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Madrid, July 10 (EFE).- (Camera: Jesús Bartolomé) .- The former president of Argentina Mauricio Macri denied on Saturday having sent "lethal" ammunition to Bolivia to suppress the social protests that took place in the Andean country in November 2019 against the government of Evo Morales.INTERVIEW WITH MACRI.TRANSLATION:"The European Union and the OAS say it was an institutional crisis product of the fraudulent intent from Evo Morales, who mobilized the people in the streets, got scared and then stepped down. In that institutional crisis, the European Union asked the Bolivian congress to work within the constitutional frames to get out of that crisis. The congress chose an interim president tasked to call elections as soon as possible, which she did, and she did it so transparently that Evo Morales' party once again won but without Evo Morales." "The European Union does not accept that as a coup. My government in Argentina didn't either." "The things (they say we sent) are antiriot, not war material. My minister informed me that they travelled, with Morales already out of power, with the process in congress to pick an interim president, to defend the Argentinian embassy in Bolivia, where a couple of Evo Morales' workers were taking refuge, who had to leave the country for Argentina. I had already lost the election by then, so it was carried out in coordination with the incoming government."
Tehran, May 24 (EFE) .- (Camera: Marina Villén) Former conservative Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad assures in an interview with Efe that participation in the next elections will be "very low" if his candidacy is rejected and he advocates for a better distribution of wealth to "regain the confidence" of the population lost in the theocratic system.SOUNDBITES OF MAHMUD AHMADINEYAD FORMER IRANIAN CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT. **RESTRICTIONS: NO ACCESS ISRAEL MEDIA/PERSIAN LANGUAGE TV STATIONS OUTSIDE IRAN/STRICTLY NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN/VOA PERSIAN/MANOTO-1 TV/IRAN INTERNATIONAL** "It is clear. At the moment, if I am rejected, the participants will be very low and it is not possible to foresee in a certain way who will win.""My decision is again based on the request of the people. In recent years, especially in the last year and especially in recent months, there has been a lot of pressure on me from different sectors of the population, from different parts of the world, to present my candidacy""The concentration of wealth and power is a source of corruption, the weakening of the people, and inefficiency in the economy. Now, more than 85 percent of the country's economy is at the disposal of the government and the institutions of the system.""The distrust has become generalized, people distrust so much the governor of a village even the whole system. That does not mean that the whole system is guilty of creating such situation, but it is clear that when a problem occurs and the system does not have an adequate reaction, distrust among people is spread everywhere "."From my point of view, the JCPOA (nuclear pact) is finished and the reason is that it has not been regulated according to the norms of international law. It is a unilateral contract, and a unilateral contract has no chance of surviving ".
Quito, Jan 25 (EFE), (Camera: Juan Francisco Chávez).- Less than two weeks before elections in Ecuador, the country's president, Lenín Moreno, continues to keep his distance from the electoral process and assures he will transfer the government with its "accounts in order" and not as an "ambush" like the one he claims he inherited from his predecessor in 2017.SOUNDBITES OF ECUADOR'S PRESIDENT LENIN MORENO:"We found a country that was said to be prepared and it was not true, it was not real.""The president insisted, he told me we had to keep the revolution project he had already started and, to be honest, I trusted his words. I even believed the situation in which he said he left the country was real. But it was not.""From the beginning of my term and even before I said I would respect (democratic) institutionality, that I would not interfere in the judiciary power as the previous government had done and that I would respect the autonomy and independence of powers. ""If they want to investigate me, they are more than welcome. What I truly recommend is not to break (democratic) institutionality, not to interfere in the judiciary so we can keep believing in it because there is nothing more frustrating for a human being that not trusting (democratic) institutionality."
Washington, Jan 21 (EFE/EPA).- Democrat Joe Biden will be the most pro-Europe president in the history of the United States, a former adviser to the new president's electoral campaign told EFE on Thursday.Juan Verde, a 49-year-old from Gran Canaria, Spain, is an advisor to the Democratic Party and former deputy assistant secretary for Europe and Eurasia at the Department of Commerce under the Barack Obama administration.(Camera: WILL OLIVER)SHOT LIST: INTERVIEW WITH US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S FORMER ADVISER JUAN VERDE (IN SPANISH)Translations: 1. We are facing an administration that is going to show an attitude of firmness and ask for responsibilities. I mean, Russia in the last four years has been unchecked. It has done what it wanted, has acted the way it wanted and there has been no response. In part also because it suited Russia very well that the US and Europe did not have a common front. I believe the serious threat to Europe is called Russia. I believe that there we are going to have a common front and that it is going to manifest itself in many playing fields, in technology, energetically speaking, the addiction we have to Russian natural gas, the absolute dependence on energy that we have in Russia, which is not good, but that is why we must also promote renewable energy, cclean energy, be more self-sufficient energeticall-speaking.2. I absolutely believe that Biden is going to be the most pro-European president in US history. What do I base it on? First, in his history as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the 40 years he was in the Senate, his knowledge deep within the European idiosyncrasy, he knows the political actors, the European economic actors and then the team, but what is going to be the pivot of all of this, I think that before the new world panorama that is beginning to be drawn, of two great poles -USA and China-, where there is a common front and a common threat for Europeans, which is Russia; where we are facing, not a threat, but we are facing emerging economies such as Russia, India and Brazil. I believe that the key to foreign policy is the strengthening of the transatlantic relationship.
Geneva (Switzerland), Jan 13 (EFE) .- (Camera: Antonio Broto) The executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Kenneth Roth, analyzes in an interview with Efe the current situation of human rights in the world on the occasion of the presentation of the annual report of the NGO.INTERVIEW WITH KENNETH ROTH.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).