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00:03 In El Salvador, human rights organizations
00:10 question the militarization of the country less than 48 hours
00:13 before voting begins, claiming that this
00:16 is an intimidating measure and the means of social control.
00:19 The World Health Organization highlighted
00:24 that the genocide carried out by the Israeli government
00:27 against the Palestinian population in Gaza Strip
00:30 has killed, wounded, and disappeared
00:32 more than 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
00:35 And in France, farmers lifted their last remaining roadblocks
00:42 on the main access routes to Paris on Friday.
00:45 Hello, and welcome to From the South.
00:51 My name is Belen de los Santos.
00:53 I'm from the Telesur studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:55 We begin with the news.
00:56 In El Salvador, human rights organizations
00:58 question the militarization of the country
01:01 less than 48 hours before voting begins.
01:04 They claim that this is an intimidating measure
01:06 and a means of social control.
01:08 Organizations such as Cristosal have
01:10 denounced that the heavy military deployment is
01:13 a strategy of the government of the president
01:15 and candidate for re-election, Nayib Bukele,
01:17 as a method to intimidate Salvadoran society
01:20 in the run-up to the elections.
01:22 Gabriela Santos from the Human Rights Institute
01:25 of the Central American University
01:27 stated that in a country coming from an armed conflict,
01:30 the deployment of troops is of great concern
01:32 and reminds that the military should not fulfill
01:34 public security functions.
01:36 Police workers also share similar concerns.
01:38 The message is sent that the country can only
01:48 have security if it is militarized,
01:51 and that is not correct.
01:52 A country that has security is when
01:54 the legal norms are respected.
01:56 In other countries, there is not an exaggerated amount
01:59 of police or soldiers because the legal framework works.
02:03 That is to say, the laws work, and here it does not
02:06 seem that things should work if the population is kept
02:09 under a repressive scheme.
02:11 And the gang must be controlled.
02:13 They must be taken out of the equation
02:15 but not replaced with authoritarianism,
02:18 which is what we are seeing.
02:21 In Mexico, the eight military personnel
02:23 accused of forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa
02:26 normalists who were released a week ago returned to prison.
02:30 A federal court on Thursday reversed the order
02:32 of Judge Raquel Duarte that freed them
02:34 in the middle of the weekend.
02:36 Like everything related to the disappearance of the 43
02:39 normalists, this chapter has also
02:41 meant a confrontation between the judicial and executive
02:44 branches.
02:45 The lawyers of the soldiers had requested
02:47 to change the provisional detention for a biweekly visit
02:50 to the court.
02:51 The decision of the judge who released them
02:54 was harshly questioned.
02:55 The military returning to prison had
02:58 been linked to a protected witness
03:00 with the criminal group United Warriors.
03:01 And sanctions, as imposed by the US,
03:09 is a sanctimonious word for economic warfare
03:12 and outright theft.
03:13 And Venezuela is a textbook case,
03:15 according to a new book of US-based writer Ania Parampil,
03:20 which tells us the story of US warfare on Venezuela.
03:23 In the book Corporate Coup Venezuela
03:25 and the End of the US Empire, the author
03:28 assures that by transferring Venezuela's foreign asset
03:31 to self-proclaimed President Juan Guaido
03:33 and by its relentless economic sanctions campaign,
03:36 Washington enabled the US and Canadian corporations
03:40 to suck Venezuelans' wealth into their own coffers,
03:43 where much of it remains to this day.
03:46 Corporate Coup also shares another storyline
03:48 almost as bizarre as the Western recognition of Juan Guaido.
03:52 In February 2019, one month after Guaido inaugurated
03:56 himself, the US announced that it
03:58 would force a convoy of humanitarian aid
04:01 into Venezuela from Colombia and began
04:03 assembling a military presence on the border
04:05 to oversee its delivery.
04:07 The narrative it fed the media was
04:10 that Venezuela was starving its people
04:12 and even refusing to allow an aid convoy in.
04:16 Parampil also assured the country's vast natural
04:19 resources, including the world's largest oil and gold reserves,
04:22 belongs to the Venezuelan people.
04:25 This, of course, sparked the ire of Western oil and mining
04:29 companies and the governments that represent them,
04:32 most of all the US.
04:33 On Friday, Vice President Del Ciro Rodriguez
04:43 participated in the debate on the plan for the recovery
04:46 and transformation of Venezuela, known as the Seven
04:49 Lines of Transformation.
04:50 In this sense, the Venezuelan vice president
04:52 highlighted that this strategic plan proposed
04:55 by the president, Nicolás Maduro,
04:57 was designed to consolidate the social model of inclusion
05:00 and justice of Commander Hugo Chávez, who 25 years ago
05:03 removed the elites from the political power.
05:06 [INAUDIBLE] arrival of the Bolivarian project
05:12 by the hand of Commander Chávez.
05:14 For her part, the vice president also
05:16 highlighted that in spite of the unilateral and illegal
05:19 coercive measures against her nation
05:22 and the constant imperial aggressions during this period,
05:24 a solid system of great social missions
05:27 has been built to protect the people in all circumstances
05:31 and to guarantee them the greatest
05:32 happiness and well-being.
05:40 The Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
05:43 Ralph Gonsalves, congratulated the Venezuelan people
05:46 and President Nicolás Maduro on the occasion
05:48 of the 25th anniversary of the assumption of President Hugo
05:52 Chávez.
05:53 The government and people of this blessed land
05:57 salute the government and people of the Bolivarian Republic
06:02 of Venezuela on the 25th anniversary of the induction
06:09 of President Hugo Chávez, the eternal commander,
06:14 into the presidency after his electoral triumph
06:19 a few months before.
06:21 Likewise, the Prime Minister highlighted
06:23 the birth of the Bolivarian Revolution
06:25 and the achievements obtained during Chávez's mandate.
06:29 Celebrate the life and work of Hugo Chávez.
06:33 But it is not only our comrade Hugo that we celebrate.
06:39 All the people in Venezuela, all the Bolivarians,
06:45 all throughout Latin America and the Caribbean,
06:49 we have to thank for this immense opening,
06:54 an opening which has been continued
06:57 by President Maduro and the Bolivarians in Venezuela,
07:03 in Latin America, and in the Caribbean.
07:07 I'm looking forward very much on March 1st
07:12 to host President Nicolás Maduro and the rest of CILAC,
07:18 33-member state of this important country,
07:25 which Hugo Chávez was instrumental with others
07:29 in establishing.
07:31 Jamaica will hold its municipal elections on February 26th
07:35 after eight years without holding them
07:37 due to the interruptions associated
07:39 with the COVID-19 pandemic.
07:41 According to the Caribbean agency,
07:43 Cana News, next Thursday will be the nomination day
07:46 for the candidates of each party,
07:48 for councillors and mayors of the parishes and districts.
07:51 Subsequently, the candidates will start
07:53 with their pro-Selitism campaigns
07:56 in the 228 constituencies,
07:58 with a view to presenting the program
08:00 and public good initiatives they plan to implement
08:03 if they win the favor of the voters.
08:05 The West Indian state held in 2016 the last local elections,
08:10 and the ruling Labour Party triumphed
08:12 in most of the municipalities.
08:14 And a small plane crashed at a Florida mobile home park
08:22 on Thursday, killing several people abroad the plane
08:25 and in one home, fire officials said.
08:28 The pilot of the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza V-35
08:32 reported an engine failure shortly
08:34 after the aircraft went down at about 7 p.m.,
08:37 the Federal Aviation Administration reported.
08:41 Clearwater Fire Chief Scott Edlers stated
08:44 at a news conference it crashed
08:45 in the Bayside Waters mobile home park in Clearwater,
08:49 hitting one home and leaving at least three homes
08:52 with the fire damage,
08:53 although the flames were quickly doused.
08:56 Edlers didn't give the exact number of people killed,
08:59 saying only that several people abroad the plane
09:02 and in a home had died.
09:04 Edlers also mentioned that the pilot reported an emergency
09:07 to sign Pete Clearwater International Airport
09:10 shortly before the plane went off radar
09:12 about three miles north of a runway.
09:15 And now let's take a short break,
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09:26 news updates and more.
09:28 Other stories coming up, stay with us.
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09:33 Welcome back to "From the South."
09:55 On Friday, the World Health Organization highlighted
09:57 that the genocide carried out by the Israeli government
10:00 against the Palestinian population in Gaza Strip
10:02 has killed, wounded and disappeared
10:04 more than 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
10:08 According to the report
10:08 of the highest World Health Organization,
10:11 the number of Palestinians killed exceeds 27,000 dead
10:15 and the number of wounded could soon reach 67,000 victims
10:19 in the next few hours.
10:21 In this sense, the WHO added that there is certainty
10:24 that the missing could be Palestinian dead
10:27 under the tons of rubble left
10:28 by the innumerable bombardments of the occupier.
10:31 On the other hand, the World Health Organization stressed
10:34 that the risk of famine is high
10:36 and the situation will worsen after Israel
10:39 and the G7 countries decided to declare war
10:42 on the humanitarian workers of the UN Agency for Palestine
10:45 and to withdraw aid funds.
10:47 Also on Thursday, the genocidal operation carried out
10:55 by Israel in Gaza has been catalogued
10:57 by experts of the United Nations Organization
11:00 as the most lethal armed conflict
11:02 for press workers in modern history.
11:04 In this regard, the UN report reveals
11:06 that more than 100 journalists
11:08 and media workers have been killed so far.
11:11 The report thus asserts that the killing of journalists
11:14 is a deliberate strategy of the Israeli occupation forces
11:17 to silence the truth and especially critical reporting.
11:21 They also denounced that Israel does not allow
11:24 the entry of foreign media unless they allow themselves
11:28 to be accompanied by its military forces.
11:30 In this sense, the spokesman
11:32 of the Secretary General, Stefan Dufarric,
11:34 assured that more than 150 journalists
11:37 have been killed since October 7th.
11:39 And the United Nations is warning
11:45 that Rafah is becoming a pressure cooker of despair
11:48 as thousands of people flee into the city
11:51 from Han Yunis and other parts of the southern Gaza
11:54 as the war grinds on.
11:56 Jens Learck, spokesman of the UN Office
11:58 for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,
12:01 stated that the situation in Rafah is not looking good
12:04 amid concerns that the city may be a new focus
12:07 of Israel's campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
12:11 Learck expressed in a regular UN briefing in Geneva
12:15 on Friday that they fear for what comes next.
12:18 Speaking from Jerusalem, Dr. Rik Pippocorn,
12:22 the representative of the World Health Organization
12:24 in occupied Palestinian areas,
12:26 stated that the UN Health Agency estimates
12:29 that at least 8,000 Gazans should be sent abroad
12:32 for medical care.
12:34 Of those, some three quarters or 6,000 need care
12:37 for war injuries, such as treatment for burns
12:40 or reconstructive surgery.
12:42 But it's very important for us and for OCHA
12:49 to put on record today our deep concern
12:52 about what's happening in Han Yunis and Rafah
12:54 in the southern part of the Strip
12:55 because it's really not looking good.
12:57 So I want to emphasize our deep concern
13:00 about the escalation of hostilities in Han Yunis,
13:03 which has resulted in an increase
13:05 in the number of internally displaced people
13:07 seeking refuge in Rafah.
13:09 In recent days, thousands of Palestinians
13:12 have continued to flee to the south,
13:14 which is already hosting over half the Gaza's population
13:18 or some 2.3 million people.
13:20 Most are living in makeshift structures,
13:24 tents or out in the open.
13:27 Rafah is a pressure cooker of despair
13:30 and we fear for what comes next.
13:33 The Syrian army's anti-aircraft defense system
13:36 have repelled on Friday a new aggression
13:38 by the Israeli occupant.
13:40 The Zionist government fighters
13:42 launched from the occupied Golan several projectiles.
13:45 Most of them were intercepted
13:47 and others hit areas in the towns of Zayed and Sana'ib,
13:50 which is about 10 kilometers from Damascus, the capital.
13:54 The Syrian forces have confirmed the attack
13:56 but have not yet made any mention of fatalities or injuries.
14:00 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
14:02 has repeatedly requested the United Nations Security Council
14:05 to fulfill its responsibilities
14:07 and put an end to these aggressions.
14:09 The government has repeatedly requested
14:11 the UN Security Council to fulfill these responsibilities
14:16 and the government has repeated agreement this aggressions.
14:20 The United States and the United Kingdom
14:28 carried out a new attack against Yemen on Friday.
14:31 Yemen's Al Masida network reported
14:33 that the US and UK coalition forces
14:36 launched four airstrikes against Yemeni facilities
14:39 located in the air of Al-Jar in the Abs district
14:43 in the northwestern province of Haya.
14:45 Meanwhile, the Lebanese network Al Mayadeen
14:48 announced seven bombings,
14:49 stressing that sensitive and vital targets
14:52 have not been hit.
14:53 For its part, Yemen attacked on Thursday with naval missiles,
14:57 a British merchant ship in the Red Sea,
15:00 which was heading to ports in occupied Palestine.
15:03 The Yemeni army has reiterated its commitment
15:06 to maintain these attacks until the Israeli regime
15:09 puts an end to its indiscriminate war in Gaza,
15:12 which has claimed the lives of more than 27,000 people.
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15:49 In France, farmers lifted the last remaining roadblocks
15:52 on the main access routes to Paris on Friday,
15:54 a day after the prime minister introduced new measures
15:57 aimed at protecting their livelihoods.
16:00 French farmers were gradually lifting their roadblocks
16:03 around Paris and elsewhere in the country on Friday,
16:06 a day after the French government
16:08 offered over 436 million euros in various measures
16:12 meant to answer their grievances over low earnings,
16:16 heavy regulation and unfair competition from abroad.
16:19 On major highways around the French capital,
16:22 protesters took down tents, cleaned up the road
16:25 and set fire to straw bales that they were using
16:28 as barricades.
16:29 Convoys of tractors were leaving the sites
16:32 in a peaceful and orderly manner
16:34 amid a large police deployment
16:35 meant to ensure the security of the operations.
16:38 Meanwhile, Belgian farmers created transportation chaos
16:46 in new parts of the country on Friday
16:48 to protest wages and bureaucratic meddling.
16:51 On Thursday night, hundreds of tractors
16:53 began blocking several motorways
16:55 near the border with the Netherlands.
16:57 The routes are some of the busiest in Europe
17:00 and the motorways are the arteries for trucks
17:02 going in and out of the port of Antwerp.
17:05 The protests among those taking place in France
17:08 are the culmination of weeks of protests
17:10 across the continent over excessive red tape
17:13 and competition from cheap imports.
17:15 In Malaysia, more than 100 Rohingya immigrants
17:23 have escaped from a detention centre after a protest
17:26 with one confirmed killed in a road accident.
17:29 Immigration Department Director General Roselyn Husso
17:33 said the escapees included 115 Rohingya,
17:37 16 Myanmar nationals and one Bangladeshi,
17:41 one of them killed by a car impact.
17:45 Nearly 400 officials were sent Friday
17:47 to hunt the escapees down.
17:49 District Police Chief Mohamed Naim Aznaoui
17:52 reported that the immigrants escaped
17:55 from a riot at the centre.
17:56 It was the second such break-up since 2022,
17:59 when 528 Rohingyas escaped after a protest.
18:04 Most were rearrested.
18:06 Malaysia is a preferred destination for Muslim Rohingyas
18:09 fleeing from the Buddhist majority in Myanmar
18:12 or those escaping, trying to escape refugee camps
18:16 in Bangladesh, housing about 180,000 refugees
18:20 and asylum seekers.
18:22 And let's now go to the world of sports,
18:45 because on Thursday was the opening day
18:47 of the Caribbean Series 2024 that takes place in Miami,
18:51 where in the closing game,
18:52 the Tiburones of La Guaira of Venezuela
18:55 defeated the Tigres of Liceo of the Dominican Republic
18:59 with a final score of 3-1.
19:01 At London Park,
19:02 home of the Major League Baseball team,
19:05 the Miami Merlins,
19:06 the Venezuelan team dominated with good pitching
19:09 by Cuban right-handed pitcher Miguel Romero.
19:13 The first Venezuelan run came from Luis Torrens' single
19:17 to right field to put Venezuela up on the scoreboard.
19:22 Later in the top of the sixth,
19:23 Ramon Flores single to center field to drive home play
19:27 to Wilson Ramon for the second Venezuelan run.
19:31 Later in the top of the ninth,
19:32 another Cuban, this time a former MLB star,
19:36 Yaciel Puig, hit a solo home run to left field
19:40 to extend the lead to 3-1.
19:43 It is worth to recall that the Tiburones of La Guaira
19:47 last appearance in the Caribbean series was in 1986.
19:51 And previously in the inaugural game
19:58 of the 2024 Caribbean series,
20:00 the Criollos of Cagua out of Puerto Rico
20:03 won 5-2 on the Gigantes of Rivas from Nicaragua.
20:07 In this way, the Criollos obtained the 200th team victory
20:12 representing Puerto Rico
20:14 in the history of the Caribbean Classic.
20:17 In this context, after Nicaragua dominated
20:19 the first innings of the game,
20:20 the Criollos took the lead in the sixth
20:23 thanks to a Jack Lopez triple.
20:25 On his way to the future Hall of Fame,
20:30 a former player of MLB, Yadier Molina,
20:33 celebrated his first victory as manager
20:36 in a Caribbean tournament.
20:37 And let's move now to the middle game
20:46 of the opening day where the non-member team
20:48 of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation,
20:52 the Royal Scorpions of Curacao won in their debut
20:56 against the historic representative of Mexico,
20:59 the Naranjeros of Hermosillo,
21:01 with a close score of six runs to five.
21:04 In the second inning, Mexico scored two runs
21:07 thanks to a back-to-back home runs
21:09 of Aaron Alter and Julián Ornelas.
21:12 This in the sixth, Curacao answered
21:15 with another back-to-back homers by Jonathan Scott
21:19 and Adhemar Rifalea to take the lead from five to two.
21:24 Finally, in the former Japanese League star,
21:28 Vladimir Valetian hit another home run
21:31 to give way to his team to win the run.
21:35 (children chattering)
21:38 And we have come to the end of this news brief.
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22:03 For "Tell Us Your English,"
22:04 my name is Belén De Los Santos.
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