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00:00The National Protection Unit of Colombia issued a statement reporting that security will be

00:15reinforced for Alvaro Uribe's case judge Sandra Heredia. The Argentine government orders the

00:24sale of 100% of Intercargo, the state-owned ramp services company.

00:36And Palestinian health authorities warned that the death toll from Israel's genocide in Gaza is

00:40nearly 60,000, while the number of deaths from starvation has risen to 147.

00:51Hello, welcome to From the South. I'm Luis Alberto Matos from De La Sous Studios in Havana,

00:56Cuba. We begin with the news.

01:10A Colombian court has found the country's former president, Alvaro Uribe, guilty of witness tampering.

01:15Uribe, who served as president from 2002 to 2010, was convicted on Monday of trying to

01:21persuade witnesses to lie for him in a separate investigation and the prosecutor is asking

01:26for a nine-year prison sentence. The case dates back to 2012, when Uribe accused

01:31the left-wing senator, Ivan Cepeda, of hatching a plot to falsely link him to right-wing parliamentary

01:37groups in the country. The court decided against prosecuting Cepeda and pursued his claims against

01:43Uribe, who becomes Colombia's first-ever former head of state to be convicted of a crime.

01:51The National Protection Union of Colombia issued a statement reporting that security would

01:59be reinforced for Alvaro Uribe's case judge Sandra Heredia. A request for protective measures

02:05was submitted on February 11, and after a risk assessment, the unit concluded it was necessary

02:10to strengthen the 44th criminal circuit judge's protection. In recent dates, media related to

02:15the former president, who has been found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud in

02:20a landmark trial on Monday, were dedicated to profile the magistrates in addition to publishing

02:26her personal family information.

02:27on Monday, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, denied that there is political persecution

02:39from his government against former president Alvaro Uribe. This in response to the accusation

02:43of a senator of the party of Uribe, who accused the head of state of influencing the judicial decision

02:48against the former president. In this context, President Petro wrote on his ex-account that his

02:54government does not persecute anyone for political, sexual, gender, or religious reasons, emphasizing

02:59that he does not pressure the justice system, which is completely independent from the government.

03:04President Petro also criticized journalism for its work during the judicial process against

03:09Uribe and the pressures exerted against the judge Sandra Lidiana Heredia.

03:14In addition, Colombian President Gustavo Petro firmly responded to statements made by U.S. Secretary

03:22of State Marcos Rubio, who had criticized the court ruling against former President Alvaro

03:27Uribe. Through his social media accounts, the Secretary of State asserted that Uribe was

03:31a victim of persecution by radical judges, claiming that his only crime was defending his country.

03:37The Colombian President responded quickly, describing these statements as unacceptable interference

03:42in the country's internal affairs. He emphasized that the world must respect Colombia's judges

03:47and recalled that many magistrates have been murdered for their commitment to justice.

03:52Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio, joining the rejection, pointed out that Rubio's

03:56comments were an attack on Colombia's sovereignty.

04:06In other topics, during the 61st meeting of the OPEC and OPEC Plus Joint Ministerial Monitoring

04:10Committee in Venezuela reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining stability in the global energy

04:15market. The Minister of Hydrocarbons, Delce Rodriguez, emphasized the importance of reviewing

04:21recent trends in crude oil supply and demand, particularly given the uncertainties and pressures

04:26currently facing the global economy. During the meeting, the established production quotas

04:30were evaluated and ways to enhance transparency and coordination among member countries were discussed.

04:36According to a report by the International Energy Agency, OPEC Plus, countries increased their

04:40oil production by 1.2 million barrels per day in June.

04:43And Chinese authorities reported that flash floods have claimed 34 lives so far. In addition, local officials

04:49stated having evacuated more than 80,000 people in Beijing, including 17,000 inhabitants living in

04:51North Colombia, in North Colombia.

04:52In addition, local officials stated having evacuated more than 80,000 people in Beijing, including 17,000 inhabitants

04:56And Chinese authorities reported that flash floods have claimed 34 lives so far.

05:05In addition, local officials stated having evacuated more than 80,000 people in Beijing,

05:10including 17,000 inhabitants living in the northeast of the capital.

05:14Moreover, they warned that the flood could rise as a result of there might be people trapped under a landslide in a rural area of Luanping County.

05:26Meanwhile, the U.S. Weather Service issued warnings due to high temperatures with a real field of over 49 degrees Celsius.

05:33Authorities recommend to urgently reduce time exposure to the sun and to keep constantly hydrated.

05:39They also urge to strengthen prevention measures for the elderly and children who are most vulnerable in the face of temperature spikes.

05:50And now we have a short break coming up.

05:52First, remember you can join us on TikTok at Tell Us in English, where you'll find news in different formats, news updates and much more.

05:59We're going to be right back. Stay with us.

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06:23Up!

06:48In Venezuela, thousands of communes participate in an unprecedented exercise of direct democracy

06:54waiting to decide on projects to improve their standard of living with funds provided by the

06:58state. A correspondent Adriana Cibore brings us closer to the life of these communes in another

07:03episode of Venezuela on the Move.

07:09Hello, how are you? I imagine that you have heard about the communes. In Venezuela there are 5,338

07:16of them. The residents go to the polls at least three times a year to choose directly what project

07:21to carry out in their locality. For example, if they need to build a sports center or if a street

07:26needs to be repaired. The population decides on public policies. They receive a budget and they

07:32manage it themselves. There are no intermediaries. It's a form of direct democracy. Through Venezuela

07:38on the Move, I want to introduce you to Aníbal, a man from the countryside and two young men,

07:43New England and your men. If you want to know what they have in common, stay with us to find out.

07:49Let's take a trip to a place in Venezuela little known abroad.

07:58We are communeros. I believe that everything must come out from the commune. There will have to be a

08:04moment when the commune becomes the guarantee for all these things. Everything related to its production,

08:09its economy, its social life, the maintenance of its green areas, the generation of its wealth

08:15and the provider of its tranquility. A solid place with the capacity to generate wealth for our homes.

08:23I really believe that people are wise and I have always said it because the community knows what is

08:27best for it. People know what is best for them and when they vote for a project it is because they

08:33have already decided that that project is the right one to suit their people's needs. It has been like

08:37that and there we go. It is the practice of direct democracy. In the last consultation in his area,

08:46he, as the majority, decided for the restoration of a health center. The funds are sent by the central

08:51government and are managed by the commune. While we go around the place, Aníbal tells us about the

08:59change in his life. He was in a private company, then he was a civil servant, but since seven years ago,

09:07he has been running this farm in what once was a wasteland. Here he breeds animals with the hope of

09:13expanding and generating more employment for the neighbors. Because if a person or a family is

09:20economically well, their children can also go to school and they go to high school and later to the

09:26university. So in that way we are supporting their homes, their families and their economies.

09:33And when their economy is well, everything is fine and their children are well. They can be well

09:38educated, well fed and healthy. And it's the young people who are precisely trying to make their dreams

09:46come true, always with the idea of growing. The perfect community for me is the one where everybody is

09:53united. We should be a territorial farmers organization, because that's what we want as farmers.

10:00There are many farmers here, but they are dispersed. And what I want is for all of us to be together,

10:07so that we can all produce and earn the same, so that we don't lack anything in the community,

10:12and to respect the environment, to respect the plants, to respect the areas that cannot be forested.

10:17We have all that knowledge here in our community. They put their knowledge at the service of every

10:26corner of their neighborhood, which is located in a mountain and surrounded by large buildings.

10:31They dedicate themselves to recycle and clean up their lands and even grow medicinal plants.

10:37We are learning to be able to tell our children and our youth that it is possible to make an ecological

10:47path in our parish. By parish, they mean a locality or neighborhood. The most important thing for them

10:55is the citizens' participation. The constitution of this Caribbean nation established a direct democracy

11:02since 1999, a practice that has strengthened in the past year. One of the popular consultations

11:07carried out in 2025 was considered unprecedented in the country, when young people from the age of 15

11:13in a protagonist role chose from 37,000 initiatives the ones they considered the best to improve their

11:19lives. And with this direct vote, I wrap up for today. But you can keep following us through our

11:23multi-platform. The journey continues with Venezuela on the move.

11:26On Monday, the World Vision Organization published an urgent report revealing the humanitarian crisis

11:33facing children in Haiti. The study, which is based on the testimony of 840 displaced individuals,

11:39reveals that 71.6 percent of surveyed children have experienced hunger and one in three has dropped out

11:45of school. Additionally, 43.5 percent exhibit symptoms of trauma and 50 percent of families have experienced

11:51direct violence. Violence from criminal groups, hunger and institutional neglect have created a moral

11:58crisis in the country that threatens the future of an entire generation. In this context, the World Vision

12:03Organization is calling on the international community to take urgent and decisive action in response

12:08to this critical situation.

12:10And on Monday, President Donald Trump confirmed that he had never visited the private islands of the late

12:22sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump added that he had turned down an invitation to visit the islands.

12:28These statements are part of the President's efforts to distance himself from Epstein, with whom he was

12:33closed in the 1990s. The President has also changed his story about how their relationship ended.

12:40Initially, his advisors claimed that he expelled Epstein from his Florida residence because of his

12:44inappropriate behavior. However, now the President says he banned Epstein because he hired his employees.

12:50He did not provide names or details. The President and some of his allies have fueled conspiracy

12:56theories about Epstein's death, creating tensions even among his supporters.

13:05And U.S. and Chinese delegations met Tuesday on their second day of talks in Stockholm,

13:09to settle long-standing economic disputes and avert an escalating trade war between

13:14the two biggest global economies. The encounter may not have immediate huge breakthroughs. However,

13:20both sides could set again another extension of a tariff truce as they

13:23went accomplished on their second round of negotiations in mid-May this year.

13:27This time, the meeting was held at the office of Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson,

13:32who is the host and also mediator in this dispute. In this context, the U.S. and Chinese

13:36representatives could manage to plan a meeting between their presidents, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping,

13:40respectively.

13:47And on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov found that the new trade agreement

13:51between the United States and the European Union will accelerate the deindustrialization

13:55of the oil continent. During his speech at the 11th Pan-Russian Unionville Educational Forum,

14:01Lavrov stressed that the cost of energy supplies from the U.S. would be significantly higher than

14:07those of Russian resources, a fact he considers would have serious consequences for the European

14:12productive system. The Russian Foreign Minister criticized the European authorities for their

14:17position on the signing of a treaty that would involve more expenses, even though it would have a

14:23negative impact on social welfare in their countries.

14:39The Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia revealed that U.S. and U.K. delegations met to discuss

14:44ousting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from his post. The Russian entity further detailed that

14:50the aforesaid delegations held talks with senior Ukrainian military commanders to nominate former

14:55commander-in-chief of the armed forces and Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom,

14:59Valery Saduzny, as a possible representative for Zelensky. On the meeting, participants agreed

15:04that Zelensky's removal was necessary and key to restoring relations between Kyiv and its Western

15:10partners, namely the United States. Meanwhile, Russian intelligence service indicated that Zelensky's

15:15attempt to limit Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions was the pretext for the West to

15:20plan to oust him.

15:31And the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced Monday the suspension of its obligations on

15:35the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe in a new step towards strengthening its defense

15:41capabilities. This decision was made following the recent suspension of Ukrainian participation in the

15:46Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use of anti-personnel mines. Authorities reported to speed

15:51up the process of allegations of several international treaties signed with Russia, Belarus, and in the

15:55context of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The CFE Treaty, signed in 1990 and adopted in 1997,

16:02imposes strict limits on the number of conventional weapons and equipment with the aim of ensuring a military

16:07balance in Europe after the Cold War.

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16:50welcome back palestinian health authorities warned that a death toll from israel's genocide

17:06in gaza is nearly 60 000 while number of deaths from starvation has risen to 147. the latest

17:12report from the gaza health ministry on tuesday reported 59 911 palestinians killed a figure

17:18authorities warned does not include the bodies that remain under rubble in addition the israeli

17:23genocide that has imposed starvation as a form of death has claimed the lives of 147 palestinians

17:2988 of which are children in this context it is important to remember that israel has maintained

17:35a strict blockade of humanitarian aid since march 2 drastically worsening the crisis in the coastal

17:40enclave precisely in this context a recent report by the integrated food security phase classification

17:51an initiative that provides information on the severity of food insecurity around the world

17:56say that israel's genocide actions over the past 22 months have exacerbated the humanitarian crisis

18:02in palestinian territories to deadly levels the report describes the famine unfolding in the gaza

18:07strip as a worst case scenario setting israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid as the cost

18:13in this regard the ipc study calls for the immediate unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid through the

18:18border crossings and warns that failure to act now will result in mass death throughout the past

18:24steinian enclave

18:25for two weeks we have not eaten bread and we only drink water and there are no tomatoes or cucumbers

18:39or anything and the shortage is not in flour but in baby milk and everything

18:46hunger and no one feels hunger like us they do not feel anything they do not feel the souls that go every

18:52day they do not feel while they send us to death in order to eat and we do not want food we do not

18:57want a world

19:01so arabia and france have opened a three-day conference at the united nations with the aim

19:06of recognizing palestinian statehood conference began on monday a few days after french president

19:11manu macron announced that paris would officially recognize the palestinian government in september

19:17in regard french foreign minister jan noel barrot said that the conference would also serve as a

19:21platform for other european countries to recognize palestinian statehood without clarifying which

19:26countries he was referring to meanwhile saudi arabian foreign minister prince faisal bin farhan al-saoud

19:32said that the kingdom was seeking world bank approval to transfer 300 million dollars to gaza and the

19:38west bank to address the serious humanitarian crisis in the territory the talks are co-shared by 16 other

19:45countries and delegations including the united kingdom ireland and the european union

19:56peace is possible we want to build an alternative to the permanent state of war in the region

20:01and this alternative must go through the two states solution israel and palestine living in peace

20:07and security this is france's historical position and it is the only possible path

20:20this conference is therefore a decisive step a decisive step on the path leading of course to

20:25the emergence of this state solution which leads up to the united nations general assembly in september

20:31during which france will formalize through the voice of the president of the republic its decision

20:36for recognition and during which we will count on the collective mobilization that must continue

20:40before it is too late and during his address at the conference saudi arabia foreign minister

20:50prince faisal bin farhan reiterated that his country will not establish diplomat relations with

20:54israel to an independent palestinian state is recognized so the foreign minister was emphatic

21:01in pointing out that the kingdom's position remains firm israel most fully recognized the rights of the

21:06palestinian people prince bin farhan also referred to the serious humanitarian situation in gaza and

21:11asserted that there are no conditions for talking about peace or agreements while the suffering of

21:15gaza the destruction of their communities and the constant loss of lives continues

21:25in our news the sudanese government strongly rejects the creation of a parallel government

21:29following the announcement made by the parliamentary rapid support forces authorities affirm that this

21:34is an illegitimate and dangerous action for regional stability and call on the world's governments

21:39not to recognize them the sudanese ministry of foreign affairs expressed that it is a falsehood

21:44and a supreme threat to national sovereignty commander of the parliamentary forces mohammed hamdan dagalow

21:51unilaterally formed a coalition led by the forces he command during a conference held in nyala the

21:57largest city in darfur hamdan dagalow was appointed president of a presidential council that described

22:03itself as an alternative government

22:14the shanghai based animation film studio opened china's first immersive theme park dedicated to its

22:31iconic animated characters the park located in the shanghai global port offers various attractions and

22:37rides for children for the enjoyment of families from all over the city and the yanxi river delta visitors

22:44have expressed their excitement to share their memories with the children highlighting the

22:48emotional connection with characters such as the black cat detective the pumpkin brothers and the nine

22:53colored deer in addition the animation film studio has created it itineraries that include various

23:01activities in the park and other points of interest to facilitate access and increase visits significantly

23:06the first stage of the international summer workshop of the cuban national ballet ended in venezuela several young

23:18people participating in this meeting held the national experimental university of the arts in caracas the

23:23workshop was on the direction of several emblematic figures of cuban ballet among them the renowned dancer

23:28bienzai valdez who was a student of prima marina alicia alonso the workshop had several spaces for

23:35training reflection and rehearsal and master classes were given on the processes and techniques of classical dance and there was also an

23:41exhibition of the achievements this workshop has a second stage that will be held until august 2nd

23:47in the island of margarita southeast of the caribbean sea in the northeast of the venezuelan territory

23:57and we have come to the end of this newsletter if you can find these and many other stories on our website at

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