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00:00First results in Bolivia indicate that the country is heading towards a run-off between Rodrigo Paz Pereira from the Christian Democrat Party and Jorge Tuto Quiroga from the Free Alliance.
00:23Venezuela rejects U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean Sea and what the South American country describes as a misinformation machine.
00:36And hospitals in Gaza reported on Sunday that at least 11 people, including two children, have died of starvation and severe malnutrition in the last 24 hours.
00:47Hello and welcome to From the South. My name is Belen de los Santos. I'm from Vincelso Studios in Havana, Cuba. We begin with the news.
00:56We begin with the information following Election Day in Bolivia.
01:14The Supreme Electoral Tribunal has announced their preliminary results with 91.32 of the tallies counted.
01:22Right-wing candidate Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democrat Party was in the lead with 32.08 percent of the votes.
01:31That is 1,546,892 votes.
01:36In second place was the candidate of the Free Alliance Party, Jorge Tuto Quiroga, with 26.94 percent of the votes.
01:44Both candidates will go to the second round on October 19th.
01:48The Supreme Electoral Tribunal President, Oscar Jacenteufeo, said that the word pledge was kept and that the preliminary results attest to it.
01:58And after this election results in Bolivia that were released, let's review the profile of the Christian Democrat Party candidate Rodrigo Paz Pereira.
02:13Rodrigo Paz was born on September 22nd in 1967 in the city of Santiago de Compostela in Spain,
02:19while his family was in exile during a time of military dictatorships in the country.
02:24Paz is the son of former President Jaime Paz Zamora, who governed under the auspices of dictator Hugo Banzer.
02:33He began his political career in 2002 as a deputy for two terms and later became first a councilman and then mayor of the city of Carijá in the south of the country in 2015.
02:45His time as mayor is one of the most controversial chapters of his career due to the fact that the several works promoted by him were questioned for alleged overpricing and execution failures.
02:57During his campaign, he has issued sexist statements and against laws in defense of women victims of gender-based violence.
03:05In addition, his running mate, Edman Lara, former police captain, was dismissed in 2024 for disciplinary proceedings, despite presenting himself as a corruption whistleblower.
03:22And now a little more about the candidate of the Free Democratic Alliance, Jorge Tuto Quiroga.
03:28Let's see more.
03:29Jorge Tuto Quiroga Ramírez, born in Cochabamba on May 5, 1960, is an engineer and business administrator who studied at several U.S. universities.
03:39After working with the multinational IBM, Quiroga began his political career under the mentorship of Hugo Banzer, Bolivia's military dictator from 1971 to 1978.
03:52Years later, Banzer ran for president again, assuming office in 1997 with Quiroga as his vice president.
04:02At 65, Quiroga remains a neoliberal politician advocating for the privatization of public enterprises, a policy that he first implemented in the year 2001 when he served as interim president, replacing Banzer.
04:16During his brief presidency, he enforced the privatization of state-owned companies and adopted radical neoliberal economic measures, which many argue led the widespread poverty in Bolivia.
04:29Quiroga has run for president multiple times, including in 2005, 2014, and 2020, but was unsuccessful on each of those occasions.
04:40In 2019, he took part in the coup d'etat that deposed the government of Evo Morales.
04:46And in this context, the president of the plurian national state of Bolivia, Luis Arce, posted on his social media account X after the presidential election voting concluded.
05:02He said,
05:02I salute and congratulate every Bolivian woman and men who went to the polls today to exercise their civic right and duty to our country and democratically elect the next president of our plurian national state of Bolivia.
05:16As the national government, we have made every effort to ensure a peaceful and transparent electoral process, despite constant internal and external attacks aimed at sabotaging it.
05:28We have succeeded.
05:29Now, the Bolivian people have the floor.
05:31We are confident that in the second round, our population will once again reaffirm that Bolivians resolve our problems peacefully, demonstrating once again the democratic vocation that has always characterized us.
05:44Democracy has prevailed.
05:46Long live Bolivia in its bicentennial.
05:49Long live our democracy.
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08:36Welcome back to From the South. We continue with more information.
08:39Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López rejected the United States military deployment in the Caribbean Sea
08:45and what he describes as the Nazi-style disinformation machine.
08:50The head of the Bolivarian Defense stated that his country is facing a battle between the truth and the lies
08:56created by Washington's warmongering media machine in reference to the U.S. allegations
09:01about the presence of drug cartels in the Caribbean Sea, specifically in Venezuelan territory.
09:08According to the government official, Washington ignores the United Nations report
09:12clarifying that Venezuela is a country free of illicit crops and laboratories for processing them
09:19and stressed that 90 percent of drug trafficking is carried out in the Pacific Ocean towards the United States.
09:31War is built up aggressively. Firstly, public opinion is created, which is what they're doing right now,
09:37with a strong positioning.
09:42Yesterday, they said they were going to carry out a deployment in the Caribbean Sea to fight the cartels.
09:49I asked the United States, aren't you going to deploy forces in the Pacific Ocean
09:53where almost 90 percent of the drugs pass through to the United States?
09:58Is the Caribbean the problem? Is it Venezuela?
10:02Are the cartels then in Venezuela?
10:04Are the coca crops in Venezuela? I asked myself.
10:08It's just a narrative that they want to impose in order to attack Venezuela
10:11by constructing lies to turn them into truths.
10:15In the best style of Goebbels, the head of the Nazi propaganda,
10:18it is the truth against the lie.
10:21They have a great communication apparatus to spread their lies and construct false positives.
10:27Anyone who wants to fabricate a lie can do so,
10:30and nothing happens, because there is no law.
10:33There is no international rule of law,
10:35because the international law is headless.
10:38And in this context, the Group of Friends in Defense of the United Nations Charter
10:45issued a statement condemning the latest United States threat against Venezuela,
10:50warning of the threat of the use of force
10:52in an attempt to undermine Venezuelan sovereignty and independence.
10:56The member states of the group noted that with great concern,
11:00the reported intention of the government of the United States of America
11:04to initiate military actions in Latin America,
11:08using the fight against drugs as an excuse for an open military intervention in the region.
11:14They reaffirmed their unwavering solidarity with Venezuela
11:17while rejecting in the strongest terms any policy,
11:21including through covert or overt actions,
11:24as well as the vindication of anachronic doctrines
11:26that seek regime change in sovereign states under any pretext,
11:30including in Venezuela.
11:34And in this regard, the Venezuelan government thanked on Friday
11:39the support of the international organization
11:42precisely through a post on his Telegram account.
11:45The Venezuelan foreign minister, Ivan Gil,
11:48shared on behalf of the President Nicolás Maduro,
11:50we extend our sincere gratitude to the Group of Friends
11:54in Defense of the UN Charter for their solidarity with Venezuela
11:58and their steadfast rejection of U.S. military threats
12:01and defabricated, unfounded narratives used to justify them.
12:12And in Argentina, the Taxi Drivers' Union demonstrated on Sunday
12:16in support of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
12:20The taxi drivers gathered outside her home in Buenos Aires.
12:23The former president is currently under house arrest,
12:27waiting for a decision on her appeal request.
12:29The taxi drivers expressed their support and called for her release,
12:33claiming that she had been a victim of political, media,
12:37and judicial persecution orchestrated by concentrated economic powers.
12:42The former president saluted the crowd,
12:44waving from her balcony amid chants and applause in support of her.
12:48And what we wanted to do today is to express,
12:56in principle our gratitude to Cristina,
12:58because in the cab, in our activity,
13:01the cab workers have class consciousness.
13:04We have lived the best years in the history of the cab.
13:07I will give you average data.
13:09Every three and a half years the 0 km cars were renewed,
13:13today you cannot change a car.
13:15Secondly, you had to open six or seven hours,
13:18and you had enough and enough to live well,
13:20the first one, and the second one,
13:23which is the most important,
13:24that we absolutely consider that the sentence is arbitrary,
13:28that she needs immediate freedom,
13:30because she is innocent.
13:31There are many of our comrades who belong to Peronism,
13:39and we recognize that the best years we had
13:41with the three or four years old cars,
13:44we had a good level of revenue that allowed us
13:46to have an activity in full progress.
13:49A good job stability.
13:51And, well, no liberalism came with its usual policies,
13:54even in Ober's paperwork it appeared how they wanted
13:57to enter the continent, when the right wing won.
13:59Because before it was not politically convenient for them,
14:03they were going to have many obstacles,
14:05and the regulation really affected our activity
14:07to a greater extent.
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14:55welcome back to from the south we now continue with more information hospitals in gaza reported
15:10on sunday that at least 11 people including two children died of starvation and severe
15:16malnutrition in the last 24 hours alone according to the enclave health authorities the humanitarian
15:21crisis is worsening due to the locate imposed by israel on humanitarian aid which results in a
15:28shortage of food and medical supplies on the other hand the united nations highlighted that between
15:33may 27th and august at least 1760 people were killed while searching for food for his part the
15:42palestinian ministry of health informed that at least 61 900 people have been killed and more than
15:49155 000 others have been wounded by the israeli occupation forces since october of 2023
15:58thousands of israeli protesters gathered on sunday night in talabib to call for an end to the war in
16:09gaza and for the release of the hostages the hostages missing families forum estimated that
16:15around 500 000 people took part in the evening demonstration one of the largest in israel since
16:21the start of the war which has created a serious humanitarian crisis in palestinian territory since
16:27october of 2023 the protest which included blockades on main highways in talabib and jerusalem was
16:34suppressed by israeli police and at least 38 protesters were arrested the protesters denounced
16:41that benjamin netanyahu's government for prolonging the war and the genocide despite the high human
16:48cost of more than 22 months of military aggressions against the palestinian people
16:55and precisely as israeli protesters took to the streets to demand peace and an end to this conflict
17:05in the midst of what international organizations are describing as an unprecedented humanitarian
17:11catastrophe another message to the international community that israelis are not all alike
17:20there is a substantial path within the israeli public
17:26and the israeli occupation in the west bank intensified its offensive with military incursions
17:34arbitrary arrests and settler assaults palestinian youth clashed with israeli forces in the town of
17:41beta south of nablus and in terms ian northeast of ramallah following an occupation military incursion
17:47simultaneously israeli special forces arrested two young men in al-mari refugee camp south of ramallah
17:56and four other palestinians were arrested in the towns of kabatia south of yenin although no injuries
18:03were reported a group of settlers intervened in a house arrest in the eastern area causing material damage
18:10these events take place in a context of increasing violence against the palestinian population
18:16and their property in the west bank under the pretext of imposing the so-called israeli sovereignty
18:23over the territory
18:24we now move on to other topics on sunday akateri officials said that a draft agreement to end the
18:35fighting between the democratic republic of the congo and the m23 was shared with the government
18:40of the country and the rebels the news comes ahead of an august 18 deadline agreed last month between
18:47kinshasa and the rwanda-backed rebel group to reach a peace deal both parties responded positively
18:55and expressed their will to continue negotiations the roadmap of the declaration of principles signed
19:01on july 19th in qatar embassaged that negotiations would begin on august 8th and that a final agreement
19:08would be reached by this monday qatar is currently hosting an important negotiating session in doha
19:15aimed at following up on the implementation on the declaration and finalizing an agreement
19:22neither kinshasa nor the m23 have commented on the latest statements
19:28and in pakistan heavy rains have caused flooding and landslides which have killed 350 people over the
19:49last 48 hours people have complained about the authorities delay in issuing evacuation orders
19:55many claim that no alerts were issued over mass loudspeakers the traditional method used in remote
20:01areas moreover there are reports of several people still missing under the rubble due to landslides
20:07caused by the floods residents have urged the pakistani government to contribute to the construction
20:13and repair of affected homes as well as assistance in transferring people who need to go to a shelter
20:19in this way the people who have lost their homes due to the false floods and landslides were asking the government for help
20:31when the rain came the water flooded our house the girls gathered everything and took it to the mosque while we stood there watching helplessly
20:43our house was destroyed now this is our situation we spend our nights under the open sky passing time here
20:51last night's rain fell directly on us we had no choice we urged the government to at least help us rebuild a kitchen
21:00and provide us with a tent so we can live in it for the time being we have no shelter no belongings and only the landlord's place
21:08we go now to italy as large-scale fires have broken out in several areas of the south of the country
21:17local authorities reported that fire brigades are still struggling to extinguish the flames
21:21and are trying to control their spread to other regions they also warned that the fire could have lasting effects
21:28on health and the environment the authorities declared a state of emergency
21:32in several southern areas due to the strong winds from the northwest to the southeast and from the southeast to the south
21:41flames and pollution could also affect all the region's municipalities
21:46and a magnitude 6 earthquake hit indonesia's sulawesi island on sunday leaving at least 32 people injured
21:59according to the indonesian national agency for disaster countermeasures the quake was located
22:04at a depth of 10 kilometers shook the postal regency and was felt in the nearby areas the agency
22:12also informed that the natural event caused significant material damage in the area and that the people were injured
22:19two of them critically had been transferred to hospitals for treatment there were no immediate reports of death
22:26indonesia sits on the so-called pacific ring of fire a highly seismically active zone
22:33where different planet plates of the earth crossed meet and create a large number of earthquakes
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