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00:00The Bolivarian National Armed Forces denounced the U.S. aggression against
00:15Venezuelan territory under violation of the country's sovereignty.
00:18The U.S. military attack against Venezuela has sparked worldwide condemnation, triggering
00:28mobilizations that demand the release of President Nicolás Maduro.
00:34The U.S. military attack against the U.S. military attack in the Kyrgyzstan region 2009, including
00:41two miners.
00:47Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:51We begin with the news.
00:58On Sunday, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces denounced the U.S. aggression against Venezuelan
01:11territory and the violation of the country's sovereignty.
01:14Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López denounced the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro
01:20and First Combatant Cecilia Flores.
01:23In this context, Padrino López demanded that the United States government immediately release
01:28the legitimate President of the nation, Venezuelan Armed Forces in this context also urged the
01:32international community to closely monitor the interference against Venezuelan sovereignty,
01:38which constitutes a threat to the global order.
01:41In addition, Padrino López declared that the Armed Forces will guarantee the governance
01:46of the country under the leadership of President in charge, Delsi Rodríguez, as well as the defense
01:53of international internal order in the nation.
01:58We demand the immediate release of our Commander-in-Chief, the President of all Venezuelans and the First
02:08Combatant of the Republic, Dr. Celia Flores.
02:12And we call on the world.
02:17We ask the world to look closely at all the happening against Venezuela, against its sovereignty,
02:24against its constitution.
02:29And at the same time, we are grateful for the prompt response of almost all the governments
02:36of the world and the peoples of the world.
02:44Because yesterday we saw popular demonstrations all over the world and legitimate governments,
02:49with few exceptions, rejecting this gross intervention in Venezuelan sovereignty.
02:56And the defense minister also reaffirmed the Bolivarian National Armed Forces' commitment
03:02to guarantee the Venezuelan democracy.
03:24In addition, the Minister of Defense urged the Venezuelan people to move forward and also to preserve national peace.
03:33I call on the people of Venezuela to remain calm and utterly,
03:37and not to fall into traps of psychological warfare, threats and fear that others wish to impose on us.
03:44I call on the people of Venezuela to resume their economic, work and educational activities of all kinds in the coming days.
04:00And the country must get back on its constitutional track.
04:04Next Monday, tomorrow, January the 5th, we will be witnessing a constitutional act.
04:14Which is the installation of the National Assembly for the next constitutional term.
04:23We already applaud that act.
04:26The National Assembly as the democratic center of political debate per excellence, so that the country continues.
04:37In this regard, in an official statement from the Ministry of the People's Power for Defense,
04:44the Bolivarian National Armed Forces declared the following.
04:54The Bolivarian government will guarantee the country's governability
04:58and our institution will continue to use all its available capabilities for military defense,
05:04the maintenance of internal order and the preservation of peace.
05:08In addition, the statement informed the activation of full operational readiness throughout the entire national territory
05:15in perfect popular military-police fusion to integrate the elements of the national power
05:20in the mission of confronting imperial aggressions,
05:25forming a single combat block to ensure the freedom, independence and sovereignty of the nation.
05:30Also in Venezuela, the constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice ordered
05:39Vice President Delsi Rodriguez to assume the position of president in charge of the country.
05:45The highest judicial party assured that the decision is based on guaranteeing the continuity of the state
05:52following the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro by the United States.
05:57In this regard, the constitutional chamber described Rodriguez's assumption of the executive power as preventive,
06:04clarifying that Nicolás Maduro continues to be the constitutional president of the nation.
06:10In this regard, in the words of Magistrate Tania de Amelio, president of the judicial party,
06:16it was affirmed that the Venezuelan constitution does not contain an explicit provision for succession
06:23in the face of crimes committed by U.S. forces which represent an unprecedented violation of national sovereignty.
06:29Of the impossibility of the president, as generically contemplated in Article 234
06:42of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and this chamber,
06:49also considers that Article 239.6 of the Constitution attributes to the executive vice president
06:56the function of replacing the president in the event of temporary absence in the current state of emergency,
07:12which is manifest and poses a certain threat.
07:15It is imperative, necessary, and proportionate to cautiously provide that this function
07:23be exercised immediately
07:26in order to facilitate the preservation of the nation's interests in the face of the foreign aggression
07:38it currently confronts.
07:45And in this context, we go right away to Venezuela.
07:48There is a massive demonstration taking place this Sunday in support of President Nicolás Maduro Moros.
07:54Let's listen.
07:55We feel that in the face of this aggression, they believe that they are capable of killing our children,
08:01of women and men, of civilians, of civilians.
08:28While we left this episode.
08:35Hour after hour, converting a lot of strength, but comrades, this strength must be accumulated more and more.
08:46We can't dismay in a minute.
08:49We have to keep on mobilizing, demanding the unconditional freedom of our president,
09:01Nicolás Maduro Moros.
09:04The front liberation of Celia Flores.
09:10Nicolás Maduro Moros, the constitutional president of Venezuelans.
09:16And we want, as Venezuelans, that Nicolás Maduro return to us, that Celia Flora will be back with us.
09:31And President Nicolás Maduro sent us a signal, as you saw it, that was a strengthful signal, courageous signal.
09:41He was saying with this gesture, here I am.
09:46I am not defeated.
09:47I am with you.
09:48I know what is going on.
09:50I know what they are doing.
09:52And you, Venezuelan people, are doing the right thing.
09:56The people is raised with Nicolás Maduro.
10:01And to Nicolás Maduro we are saying, Maduro, resist, because our people is going to rescue you.
10:07Resist that the people is going to rescue you.
10:12Maduro, and these people, comrades, wise as always.
10:19Because it is a people formed by Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.
10:26Inspiration not only for the Venezuelans that are here in the middle of the battle.
10:31It is an inspiration for the rest of the people of the world.
10:36And above all things, comrades, to protect the sacred thing that we have, these people have, that is the Bolivar employee.
10:52That is what they do not understand.
10:54They think that doing what they are doing with President Nicolás Maduro, we are going to fall down.
11:03The Bolivarian project is going to fall down.
11:05But the answer is no.
11:07Because Nicolás Maduro and the project, the Bolivarian project do not depend on only women.
11:14It is every one of us.
11:16The Bolivarian project from Hugo Chávez gave birth as a collective one.
11:23And if so, and we learn from Nicolás Maduro was to understand the collective method used.
11:32And that is, I want you to reflect about this.
11:36When Hugo Chávez passed away the March the 5th, the Commander President, Nicolás Maduro, had a very hard battle.
11:46That is go to a election without wanting to.
11:49In that moment, the enemy tried to demoralize Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan people, telling Venezuela people that he was not Chávez.
11:59But Nicolás Maduro answered to the enemy, to this failed opposition.
12:06And he said, you know what?
12:09You are right.
12:10I am not Chávez.
12:11You are right.
12:12But I am telling something.
12:14But today, together, all of us are Chávez.
12:18And that's what I'm saying today.
12:20We all together are Hugo Chávez.
12:22And also we are Nicolás Maduro.
12:24Long live Nicolás.
12:25Long live Venezuela.
12:26Long live Venezuela.
12:27Long live Chávez.
12:29Together, all of us, we are Chávez.
12:32As with the statements of Rander Peña, Secretary of the ALBA TCP at this moment, Maduro, hold on.
12:41Your people is going to rescue.
12:43This is also the call of thousands of Venezuelans that are the protagonist today of a massive demonstration that is taking place throughout the capital of the city of Venezuela, Caracas.
12:56And also in this context, that the community of Latin American and Caribbean states, CELAC, is holding an extraordinary meeting with the aim of establishing a unified position in response to the aggression and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Celia Flores.
13:13On Sunday, international delegations discussed the interference, the violation of international law by the United States.
13:22In his speech, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Iván Gil denounced the illegal kidnapping of the head of state and the death of civilians and soldiers.
13:32CELAC, made up of 33 nations, positions itself as a key organization for the formulation of a resolution in defense of Latin America and the Caribbean.
13:47And now we have a short break coming up.
13:49But first remember, you can join us on TikTok at Telesur English, where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
13:56We'll be right back. Stay with us.
13:58Welcome back to From the South.
14:11Our multi-platform, Telesur, demands the release of kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Celia Flores.
14:19In a message shared on her socials, Telesur President Patricia Villegas expressed the following.
14:24The hours pass on a day that will mark a global history.
14:28Details are emerging about this day on which the president of a country and his wife were kidnapped.
14:35Since then, millions have been crying out for their freedom.
14:39Those voices will not be silenced until they return home.
14:42But what was it like when they were taken away?
14:46What really happened in those minutes when the soldiers of the Empire carried out this ignominious act?
14:52I have been able to obtain a piece of information that marks this story, which is above all a love story.
14:59They were going to take him away and she would not allow it.
15:03She demanded to go with the leader, her husband and her companion.
15:07In the midst of one of the greatest violations of all rights, the strength of their love and conviction prevailed.
15:13Hours later, we saw them arrive in the United States as hostages.
15:17He jokes, referring to her, saying he is wounded.
15:21They are there and they are together because of the strength of their relationship, built through the hardest of trials demanded.
15:30Venezuela demands the return.
15:32The voices of justice will not be silenced.
15:40Also, in the context of Venezuela, the former president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner,
15:44spoke out against the U.S. attacks in Venezuela, as well as the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro
15:50and first combatant Celia Flores.
15:52Through her account on the social network X, the former Argentine president stated,
15:57in light of the objective fact that the kidnapping of a president and his wife in their own country
16:03is absolutely illegal and illegitimate.
16:06Today's violations of the Charter of the United Nations international law
16:10and basic common sense in an operation that also resulted in the death of numerous people
16:15creates a scenario of high instability in the attacked country and sets a dangerous geopolitical precedent.
16:24This would enable any power with economic and military might to violate the political sovereignty, territory
16:30or resources of weaker countries.
16:33It is impossible to ignore that the objective pursuit and publicly declared by Donald Trump's administration
16:40in carrying out what it pompously called Operation Absolute Resolve.
16:45It is not to restore a democratic government in the Republic of Venezuela
16:49or to fight against drug trafficking, but to seize the largest global reserves of conventional oil.
16:55And also in the United States, protesters gathered in several cities to condemn the U.S. military attacks against Venezuela
17:07and denounced these actions as a strategy to seize the natural resources of the South American nation.
17:13With banners condemning the interference of the United States Armed Forces in Venezuelan territory,
17:18U.S. nationals rejected the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, leader of a sovereign nation.
17:25In this scenario, the demonstrators demanded that Donald Trump release President Maduro
17:31and claimed that the U.S. people do not want another war.
17:34In addition, the protesters announced their commitment to remain in the streets
17:38until the Trump administration responds to their demands.
17:42No country on this earth was looked better after the U.S. invaded.
17:52We know these tricks and we know this blame, but we saw it in Iraq, we saw it in Afghanistan,
17:59and we are seeing it today in Venezuela.
18:03And we say no more wars.
18:10No more wars.
18:13Hands off Venezuela.
18:17Hands off Venezuela.
18:22In this scenario, U.S. democratic lawmakers condemned the fact that the attacks perpetrated by the United States
18:28against Venezuela were not reported to Congress.
18:30Various Congress members stated that in a classified briefings,
18:34The Trump administration assured them that it was not planning military action against
18:40Venezuela.
18:41They emphasized that officials such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary
18:47Pete Hesas repeatedly denied that there were plans for a ground invasion.
18:53Due to the contradiction between the information provided to them and the military attack,
19:00lawmakers are demanding clarification on this decision.
19:03The Senate is scheduled to vote next week on whether to block any further military action
19:09against Venezuela without explicit congressional approval.
19:20In this context, the Senator of the State of Hawaii wrote in his ex-account,
19:25We have no vital national interest in Venezuela to justify war.
19:29We should have learned not to stumble into another stupid adventure by now.
19:34And he is not even bothering to tell the American public what the hell is going on.
19:45Also the US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also rejected US military aggression against
19:51Venezuela.
19:52In her ex-account, Ocasio-Cortez expressed that it's not about drugs.
19:57If it was, Trump wouldn't have pardoned one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world
20:02last month.
20:03It's about oil and regime change.
20:05And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn't.
20:09Especially to distract from Epstein plus skyrocketing healthcare costs.
20:19And now we have a second showbreak coming up.
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20:34Final showbreak, but we'll be right back.
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