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00:00Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez, rejected the new sanctions imposed by the United States government against Cuba as part of the continuation of its aggressive measures against the island.
00:24More than 50 political parties in Venezuela began campaigning for votes ahead of the 2025 major and consul elections.
00:37And the Gaza Strip has been labelled as a graveyard for children according to the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini.
00:54Hello and welcome to From the South. I'm Alejandra Garcia from Telesur Studios in Havana, Cuba. We begin with the news.
01:07Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez, rejected the new sanctions imposed by the United States government against Cuba as part of the continuation of its aggressive measures against the island.
01:19The high official described this new package of sanctions as part of a prolonged and merciless economic war against Cuba, reaffirming that his country and its leaders will not bow down despite the aggression.
01:32In turn, the Cuban government pointed directly at the Donald Trump administration for promoting a strategy of regime change through a policy of economic asphyxiation in an attempt to provoke destabilization actions in the country.
01:57In this context, the U.S. Department of State announced that it will impose a new package of sanctions against the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
02:04the Ministerial Justice of the International and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Interior of Cuba.
02:05In this context, the U.S. Department of State announced that it will impose a new package of sanctions against the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces, and the Ministry of Interior of Cuba.
02:17In this context, the U.S. Department of State announced that it will impose a new package of sanctions against the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of Interior of Cuba.
02:31The sanctions include direct visa bans for family members of those sanctions, as well as measures limiting the travel of members of the Cuban judicial and prison systems. This new package of unilateral coercive measures against the island are in addition to the blockade and restrictions that have been enforced for more than 60 years and coincide with the aggressive plan of Donald Trump's administration against the country.
03:01The government of Venezuela rejected the statement made by the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who, in a new act of hatred, intends to sanction the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
03:14Through a communique, the Venezuelan government stated, it is an intolerable affront to international law that a U.S. government official claims the power to sanction a head of state of a sovereign country.
03:27The attempt to punish President Díaz-Canel is not only a violation of the fundamental principles of coexistence among nations, but also an expression of profound contempt for the free peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
03:40The text continues by affirming that the U.S. Secretary of State is nothing more than a spokesman for rancor and failure. Blinded by hatred, self-conscious of Cuba's invisible dignity, he has built his political career on the desire to destroy revolutions that he does not understand and will never be able to overcome.
04:04His unhealthy determination against Cuba is condemned to the same fate as all imperial attempts against America, absolute failure.
04:14The communique concluded by pointing out that the imposition of new coercive measures are mere acts of financial piracy disguised as false morality.
04:25While the Cuban people resist with heroic dignity, it is the government of the United States that is directly responsible for the suffering caused by the criminal and illegal blockade cowardly intensified by figures such as Rubio.
04:44Cuba continues its fight against terrorism, this time unveiling evidence from criminal acts which have been reported to and repeatedly dismissed by the United States government as it continues to protect the perpetrators.
04:58Precisely, national media revealed operations directed from U.S. territory, mainly carried out by the organization Cuba Primero, with the aim of inciting extreme violence on the island.
05:11The institution, which operates under the guise of a political movement, was accused of mobilizing, instructing and paying several citizens to carry out attacks against hospitals, schools and daycare centers.
05:24Furthermore, it was revealed that individuals within the organization maintain connections with figures such as U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, evidencing the complicity of the White House in these plans.
05:43More than 50 political parties in Venezuela begin campaigning for votes ahead of the 2025 mayoral and council elections.
05:53Starting this Friday, more than 6,000 candidates will begin their election campaigns with the aim of being elected as local authorities on July 27th.
06:03More than 21.5 million voters are called to the polls for these elections, where they will choose 335 majors and over 2,470 councillors from across the country for the next four years.
06:17At the same time, the first National Youth Public Consultation will be held, an initiative that recognizes young people as key players in the community transformation of the country.
06:28In this context, the chief of the unified campaign for the municipal and council elections, Jorge Rodriguez, delivered a speech as the nation readies for the upcoming polls.
06:45Rodriguez highlighted the importance of consolidating peaceful democracy in the nation as a country completes the process of renewal of all elected powers that began with the presidential election of 2024.
06:58He also underscored that a prevalent topic throughout the campaign will be the ongoing demand that the U.S. return the kidnapped Venezuelan students illegally separated from their families through Trump's migration policies.
07:12And since it is also a unity-focused campaign, we are also going out to the streets to denounce the kidnapping of our 31 children in the United States of America.
07:31It already seems to be something orchestrated, it already seems to be something specifically planned.
07:38Because since we started to denounce that they were separating migrant families in the United States of America, that they were taking the mothers to detention centers without them having committed any crime.
07:50Without them having committed any fault, and sometimes for 8 months, 10 months a year, 14 months, in those detention centers, without seeing a judge.
08:01Without knowing why they were deprived of their freedom and the most serious thing they were doing to those mothers, to those Venezuelan women.
08:09was separating them from their children and taking them, in the best of cases, to some centers, supposedly shelters.
08:16Likewise, Jorge Rodriguez urged the candidates to campaign on the streets and help the areas affected by the rains.
08:24We also want to inform our candidates, mayors and councilmen and councilwomen, that in those areas of the country where the emergency weather conditions and the intense rains have affected homes.
08:43Roads, agricultural production, livestock production, there are situations of danger for the population.
08:51The only acceptable electoral campaign is to be with the people, when the river overflows, when a road is blocked, when houses are affected, when household goods are affected.
09:04There is no electoral campaign there that does not involve being with the people, helping the governors, helping the governors to work, because that is our main work offer.
09:16And now we have a short break coming up, but first remember you can join us on TikTok at Telesur English, where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and more.
09:26We'll be right back, stay with us.
09:28Welcome back to From the South.
09:56Welcome back to From the South.
09:58The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, visited areas affected by heavy rains and floods in the state of Merida.
10:04During the tour, the President assessed the restoration work carried out on the road, destroyed by the recent flooding of the Chama River.
10:12The head of state highlighted the progress made by the brigades distributed in 82 France, and announced that he will redouble his efforts so that the affected inhabitants may resume their daily routine as soon as possible.
10:25President Maduro was accompanied by the first combatant, Silvia Flores, the Governor of Merida, Arnaldo Sanchez, and the Vice President of Public Works and Services, Jorge Márquez.
10:35We are heading up to the city of Merida because we have come to personally supervise, as we always do, all 82 work fronts we have in here.
11:00As you know, on June 24 and 25, we faced heavy rainfall caused by three atmospheric phenomena that we will explain later on, which resulted in 300% more rainfall in 12 hours, causing rivers and tributaries to overflow.
11:20We can say that, despite the difficult and tragic circumstances, we managed to save lives, there were no fatalities, and we saved the lives of more than one person who was almost swept away by the river.
11:36Our team sprang into action right there and then.
11:43Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro rejected the attempts by some political sectors to manipulate the distribution of humanitarian aid to the flood-affected areas.
11:52We're going up the mountains with the motorcyclists. Some political sectors tried to manipulate and say that it was the right-wing extremists who had gone out to the streets to help the people.
12:06It was the Bolivarian and Christian revolution, with its people and its motorcyclists, helping, supportive as we always are, bringing food and medicine, saving lives, and rebuilding.
12:19The U.S. Federal authorities repressed a mobilization of farmers at a farm south of the city of California.
12:26During the day, Federal agents carried out a raid where they dispersed the demonstrators with tear gas canisters and fired rubber bullets into the crowd.
12:35Simultaneously, boated patrol vehicles and customs personnel blocked the highway in a main area to intimidate citizens as they fled.
12:44The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, denounced the arbitrary detention of several of her fellow citizens and described the raids by the U.S. police as unjust.
13:03Family members have been contacted and the consulates are checking the attention centers to find out how many nationals had been detained.
13:13These raids are very unjust, and they are also going to damage the economy of the United States.
13:25Besides, it is part of the injustice that damages the economy of the United States.
13:34The Mexican and other Latin nationalities strengthen the economy of the United States without this labor force.
13:45What will happen is that the fields of California and other states will not produce.
13:52The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, also affirmed that migrants are not criminals and stated that the United States needs their workforce to sustain the country's economy.
14:03Migrants are not criminals.
14:07Migrants are not criminals.
14:09They went there, of course, to seek a better life for their families, but the United States needs them.
14:16It needs Mexican workers and workers of other nationalities who are extraordinarily hard-working people.
14:28For us, heroes and heroines who sustain the economy in the fields, in the services, in the factories.
14:35The Brazilian President, Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, said Friday that his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump is misinformed and that former President Jair Bolsonaro will be tried and serve prison time if justice finds him guilty.
14:50Da Silva's statements come after the U.S. President sent him a letter Wednesday with the threat of imposing a 50% tariff on all goods from the South American nation if Da Silva's administration continue with what he described as a wedge hunt against the former Brazilian President.
15:09In his letter, Trump also alleged a trade deficit between both nations, which the Brazilian head of state rejected as unfounded.
15:17Da Silva also reiterated that the complaint against Bolsonaro was not made by the left, but by army generals and Bolsonaro's former aide-de-camp.
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15:56Workers and social organizations of Ecuador mobilized Friday to demand that the laws promoted by the Daniel Novoa's government and approved by Congress be declared unconstitutional.
16:06The unions also demanded the revision of the organic law of public integrity, social budget and the defense of public education.
16:13The demonstrators affirmed that the reforms pushed by Novoa's administration criminalize the social struggle and limit the rights of workers.
16:20They also insisted that the norm would allow the dismissal of education workers based on evaluations or even to set retirement age at levels such as after 75 years of career.
16:27In Haiti, international sanctions affected the prime.
16:41workers based on evaluations, or even to set retirement age at levels such as after 75 years
16:48of career. In Haiti, international sanctions affected the people while criminal groups
16:58continue to spread terror nationwide. The Trump administration and lately the United Nations
17:03have imposed coercive measures on that country, arguing that they are aimed at limiting operative
17:10capacities of criminal groups. However, the Haitian population has been the only affected by the
17:15unilateral policies that include frozen assets, travel bans, and arms embargo. Meanwhile, criminal
17:22groups harass the Haitian people, and that's the situation in Portugal, Prince Capital, as they are
17:28currently controlled by 90%. In this regard, local outlets ensure no measure would worth a while,
17:35because criminals don't go overseas, they don't purchase lucrative properties, much less on
17:40their names, and they don't safeguard the riches in either national banks or offshore banks.
17:47The Gaza Strip has been labelled a graveyard for sure, and according to the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East,
17:54UNRWA, Philip Lazzarini. The Gaza Strip has been labelled a graveyard for sure, and according to the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, Philip Lazzarini. The United Nations representative also affirmed that this region has become a territory of starving peace.
18:01The Gaza Strip has been labelled for sure, and according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, Philip Lazzarini.
18:08The United Nations representative also affirmed that this region has become a territory of starving people due to the inaction of the international entities to interfere in the genocide.
18:15Meanwhile, last Sunday, talks resumed between the Israeli Sionist forces and the Palestinian resistance, Hamas, to push for a 60-day ceasefire and the exchange of hostages.
18:22In this context, the Palestinian health authorities reported that the Palestinian health authorities reported that the number of gas and gas and gas has become a territory of starving people due to the inaction of the international entities to interfere in the genocide.
18:29Meanwhile, last Sunday, talks resumed between the Israeli Sionist forces and the Palestinian resistance, Hamas, to push for a 60-day ceasefire and the exchange of hostages.
18:45In this context, the Palestinian health authorities reported that the number of gas and gas killed has increased to almost 800 and while those injured amount to over 4,000 since May 27 in the humanitarian aid distribution centres administered by Israel and the United States.
19:04The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights denounced that the victims died from gunshot wounds.
19:11In June, the Israeli army had ordered to shoot at civilians, a situation that has been denounced by human rights organisations due to the famine crisis and the lack of aid that the Palestinians are suffering.
19:24The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, recorded an increase in malnutrition in Sudanese children of up to 46% between January and May 2025.
19:39The United Nations Organisation indicates that in the northern part of the Darfur region, more than 40,000 children were reported to be acutely malnourished.
19:48It also detailed that in 9 of the 13 localities of Darfur, the rate of malnutrition exceeded emergency levels with the risk of worsening if the necessary humanitarian measures are not taken.
19:59In addition, UNICEF warns that infant mortality has increased while the collapse of health services is exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.
20:08UNICEF
20:17In Turkey, the armed group of the Kurdistan Workers' Party surrendered and burned their weapons in a ceremony held in the north of the country.
20:23The ceremony was held symbolically as the first step towards the end of a decades-long insurgency with Turkey.
20:32The PKK armed group in conflict with the Turkish state and outlawed since 1984 decided in May to disband, disarm and end its armed struggle, following the appeal of its long-imprison leader, Abdullah Okalan.
20:46After a series of efforts, the new initiative could pave the way for Ankara to put an end and to establish social divisions in a wider region.
20:57And like this, we have come to the end of this news brief, but you can find this and many other stories on our website at www.telesurenglish.net
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21:14For Telesur English, I'm Alejandra Garcia. Thank you for watching.
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