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00:01as part of the second national as part of the second national pilgrimage
00:07Venezuela's acting president Rodriguez visited Anzotegi state once again
00:11stopping at the port of La Cruz Eulalia Buros as part of the second national
00:16pilgrimage of peace and an end to sanctions
00:25while the government of president Daniel Doboa presented as his flagship
00:29security project El Encuentro prison in Santa Elena province on ecuador central
00:33coast has now recorded three deaths in less than two months
00:42and protesters and agents from immigration and customs enforcement clashed outside
00:47the Delaney Hall detention center in New Jersey during a protest in support of
00:52the hunger strike being carried out by more than 310 immigrants
01:01hello welcome to from the south I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Delezu Studios in
01:05Caracas Venezuela we begin with the news
01:21as part of the second national pilgrimage for peace and an end to sanctions Venezuela's acting president Rodriguez
01:27visited the state of Anzotegui in this scenario the acting president denounced the sanctions
01:34imposed on the country saying that they threatened the well-being and quality of
01:38life of the Venezuelan people accompanied by regional authorities and mobilize
01:42citizens those of Rodriguez reiterated a call for national unity in order to
01:46overcome external aggression and promote economic recovery the pilgrimage which has
01:51traveled across several states seeks to highlight the impact of the blockade and
01:55bolstered popular resistance in this context the acting president emphasized the
02:00Venezuelan state's productive achievements despite imperialist aggressions
02:22Venezuela's acting president Rodriguez visited Anzotegui state once again stopping at the port of Eulalia
02:28Budoz as part of the second national pilgrimage for peace and an end to
02:33sanctions at this meeting the acting president of the republic assessed the
02:37operational capacity of the port in Anzotegui state on Thursday as part of the
02:41second day of the great national pilgrimage for a free Venezuela without
02:44sanctions in her assessment during the great pilgrimage she highlighted the
02:48potential for tourism agricultural livestock and oil and gas that the
02:52Anzotegui state's represents for the nation
03:06and what the government of president Daniel Novoa presented as his flagship
03:11security project El Encuentro prison in Santa Elena province on Ecuador central
03:15coast has now recorded three deaths in less than two months this is how the body of Elvis
03:20Quevedo the latest inmate to die in the high-security prison was removed on May
03:2427th the National Service for comprehensive attention to adult persons
03:29deprived of liberty issued a brief statement providing no further details
03:33about the death human rights organizations report an outbreak of
03:37tuberculosis and with other inhumane conditions they say amount to serious
03:41violations of fundamental rights are calling for an independent investigation
04:04the administration of Colombian president Gustavo Petro has been
04:08characterized by efforts to safeguard the human rights of communities affected by
04:12the presence of armed groups in their territories our colleague Hernando Bar has
04:16more on the story during Gustavo Petro's government the policy of total peace was
04:23promoted to end the armed conflict its approach combined political dialogue with
04:27the ELN guerrilla group and social legal processes with criminal gangs and drug trafficking
04:32organizations it was a process for outbid obstacles cargados
04:36stockings esta estrategia this estrategia prioritizes the protection of life
04:41territorial development and dialogue over military confrontation however analysts are that
04:46these scenarios didn't bear the expect fruit and several negotiations broke down
04:50due to a lack of genuine commitment to peace on the part of the armed actors
05:00some of these groups are not interested in disarming this is the basis of their power and of
05:07maintaining control in certain territories and certain zones and of seeking rents we have around
05:14300 municipalities in Colombia out of 1100 in which some of these groups persist to a lesser extent
05:23they are not guerrillas some are militias and others are simply structures of sicarios and mafias but not the
05:31previous guerrillas here there are a number of groups that are seeking rents and maintaining control
05:36a series of local and regional power bases and they are not willing to seek an agreement with this government
05:44an example of this harsh reality was seen in the catatumbo region north santander where clashes between
05:51the eln and the dissidents of the 33 from over territorial control and illicit economies caused
05:57a humanitarian crisis that left at least 78 000 people displaced at the beginning of 2025. Likewise the
06:05presence of armed groups and paramilitaries has had a dramatic impact on human rights defenders according to
06:11the NGO we are defenders nearly two thousand seven hundred attacks have been recorded during the current
06:18government mainly against indigenous and community leaders in cauca and antioquia who oppose armed
06:23groups their economic interests and extractive companies it has been important to have a policy of total peace with
06:35peace being considered a matter of state however it is necessary for armed actors to commit to clear agendas
06:43in humanitarian matters and to agendas that allow organizations to participate in these political
06:48discussions concerning peace
06:54in the face of this complex situation the government resume bombing and increased military force thereby raising the
07:01risk to the civilian population in a conflict exacerbated by previous government's failure to implement the
07:072016 peace agreement despite this the president prioritized the agrarian reform under the total peace policy
07:13successfully formalizing and delivering run to indigenous afro-colombian and peace and communities with
07:18the aim of distributing one million hectares to victims by the end of his term however the violence persists
07:27this is a fact without precedent and an irrefutable indicator of the success of the agrarian reform
07:35this means that his policy must undoubtedly continue as state policy but peace must also be given a strong
07:43boost armed actors must understand that kidnapping and assassination of civilians including leaders of the farmers and
07:52social movements are abominable acts that have nothing to do with any proposal for social or political revolution
08:02the revolution social or political
08:08a rather complex and abstract field scenario however the government managed to make progress in peace talks
08:15with the dissidents groups national coordinating committee of the bolivarian army general staff of blocs and fronts
08:21the united states elm factions southern communists and the gulf clan with this last narco paramilitary group
08:27days have already been set from approximately 400 members with a west tradition's request to gather
08:34unarmed in temporary relocation zones in choco cordoba putumayo northern sartander and nariño to transition
08:41to civilian life hernanda rio tovar gaitan telesur bogotá colombia
08:48well let's stay in colombia in this final stretch ahead of the may 31st important elections that are
08:53going to be held in colombia where citizens are going to decide the future for the next four years
08:57and to learn more and to analyze more about the importance of this electoral date let's welcome
09:02david lopez international analyst and also an expert on human rights issues welcome david to from the south
09:08once more yeah thank you thank you very much for for this space and for the important channel you have
09:17david as a first question we are just like barely a couple of days away from this electoral date on
09:22may 31st this sunday that's coming right in roughly two days what is what has been the most important
09:28aspect that has marked the electoral campaign as we're getting close to the date of the elections
09:33yeah so colombia arrived at these elections at a historic uh crossroad this is not a simply
09:42presidential race this is maybe a dispute over the future direction of the colombian state itself
09:49um the the country right now is debating whether to depend a process of democratic transformation
09:57based on peace uh sovereignty and social justice or whether to return to a model centered on
10:06militarization oligarchic control and external geopolitical dependency dependency as we know that
10:13on the last 200 years so the polarization um uh we are seeing is therefore structural not merely um electoral
10:25uh i think that uh right now for example even sepeda represents um uh an institutional and historic
10:33continuity of the progressive transition of learning the recent uh recent years but with a
10:41more sober uh and strategic profile he's not perceived as a traditional populistic figure but
10:48rector as a political actor uh deeply associated with a peace process uh human rights historical
10:55memory and democratic dialogue in a country marked by decades of political violence uh that symbolic
11:04dimension matters uh enormously uh his uh candidacy also reflects an important evolution within the
11:13colombian progressive sectors uh the attempt to move from protest politics toward long-term uh state
11:20craft craft and by another side we have the opposition so the representation of the traditional policy uh
11:27that i mentioned before with with the war with the wrong positives with um the narcotraffics as well so the
11:36country has to decide uh this sunday if they continue by the way of the peace and to change the
11:44country in uh state of uh social rights
11:48or if we go back again to these policies um uh implanted and supported as well by the united states
11:55and
11:55sometimes by the european union uh where the um uh biggest oligarchies uh decided the way uh of the
12:04country only on the interest of the biggest uh oligarchy biggest enterprises and uh multinational
12:12international uh international multinational based in colombia the theory that we played just before we
12:19began with the interview deal about the different policies and actions that the petrol administration
12:23tried to implement and some they did successfully to try to improve the human rights situations of people
12:29especially in rural areas that are impacted directly by the presence of parliamentary armed groups so
12:36what will be the impact in terms of human rights in a change of policy as we're saying that could
12:42be elected
12:42on next sunday you know here it's very important to to take account on the on the framework of the
12:50human rights
12:51the right of the peace you know uh many people uh ask if the uh total peace strategy filed it
13:00and uh i think that
13:02uh maybe the uh maybe the total peace strategy revealed contradiction limitation and implementation
13:07problems but it also exposed it a deeper threat colombian cannot solve its structural conflict and the human rights
13:14situation exclusively throughout the military means uh peace is not weakness uh the real debate is
13:23how the to construct the state authority uh without reproducing cycles of violence as we see with the
13:31uh uribe's government as we see with the center's government and as we see with uh even duke
13:37government so the future colombian government will likely need more selective discipline and strategic
13:43peace approach but uh abandoning peace uh as an horizon altogether would represent historic regressions so i think
13:55that uh we have this sunday the opportunity to choose uh again a president who will continue the the the
14:06the peace and the
14:08reforms needed in colombia to have a country uh who can be much more touristic much more respectful as well
14:15of the human
14:16right much more strong on the economical and financial um uh situation and system and of course uh a country
14:24where
14:25are the people who are the people who are every time forget it so the poor people the farm the
14:30farmers the
14:31students the women's and the old people um so with the next sunday we're gonna have the opportunity to choose
14:39maybe a
14:40government who will continue to give uh more opportunities to these people uh started by the president petro or to
14:48go back uh with the
14:49abelardo de las priella and paloma valencia who represent uh i repeat again the the the this framework of
14:57corruption this framework of uh uh narcotics as well uh who are actually uh very dangerous for the country
15:07where we don't uh we can't not take into account the geopolitical context we live actually in latin america
15:15because we know that colombia it's one of is the principal door uh of south america and borders with
15:22venezuela where you have nine military bases of the united states and where maybe the new government will
15:30i hope uh put much more restriction uh all in the interest of the independence of the country and the
15:39self-determination where uh maybe the united states and the biggest corporation will not continue to
15:46have the the the hand over the colombian power and over the interest of the colombian people
15:53maybe we have seen allegations of foreign interference have there been proof put forward with the honduras
16:00case scandal of the foreign interference of the us and israel in electoral process in south america and
16:06central america especially to try to remove the progressive movements that go against the hegemony
16:11of the united states where we have seen what happened in honduras we have seen allegations coming from
16:16different sectors in colombia regarding that they also want to do something similar to colombia in these
16:21electoral processes and also in mexico so what is the impact of this and what can be done to face
16:27it
16:29so colombia remain one of the one of washington's case strategy allies in latin america this is
16:35obviously uh and uh we have to know that for these hundred uh last years maybe united states uh has
16:45in
16:45colombia the most biggest ally in the uh western uh side of the world uh its geographic position military
16:54cooperation proximity to venezuela as i mentioned before and access to bud the pacific and caribbean make
17:00its geopolitically uh essential for decades colombia was um integrated into a hemispheric security
17:08architecture strongly uh influenced by the united states uh what happened in this election will
17:15therefore have regional consequences a progressive victory could um reinforce a latin american integration
17:23and multipolar diplomacy while a hardline conservative victory could uh reactivate a more confrontational
17:32region posture so when we have um the the news we had on the last weeks uh with the
17:40inheritance in honduras election in chile what uh make uh donald trump in the policies of peru ecuador
17:50uh of course uh we can understand that for the united states uh it excites are worried to lose the
18:00the
18:01definitely colombia and uh of course uh this is important to be warning about the the behavior of
18:10the white house uh the white house uh during these elections in colombia and of course it represents as
18:17well this interference of violation of the international law because we have to know that
18:23it excites on the un charter the uh self-determination of the countries who has to be protected but we
18:32know
18:32that for on the last weeks and the last months on the last years for the us and for the
18:38western countries
18:39in general uh it never excites this right it excites just the right of the corporation who are
18:45actually scarred because the multipolar uh policies um uh promoted by russia and china and many other countries
18:55made that other countries want to become much more independent and uh of course when we listen that
19:01washington has uh interferences by uh in the colombian elections in the mexican policies with the help of
19:10a country like israel accused of genocide uh accused as well by the uh governmental terrorism uh of course
19:20this is a little bit worried but i have confidence that the people in colombia uh have much more um
19:27confidence in the process uh started by the president petrol and they have much more conscience about
19:34what was the governments who governed before the president petrol and the government we have
19:40actually of course with mistakes of course with difficulties but uh of course the the way of the peace
19:49is much more important that the way of the war where definitely when the policy of the war happened the
19:58only people who pay the consequences are the poor people and not the people who are on the uh spheres
20:05of
20:06the power traditionally the corporation the banks and the multinational uh installed in uh colombia
20:13thank you david for your time here in from the south for your inputs regarding this electoral process
20:18in colombia now thanks to you and i call to the all the colombian citizens uh to to vote vote
20:27with
20:27conscience this is the most important thing we have to to do remember that we have an history remember
20:34that we have a country who can be uh can be a powerful country one of the most powerful countries
20:41in
20:41latin america and this is uh the time to defend this integrity and what we have as a country and
20:49as
20:50colombian citizen as well thanks to you thank you david we'll stay we'll stay tuned to see what happens
20:55on sunday let's now continue with our topics in protesters and agents from immigration and customs
21:01enforcement clash outside the lenny hole detention center in new jersey during a protest in support of the
21:07hunger strike being carried out by more than 300 detained immigrants the incident occurred near the
21:12immigration detention center located in newark ice forces used route gear and paper spray in addition
21:18to arresting several citizens to disperse the crowd that was trying to prevent the transfer of one of the
21:23participants in the internal protest the protests both inside and outside the facility demand the immediate
21:29release of elderly people youth and migrants with health issues while denouncing the precarious detention
21:35conditions and detaining of immigration policy promoted by president donald trump
21:45at this we have come to the end of this news review you can find more on our website at
21:48telesurenglish.net and also on our social media for telesurenglish i'm Luis Alberto Matos thank you for
21:55the end of this news review you can find more on our website at www.serenglish.net.gov.au.
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