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00:00In Colombia, President Gustavo Petro met U.S. Representative John McNamara amidst the crisis
00:11sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump's insults and threats. The Balibarian government provided
00:22uniforms and supplies to the tactical units of the Venezuelan Armed Forces.
00:32And Zionist occupation forces in the Gaza Strip are keeping thousands of families displaced
00:37from the eastern part of the territory despite the ceasefire agreement.
00:44Hello and welcome to From the South. I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:49We begin with the news.
01:02On Monday, a meeting was held between the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and the United States
01:07Representative in Bogotá, John McNamara. The dialogue took place amidst the crisis unleashed
01:13by the insults and threats made by U.S. President Donald Trump against his Colombian counterpart.
01:19At the end of the meeting, Heldo de Casa Nariño, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio,
01:25assured that sincere dialogue will always lead to solutions. However, no more details of the meeting
01:31were released. In this context, the White House's threat to impose new tariffs on Colombia did not
01:37materialize. Before entering the meeting with the Washington envoy, President Petro assured that he
01:43was going to demand, not concede.
01:51And in the context of the diplomatic tensions between Colombia and the United States, we invite
01:56now to our studios David Lopez, a human rights expert. Hello David and welcome to From the South.
02:01Yeah, hello. Good evening from Geneva and thank you very much for the invitation.
02:07David, President Gustavo Petro, as we know, has reacted to the actions of the United States
02:12in the Caribbean and its attempts as well to destabilize Venezuela. For this reason,
02:17the U.S. government has decided to increase its hostilities towards Colombia. How do you evaluate
02:22in this context Gustavo Petro's leadership and also what's the stance of the international community
02:27in this matter? Yeah, so what we are witnessing between Washington and Bogota is not just a war
02:35of war, it's a geopolitical realignment in the Caribbean region. Colombia is actually defending
02:42three principles. So the principle of sovereignty, human security, the agrarian reform and the substitution
02:51of illicit crops and the core principle of the United Nations Charter, the prohibition of the threat
03:00or use of force on this context. It's clear on the principle of the UN Charter. This is one of the
03:07things we defended by the Colombian states. And in this context, President Trump's public threats and the
03:14recent letal strikes in the Caribbean arise serious question of international legality and political
03:22legitimacy. And the presence of U.S. warships in the Caribbean has resulted as well in dozens of deaths,
03:31including Colombians, without of course any evidence that they are actually linked to job trafficking.
03:37In the face of this threat, how can Colombia defend its internal interests without yielding to
03:42pressures from the White House? Yeah, so on the international legality, we have some legal basis,
03:51the article 2.4 of the UN Charter, who forbids any threats or use of force against the territorial
04:01integrity or political independence of any state. UN experts, it's important to mention that, have
04:09warned that strong operation and military threats toward Venezuela violate international law and cannot
04:15be justified under the self-defense. And it's the same for Colombia. You know, Colombia has the same
04:22situation right now. Even allegations related to the drug traffic do not justify extrajudicial killings at sea.
04:30And recently, the facts in Colombia are very important to take into account, because Bogota has
04:37announced drone attacks in the Caribbean that killed civilians, local fishermen,
04:42prompting the government to demand UN actions and accountability. So, one of the mechanisms that can
04:48have actually Colombiates to use the international law and, of course, use the UN Charter to defend
04:55on the legality, the interests of the country. Thank you, David, very much for your time here from the South.
05:03Yeah, thank you too. And, of course, again, this is a call we have to make to all Latin America. All the
05:12problems happen right now on Latin America. It's not only a problem of Venezuela. It's not only a problem
05:19of Colombia. It's a problem who can touch all the interests of Latin America. We have to be warning with
05:24that. Yes, indeed. We were speaking to David Lopez, human rights expert in the context of the diplomatic
05:30tensions between Colombia and the United States. And now we go live to Venezuela,
05:35where the National Assembly of the country is holding a special session. Let's listen.
05:39And the Bolivarian Revolution. Thank you, Pope Francis. Thank you, Pope Leo XIV. And thank you
05:54to the people of Venezuela who allowed that we could have today
06:01thanks to the holiness of the people of Venezuela. My long life to Jose Gregorio Hernandez. Thank you,
06:09very much very much. Well, we were listening to the statements of the leader of Nicolás Maduro, Ernesto Guerra,
06:16who was presenting a project before the plenary session of the parliament with new points that
06:25established the points that celebrate with joyfulness this historical event in Venezuela, which was the
06:34canonization of Jose Gregorio Hernandez and Carmen Rendiles. Also in this project that was presented,
06:43involved the education, the institution, educational institutions to include the knowledge, the study
06:50of the life and work of both saints of Venezuela. We want to announce and to greet and applaud the presence of a very special guest
07:02that being from this house today, along with the people, has the responsibility of being the governor of the birth state of Jose Gregorio Hernandez, from the state of Trujillo, Marquez.
07:28I need help sent from St. Jose Gregorio. Give me peace.
07:43Please, you have the word, Deputy Brito. Good afternoon, people of Venezuela. Good afternoon, directives and brothers and sisters, deputies.
07:58Today, without any doubt, we said, and it was said by my predecessor, Deputy, that Venezuela is joyful. Venezuela is celebrating now more than ever,
08:16and we feel proud of being born in this, our homeland. It is a land that is blessed, the best country in the world, our own, that from not having official saints, we now have two on the same day.
08:37That says something. And it says something because it is the first time that the Vatican has risen to the saints from the same nationality in the exception when they canonize the martyrs.
08:58And in some cases, they are given that status because they died from faith. But in that case, only Mother Carmen and Jose Gregorio, it is the only time that two saints have risen on the same day, and they are Venezuelan.
09:20And how beautiful. And how beautiful. And we can't pretend today to take this stand for a political speech.
09:30There is a moment of pause, of a parenthesis. And today we are called by a bigger subject, deeply spiritual, that we celebrate with love and with a lot of faith.
09:47Pope Leon, to which we thank, as Deputy Nicolás said, to him and to Pope Francis, that was the one who authorized this canonizing.
10:02Pope Leon was telling us on Monday that he wishes that works as a strong stimulus for all Venezuelans reunite and know how to recognize themselves as sons and brothers from the same homeland.
10:23Pope Leon, we reflect like this on the present and the future in the light of the virtues that these saints lived in a heroic way.
10:35The Holy Father was calling Venezuelans that this is the time to meet, to have a re-encouncing among Venezuelans.
10:46It is not listed to celebrate Jose Gregorio and Mother Carmen if we feel hate for another Venezuelan.
10:57It is an act of faith, of spirituality.
11:02That is why I believe that it is those values that we should highlight with this situation that is really to celebrate what is happening with Venezuela, with these two saints.
11:17Talking of them is already in agreement.
11:23Mother Carmen dedicated her life to the education, to the taking care of some temples and to the attention of the seminaries where the Catholic preachers formed Jose Gregorio.
11:39What don't we know of Jose Gregorio?
11:42What don't we know of Jose Gregorio?
11:43If we were born looking at his little picture, when something hurt in our body, people would say, ask to Jose Gregorio.
11:53If when we visit any hospital of this country, the sick person may not be there, but Jose Gregorio's picture is on the bed.
12:03That is him.
12:05He is in the heart of Venezuelans.
12:08And today we celebrate, obviously, that who we already knew was a saint and we believed to be a saint since the beginning.
12:18The church has elevated him to the altars together with Mother Carmen Rendiles.
12:24Jose Gregorio felt himself to be profoundly Venezuelan.
12:29He was an authentic Venezuelan and one might talk more of Jose Gregorio than of Mother Carmen because we knew more about him than of her.
12:43And I believe that I'm going to fall into that trap.
12:47I already talked of Mother Carmen in the education, the temples and her spiritual life.
12:55She had a handicap and that didn't prohibit her from doing all of her works as a religious woman.
13:05But Jose Gregorio, who loved sciences, not only medicine, he studied philosophy.
13:11And his essay of philosophy in the prologue expressed, given to me as from my nation, from that same love, I published today my philosophy, my own, the one that I have lived.
13:33Thinking that for being so Venezuelan in everything, it might be that she's of usefulness for my comrades as it has been to me, being the guide of my intelligence.
13:53Pay attention to Jose Gregorio in that essay was already saying that he deeply loved Venezuela and that he had a philosophy for his life in which he used the science to please God and to serve his brothers.
14:06And he said he wished that this serve as a guide for many today to honor Jose Gregorio is to look like him, to act like him.
14:17We can applaud very much. We can all wear all the shirts we want, but to honor him is to act like him.
14:26The Pope Ian said that these two saints were characterized by three virtues, the faith, the hope, and especially charity.
14:36They were saints. They were saints, the deputy said, that came to the meeting of those who needed the most.
14:45They went out searching for the poor, and there they were. There Jose Gregorio was.
14:51Today, without any doubt, as a reflection moment, we have to ask ourselves, are we acting like them?
15:02Are we going out to where the necessity is? Are we being charitable?
15:09That is honoring today what is happening with Venezuela, more charity and more meetings with the necessity of the other, that who is in the hospital, in jail, the one who's going through hunger.
15:21There we honor and there we act more unlike to those that today are elevated in the altars, and that is not exempt of the politicians.
15:32We politicians believe and we are moved. We are one more. We are believers as well. Some of us are. Some of us aren't.
15:44But Pope Francis, which we have mentioned, said something that was very interesting.
15:50He said politics, speaking on charity, he said politics is the media that is the highest media that society has to express the charity.
16:06Politics is the media that is the highest of society for the expression of the charity in the world.
16:14And it is like this because through political decisions, through the actions and politics, you can take education to a whole nation.
16:23You can take health that is free to a whole nation. And that is charity. And that is the exercise of politics.
16:33So we are not exempt of that. The doctor of the poor, when during a deputy, he was he went through the UCB, then the cathedral, but he was sent.
16:55He was carried by some men and there there were over 30,000 people.
17:05And in that moment, around the body of Jose Gregorio, where all the people that he had attended, the family members of those sick, the same sick that he had cured.
17:19And they started to say that they wanted to carry the body of Jose Gregorio in his deathbed.
17:29And there the story tells that they were screaming.
17:32The doctor Hernandez is our from the moment of his death.
17:37The people already knew that he was the doctor of the poor today recognized by the Holy Church.
17:46I would like to finish because from there was inspired our great formula and wrote the following.
17:59Of course, they did that carrying his body because he was not dead.
18:07He was, it was not a dead person who they were carrying.
18:12It was an idea that was humane, that was passing in triumph, electrifying the hearts.
18:22It can be assured that the deathbed of Jose Gregorio Hernandez, we all experience the desire to be good.
18:35Seeing Jose Gregorio Hernandez is experiencing the desire of being good like him.
18:40And that is the invitation, without any doubt today, by celebrating the canonizing of our two saints, Jose Gregorio Hernandez and Mother Carmen Rendiles.
18:53They are the most prestigious image of spirituality in Venezuela.
18:59They are models of good Christians, but especially they are models of excellent citizens.
19:06Venezuela is in a party and it is very thankful because of their canonizing.
19:14Long live Jose Gregorio Hernandez, long live Mother Carmen Rendiles and long live our people of Venezuela.
19:22Venezuela.
19:23Thank you very much.
19:25We, as part of the opposition, we are going to support this agreement with the sign whenever it corresponds.
19:35This is President, dear deputies.
19:43Jesus Purito, in the context of the canonization, the presentation of the incorporation of the teaching of the life and the work of the first two saints of Venezuela,
19:58Jose Gregorio Hernandez, the doctor of the poor, and Carmen Rendiles, Mother Carmen Rendiles.
20:05This is a historical moment for Venezuela and is part of the celebrations that have been held in the country since the canonization took place in the Vatican City on Sunday.
20:18We were witnessing live moments, live images from Venezuela during the ordinary session of the National Assembly of the country that is taking place at this moment,
20:30in which deputies are highlighting the canonization of both saints.
20:36Let's listen.
20:39One of the great men that were born in this land are Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez, synonym of peace, of union, of conscience, of sacrifice, of taking off.
20:53Of that man that represents the ending name, not only from Trujillo, but all the ending people see themselves identified.
21:01And all of the Venezuelan people, I would say, from the 19th of October, where his canonization happened,
21:08when we saw with joy the union of those two images in our flag, while the flag was waving,
21:16we saw those two images of Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez and Mother Carmen together with the three-color flag,
21:23and it was a prideful moment for us as Venezuelan people from Trujillo to see those two people of an example to this land.
21:31There's many of the things that have been developed and that have been examples of those beings,
21:37and each one of us should repeat, always doing the good.
21:43That is the main message of Jose Gregorio Hernandez.
21:46Wherever we go, we should do good.
21:50That was his philosophy for human beings and not with just a doing.
21:56That's not the way of achieving virtue.
21:59As our saint said, there's many of the actions that are needed for us to be virtuous and being an example of the good human being,
22:10of the good Venezuelan, of the good Venezuelan men and women.
22:14So, for real, in the name of all of the people of Ignotu who saw him be born,
22:21in the name of all the people in Trujillo that was deployed during several days in all the territory,
22:28in long walks to reach the place where he was born with a lot of joy and teamwork,
22:36we received that great dream we observed from the Vatican,
22:42how once again Venezuela triumphs.
22:47We are seeing live images of the ordinary session of the National Assembly of Venezuela
22:52in which deputies highlighted the canonisation of Saint Jose Gregorio Hernandez
22:57and also modern Carmen Rendiles last Sunday in the Vatican City
23:02and also presented an initiative for deputies to include the teaching of their life and work
23:08throughout the educational system of the country.
23:11And with this last news information, we have come to the end of this news brief.
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23:26For Telesur English, I'm Alejandra Garcia. Thank you for watching.
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