00:00Let's now continue on topic with Colombia's elections. We are now joined
00:04by Juan Gabriel Carlos Rivera, master's degree in history and founding member of
00:09the Vanguardia Colombian group. Welcome Juan to From the South.
00:15Hello, it's a pleasure to be here. Juan, it's a pleasure to have you once more. So the
00:21election day is almost coming to an end. We are in the final hour of the
00:24presidential election in Colombia. Over 40 million Colombians have been called
00:28to participate in this electoral process. How would you describe the electoral
00:32process as a whole? It's a very, very polarization, very polarization situation
00:42in this moment in Colombia because the actual candidates, there is a confrontal
00:54between the right and the left. There is no other form. For example, Ivan Cepeda
01:03versus Abelardo de las Piedras are the most popular candidates in this moment.
01:11And the election in Colombia are very, very, very popular. There is a very important
01:23participation in this moment. I live next a place to the elections are be doing. And in the
01:41this moment, there is still very much people who participate in this
01:48rotation. In even one hour, the place will be closed. And this is because this, this, this, this
02:04rotation are very important for the future of the country. And there is a
02:13open dispute in between the right and the left in this moment in Colombia.
02:20Juan, what is the main issues that are influencing voters when they go to the polls today in Colombia?
02:29There's a very much issues in this moment. For example, the, the insecurity, the, the violence in some
02:41territories of, uh, Colombian state territories. Uh, there is a very, uh, bad, uh, opposition against, uh, uh, the
02:54actual government of Savo Petro in some parts of Colombia. Uh, this is a, uh, a reality, uh, who we
03:03are, uh,
03:05living today in this moment. Um, the people, uh, in different parts of the country are very, uh, terrible,
03:17uh, terrible situation because, uh, the difference, uh, uh, illegal groups are doing in this country.
03:28That is the real reason for, uh, this, uh, actual polarization in this moment in Colombia.
03:35Juan, and there's always, there's been a lot of denunciations of foreign interference in the Colombian
03:40process, as with the Honduras gate scandal when it came out, uh, revealing the, the participation of the United States.
03:47And Israel in this plot to destabilize progressive government in the region, starting with Honduras and Ecuador.
03:54And there will also talk about Colombia and even Mexico next year. How has that influenced the electoral process?
04:01Well, uh, the interference of the United States in our, in our process of, uh, election, it's, uh, openly.
04:13The, uh, Donald Trump government is openly interfere in this, uh, actual situation right now.
04:22Uh, for, for example, is the use by the, uh, uh, groups or, uh, communication,
04:33uh, communication medians of, uh, communication medians of, uh, Raul Reyes, uh, documents and computers
04:40to disprestigate the, uh, left candidate, uh, Iván Cepeda in this moment.
04:48Uh, they are, uh, uh, constant attack, uh, against, uh, the, the, the, the left in this moment.
04:58Uh, for, because the, uh, uh, back politics and other alliance with, uh, illegal groups in this moment.
05:07Uh, United States and, uh, uh, uh, oligarch, uh, media, uh, uh, are doing this because they are
05:20interested in, um, continue, uh, transforming the, the, all, uh, politic landscape of these,
05:29of this continent. South America, the plan of the United States is to
05:38modify all political landscape of South America.
05:48And Colombia is the next target of this political drive to the United States.
05:57That is obvious. The other candidate, the most popular candidate of the Reich
06:05parties are Abelardo de las Priegas.
06:09Abelardo de las Priegas, political ideals are totally in favor of the United States
06:25and Israel government. He said publicly Colombia will be doing Venezuela
06:36follow up the instruction of United States government. That is a real situation of these
06:45actual candidates right now. The election will be a fight between the
06:55sovereignty and the attack against the sovereignty. That is the real question here.
07:06Thank you very much Juan for your time here with us from the south.
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