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*Survey to select Mexico’s Ruling Party candidate concludes
*3rd day of anti-France protests in Niger
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*Survey to select Mexico’s Ruling Party candidate concludes
*3rd day of anti-France protests in Niger
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00:00 In Cuba, the government confirms the discovery of a new top-quality oil well in the province
00:14 of Matanzas.
00:18 In Mexico, the survey to pick the presidential candidate for the ruling National Regeneration
00:22 Movement concludes this Sunday.
00:27 In Niger, thousands rallied for the third consecutive day of demanding the withdrawal
00:31 of French troops from the country.
00:38 Hello and welcome to From the South, I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Adresu Studios in
00:42 Havana, Cuba.
00:43 We begin with the news.
00:45 The Cuban government has confirmed the discovery of a new top-quality oil well in the province
00:50 of Matanzas.
00:51 The state-owned company, Unión Cuba Petróleo, said that the exploration of the Alameda II
00:57 well, located in Block 9, was undertaken by the Australian company Melvana Energy.
01:03 They have confirmed that the new well has the capacity to produce up to 1,100 barrels
01:08 of oil per day.
01:10 The head of the exploration crew said that the crude oil found is lighter, thus contains
01:14 less sulfur than the kind found in the wells of the Havana-Matanzas Strip.
01:19 Cuba uses 44% of its domestic crude oil and 8% of its accompanying gas to generate domestic
01:24 energy.
01:30 Guatemala's Supreme Electoral Tribunal stopped on Sunday the resolution of the Citizens'
01:34 Registry to temporarily suspend the political party Movimiento Zemilla.
01:39 The top electoral authorities' decision was made official by means of a memorandum in
01:43 which the key president-elect Arevalo's party, alive as long as the electoral process
01:48 remains in force until October 31st.
01:52 The revocation of the suspension, which signed on Saturday, by the five magistrates of the
01:58 TSE, who on August 28th had dissociated themselves from the decision of the Citizens' Registry,
02:03 are one of the officials in charge of the entity.
02:06 The Supreme Electoral Tribunal urged the three powers of the state to continue to watch over
02:10 their respect for the popular will expressed in the ballot boxes and the integrity, purity
02:15 and efficiency of the electoral process.
02:22 Resolution SRC R3207/2023, issued by the Director of the Registry of Citizens, is suspended
02:31 until the conclusion of the electoral process.
02:35 In Mexico, the survey to select the presidential candidate for the ruling National Regeneration
02:40 Movement will conclude this Sunday.
02:42 It delegates from each of the pre-candidates for a president in the communities to conduct
02:47 polls to define the next presidential candidate for the Morena party.
02:51 The polling commission of the political party took more than 12,000 questionnaires during
02:55 the seven days of the poll.
02:57 On the other hand, the National Council of the Movement called on the pre-candidates
03:00 to respect the campaign silence since the results of the poll will be made public on
03:04 September 6th.
03:09 A team of Peruvian and Japanese archaeologists have discovered in northern Peru a pre-Hispanic
03:14 archaeological site dedicated to ancestor worship, with subterranean burial chambers
03:18 and human remains with ceramic offerings.
03:21 According to Japanese archaeologist Shinya Watanabe, the site dates from the Wari period,
03:26 between the 7th and 13th century AD, and is located in the Cajamarca region, 900 km north
03:33 of Lima.
03:34 The head of the Cajamarca's decentralized directorate of culture, Judith Padilla, on
03:38 the other hand, said that these findings help understand the lifestyle and ritual practices
03:42 of the ancient societies that inhabited the Peruvian territory in order to understand
03:47 current practices.
03:53 In Brazil, a collision between trucks on Saturday in the state of Paraná left at least seven
03:58 people dead and several injured.
04:00 According to state authorities, the accident was due to the collision of several trucks
04:03 that ran over several private vehicles on a highway in the district of São Luís do
04:08 Peruna, located in Val de Sanoa, a municipality in the metropolitan region of Curitiba.
04:13 Authorities also detailed that the accident may have occurred due to weather conditions
04:18 in the area, where it was raining and there was heavy fog.
04:26 In Chile, the regional conference "Dilemmas of Humanities" is underway.
04:29 A hundred representatives from popular movements and intellectuals from Latin America and the
04:34 Caribbean come together to discuss continental issues and a pathway into the future.
04:39 The conference, which will continue until September 4, was convened by ALBA Movimientos
04:43 and the International People's Assembly as a space for debate, reflection and interchange
04:48 of perspectives between different social sectors on how to build societies free from exploitation.
04:55 Among the key issues to be addressed are the construction of sovereignty and continental
04:58 unity to face imperialism and the battle of ideas for the construction of a socialist
05:02 project.
05:03 It is one of several regional talks being held around the world, which will then come
05:07 together at the third International Conference "Dilemmas of Humanities" to take place
05:11 in Johannesburg this October.
05:13 The event takes place within the framework of the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état
05:19 against Chilean President Salvador Allende and the popular unity process.
05:47 In a new episode of Venezuela on the Move, we travel to Guarena, a community east of
05:51 Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, where a family found a new source of income in goat breeding
05:57 during the storm brought on by COVID-19.
06:00 After that, what seemed to be a crazy adventure and temporal activity became their livelihood
06:03 and motivation.
06:05 Our colleagues Adriana Cibori and Jesús Romero went to their farm in the mountains and got
06:10 their story for us.
06:15 The work they, the kids, had done.
06:17 Every day this couple makes these goats who they consider to be part of their family,
06:23 from which they can attain 300 liters of milk per season.
06:27 For me they are women with four legs, because everything is the same, the breastfeeding
06:33 process, the birthing process, everything.
06:37 Goat milk is the most similar to maternal milk.
06:40 It has vitamins, less fat and is more digestible.
06:44 They sell their production, but they do not accept their sacrifice.
06:50 For us to give away an animal is hard.
06:54 As a business we have to give them away because we cannot overcrowd our barns.
07:02 But it's difficult.
07:03 We try to find people who take good care of animals and we give them recommendations.
07:08 They are not animals that can be grazed and fed.
07:12 They are animals of high dairy genetics.
07:14 They used to sleep in the barns, but now they have installed cameras in the birthing area
07:19 so they can control the goats when they are not there.
07:22 This way they can see what is happening on their device.
07:26 Victor is their assistant.
07:29 My thing is to work.
07:31 This way I earn more money and I can provide for my family.
07:38 The goats walk daily through these hills.
07:41 There are 75 of them and they receive complete care, that means every three months, in strict
07:46 sanitary control.
07:50 These 25 little goats do not lack supervision or feeding bottles.
07:55 They started with two goats to clean the land and that turned to a passion and made them
07:59 stay in the country.
08:03 First of all, it's a peace of mind that I have.
08:07 My daughters are still small and they are still studying.
08:12 This enterprise has helped me economically because my husband had a transportation company.
08:20 But when the pandemic started, construction was paralyzed.
08:26 And since we were at home, I told my family to come and help me with the work and we all
08:31 started to make the farm grow.
08:35 This was a window to the future.
08:37 People told me that I was crazy and I told them that I would have a good herd.
08:42 And well, here I am, producing.
08:45 In six years, this farm has managed to even produce French cheeses, which they sell to
08:51 gastronomic establishments in the capital.
08:53 Its next step is to become more technological.
08:56 You can find more episodes of our series Venezuela on the move on YouTube and on other platforms.
09:04 It's like a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok @TeresaEnglish where
09:08 you will find news in different formats, news updates and much more.
09:13 Other stories coming up.
09:15 Stay with us.
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09:36 Welcome back from the South.
09:39 Former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato accused France of having accidentally brought
09:43 down an Italian airline's passenger aircraft that crashed over the Mediterranean in 1980.
09:50 Amato's statement was made on Saturday in an interview to the press, in which he said
09:54 that a French Air Force missile accidentally shot the passenger jet in a failed bid to
09:59 assassinate Libya's then leader, Mohammed Gaddafi.
10:03 The Libyan leader was supposed to be flying on a military jet heading from Yugoslavia
10:07 to a conference in Tripoli.
10:10 Amato also contended that the Italian government tipped off Gaddafi about the assassination
10:14 attempt, resulting in Libya's leader not boarding his plane.
10:18 The Italian passenger aircraft was flying from Bologna to Palermo on June 27, 1980,
10:23 with 81 people aboard.
10:24 It didn't arrive at its destination.
10:32 Flight 870 from Italian Airlines took off from Bologna to Palermo on June 27, 1980.
10:38 One hour into the scheduled flight, the plane disappeared from radar screens.
10:42 Several hours after the wreckage of the aircraft was discovered on the Tyrrhenian Sea off the
10:47 island of Ustica, near Sicily, Italian investigators have attempted for years to understand what
10:53 led to the crash, the remains of the TC-9 plane having been placed back together and
10:58 inspected in Rome.
10:59 Theories on what caused the failed flight have gone from believing it was the result
11:03 of a terror attack to mechanical or structural failure.
11:06 However, George Rosario Priori claimed the truth about the plane crash was hidden by
11:10 the Italian government and members of the Secret Service.
11:19 Pope Francis led a holy mass in Mongolia's capital on Sunday and urged Catholics in China
11:24 to be good Christians and good citizens.
11:26 Following a mass before the scant Catholic population in Ulaanbaatar, Francis turned
11:33 his attention to China, some of whose citizens had flown in for the Pope's visit.
11:38 Flanked by Hong Kong's current bishop Stephen Chow and his bishop Emeritus Cardinal John
11:43 Tung-Hun, the 86-year-old Pope said they joined him to send a warm greeting to the noble Chinese
11:49 people.
11:50 On Saturday, Francis appeared to send a more tacit message, telling a gathering of Catholic
11:54 missionaries that governments had nothing to fear from the Catholic Church.
11:59 According to experts, Pope Francis' visit seeks to bring the Church's message to remote,
12:03 largely ignored areas where Catholicism is young and unfamiliar, and to improve relations
12:08 with Beijing.
12:09 "He really wants to visit China.
12:15 He gave prominence to the Cardinal and Bishop from Hong Kong, which shows that one day he
12:21 will want to visit mainland China.
12:23 I'm really touched."
12:24 In Sweden, at least 15 people were arrested during a public event for the burning of the
12:30 Koran in the city of Malmö.
12:32 Authorities reported that both the men responsible for the call for the public burning of the
12:36 Holy Book, as well as the people who tried to prevent the burning, were preventively
12:40 detained in order to maintain public order.
12:43 According to police information, the people arrested are suspected of violent disorder
12:47 and sabotage.
12:48 The man was identified as 37-year-old Salvan Moumika, known for promoting this type of
12:53 aggression against the Muslim community.
13:14 Spain issued new warnings for torrential rains that are expected to continue till Monday.
13:19 The regions of Madrid, Toledo and Cádiz are under a regular weather forecast 60 mm of
13:25 rain to fall per hour.
13:27 Spain's zero protection services have asked the population to seek shelter in the upper
13:31 floors of their residences due to the heavy rainfall.
13:34 The nation's railway service reported that trains have been interrupted between Catalonia
13:38 and Valencia.
13:40 The heavy rains are the result of a slow-moving storm system.
13:44 It hit the country on Saturday, killing two people who were caught canoeing in the mountains
13:48 of Huesca.
13:54 More than 380 people are still missing after wildfires affected the US state of Hawaii,
13:58 in which at least 115 people have lost their lives.
14:02 Police sources in the Hawaiian island of Maui said the fires left thousands of victims,
14:07 2,000 of whom still don't have electricity, and 10,000 lack telephone and internet service.
14:12 Local authorities report that the damage caused by the flames is estimated at $6 billion.
14:18 State Governor George Green described the forest fires that swept through the coastal
14:21 city of Lahaina on Tuesday as one of the world's natural disasters in the history of the archipelago,
14:28 as well as one of the deadliest forest catastrophes in the United States in a century.
14:37 Eruptions of the Uvinas volcano in Peru have made the government extend for 60 days the
14:42 state of emergency in seven districts of the Moquegua department.
14:47 Local authorities said the extension will take effect as from September 4 due to what
14:52 they call a moment of imminent danger.
14:54 The Geological Mining and Metallurgical Institute reported that the volcanic plume rose some
14:59 4,000 meters above the crater and recommended residents to stay more than four kilometers
15:05 away from the area.
15:27 Welcome back from the south.
15:50 In Niger, people are protesting for the third consecutive day asking for the withdrawal
15:54 of French troops present in the country since late July's coup.
15:58 Chanting "French Army, get out of our country," Nigerian citizens gathered on Sunday outside
16:03 a military base housing the French soldiers.
16:05 Demonstrators once again spoke out against France, whose diplomats and troops refused
16:09 to leave the country.
16:11 Nigerians also reiterated their full support for the military government, whose authorities
16:15 on Friday spoke out against Paris for backing ousted President Mohamed Basu, and they accused
16:21 France of flagrant interference in Niger's domestic affairs while seeking to perpetrate
16:26 neo-colonial rule.
16:28 In Israel, more than 150 people were injured during a demonstration of Eritrean migrants
16:36 in Tel Aviv.
16:37 In the early hours of Thursday morning, two sides of Eritrean refugees clashed in a demonstration,
16:42 prompting the Israeli police force to take action to control the situation.
16:46 The police force reported that they intervened to disperse the protests as they felt threatened
16:50 by the demonstrators.
16:51 The director of the Yishulof Medical Center in Tel Aviv said that at least 24 people had
16:56 been admitted and that seven of them were in serious condition.
17:05 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is considering deporting
17:08 a thousand Eritreans involved in riots in Tel Aviv over the weekend that resulted in
17:13 dozens injured, including Israeli policemen.
17:16 "What happened yesterday in Tel Aviv constitutes the crossing of a red line.
17:21 At the special ministerial committee I established today, we asked for a few swift measures,
17:29 including expelling a thousand regime supporters who took part in this attack."
17:35 Syrian military forces countered a terrorist attack by foreign troops in the west of Aleppo
17:39 province.
17:40 The army repelled the Sunday attacks by suicide group Omar Bin Qatab in towns of Kafr Tal
17:45 and Kafr Amma.
17:46 Syrian military responded to the bombing of the city with bombs, artillery and missiles,
17:51 while Russian aviation destroyed fighting positions in the rear.
17:55 Extremist gangs have stepped up murderous attacks against military positions and residential
18:01 areas under the administration of the Syrian government.
18:08 In Iran, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian met with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fedan
18:13 in Tehran.
18:14 The meeting is part of both nations' commitment to strengthen comprehensive cooperative relations.
18:19 The Turkish diplomat's agenda includes meetings with Iranian government authorities with the
18:23 aim of increasing bilateral cooperation.
18:25 This is Minister Fedan's first visit to Iran as Turkey's foreign minister.
18:35 September 3 marks the 83rd birthday of Uruguayan intellectual Eduardo Galeano, one of the most
18:42 influential writers in Latin America.
18:45 Galeano was born on September 3, 1940, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
18:49 He began his journalistic career in the 1960s as editor-in-chief of Marsha, an influential
18:55 weekly founded by fellow journalist Carlos Quijano.
18:58 In 1971, he published his book The Open Veins of Latin America, which was awarded honorable
19:04 mention by Cuba's prestigious cultural institution Casa de las Américas.
19:10 The book had an important impact on several generations since it showed a history of Latin
19:14 America from a decolonization perspective and was censored by the military dictatorships
19:19 of Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile.
19:22 Another of his most outstanding books was Children of the Days, which contains a section
19:26 entitled The Discovery.
19:28 Let's take a listen.
19:33 In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians.
19:37 They discovered they lived in America.
19:39 They discovered they were naked.
19:42 They discovered there was sin.
19:44 They discovered they owed obedience to a king and a queen from another world and a god from
19:48 some other heaven.
19:50 And this god had invented guilt and clothing, and had ordered burned alive all who worship
19:55 the sun and the moon and the earth and the rain that moistens it.
19:59 We have come to the end of this newsbroadcast.
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