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00:00In Cuba, people commemorate the day of national rebellion on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary

00:12of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, a heroic action led by

00:16Fidel Castro that laid the foundations for the revolution. New military clashes have erupted

00:24between Cambodia and Thailand in border areas. At least a dozen people have been killed and 70

00:29injured. In Palestine, 11 more children have died of hunger and malnutrition in the last 24 hours in

00:38the Gaza Strip, bringing the total to 124. The humanitarian crisis in the region is worsening.

00:44Hello, welcome to Front of the South. I'm Luis Alberto Matos from Dele Sur Studios in Havana,

00:55Cuba. We begin with the news.

01:10Cuba celebrated National Rebellion Day with a ceremony in the central province of Seattle

01:14de Ávila. More than 10,000 people attended. The president, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the leader of the Cuban

01:19Revolution, Raúl Castro, were in attendance as well. Every July 26th, the Cuban people commemorate the 72nd

01:26anniversary assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks. This event marked the beginning of the final

01:32effort of the Cuban revolutionary process and resulted in the first socialist revolution in Latin America.

01:37On July 26th, 1953, a group of young Cubans led by Fidel Castro carried out a joint assault on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes in Bayamo,

01:46with the aim of unleashing the armed struggle against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Every year, Cuban people

01:54commemorate this day, symbolizing their unity and denouncing the criminal blockade imposed by the U.S.

02:00During the ceremony, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz reaffirmed Cubans' fidelity to the idea based on the principles of revolution.

02:14On this day of memory and commitment, we reaffirm our unwavering loyalty to the ideas of Martí, Fidel, and Raúl, a continuity based on the principles of the revolution.

02:33And the Cuban Prime Minister also highlighted the stability of Ciego de Ávila province, as well as the fulfillment of tasks in the political, economic, and social fields.

02:41Ciego de Ávila deserved to be the host city for July 26th, given its stability in fulfilling the main tasks in the political, economic, and social fields,

02:57to which an effective system of work and coordination between the party, the government, and the people has contributed,

03:07where the active participation of the youngest members is notable, expressing and guaranteeing continuity.

03:14And in Venezuela, the 72nd anniversary of the heroic assaults in the Moncada and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Parrax is being celebrated.

03:24The assaults were led by rebellious youth under the leadership of Fidel Castro Cruz and marked a historical milestone in the struggle for social justice.

03:33In an announcement, the government declared July 26th, 1953, was not only just a military action,

03:39it was the awakening of a revolution that became a symbol of dignity, sovereignty, and self-determination for all of Latin America and the Caribbean.

03:47The date ignited the flame of a transformative process that seven decades later continues to stand firmly

03:52and with dignity facing the criminal blockade with creativity, resistance, and solidity.

03:58Venezuela, heir to the legacy of Simón Bolívar and Commander Hugo Chávez, joins the brave people of Cuba,

04:03Army General Raúl Castro, and Commander President Miguel Díaz-Canel to pay tribute to the heroes of the July 26th and reaffirmed its commitment.

04:12United in the Bolívarian Alliance for the Peoples of our American People's Trade Treaty,

04:16Cuba and Venezuela continue to travel together on the path of sovereignty, internationalism,

04:21and the construction of the great homeland that Martí and Bolívar dreamed of.

04:26And in the context of the Summit for Peace and Against War underway in Venezuela,

04:38one of Friday's key speakers was Carmen Arias from Argentina,

04:43president of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and historic human rights defender.

04:46The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo have come today to Venezuela to support this beautiful revolution,

04:57to ask for peace and stand against war, against fascism, and against imperialism.

05:04Wars are always fought against the peoples, and it's the peoples who count the dead while the wealthy make profits.

05:10In our country, Argentina, we have a criminal government that kills and causes hunger

05:16and continues to take debt at the expense of the poor.

05:21And just one day before the municipal and mayor of elections in Venezuela,

05:42we go to our correspondent in Caracas, Bruno Falsi, for more details.

05:46My name is Bruno Falsi, correspondent of Telesur, here in Venezuela.

05:53And tomorrow is a very important day for the democracy participative and representative of this country,

06:01where at the same time is going to happen the municipal election

06:05and the first popular consultation for the youth.

06:10In the municipal election, 21 million citizens of this country are going to vote for 335 mayors in all the country

06:23and 2,471 councillors, where opposition and government are going to clash in another peaceful and democratic process.

06:38More than 36 parties, more than 36 parties are going to participate in this election,

06:44where 13 are from the government and 23 from the opposition.

06:51At the same time, as I said before, the young people are going to elect their project in their community.

07:00In Venezuela, there are more than 5,338 communes and popular councils,

07:09where the people represent themselves, reunite themselves in their community

07:14and choose projects to develop in their region.

07:20Seven projects of each of these territories are going to be voted and two of them are going to be elected and financed by the state.

07:34Follow us tomorrow to know more about this historical process of this country.

07:41Here, Bruno Falsi, we go back now in the studio in La Habana.

07:49We now have our first break coming up.

07:51Remember that you can join us on TikTok at TeletoSchoolEnglish,

07:53where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and much more.

07:58Stay with us.

08:28In a special interview for Iguana TV, the president of the multimedia news platform Telesur,

08:42Patricia Villegas, explains some of the fundamental elements necessary for Telesur to continue its work

08:46as a voice for the peoples of the Global South.

08:50Telesur has not been immune to the economic aggressions against the Bolivarian revolution,

08:55the economic aggressions against the Cuban revolution,

08:58the Curetat against Bolivia, of the permanent cession against Nicaragua,

09:03which are the countries that sustain us at this moment.

09:07There were others who left, but their departures did not even manage to disrupt or undermine the project.

09:15Being able to move to Cuba to settle such an important capacity has been fundamental to resistance.

09:21So I would say that the architecture with which it was created, the way it was designed,

09:28but then implementing that architecture has been key.

09:31And other thing that is fundamental is that Telesur has a very committed arterial column of workers.

09:38We lost a lot of workers during the rough toughest years of the economic war against Venezuela,

09:44like many of the media, institutions and other areas.

09:48But there is a group of workers who are what I call the backbone of the channel,

09:54who have never left despite the difficult circumstances.

09:58They have made Telesur more than just a job.

10:01It is their life's work and that has allowed us,

10:04even when there have been moments when we have done it,

10:08we have done it better, easier, more difficult, but we have always been there.

10:12In turn, the president of Telesur Motor Platformer, Patricia Villegas,

10:20phrased Telesur's work over the past two decades in defending its sovereignty in the field of communication,

10:25maintaining the legacy of Commander Hugo Chavez.

10:28Commander Chavez arrives with that joy, that energy, and says,

10:31okay, one hears Telesur and it is divine music, it is music to our ears,

10:36because these ideas that we have cultivated for so long and now they are becoming reality.

10:42And I believe Commander Chavez, although he was an extraordinary visionary,

10:46he never imagined that Telesur would be so necessary for Venezuela in the dispute over the narrative,

10:53in defense of its sovereignty from the communicational point of view,

10:57as we have experienced all these years, and when I say Telesur, I don't just mean Telesur,

11:02but us as a part of the ecosystem,

11:05I believe that Telesur has also inspired many small television stations that are called something else,

11:10but which, like, seeing what we have done, others do better in other places.

11:15I don't want this to be understood as idolatry or false modesty.

11:20There is work that has been done that is perfectible, of course,

11:23but it has inspired other people to do it in a world that needs more and more communicative expressions

11:31that defend what is right, that defend ethics, that defend, let's say,

11:37the values that we have given ourselves as humanity.

11:41Similarly, the president of the multi-platform Telesur recalls some of the threats

11:44that this media outlet has faced from extreme white-wing sectors,

11:48which has been countered by the close relationship that Telesur maintains with the Venezuelan people.

11:52There has been pressure, not precisely from that side,

11:57but pressure from the Venezuelan right and ultra-right win.

12:01When President Maduro wins in the first election after the death of Commander Chavez,

12:05when he faces Enrique Caprile Sadowski in an election he won with 400,000 votes more or less,

12:12Caprile, with that anger, remember that statement,

12:16and the anger reached Telesur with some motorbike riders who wanted to enter the headquarters.

12:24We had to set up live cameras, and I had to use a microphone to say that we were going to be attacked,

12:30the headquarters, that we were a multi-state.

12:34And then the Chavistas arrived to defend the headquarters,

12:37and we didn't know which one to be more afraid of because of the number of people,

12:42because this also happens with Telesur.

12:44People have a very intimate relationship with the channel,

12:46that is why I say that Telesur is a heritage of the people of the South.

12:52In this sense, Patricia Villegas highlighted the work of the multi-platform

12:56and its commitment to bringing human stories to all its users.

12:59We were in Libya for months.

13:02We were bombed by NATO.

13:04We saw the killing of Gaddafi.

13:06We were there.

13:08We talked about the first concentration camps of slavery

13:12that were set up when the fall of the government of Muammar al-Gaddafi.

13:18It was not a coverage of only a moment, and it is also another key, I would say.

13:24Telesur is not only in the moment when all the media is there.

13:28Telesur stays for a long time because a story needs to be told.

13:32It unfolds, and it is the same that happens with the tragedies in hurricanes.

13:37For example, they show you the victims, the people who suffer, who cry,

13:42but they never show you the people who resist, who create again,

13:45who rebuild their houses again, and who clean the streets

13:47so that life can return to a normal course.

13:53Continuous coups in Venezuela have been developed in recent years.

13:56Because there is attacks on the electrical system

13:59and assassination attempts on political leaders of the country,

14:02all of them aim at the stabilization that the population has experienced.

14:07People were marked by the violence

14:09which the political process of the Bolivarian Revolution was threatened.

14:13Let's remember what the Venezuelan people went through 15 years ago

14:17when a media coup took place in that country.

14:20Let's see.

14:20Venezuela has experienced conspiracies that have worked against the peace of the republic

14:26since the attempted assassination of President Nigonaz Maduro in August 2018.

14:31Even invasion items, through the failed and neutralized operation Gideon in 2020,

14:46TELASUR reported all these events to the world.

14:49Venezuela has been weathering the storm in all these aspects.

14:54And from TELASUR, we have tried in some way to provide coverage as faithful as possible

15:02to what the Venezuelan people from the Civic Military Police Union

15:07have been doing to counteract these scenarios.

15:11False flag operations, destabilization plans,

15:15the more than 1,000 sanctions and coercive measures against Venezuela

15:19have been recounted step by step by our journalistic team.

15:23When this type of destabilizing situation is generated against a source of American nation,

15:32which of course is part of a whole Latin American ideology,

15:35it does not cease to be worrying in the first instance as a citizen.

15:41Something is happening.

15:43A nation that has also traced a path of independence,

15:46that its own population is trying to resist the blockade maintained by the United States.

15:51And there is a responsibility of TELASUR presenters to carry that news,

15:56to tell the facts, to tell the events in a responsible way.

16:00Why?

16:01Because at the end of the day,

16:02it's the citizen who is going to make a decision in a free manner,

16:05with a self-determination,

16:08to prepare one to give the news on TELASUR.

16:11I believe it's more than our journalistic responsibility.

16:14It's more linked to human responsibility.

16:17In 2015, the Obama administration declared Venezuela a threat to the security of the United States,

16:23an act that was rejected by the people of the world.

16:26Every time we narrate a news item,

16:30every time we cover a news item related to the aggressions against Venezuela,

16:34we understand that we have to say it.

16:37Why?

16:37Because, well, so that they realize that in Venezuela,

16:40there is a process of transformation towards a more just society,

16:44and that Venezuela wants to be part of this great world process of changing things on the planet.

16:49The news in Venezuela does not stop.

16:55The national government continues to dismantle acts of conspiracy against the citizens.

17:00The international media continues to carry out a discrediting campaign against the country,

17:05and TELASUR becomes the voice of the people of Latin America and the Caribbean

17:09to inform with the truth these events against the peace of Venezuela.

17:13We have another second financial break coming up.

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17:27A final break? Don't go away.

17:40Brazil's largest agricultural export to the United States is coffee.

17:43Nevertheless, there are reasons to believe that the tariffs threatened by the Trump administration

17:47won't damage the industry as much as the U.S. thinks it will.

17:51Our correspondent, Brian Mir, has more.

17:55Since President Trump announced that the U.S. will impose 50% tariffs on all Brazilian products,

18:00many people are wondering what will happen to its largest agricultural import, coffee,

18:05a commodity which has undergone boom and bust cycles for centuries.

18:09One hundred years ago here in Pareiba they produced a lot of coffee.

18:15There are historical records showing that there used to be over 6 million coffee trees here.

18:22Then, there was a problem with a fungus, and the government's support dropped.

18:26So, when there was a price crash, the industry was wiped out.

18:32Even though around one-third of all coffee drank in the U.S. comes from Brazil,

18:37this only represents around 17% of the coffee that is actually grown there.

18:42Half of all coffee grown in Brazil is exported to the European Union,

18:46and around a quarter of it is consumed in Brazil,

18:48where unlike the coffee shipped abroad, it is roasted, ground, and packaged,

18:53generating more jobs and profit for the sector.

18:56A tariff that is set on all products equally won't affect all products the same way.

19:03Coffee that is roasted, ground and bagged in Brazil for local consumption has boomed during the last few years,

19:09due to climatic factors, causing the price to nearly double.

19:16So if the tariffs cause the price to drop,

19:18I think that in the case of the coffee value chain,

19:25there is a margin that will help absorb any possible losses.

19:33Many of the old coffee towns are now historic landmarks.

19:36In Paraíba, where strains of Arabica coffee that had disappeared across the rest of Brazil have been preserved

19:43and, after nearly a century of neglect, are now cultivated for the gourmet market,

19:47people remain optimistic.

19:49We believe that even in the case of a market disturbance, coffee

19:54is a popular beverage all over the world and certainly,

20:01if the product has good quality, people will continue to pay for it.

20:06It's hard to predict exactly what will happen when and if the Trump administration imposes and maintains its tariffs.

20:13But one thing for certain is that people are not going to stop drinking coffee.

20:18Brian Mayer, tell us, Sir, Areya Paraíba.

20:24New military clashes have erupted between Cambodia and Thailand in border areas.

20:29At least a dozen people have been killed and 70 injured.

20:32The Ministry of Defense reported that five Cambodian soldiers were killed

20:35and another 21 were injured in the northwest of the country on Saturday.

20:39In view of the escalation of violence,

20:40the national government filed a lawsuit in the International Code of Justice

20:44with the aim of reaching a peaceful solution and guaranteeing peace in the region.

20:50According to international organizations,

20:51the Cambodia-Thailand conflict is one of the most violent in Southeast Asia.

20:59And with the advance of the armed conflict between the two countries,

21:02more than 138,000 displaced people are reported in border regions of Thailand

21:06and more than 35,000 in Cambodia.

21:09According to the Thai Ministry of Health,

21:12more than 58,000 people have fled to temporary shelters in the last few hours

21:16due to fears of a new escalation of violence.

21:18A meeting with the United Nations Security Council is planned for the coming days

21:22to address the emergency,

21:23while Malaysia has offered to act as a mediator to end the hostilities.

21:27In the Gaza Strip, the death of 11 more children from hunger and malnutrition

21:39have been confirmed in the last 24 hours.

21:41With this new figure, the total number of deaths from these ghosts raises to 124,

22:00those worse in the humanitarian crisis in the region.

22:03According to hospital reports, some 900,000 children in Gaza are suffering from hunger,

22:08of which 70,000 have already reached the stage of severe malnutrition.

22:12This situation is critical, and disproportionately affects the most vulnerable children.

22:17The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees in the Near East

22:22issued serious warnings about the situation,

22:26highlighting that malnutrition among children under 5 doubled between March and June,

22:30a direct consequence of the Israeli blockade and genocide in the Gaza Strip.

22:35In Germany, hundreds of people demonstrated against Israel's blockade

22:44and starvation policy in the Gaza Strip.

22:46Protesters gathered in the streets of Berlin near the Egyptian embassy

22:49and the German Ministry of Defense to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza.

22:54Chanting silence is also complicity in crime.

22:58They clanked pots, pans, and spoons,

23:01protesting the Israeli blockade that prevents the entry of humanitarian aid,

23:04exacerbating starvation in Gaza.

23:07Protesters demanded the reactivation of the Rafa crossing

23:09and urged the international community to take action

23:12to prevent famine in the Gaza Strip.

23:29In Russia, the Defense Ministry reported that its troops liberated the towns

23:32of Selenagai and Malijeska in Donetsk province.

23:36The Russian Armed Forces emphasized that Ukrainian troops suffered casualties

23:40and was forced to retreat during the battle.

23:44The Defense Ministry specified that Selenagai was an important stronghold

23:48for Ukrainian forces in the border areas.

23:51For its part, Russian air defense intercepted HIMARS system projectiles

23:54and shot down 257 on-manned aircraft.

24:18Argentina commemorates 73 years since the death of Maria Eva Duarte de Perón,

24:22a political figure who defended workers and women.

24:25Eva Perón was born in Buenos Aires on May 7, 1919.

24:29She was a politician, an actress, and a first lady

24:32during Juan Domingo Perón's presidency from 1946 to 1952.

24:37Her work defending the rights of workers and women

24:39and her active participation in national politics

24:41made Perón a well-known figure.

24:43She led the Eva Perón Foundation,

24:45which was known for helping the needy and promoting social justice.

24:49On July 26, 1952, she passed away from cervical cancer

24:53at the age of 33 at the Unzure Palace in Buenos Aires.

24:57Like this, we have come to the end of this news brief.

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