00:00In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro affirmed that the country will never be a colony of
00:16anyone and that Venezuela maintains a policy of peaceful democracy in the face of aggression
00:20from the United States.
00:22In the United States, the government shutdown will continue next week following the failure
00:29of a new vote on Friday in the Senate, and in Lebanon, hundreds commemorate the first
00:37anniversary of the assassination of Hezbollah resistance movement leaders.
00:42Hello, welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Delezu Studios in Havana,
00:50Cuba.
00:51In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro affirmed that the country will never be a colony of
01:08anyone and that the country maintains a policy of peaceful democracy in the face of aggressions
01:13from the United States.
01:15During the International Conference Colonialism, Neocolonialism and the Territorial Dispossessions
01:19of Western Imperialism, the president made a call to the people to fight for their dignity
01:24and their right to exist in a sovereign and peaceful country in the face of imperial threats
01:28in the region.
01:29Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro also ratified his country's commitment to peaceful
01:33diplomacy and his anti-imperialist character.
01:35The event was attended by more than 130 delegates from 59 countries, which discussed new models
01:41of colonization and the right of peoples to coexist in peace and harmony with one another.
01:56We know enough about diplomacy and we could paraphrase Chávez from that February 29, 2004, when he
02:03declared the anti-imperialist character of the Bolivarian Revolution of the 21st century.
02:09There is enough diplomacy here, diplomacy for peace, if peace is wanted, and we seek peace,
02:16and diplomacy, also to confront the new imperial attempt to colonize our America, and fight however
02:23we have to fight, in the stage that we have to, in order to preserve the dignity and the
02:28right to life, to peace, and the existence of our people.
02:32During an exclusive interview for our multi-platform Telesur, Russia's representative for Latin America
02:43and the Caribbean, Alexander Stenning emphasized that the fight against colonialism and neocolonialism
02:47deserves deep attention from the international community.
02:50The fight against colonialism and neocolonialism is a matter deserving deep attention from the entire
03:05international community because of the lasting effects they cause. Contemporary neocolonial practices
03:14worldwide present a major obstacle to development, not only for the countries of the Global South
03:23in Asia and Latin America, but also for the global economy overall. Therefore, it is essential
03:34to restructure the political and economic spheres, based on true multi-polarity, so that economic,
03:48political, social, and cultural neocolonial practices no longer hinder the global development we all hoped for.
03:56At the same time, Russia's representative for Latin America and the Caribbean emphasized that combating
04:04drug trafficking is an important issue that must be addressed carefully without deploying forces in the
04:09Caribbean that violate the sovereignty of countries.
04:11The issue of combating drug trafficking is important, but it cannot be addressed through massive force deployments.
04:19Instead, it requires meticulous cooperation among all countries, both drug producers and consumers.
04:32This issue deserves careful, committed work from all involved forces, not demonstrations or threats against the
04:46sovereignty and integrity of sovereign nations, as is currently happening in the Southern Caribbean.
04:56We're going live now to Venezuela to hear statements of the executive vice president of the country, Delcey Rodriguez.
05:01The organization of our communal circuits, in our territories, in our national territory.
05:15If they dare to attack Venezuela, the Venezuelan people is organized, it's ready and trained and enrolled to defend peace.
05:30We're not a country that is a threat to anyone.
05:37We respect international law.
05:42We relate to other countries with brotherhood, cooperation, friendship.
05:47We do not threaten any people.
05:49We do not threaten any—we do not cause damage to any people.
05:54The Venezuelan people today is on permanent alert to defend peace and tranquility in Venezuela to guarantee our peaceful future.
06:07Those who want an aggression against Venezuela will not be able to succeed because they would have to overcome the—
06:19the strength of the spirit of this country to defend its peace and its tranquility.
06:27And we are close to Christmas.
06:29And we already have the Christmas spirit in us with collective harmony and our families to feel more united nationwide.
06:42And a collective responsibility, which is the responsibility of defending Venezuela.
06:48Over the last 100 years, President Maduro said, we have watched this perfect fusion political people, police, and army.
07:00We also saw support from other countries like Colombia.
07:06First of all, we want to acknowledge the courage of our friend, of our brother president from Colombia, Petro.
07:17We are raising the flags of, Latin American and Caribbean countries, we are raising the flags of truth.
07:24We don't have anything to do with drug traffic to the United States.
07:30It is something that pertains to the United States, to its system, internal, domestic, its health system, which does not guarantee a cure for addicts.
07:47And they want to solve their domestic issues declaring wars on other countries and try to disturb tranquility in a whole region.
07:57So this is not against just Venezuela.
08:00It's against all of the Americas.
08:04They want to create disturbance just like they did with the economic war, which has created an influx of immigrants.
08:13And they have disturbed stability in our region, in Venezuela, and they are trying to attack Venezuela.
08:21But if the Venezuelan people, there's something that has demonstrated its capacity to withstand and heal its own wounds in the economy and seek economic development for our own people through its own sacrifice and will determination.
08:43And today we are guaranteeing peace.
08:48And when we say there is a fusion, a union between the people and the military and the police, it is because we are integrated at every single territorial level, but at systemic integration as well, protection, defense of Venezuela and its peace.
09:08And to wrap up, you have said Venezuela will not kneel before any empire.
09:15What can you say to the US empire?
09:18Yesterday, President Maduro said it very clearly, we will never yield.
09:23We will never yield.
09:24We will not hear any other call other than that from the Venezuelan people.
09:33The Venezuelan people loves independence, self-determination.
09:38We do believe in the right of peoples to decide their own destiny, their own political system or economic system and social systems based on our culture, our national identity.
09:52Above all, the most sacred thing is based on our history, the history of liberators, the blood that is in that liberator's blood, which is present in present generations, people that believe sovereignty is sacred.
10:17We were listening to the...
10:18We were listening to the statements of the executive vice president, Sergio Rodriguez, dressing the people in the framework of the special military drill that is taking place across the nation as the country prepares itself even more and gets ready to defend the sovereignty of the nation.
10:34Let's now take our first break.
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10:43Stay with us.
10:44Welcome back.
10:45The United States citizens continue to rally against President Trump's anti-immigrant policies
10:49while the executive deploys more federal troops to suppress the protests in different cities.
10:50Let's hear more details with our correspondent, Jorge Gestoso.
11:21At this hour, troops from the Department of War, ordered by the Secretary of Homeland Security, are on their way to Chicago, a sanctuary city, in order to quell the protests against the policies of anti-immigration of this government.
11:39Most definitely, there have been protests all along this area, just facing the headquarters of the ICE headquarters, and there have been arrests.
11:52There have been detentions against in the last hour.
11:55But the thing that was really calling the attention of all the media, even in the United States, and the repudiation of most of the American people, are images that show a raid that has been taking place night before yesterday in a south building of Chicago,
12:13Chicago, where 300 members of ICE and the National Guard were taking the residents of that building, mostly Venezuelans and Afro-Americans, even in the middle of the night with a helicopter surveilling the area, and they were taking into detention.
12:36Some people were talking about 37 of them, that there were Venezuelans, Mexican, Colombians, and Nigerians, with the argument that they are members of the Trent of Aragua drug cartel, and there is no proof at all.
12:55But most definitely, the idea, what it was showing is an increased use of violence in these procedures.
13:04So much so, that Veronica Castro, that is a member of a coalition in defense of the immigrants, says, quote, this is not security, this is terror.
13:18We get back to you now.
13:21The government shutdown in the United States will continue next week, following the failure of a new vote on Friday in the Senate, where a division between Democrats and Republicans parties shows no signs of abating.
13:31The Republicans failed to pass their budget extension bill until November 21 due to lack of support from the Democrats.
13:37Republicans have a majority in the Senate with 53 seats out of 100, but they need 60 affirmative votes to pass the budget package.
13:45Several federal agencies and about 750,000 workers have been without funding since Wednesday, when the U.S. fiscal year ended and Congress was unable to provisionally extend the budget.
13:56The Senate meeting this weekend is no longer likely due to the lack of agreement between the parties.
14:02Well, we just heard that Speaker Johnson said the House is out again.
14:11Johnson and the House Republicans care more about protecting the Epstein files than protecting the American people.
14:20And the bottom line is today we saw the Republicans run the same play and they got the same result.
14:29The question is, will they change course?
14:32The votes aren't there.
14:34It's clear from today's vote.
14:36The bottom line is that there's a simple way to end the shutdown.
14:39Come and sit down and negotiate a fair bill with us.
14:42Yes.
14:43And what does the President do?
14:46$20 billion to Argentina while our soybean farmers have literally had their entire market dry up.
14:53So what else has he done in response to our serious, serious request to have negotiations?
15:00He posts a deep fake video with sombreros in it and he thinks that's funny.
15:07Almost 30,000 Hondurans voluntarily returned to the country or were deported from different places
15:14of origin so far in 2005, according to the National Institute of Migration.
15:18According to data published by a state institution on its website, most of the 29,749 arrivals of nationals
15:25until September 25 are for reasons of deportation followed by regular and voluntary returns.
15:31According to I&M count, the United States tops the list of countries of origin with 22,595 people,
15:41followed by Mexico with 3,798 and Guatemala with 3,318.
15:56The death toll from a school collapsed in Indonesia rose to 14 on Friday after recovery crews pulled
16:03multiple bodies from beneath the rubble.
16:05Dozens of students remain unaccounted for and the death toll is expected to increase.
16:09Rescuers initially searched by hand for survivors after a building caved in Monday.
16:14But with no more signs of life detected by Thursday, they turned to heavy excavators equipped with jackhammers
16:19to help them progress more rapidly.
16:21On Friday evening, they had found nine bodies bringing to confirm death toll to 14 with nearly 50 students still unaccounted for.
16:28Nine bodies we found yesterday are still undergoing the identification process, and 49 are still missing.
16:45The difficulty is that these victims are children, so they don't have ID cards or fingerprint records.
16:54Therefore, one way to identify them is through DNA testing.
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