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00:00In Honduras, all is set for Sunday, November 30th, general elections.
00:16Government authorities guarantee a peaceful and transparent electoral day.
00:19Peru's interim president Jose Heri confirmed that the state of emergency in the city of Tacna,
00:27on the border with Chile, will come into effect at midnight local time on November 29th.
00:35And the United Nations Committee Against Torture concluded this,
00:38Roast prolonged deprivation of food and humanitarian aid and bombing of Gaza
00:42constitute mass mistreatment that can be considered torture.
00:50Hello, welcome to From the South. I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Delezu Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:55We begin the news.
01:11On November 30th, Honduras goes to the polls in a new election to choose the next president,
01:16128 members of the National Congress, 298 mayors and other local authorities in the country.
01:21The scenario for this election was previously shaped by the primary and internal elections held on March 9th.
01:31The country's main political forces used these internal elections to select their official candidates,
01:37as only those candidates elected in this process would be legally eligible to compete.
01:43For this crucial day, the National Electoral Council has registered approximately 6.5 million citizens eligible to vote this electoral register,
01:55including both voters resided in Honduras and members of the Honduran diaspora abroad,
02:01who will also be entitled to participate.
02:07Thousands of polling stations will be distributed nationwide,
02:10and it is essential that each voter knows the number of their polling station and the center what they are to vote.
02:17This information can be found on the official website for the CNS information platforms.
02:26Voters will receive several ballots to cast their votes simultaneously.
02:30As the process is a multiple election, the first is the ballot to elect the president and vice presidents.
02:37The additional ballots are for members of the National Congress, where marked votes or selected votes may be cast,
02:44and finally, for the election of municipal corporations, that is, majors and councillors.
02:51The new government will face urgent challenges, from security to the national economy.
02:56Beyond the candidates and parties, the election will define the nation's course for the next four years.
03:03Let's stay on topic and go deeper in the analysis of Honduras' upcoming general elections.
03:09We welcome analyst and human rights specialist David López.
03:13Welcome David to From the South.
03:15Thank you. Thank you very much today from Geneva.
03:18It's a pleasure to have you as always.
03:20David, we are less than 24 hours away from the election day.
03:24We can say that lots has happened during the campaign period, especially framed on the denunciation of far-right opposition sectors' attempts to hijack the voting transmission system.
03:34So what is the atmosphere right now in Honduras as the election day closes?
03:39So, right now, something at the international level, it's very worried, because some behaviors from Washington are very delicate.
03:51So, 48 hours before the elections have declarations from President Trump, who mentioned that he pardoned to Juan Orlando Hernandez and put him on freedom after to be condemned for 45 years for narcotics, weapon traffics, etc.
04:11This is a very, very delicate behavior.
04:14Overall, when he mentioned that if his candidate wins, so we understand that the candidate of the United States right now is Nasri Asfura, if he wins, it will be money for Honduras.
04:29But if he doesn't win, so Honduras will not have money from the United States.
04:34This is a very, very delicate violation of the UN Charter, Article 2.1 and Article 2.7, who warranted the non-intermission of the domestic policies of other countries.
04:52And it violates, as well, the right of the self-determination distributed under Article 1 of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, recognized as well by the United States.
05:09As we were saying, the U.S. interference in the election also comes in a context, as we have been discussing for a couple of months now, of the military deployment in the Caribbean,
05:19trying to coerce in a way also nations in Latin America and especially against Venezuela.
05:25So is there a relation, do you think there's a coincidence there, a relation in these actions?
05:31Yes, I think that it has, this is a geopolitical context.
05:36We are living right now in Honduras because, of course, for the United States it's not interesting that a country,
05:42who traditionally was every time dominated by the White House, today has again the possibility to lose one part of the Central American territory,
05:53maybe to control all the Caribbean to have the possibility to manage much more the military conditions to attack Venezuela.
06:02We have to understand, as I mentioned you before, that this is incredible that on the public positions, President Trump mentioned that he will intervene Venezuela
06:18because he has a narco-trafficant who export cocaine to the United States and they have to fight against them, and as well against the Colombian government.
06:30And he mentioned that he will intervene in Venezuela and maybe Colombia if that continues.
06:36But at the same time, he pardoned and put in freedom a former president who was condemned by the U.S. authorities for 45 years
06:44because narcotics and because weapon traffic between the United States and Honduras.
06:53So this is a contradiction and we see there that it has not, in Honduras, the interest to respond and to respect the international law and the domestic laws of Honduras,
07:08but to respond in a geopolitical context who will give the opportunity to attack maybe much more easy or make in any case much more military pressure over Venezuela and maybe Colombia and other countries of the region.
07:25We have seen that President Donald Trump has made conditional the delivery of international aid and any kind of support to Honduras on the option that the candidate that he wants, the far-right candidate, wins the election day.
07:38What will be the humanitarian impact for the Honduran people and what will be the impacts of the impositions of these kinds of policies, of strategies throughout the region?
07:48Yeah, but this is very delicate because we have to remember that Latin America is a peace region, a peace region who was as well defended on our biggest geopolitical context and point of view.
08:06We have to remember that Moscow talked to the public to protect and respect this level of peace we have in Latin America.
08:17As well as China and as well as many other countries, as well as the European Union, they mentioned that it's very dangerous to have some behaviors like the United States in Latin America because we can conduct the country and the Latin American people to a war.
08:33And this behavior of the United States makes that they don't care about the Latin American people and if they have to bring these people in a war who respond only to the interests of the capital of the United States, not the interests of the US people, but only to the interests of the White House and the people who support the White House policies behind, they don't care if the people have to go in a war.
09:00So in a war, this is very complicated and it attempt and violate the basic international rules ratified as well by the United States, by all the Latin American countries and it's for this reason that we need to have an eye today over the elections in Honduras.
09:19I think that the people in general in the context we have right now, the Rixi Moncada, the candidate of the officialist government, has the great possibilities to win the election and continue this policy where the poverty, the reduction of the poverty was a very, very strong point of this country, of this actual government.
09:45And it will continue with her. But if it does not continue because of the oppression of the United States, we can have a very dark and worried situation on the region.
09:55As we were saying, let's now pretend, let's do a little bit of guest work in a way. Let's pretend it's Monday, Honduras has a new elected government. What development priorities should the next government focus on and what key challenges would it face coming from taking into context all the foreign interventionist actions and all the situation right now in the region?
10:15So, independently of the candidate who will win, it's important to take into consideration the first step, the interests of the Honduran people.
10:28Actually, the actual government has made a very good policies to respond to the poverty reduction, to the public health and many other policies who are needed, not only in Honduras, but in the majority of the Latin American countries.
10:51And this is maybe the first point that has to make the next president, independently who will win.
10:58And the second one is to ask to the United States, all the countries to respect the international law.
11:06We see what happens if we don't respect the international law. You can look what happened in Palestine. You can see what happened right now with the possibilities of the United States to invade Venezuela.
11:18You can see what happened as well in Africa and the geopolitical situation in the Sahel. This is an out.
11:24I think that the next president who will arrive to the power on the next government has to require the respect of the international law and the respect of the self-determination of Honduras and all the region who actually with this behavior, it's put on the middle of a big dangerously of a war.
11:49Thank you very much, David Lopez, for your time here and from the South for these inputs as we had for the elections in Honduras on Sunday, November 30th.
11:58Thank you. Thank you to you and all my best wishes to the Hondurian people.
12:04The decision they will take, it will be not only a decision for Honduras, but for all Latin America.
12:11So all my support to the wishes of the Hondurian people and Latin American people as well.
12:18Thank you for being with us while we were speaking with analyst and human rights specialist David Lopez, talking a bit and analyzing the current situation as Hondurans are ready to head on Sunday to the polls to elect the next president and the next government for their Honduran people.
12:34Let's now take our first break. Remember, you can join us on Tik Tok at Teresa English, where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
12:44We're going to be right back. Stay with us.
12:46Welcome back.
13:07Welcome back.
13:08Peru's interim president Jose Heri confirmed that the state of emergency in the city of Tacna on the border with Chile will come into effect at midnight local time on November 29th, with the aim of strengthening security in the face of the arrival of irregular migrants.
13:22The measure would allow the armed forces to intervene in border surveillance and control tasks. The announcement follows a Friday border crossing blockade by dozens of migrants who blocked traffic on the Pan American Highway South.
13:34The migrants were denied entry to Peru for lacking legal documents. Protesters claim they are fleeing Chile because right-wing candidate Jose Antonio Cass might win the presidential runoff on December 14th.
13:45Cass has promised a policy of mass expulsion of irregular migrants.
13:50And in Venezuela, on Friday, 136 citizens arrived in Caracas in a new back-to-the-homeland planned flight. On Flight 93 of the humanitarian mission, 24 women, 104 men and 9 children returned to the country after landing at Simón BolÃvar International Airport.
14:12They underwent the standard protocol of medical security and identification checks, as well as criminal background checks.
14:18The arrival of this new group is part of the national government's initiative, which continues to assist fellow citizens who without resources seek to return to Venezuela free of charge and safely.
14:29And a few days before World AIDS Day on December 1st, the Pan American Health Organization and UNICEF stated that if current levels remain unchanged, there will be 1.9 million new infections among children and 990,000 deaths from the disease by 2040.
14:56The American Health Organization and UNICEF warned that the world could lose decades of progress in the fight against HIV if urgent measures aren't taken to protect vulnerable populations, especially children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean.
15:13Sub-Saharan Africa has the most people with the most people with the most people with the disease, but Latin America and the Caribbean face critical challenges, especially in diagnosing and preventing it among teenagers.
15:22Bajo says one in three diagnoses in the region is made too late when the immune system is already severely compromised.
15:29Bajo says one in three diagnoses in the region is made too pro-reg hunted, so they have prevented this one from the virus being complacent.
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15:55The United Nations Committee Against Torture concluded Israel's prolonged deprivation of food and humanitarian aid and bombing of Gaza
16:20constitutes mass mistreatment that can be considered torture.
16:23The body published a report this Friday after analyzing Israel's compliance with the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman Earth-Grain Treatment or Punishment, which it ratified in 1991.
16:35The committee noted that Israel has de facto implemented an organized and widespread policy of torture and ill treatment against detained Palestinians, which has intensified since October 2023.
16:45It also identified multiple forms of collective punishment against the civilian population in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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17:17Pope Leo XIV urged the construction of bridges to achieve world peace during a public mass
17:30in Turquie.
17:31From Istanbul, a correspondent, Yunus On Air, has the details.
17:40Good evening from Istanbul, Turquie where the Pope Leo XIV has just concluded his mass prayer
17:49and thus his final public activity here in the city in front of 4000 believers and priests
17:59of all religions.
18:00He said that it is time to build bridges.
18:04He gave the example of the three bridges over the Bosporus, the strait that separates
18:09here, Europe and Asia in the city of Istanbul and he called to build three kinds of bridges
18:17as well.
18:18First bridge is among the Catholic churches of Latin, Syriac and Armenian and other branches
18:26to build bridges within the Catholic church.
18:29The second bridge he called for was to build a bridge between the Catholic church and the
18:36Orthodox church.
18:38And this was a topic that he actively displayed also during the day.
18:43And the third bridge he called to build was the bridge between different religions, between
18:49different churches, between the Christianity and Islam and other religions as well.
18:55And his today's program was according to this proposal.
19:00In the morning, Leo XIV has visited the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, which is one of the most important
19:07mosques here in the city.
19:08It is one of the biggest and oldest mosques.
19:11So he displayed there the message of the importance of inter-religious dialogue and understanding.
19:19Then he continued to visit the Syriac Orthodox Church, Mor Efrem.
19:23And later on he gathered together with Bartholomeo I, who is the patriarch of the Constantinople
19:30Church of Orthodox Belief and a symbol for the Orthodox world in general.
19:37With Bartholomeo, Leo XIV made a public statement, public prayer and also a public declaration where
19:44they called both to deepen the dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church,
19:51to continue the mixed commission on theological affairs and to deepen cooperation and getting
19:59closer to both churches.
20:01They also recalled the Nikean Creed, remembered that yesterday was a ceremony in ancient Nikea,
20:08today's Iznik, where 1700 years ago more than 200 bishops had gathered to take important
20:17decisions for Christian theology.
20:19So this has been a day of building bridges, of displaying to build bridges, and both Leo
20:27XIV and Bartholomeo I emphasized in their declaration also that this building of bridges and getting
20:35closer and together believers of different religions is of utmost importance in a world with that
20:43much war and conflict.
20:46They called to stop all violence that has been pursued in the name of any religion and they
20:54called all politicians and civilian leaders to work for peace which also they described as
21:01the path to God.
21:03So this was a day where Pope Leo's activities here in Istanbul, Turkey were described, were
21:10heading towards building bridges among churches, among religions and on the topic, the main aspect
21:18of achieving global peace.
21:21He will tomorrow have some meetings here in Istanbul still and in the afternoon he will continue his
21:28travel to Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon.
21:33We are from the end of this news brief.
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21:42For Telesuryenglish, I'm with Alberto Matos, thank you for watching.
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