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On today's podcast... Venezuela  Venezuela's Acting President, Delcy Rodríguez, participated today in the World Food Forum in Rome, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).  In her address, the Venezuelan leader emphasized that food is an essential human right and noted that Venezuela is seeking to consolidate significant progress toward t...

On today's podcast France - protests student protests continue in France this Friday, denouncing the shortage of teachers, overcrowded classrooms, the deterioration of educational facilities and budget cuts, while violent police repression of the protests continue.  Student mobilization has also spread to other European countries, including Belgium, Italy, Greece, Germany, Ireland and Austria...

On today's podcast.  Argentina - protests  In Argentina, in rejection of the neoliberal policies of the far-right pro-U.S. Milei, the CGT is holding a mobilization this Thursday in defence of domestic industry and employment.  The Labor Federation is challenging Milei's opening of the country to imports and the negative impact of this policy has been having on industrial employment in Ar...

On today's podcast Israel - Palestine - three years of genocide Three years after what has been described as a genocide in Gaza amid relentless attacks by the military of Israel on the enclave, the number of Palestinians killed has reached 75,000, the majority of them women and children, while the number of wounded has reached 175,000 since October 7th, 2023.  Today in London, students are ho...

On today's podcast Argentina - protest Argentina's Central Workers Union is holding a demonstration this Tuesday in front of the Palace of Justice in Buenos Aires to protest a ruling by the Supreme Court.  The country's highest court reinstated the article through which the far-right pro-US Javier Milley repealed the land law and eliminated the main restrictions on the purchase of l...

On today's podcast Brazil - presidential election In Brazil, the president and progressive candidate for re-election, Lula, and far-right candidate, Flavio Bolsonaro, are advancing to the second round of the election after a very narrow difference in votes between them in the first round.  The runoff will take place on October 25th after neither of the two candidates secured an absolute major...

On today's podcast. Bolivia Bolivia's prosecutor's office is denouncing what it described as the kidnapping of attorney general Roger Mariaca, who was detained at Santa Cruz Airport for no reason by personnel whose institutional affiliation has yet to be clarified. Mariaca was investigating Fernando Serinedo, a campaign adviser to the continental rights and former adviser to Rodrigo...

On today's podcast. United States, New York Today is the last day of the eighty first General Assembly here in New York City. 20 countries are going to be giving their speeches throughout the day, four of them from our region, Latin America and The Caribbean. We are talking El Salvador, Costa Rica, Antigua, Ambarbuda, and Grenade. Most of them are going to be denouncing climate change. The si...

On today's podcast...  Even though it's not going to be presidents of Latin America speaking in this fourth day, it's going to be many representatives of the Caribbean taking their stage. Among them, Haiti will be talking about security and elections, St. Vincent and the Grenadines talking about debt, finance regarding climate change and survival. Also, it's going to be talking...

General Assembly of the United Nations  In the morning session, the president of the Authority of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, talked via videoconference to the assembly because the American authorities refused to issue a visa to Abbas, something that he denounced at the beginning of his speech. He denounced the continuation of what he called the genocide of Israel through the Palestinian population,...

On today's podcast from the United Nations in New York...  In the afternoon, Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez will be addressing the General Assembly.  It's going to be the first time in 10 years that she does so. She did it for the last time in 2016, but as a vice president, now she's going to be again representing Venezuela in the evening.  Yesterday, she did meet with...

On today's podcast Sweden - Europe - Latin America The left won the election in Sweden after the final count, holding the growing advance of the far right in Europe and paving the way for an agenda that champions social policies, inclusion and rights.  For Latin America, the left's victory in Sweden takes on particular significance in a context marked by the hardening of security policie...

On today's podcast United States -Venezuela The United States government has removed Venezuela from the list of countries that have failed to combat drug trafficking. Trump attributed the change in status to greater cooperation with Acting president Delcy Rodriguez.  Argentina  - environmental impact In Argentina, the judiciary has ordered operations to be halted at two oil companies, Navitas...

On today's podcast Ecuador In Ecuador, indigenous labor, anti-mining and student organizations are holding a mobilization against mining and in defense of water in the southern city of Cuenca.  In a statement, they denounce the advance of the extractivist model, territorial dispossession and the expansion of the mining frontier, which threatens water sources, ecosystems and the territories wh...

On today's podcast. China China responded to criticism from US secretary of state Marco during his tour of three South American countries reminding him that the Western Hemisphere is no one's backyard and supporting the economic autonomy of Latin American countries in the face of the White House national security doctrine. Rubio, for his part, ended his express tour in Peru, where he arr...

On today's podcast.  Colombia During his tour of Colombia as he welcomed US secretary of state Marco Rubio, the far right pro US president Abelardo de la Espriella said, quote, there is not a single Latino in the world who does not feel represented by Marco Rubio, and added, Rubio has been an inspiration in the fight for freedom, democracy, and institutional order in Latin America. Rubio is m...

On today's podcast. Cuba Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez presented on Monday at a press conference the report on the damage caused by The US blockade, which over the past six decades has amounted to a $178,000,000,000. Rodríguez is scheduled to present the document, which will be debated at the United Nations on October 28.  Argentina In Argentina, the far right pro US president, Javie...

On today's podcast.  United-States Today, The United States celebrates Labor Day with demonstrations taking place in several cities across the country under the slogan workers over billionaires. Unions and coalitions are calling for workers to be prioritized over billionaires. Higher taxes on the wealthy, protections of health insurance for disadvantaged people, an end to ICE rates and attack...

On today's podcast... Venezuela Venezuela is seeking to position itself as the world's largest oil producer. That was a statement made by the President of state-owned PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela) following the strengthening of strategic alliances between the interim government of President Rodríguez with the United States and other Western countries. Colombia In Colombia, former Presid...

On today's podcast...   Venezuela  Venezuela's Acting President Delcy Rodriguez and U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright led a ceremony on Wednesday to sign agreements aimed at promoting joint hydrocarbon production projects involving companies from several countries and Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA.  The agreements also seek to finalize details surrounding the energy dea...

On today's podcast... Honduras The justices in Honduras have decided to close a criminal case against former President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was facing charges of fraud and money laundering. The case has been dismissed. Hernández was convicted in the United States in 2024 of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison for smuggling more than 400 tons of cocaine.  He was later p...

 On today's podcast... SCO Summit The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit concludes today. It brought together its 10 member states in Kyrgyzstan, including China, Russia, India and Iran, countries with enormous populations and economic weight. The meeting, which began on Monday in Bishkek, is one of the main forums for political, economic and security cooperation in Eurasia and also at...

 On today's podcast... Middle East Iran launched missiles and drones at U.S. bases in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates in response to the U.S. attack on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, which, according to Tehran, left military personnel and civilians dead and injured. The U.S. attack was the first in a month, and Washington says it bombed two missile launchers belonging to the Islami...

On today's podcast Nepal - China - Tibet Near the northern border of Nepal and China's Tibet region, a sudden and devastating torrent of water, ice and rocks resembling a tsunami swept through and buried entire nearby villages.  So far, hundreds of deaths and a large number of missing people have been reported as rescue operations continue, and scientists attribute the disaster to the pa...

On today's podcast Bolivia In Bolivia, prosecutors are investigating far-right political strategist Fernando Cerimedo for allegedly protecting drug trafficking operations.  Cerimedo, a former digital strategy advisor to Milley, Paz, Bolsonaro, cast as Fura de la Esprilla, another far-right Latin American president, is accused of having provided his services and his army of trolls and bots to...