FTS 16:30 03-06: Venezuelan govt. reaffirms oil and economic sovereignty

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00:00Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reiterated that the country does not need

00:12licenses to continue promoting national hydrocarbon production and its economy.

00:17Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called on the Mexican people to look ahead

00:24following the arrival of new members of the nation's Supreme Court of Justice.

00:32And in Palestine, Israeli occupation forces continue attacking Palestinians at eight distribution

00:38centers. Nearly 40 civilians were killed in the last 34 hours in Gaza.

00:48Hello and welcome to From the South. I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba.

00:53We begin with the news.

01:05In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro reiterated that the country does not need licenses to

01:10continue promoting national hydrocarbon production and its economy. During his television program

01:16Con Maduro Mas, the Venezuelan President highlighted that the country's hydrocarbons engine is

01:22producing close to 1.1 million barrels of oil per day, despite the restriction of licenses

01:28to oil companies by the United States government as part of its criminal measures of coercion

01:34against the people. In that sense, President Maduro stated that Venezuela is a free, independent

01:39and sovereign country that will not be coerced by the U.S. imperialism or its illegal sanctions.

01:54The hydrocarbon engine has four components, oil, and we are producing, we are already close

02:00to one million one hundred thousand barrels per day, with our own lung. That they say that such

02:07and such a company left, that it returned, not that it left, not that they took away the license

02:13of such and such a company, I am not going to name it. That they took it away, that they took it away,

02:19that they put it away, that they put it away, take away what you want to take away. Put what you want to

02:25put Venezuelan oil will continue to grow in its production with its own lungs, without depending

02:31on anyone. Venezuela does not need licenses. Do we need a license to breathe? Imagine if we needed a

02:39license, not that the United States has not approved the license for Venezuelans to breathe, one's eyes

02:45would roll back in one's head. But they did approve it, thank goodness. We need a license to have two

02:52hands to work and produce. There go the empires with their arrogance that believe that with a license

02:58they can govern the world. Venezuela is not governed with a license, we are free, independent, rebellious,

03:05and sovereign, and we will continue to grow in the production of hydrocarbons.

03:14Venezuelan authorities held a press conference to provide updates ahead of the upcoming first

03:19Agroalba Fair. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Hill announced preparations for the Great Agroalba

03:25Expo Fair to be held this Thursday, June 5th, and Friday, June 6th. Hill explained that this innovative

03:32integration mechanism of ALBA-TCP aims to promote productive investment and strengthen food sovereignty,

03:39promoting sustainable development. According to the International Center for Productive

03:44Investment, Agroalba lays the foundations for inclusive and sustainable economic development

03:50for the benefit of the region, and the promotion of Petro-Caribe and ALBA-TCP.

04:08Agroalba, as you know,

04:10is an initiative that arose from the Presidential Summit on December 14, 2024,

04:18when we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of our America.

04:24The presidents, heads of state and governments, and prime ministers, called for the creation of this

04:30initiative, which kicks off with all ALBA member, countries, and beyond to produce,

04:39invest, and create the shield, we could say, of food security,

04:47and sovereignty for ALBA, for the Caribbean, and for the Latin American region.

04:51The Secretary General of the Bolivarian Alliance, Jorge Arreaza,

04:59said they expect to meet Agroalba's goals to meet the needs of all ALBA countries.

05:08As I say to the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, the ALBA Secretariat is very grateful for this

05:14proposal from President Nicolas Maduro. We already had the President of Petro-Caribe as a great tool

05:20for the development of countries, and for generosity and cooperation. In that same spirit,

05:27Agroalba is being created so that we can use those 58 million hectares of land in all our countries,

05:34and the waters of all our countries, to produce food and to meet our needs.

05:39In other news, Brazil hosts the 11th BRICS Parliamentary Forum that will count on the

05:49attendance of delegations from 31 legislative parties and some 150 parliamentarians from 15 countries.

05:56From Tuesday, June 3rd to Thursday, June 5th, the Brazilian Parliament will be hosting international

06:02debates on legislative initiatives in areas such as artificial intelligence regulation, global health,

06:08climate crisis and economic development. The event kicks off with the encounter of BRICS women

06:14parliamentarians, in which they will address the role of women in the digital era in the fight

06:20against the climate crisis and their function as agents and beneficiaries of financing. Meanwhile,

06:26the shares of the Foreign Affairs Committees of the BRICS Parliament will further meet to discuss

06:32the strengthening of trade among the member countries.

06:40And now we have a short break coming up, but first remember you can join us on TikTok at

06:44Colossary English, where you will find news in different formats, news updates and more. We'll be right back and stay with us.

07:00Welcome back to From the South. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called on the Mexican people to look ahead

07:13following the arrival of new members of the nation's Supreme Court of Justice. The head of state pointed

07:18out that the work of those who leave the country's top court should be reviewed, but that it should not be a

07:24matter of persecution. She highlighted the autonomy of the judiciary and that the new members must ensure

07:32true access to justice without conditions or persecution. The president also declared that as of September,

07:40the new members must ensure an environment of honesty, truthworthiness and true access to justice.

07:47In Mexico, Mixteco indigenous lawyer Hugo Aguilar is said to become the next president of the Supreme Court of

07:59Justice and the first to be elected to be to that position by popular vote. The National Electoral Institute

08:06reported in its latest update that 87% of the votes for the presidency of the country's highest court have

08:13been counted. The lawyer, who was an advisor to the Zapatista movement, has almost 5 million votes,

08:20compared to over 4.6 million votes for Lenny Abatres. This Sunday, Mexico successfully held elections for

08:27nine ministers, 386 federal judges, as well as magistrates and state judges in 19 states.

08:43In Colombia, it has been 50 days since the trial of former President Álvaro Uribe began for the alleged

08:51crimes of witness tampering, bribery and procedural fraud. The defense summoned Samuel Arturo Sánchez

08:57Cañón, who would now be willing to testify for his alleged participation in the bribery of the witnesses,

09:04Carlos Enrique Vélez. They also summoned Darley Guzmán Pérez, alias Jopra, held in the Palmyra

09:11Prison and two investigators of the Technical Party of Investigation of the Public Prosecutor's Office.

09:17The agency is trying to prove that the former president is responsible for having sought

09:22through emissaries, witnesses to favor him in other processes in which he was linked to paramilitary

09:29groups. This trial, which marks a historic event by bringing a former president before a criminal court

09:35as a defendant for the first time, started in 2012.

09:47In Argentina, former president and leader of the judicialist party PJ Cristina Fernández de

09:53Kirchner announced her candidacy for deputy for the third electoral section of the provincial elections

10:00to be held on September 7th. She confirmed so on an interview in the Minuto Uno program. In this context,

10:07Fernández criticized President Javier Milei and expressed her concern for the future of Peronism.

10:14Thus, the leader attached importance to unity within the party. Likewise, she warned that a defeat in the

10:20province could bring about revocations nationwide. In addition, the former head of state rejected

10:25criticisms of her decision to run for a seat in the Buenos Aires legislature, arguing that politics

10:31must be seen as an opportunity for collective triumph.

10:42In Panama, increased violence over the past 31 days has set off alarms, with 50 people killed

10:48during this time. Authorities registered 46 men and 4 women killed violently.

10:53All among the provinces most affected are Panama with 19 homicides, Colón with 12 and the district of San

11:00Miguelito with 9. Most of the victims were young people. Gunshot wounds and stab wounds are the most

11:08common injuries, according to official reports.

11:23In Russia, the government's investigative committee confirmed on Tuesday that the recent explosions in

11:31Bryansk and the Kursk regions have left seven people dead and 113 injured were terrorist attacks

11:38ordered by the Ukrainian regime. The investigative committee of Russia classified the facts of

11:45explosions on railway sections and bridge structures in Bryansk and Kursk regions, which led to the derailment of

11:50several civilian trains as terrorist acts. It is evident that the terrorists, acting on the orders of the Kyiv regime,

11:57planned everything with maximum precision so that hundreds of innocent civilians would come under their attacks.

12:02So, a 5.8-magnetal earthquake hit western Turkey and nearby Greek islands on Tuesday in early morning hours,

12:23before a quake struck off the south coast of Crete. In the resort town of Marmaris, the ensuing panic left one

12:32person dead and at least 70 injured. The European Mediterranean Seismological Center said the quake happened

12:39at a death of 68 kilometers. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerliykaya said the deadly victim was a 14-year-old

12:47child in the resort town of Fetille. The teenager was brought to the hospital but could not be saved.

12:54Disaster management teams were deployed to assess the damage.

13:03And we have a second child break coming up, but before we invite you to visit our Facebook page at Telleser English,

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13:44Welcome back to From the South. The United Nations denounced Tuesday that Israel

13:54confined the Palestinian people to 18% of the Gaza Strip territory. The multinational

13:59organization said that the confinement of the Palestinians to that 18% of the territory was

14:05the result of the increasing military expansion of the Israeli forces who control the remaining area.

14:11The organization also indicated that almost 200,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced in the

14:18last weeks due to the continuous bombardments. It also accused the Israeli forces to attack a

14:23humanitarian aid distribution point in Rafah where at least three Palestinians were killed and 35 others

14:30injured.

14:38Palestinian health authorities reported that Israeli occupation forces killed nearly 40 civilians in the

14:44last 24 hours in the Gaza Strip. The Gas and Health Ministry said that deadly victims and the more

14:52than 200 injured were at the humanitarian aid distribution center in Rafah. According to eyewitnesses,

14:58Sionist troops attacked the area with artillery and warplanes while civilians waited for the delivery

15:04of supplies. Palestinian health authorities reported that the Sionist troops have killed over 54,470 people

15:13and injured more than 124,000, mostly women and children, since October 7, 2023.

15:21They leave them in a courtyard that is around one to two hectares. They throw the goods there and the goods

15:35that are placed there are not enough for roughly 2,000 people. While around 10,000 had gathered there,

15:42that is what I saw, two-thirds of us went through at the risk of death. I swear, it's like we died 500 times in an hour.

15:49I swear, there are martyrs left inside there that no one can reach. And I swear two-thirds of the people

15:56who went inside left empty-handed.

15:57I start heading out at 3 a.m. and get there, then get shot at. So I lay low on the ground between the

16:05others. When I turned 5, 3 a.m., I raised my head back up, to see people walking out with eight boxes.

16:11But what about those martyrs left on the ground? Until when will we continue to live in humiliation,

16:16oppression, and hunger? I swear, I can't afford to buy a kilogram of flour that costs 40 shekels.

16:22Where would I get it from?

16:29On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragishi arrived in Beirut reaffirming the

16:34Persian nation's support for Lebanon amid ongoing Israeli aggressions. Foreign Minister Aragishi

16:40underscored that Lebanon's independence and sovereignty continue to bear much significance

16:46for the Islamic Republic and the broader West Asia region by extension. The Iranian Foreign Minister

16:52arrived in Lebanon's capital following an official visit to Egypt. On Tuesday, Israeli airstrikes on a

16:58residential building in Beirut's southern suburbs killed several civilians, including an official with

17:05the country's Hezbollah resistance movement and his son. The Islamic Republic of Iran completely supports

17:17Lebanon's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. We condemn the occupation of parts of

17:26Lebanon by the Zionist regime and support all efforts by the government and the people of Lebanon to

17:34expel the occupiers by any means, including through diplomacy.

17:42In other news, the United States moved forward with the withdrawal of its military personnel after

17:47abandoning two strategic bases in the Syrian province of Deir Esor. Armored vehicles and trucks

17:53loaded with logistical equipment departed from U.S. bases in Syria, including the Al-Omar oil field,

17:59the largest in the country. After the withdrawal, the armed group Syrian Democratic Forces deployed to

18:06the abandoned positions with the aim of controlling the area. According to the U.S. Department of Defense,

18:12the plan is to reduce the number of troops to less than a thousand and close at least eight military posts.

18:18In South Korea, with nearly 95 percent of ballots counted in the snap presidential elections,

18:30Liberal Democratic Party's candidate Lee Jae-min-yoon is set to become the country's new president.

18:36Precisely, Lee has obtained 48.85 percent of the votes, while his main challenger,

18:43conservative Kim Moon-su won 41.99 percent. Nearly 80 percent of the country's 44.4 million eligible

18:52voters cast ballots, according to an interim tally, which represents one of the highest turnouts for

18:57a presidential election in the Asian nation. As vote counting is still underway, Kim has already

19:04conceded defeat and congratulated Lee. For his part, Lee has told supporters that one of his main tasks is

19:10ensuring a peaceful Korean Peninsula, going to pursue dialogue with North Korea. The winning candidate

19:18will be thrown in on Wednesday for a single, full term of five years without the typical two-month

19:23transition period.

19:26I will find a path for South and North Korea to co-exist and achieve mutual prosperity through dialogue,

19:43communication, and co-existence.

19:47I will stabilize the Korean Peninsula as soon as possible in order to minimize the risk for Korea

19:53Korea and make sure that people's livelihoods are not worsened because of the security in the Korean

20:06Peninsula. While politicians may clash over interests

20:11and draw lines between factions,

20:21the people are not bound to follow those divisions.

20:26People are the master of this nation and politicians are workers

20:31who are responsible for people's lives. Political quarrels may not be avoidable,

20:42but people don't have to be divided and hate each other.

20:49Let's now learn a bit more on who Lee Jae-myung is. Lee hosted the previous presidential election to

20:56Yoon Suk-yeol and then went on to lead the Democratic Party to a landslide victory in last year's parliamentary

21:04election and was the driving force behind the opposition-led campaign to remove Yoon from office.

21:11The human rights lawyer turned politician served as governor of South Korea's most populous

21:17Gyeonggi province and major of Seonnam city near Seoul.

21:22On the other hand, Lee faces five ongoing trials for corruption and other criminal charges.

21:28Most of his ongoing cases have been postponed by the courts until after the election and he was denied

21:35any wrongdoing, insisting the charges are politically motivated. If elected, he will be the first person

21:41to take high office in South Korea while under active prosecution.

21:58And with this information, we have come to the end of this news brief, but you can find this and many other stories

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22:10Telegram and TikTok as well. For Telesur English, I'm Alejandra Garcia. Thank you for watching.

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