher than those from Russian resources, a fact he considers would have serious consequences for the European productive system.
15:37The Russian Foreign Minister criticized the European authorities for their position on the signing of a treaty that would involve more expenses,
15:43even though it would have a negative impact on social welfare in their countries.
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16:41Saudi Arabia and France have opened a three-day conference at the United Nations
16:45with the aim of recognizing Palestinian statehood.
16:47The conference began on Monday, a few days after French President Emmanuel Macron announced
16:52that Paris would officially recognize the Palestinian government in September.
16:56In this regard, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barot said that the conference would also
17:01serve as a platform for other European countries to recognize Palestinian statehood, without
17:06clarifying which countries he was referring to.
17:08Meanwhile, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Sal bin Farhan al-Soud said that the
17:13kingdom was seeking World Bank approval to transfer $300 million to Gaza and the West Bank to
17:18address the serious humanitarian crisis in the territory.
17:21The talks are co-shared by 16 other countries and delegations including the United Kingdom,
17:26Ireland and the European Union.
17:29Peace is possible.
17:35We want to build an alternative to the permanent state of war in the region, and this alternative
17:40must go through the two-state solution, Israel and Palestine, living in peace and security.
17:47This is France's historical position, and it is the only possible path.
17:51This conference is therefore a decisive step, a decisive step on the path leading, of course,
18:03to the emergence of this two-state solution, which leads up to the United Nations General
18:08Assembly in September, during which France will formalize, through the voice of the President
18:12of the Republic, its decision for recognition, and during which we will count on the collective
18:17mobilization that must continue before it is too late.
18:24For his part, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Faisal bin Farhan al-Soud, stated that
18:28the creation of a Palestinian state is the only possible way to achieve peace.
18:32For the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, normalization with Israel can only come through the establishment
18:39of a Palestinian state.
18:41That position remains the same, and it is based on a strong conviction that only through the
18:49establishment of a Palestinian state, and only through addressing the legitimate rights
18:55of the Palestinian people to self-determination, can we have sustainable peace and real integration
19:01in the region.
19:02During a press conference of the United Nations, head court of Sur-Arabian Foreign Minister
19:06Prince Faisal bin Farhan reiterated that his country will not establish diplomatic relations
19:10with Israel until an independent Palestinian state is recognized.
19:14The Saudi Foreign Minister was emphatic in pointing out that the Kingdom's position remains
19:19firm.
19:20Israel must fully recognize the rights of the Palestinian people.
19:24These statements coincide with those of French President Emmanuel Macron, who announced that
19:28he will recognize the Palestinian state in September.
19:31Prince bin Farhan also referred to the serious humanitarian situation in Gaza.
19:35He asserted that there are no conditions for talking about peace or agreements, while the
19:39suffering of Gazans, the destruction of their communities, and the constant loss of lives
19:43continue.
19:51And in Palestine, health authorities in Gaza report that the number of people killed by
19:55Israeli bombing is nearly 60,000, while the number of deaths from starvation has risen to
20:00147.
20:01Based on a report from the Gaza Health authorities this Tuesday, the number of Palestinians killed
20:07is 59,911.
20:08According to the authorities, this figure does not include the bodies that remain under rubble.
20:13In addition, the Israeli genocide that has imposed starvation as a form of death has claimed
20:18the lives of 14 Palestinians this Tuesday.
20:20In the sense that this figure rises to 147 deaths from starvation, of which 88 are children.
20:26It is important to remember that Israel has maintained a strict blockade of humanitarian aid since
20:31March 2, drastically worsening the crisis in the coastal enclave.
20:41And the Sudanese government strongly rejects the creation of a parallel government following
20:45the announcement made by the Parliamentary Rapid Support Forces.
20:48The authorities affirm that this is an illegitimate and dangerous action of original stability and
20:52call on the world's governments not to recognize them.
20:56The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed that it is a falsehood and a supreme threat
21:00to national sovereignty.
21:02The commander of the Parliamentary Forces, Mohammed Hamdan Dagallo, will naturally form a coalition
21:07led by the forces he commands during a conference held in Nyala, the largest city in Darfur.
21:13Hamdan Dagallo was appointed president of a presidential council that describes itself as an alternative
21:18government.
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