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  1. The News with Jorge Gestoso

    4H AGO

    The News with Jorge Gestoso

    Venezuela On today's podcast, Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, stated that the country will move forward with consolidating its energy industry, highlighting the importance of the reform of the hydrocarbons law.It is expected that tomorrow, Venezuela's National Assembly will move ahead and possibly pass the reform, which seeks to modernize the legal framework of the oil sector in order to attract private and foreign investment with a goal of rapidly increasing crude oil production and generating revenue for the state.Delcy Rodriguez emphasized that this will translate into jobs, better wages, and greater financing capacity for the national economy.United States In the United States, outrage and protests are growing nationwide following the third death in less than three weeks of a US citizen at the hands of immigration service agents, ICE, during protests against the brutal raids targeting immigrants in the city of Minneapolis.While videos of the incident show that the latest victim, Alex Pretti, a thirty seven year old nurse, was killed by ten shots fired by immigration agents, La Migra, while he was defenseless on the ground.The official narrative of the Trump government is to label him as a domestic terrorist who pose a threat.Former president Barack Obama reacted by describing Pretti's death as, quote, a heartbreaking tragedy that should be a wake up call to all Americans that many of our core values as a nations are increasingly under assault, said Obama.United States (climate) And as a consequence of the climate crisis, a large part of the US was affected by an intense snowstorm that left more than seven hundred thousand households without electricity and paralyzed air traffic nationwide.Indonesia Meanwhile, landslides left at least seventeen people dead in the province of West Java in Indonesia.Mozambique And in Mozambique, flooding in the southern African country has left more than six hundred thousand people affected.

    3 min
  2. The News with Jorge Gestoso

    5D AGO

    The News with Jorge Gestoso

    Venezuela On today's podcast, Venezuela's Acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, reported on the inflow of resources resulting from oil sales, which will be allocated to improving workers' incomes. During a presidential event, the Head of State explained that of the first five hundred million dollars expected, three hundred million dollars have already entered the country.  These initial flows will be channeled to supply the official foreign exchange market, stabilize the dollar, reduce inflationary pressures, and allow companies and individuals to access foreign currency through the banking system without triggering an increase of Bolivar influence. Spain Spain is experiencing a new railway tragedy after a commuter train on Tuesday night near Barcelona crashed into a retaining wall that had collapsed onto the trucks following heavy rainfall, leaving at least one dead and thirty seven injured.  This accident comes just two days after the collision between two high speed trains that left at least forty two dead and around three hundred injured with rescue operations still ongoing and a national mourning period declared as identification efforts and assistance to victims and families continue. Chile And in Chile, the far right president-elect Jose Antonio Kast, who will take office on March eleven, presented his new cabinet which includes two former lawyers of Augusto Pinochet, whose dictatorship left more than three thousand people assassinated and disappeared to head the ministries of defense and justice.

    2 min
  3. The News with Jorge Gestoso

    JAN 19

    The News with Jorge Gestoso

    Venezuela The Venezuelan government categorically denies what is described as malicious information published on social media that seeks to divide the country´s high military command regarding alleged secret conversations between Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello and the United States prior to the January 3rd attack and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and the First Lady.  The Venezuelan executive also denied another false and likewise malicious report concerning an alleged declaration awarded to foreign intelligent agents. Acting President Delcy Rodriguez reaffirmed that the government continues to follow the line of action left by President Maduro and reiterated her call for national unity, once again saying, quote, the enemy´s greatest victory would be to divide us, but they will not succeed, she said. Ecuador In Ecuador, the seizure of more than two and a half tons of cocaine at a port in Guayas earlier this year has placed companies linked to the family circle of President Daniel Novoa under scrutiny. This case adds to previous investigations, such as those by OCCRP and Revista Raya, which documented multiple cocaine seizures between 2020 and 2022 in containers belonging to Novoa Trading, the banana company at the core of the family conglomerate Novoa, used by Balkan cartels for shipments to Europe. Chile And Chile has declared a state of catastrophe and reports at least 19 deaths due to wildfires in the central-southern part of the country, which have already consumed more than 20,000 hectares.

    3 min

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Here you will find a wide variety of content in podcasts that will keep you informed and entertained with a view from the south. With teleSUR Podcast you will stay tuned with the most important and relevant events of the moment.