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00:00Candidates for legislative and regional positions in Venezuela are closing their

00:17campaigns ahead of the polls of next Sunday May 25th. Panamanian workers will

00:25hold the caravan to condemn the aggressions toward the sectors supporting

00:29the indefinite strike in defense of sovereignty and the International

00:36Committee of the Red Cross warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is on

00:40the verge of total collapse due to Israel's aid blockade. Hello and welcome to

00:49From the South, I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba. We begin

00:53with the news.

01:03On Thursday candidates for legislative and regional positions in Venezuela are closing

01:10their campaigns ahead of the polls of next Sunday May 25th. After several weeks of

01:16traveling all over the country, the candidates for deputies to the National

01:20Assembly, Governorships and Legislative Councils held the closing arcs of their

01:25campaign calling on the support of voters. There are 6,500 candidates running on

01:31Sunday's polls, most of them women and young people. They represent 54 political

01:36organizations ranging from the ruling coalition, the Great Patriotic Poll, to

01:41candidates from opposition parties. In this context, on a special interview for Telesur, the Venezuelan

01:50candidate for the governorship of the Táchira state, Freddy Bernal, detailed that his work

01:55will focus on improving the agricultural viability of the state in the coming years.

02:00Let's make an effort in agricultural viability because we produce 40% of vegetables and legumes.

02:07Moreover, this is the state, and I sometimes say I am not the state to tell it rains or not,

02:12thus when it rains, it rains heavily. Then I have many problems of agricultural viability

02:18because streams and rivers grow and farmers need an agricultural viability to be able to

02:23get the products out. The Government of Venezuela activated the Obratón throughout the national

02:31territory with the objective of carrying out 130 works in 130 days and responding to the

02:38needs of the communities. The initiative is part of the policy of priority investment in

02:43strategic projects in social areas, such as the strengthening of health units with medical

02:48equipment and medical equipment and medicines. It also seeks the remodeling of educational

02:53centers and cultural spaces, the integral rehabilitation of the country's main road arteries,

02:59among other projects of interest. In this context, the President of Venezuela,

03:03Nicolás Maduro toured the recovered and rehabilitated areas of the Eastern Maternal

03:09and Children's Hospital Dr. Joel Valencia Parparsén and reaffirmed the commitment

03:15with the warranty of the right to health.

03:34In Peru, an exclusive ceremonial sanctuary for the elite is found in Caral, the oldest civilization

03:40in the Americas that once bloomed in north of modern Lima. It is a fire altar,

03:45with an antiquity of about 4,000 years, built on the west side of a pyramidal public upper

03:52building. Archaeologists stated private ceremonies had been held there where members of the elite

03:58used to burn offerings such as bits, fragmenters of quartz, fish, mollusk and agricultural products.

04:06The altar was found by the team of investigators of the archaeological zone Caral that leads the Peruvian

04:12archaeologist Ruth Shady in the sector called Era de Pando.

04:21Colombia celebrated Afro-Colombian Day with various cultural activities in several cities to pay tribute

04:26to the African heritage in the country. As part of the celebrations in Bogota, libraries and cultural

04:33spaces hosted talks, theater exhibitions and concerts by Afro-Colombian groups.

04:39In Cali, the major's office extended its invitation to citizens to participate in an agenda that promotes

04:45Afro-descendant rights and heritage. While Barranquilla was the scene of the Negro Somos discussion

04:51at the Carnival Museum reflecting on cultural identity. And in Cartagena de Indias, the Afro-Caribe

04:59Fest 2025 was held with a focus on music, dance and ancestral knowledge.

05:11And now we have a short break coming up, but first remember you can join us on TikTok at

05:15TeleCity English where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and more. We'll be right back, stay with us.

05:31Welcome back to From the South. The Panamanian indefinite strike of the unions intensifies in

05:36different regions nationwide in rejection of Law 462 of the Social Security Fund amid complaints of

05:43raids on union headquarters and growing repression against demonstrators. The leadership of workers

05:49denounced that police officers with their faces covered and rifles in hand stormed their headquarters

05:56in San Miguelito in Panama City. Likewise, some trucks legal representatives described the action

06:02as a government measure to intimidate their clients. They further indicated that the order seeks to capture

06:08information related to the investigation of another leader of the union. Moreover, workers

06:13claim that the cancellation of the accounts of their cooperative was a persecution by the

06:19executive and had no legal basis, just aimed at stopping protests and the indefinite strike.

06:30Young workers will hold the caravan to condemn the aggressions toward the sector supporting the

06:35indefinite strike in defense of sovereignty. The caravan will set off from Saita village in the

06:41outskirts of Panama City on Friday, May 23rd. Marchers will be rejecting the deal signed by the Molina

06:48administration and Washington under the pretext of warranting the security of the Panama Canal.

06:53In this context, diverse social organizations will intensify mobilizations in defense of democracy.

07:00They indicated that the demonstration is part of the plan of actions to stand against the political

07:06persecution of unions, such as the construction soundtracks union, the arrest of leaders, the closing

07:12of a cooperative and the search of their properties.

07:20Hundreds of residents and miners marched on Wednesday in Trujillo to demand greater security in one of Peru's

07:25most crime-ridden cities. The peaceful protests took place 16 days after the murder of 13 workers at the gold mine in Patas.

07:34Some miners marched with white helmets as a badge and carried signs reading no more death, no to delinquency,

07:42no to extortion. Certain workers linked to the Poderosa mine, one of the big mining companies in Peru,

07:48were found dead on May 4th in a gold mine shaft. Patas was declared in a state of emergency since February

07:562024 due to the escalation of violence linked to gold mining.

08:04In Argentina, teachers organized in the National Historical Federation of University Teachers Iconadu

08:09set for this week a 48-hour national strike to demand the reopening of bargaining negotiations

08:16and a salary increase. Meanwhile, the students will march on Thursday. This measure motivated the

08:21non-teaching staff to make the same measure but for 24 hours for this Friday. The students of the

08:28University of Buenos Aires are preparing for a mobilization of support that will take place this

08:34Thursday from House A Square to the National Secretariat of Education. The classrooms where the

08:40country's future professionals are trained mobilized with the firm decision to continue with the measures of

08:45struggle that had already began last year against the first budget cuts.

08:55In Argentina, police officers repressed with excessive force. The march held every Wednesday by hundreds of

09:01retirees in front of the Congress, leaving almost 100 injured and four arrested. The security forces

09:08launched deer gas and hit the demonstrators with dumpers at different times in the afternoon,

09:14while protesters were cordoning off the streets by a picket line. In this context, the police applied

09:19the anti-riot protocol with an excessive operation that hampered the peaceful rally to develop.

09:31In Mexico, friends and militants of the Morena party paid tribute to the government cabinet

09:36collaborators assassinated in an attack. On Tuesday morning, May 20th, Jimena Guzman, who was the

09:42private secretary of Mexico City's major, Clara Brugada, and advisor Jose Muñoz, were shot dead on one of the

09:49city's crowded avenues. Witnesses saw how the shooter aimed his gun at the windshield of the vehicle in

09:56which they were traveling, and then he fled on a motorbike. This crime has dispelled the idea that Mexico City was a

10:04safe place, generating terror and hopelessness among citizens. The first investigations revealed that Guzman,

10:1142, was in the driver's seat. Besides being the private secretary, she was also a close colleague of

10:17brigadas from her work in Ixtapalapa.

10:24Also in Mexico, a huge blast consumed the facilities of a fuel distribution company in the Mexican state of

10:30Nuevo León. Authorities reported that the fire started at 2 pm local time on Wednesday,

10:36raised in some 13 containers with more than 10,000 litres of capacity belonging to the company Marvik,

10:43which distributes gasoline and diesel nationwide. In this context, 11 people had been evacuated from

10:49the site and one injured person had been taken to a hospital. As of the latest update, firefighting

10:55operations remain underway and officials have not confirmed the full extent of the damage or the cause of the fire.

11:07We have a second show break coming up, but before we invite you to visit our Facebook page at

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11:35Welcome back to From the South. Palestinian human rights organizations denounce the increasing physical

11:56and psychological abuses against Palestinian hostages by the Israeli regime. The Nation's Prisoners Club and

12:03the Adamer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association condemned violations committed in

12:08Tel Aviv Penitentiaries and described the conditions in Israeli prisons as highly dangerous. The organization

12:15denounced the use of trunchies, machetes and police dogs to torture Palestinian hostages. More than 10,000

12:22Palestinians are still held hostage in Israeli prisons, among them about 500 minors and dozens of women.

12:33The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is on

12:40verge of total collapse due to Israel's aid blockade. ICRC spokesperson Hishem Mohana denounced on Wednesday

12:48the worsening crisis in the Palestinian enclave. In this regard, Mohana stressed that the resumption and

12:54escalation of Israeli military operations and the ban on the entry of aid have exacerbated the situation in the

13:01Strip. Furthermore, the ICRC official condemned as unacceptable the politicization of humanitarian aid and its

13:09use as a form of political and military pressure.

13:16In Palestine, the Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression in the Gaza Strip,

13:21where in a recent series of new deadly attacks, at least 93 people were killed. The offensive targeted the

13:28Al-Aouda hospital in the north of the Palestinian territory with tanks firing on buildings of the

13:34health center, including the specialized surgery department. In addition, earlier on Thursday,

13:39rescue teams recovered 13 bodies from under the rubble of two houses bombed by Israeli

13:45in Habalia al-Balad in the north of the Palestinian enclave. The number of Palestinians killed by the

13:51Chinese regime in Gaza since the onslaught of its offensive in October 2023 has risen to 53,655,

14:00while the number of wounded stands at 121,950.

14:12Israeli occupation forces mounted Thursday incursions into the occupied West Bank and the whole

14:18Gaza Strip so they only not only dropped bombings but also demolished villages, abducted and killed

14:25Palestinian civilians. The Israeli troops raided early Thursday back at Al-Hattab village near Kalkilia

14:32city in the West Bank. There, they evicted families from their homes. They even detonated a 120 square

14:39meter residence of the Abdul Ghani family. In addition, the Palestinian Prisoner Society denounced the

14:44abduction of 25 Palestinians, including former inmates and a woman. Likewise, occupation forces

14:51stormed today the Al-Halal Zone refuge camp northern Ramallah and wounded seven people, including a senior

14:58man. The International Organization for Migration, IOM, called for immediate action against the worsening

15:09humanitarian crisis in Yemen, stating that they are on the brink of catastrophe. The entity detailed that

15:15the Yemeni people are facing what could be their most difficult year and in their opinion, conflicts,

15:21economic collapse and climatic impacts are increasing the humanitarian needs in the territory.

15:27They also called on the international community to carry out operations in the country to help prevent

15:32a possible humanitarian catastrophe, ensuring that the needs and access to essential services of the

15:38population are met, in addition to providing economic opportunities and means of livelihood.

15:49In Spain, teachers take to the streets of Madrid to denounce the precarious situation of public

15:54education. Under the slogan, let's save public education, hundreds of people demand funding for

16:00the country's public education. Teachers from kindergarten, secondary, special education and vocational

16:07training participated in the mobilization day. All the educational sectors agree that the lack of

16:13funding from the government is damaging the teaching and working conditions.

16:21In the United States, two Israeli embassy staff members were shot and killed on Wednesday in

16:27Washington DC. The deadly shooting occurred at about 9 pm local time near the Capitol Jewish Museum in

16:34Washington DC, according to authorities. This Israeli foreign minister named the two victims as Jarron

16:40Leshinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim. Pamela Smith, chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, stated that

16:47authorities had arrested a single suspect in the shooting, identified as Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old from

16:54Chicago, Illinois. Prior to the shooting, the suspect had been observed pacing back and forth outside the

17:01museum. He approached a group of four people, pulled out a gun, and opened fire, wounding both of the deceased.

17:14Preliminary investigation indicates that both victims were exiting an event at the Capitol Jewish Museum

17:21located in the 500 block of 3rd Street Northwest when the shooting occurred. We believe the shooting was

17:28committed by a single suspect, who is now in custody. Prior to the shooting, the suspect was observed pacing

17:35back and forth outside of the museum. He approached a group of four people, produced a handgun, and opened fire,

17:42striking both of our disputes.

17:44And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief, but you can find these and many other stories

17:49on our website at telecityenglish.net. And join us on social media. We are on Facebook,

17:54X, Instagram, Telegram, and TikTok as well. Portela Suri English, I'm Alejandra García. Thank you for watching.

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