- Inaesin counted 44 labor conflicts during September in Venezuela; The national government authorized that the two Spaniards detained in the country receive consular protection and the high representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, assured that the solution to the crisis in Venezuela is through international pressure.
The Institute of Higher Trade Union Studies (Inaesin) indicated that during September the number of labor conflicts in Venezuela quadrupled. Vanessa Linares, wife of the mayor of Maracaibo, Rafael Ramírez Colina, warned that workers from the institution are being victims of persecution by agents of the Venezuelan State.
In international news, the Spanish government confirmed that Venezuela authorized consular protection for citizens of that country who were detained in national territory and, on the other hand, Josep Borrell, high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, declared that he considers that the solution The Venezuelan crisis has to arise from international pressure.
Scientists John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to machine learning with artificial neural networks. In sports, Spanish footballer Andrés Iniesta announced his retirement from his professional career at 40 years of age.
Below are the most notable news from Tuesday, October 8:
The Institute of Higher Trade Union Studies (Inaesin) reported on October 8 that during the month of September they recorded 44 labor disputes, which is equivalent to four times more than in August, when 11 cases were registered.
Workers in the education sector led the protests with 56.82% of the total, followed by labor complaints by employees in the health area, with 13.64%, while the remaining 29.54% were not specified by the non-governmental organization (NGO).
Additionally, during this time period, wage complaints led labor complaints with 35.69% and layoffs came in second with 23.82%.
The entities with the highest number of complaints in this quarter were the Capital District with 66.67%, Bolívar with 7.83% and Miranda with 5.98%.
Vanessa Linares, wife of the mayor of Maracaibo, Rafael Ramírez Colina, denounced on October 8 that some workers at the Mayor’s Office of the capital of the state of Zulia are experiencing a “climate of persecution and intimidation.”
“In recent days, councilors, directors and career staff of the Maracaibo Mayor’s Office have experienced a regrettable climate of unlimited persecution and intimidation,” Linares said in a video published on his X account.
Linares added that the families of the Mayor’s Office workers live in a climate of anxiety.
The opposition mayor was arrested on October 2 for alleged corruptionwithout it being known until now how much the sentence was imposed on him.
3. Venezuela authorized the two Spaniards detained in the country to receive consular protection
José Manuel Albares, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, confirmed on Tuesday, October 8, that the Spanish government received authorization from the Venezuelan Executive for the two Spaniards who are detained in the national territory receive consular protection.
Albares, in an interview with the Basque channel ETB, referred to the situation of Andrés Martínez Adasme and José María Basoa Valdovinos, who are being accused of being part of an alleged operation directed by the United States to “assassinate Nicolás Maduro.”
Albares said on Friday, October 4, that he received a “note verbal” from the Venezuelan government authorizing him to offer the two Spanish citizens “consular protection,” which will allow them to have access to a lawyer.
The minister hopes that, with this decision, it will be possible for the two people to “return to their families in the Basque Country.”
The high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, assured on Tuesday, October 8, that the solution to the crisis in Venezuela has to arise from international pressure.
“The solution to Venezuela cannot be more than political. It has to arise from international pressure,” said Borrell in a statement to the EFE news agency after his intervention in a debate on the situation in the Middle East in the European Parliament.
The head of European diplomacy added that everything indicates that Nicolás Maduro’s plans are to take office again in January 2025, based on the electoral results of the July 28 elections. presented by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which most of the international community does not recognize.
“We do not recognize that it has democratic legitimacy. This is what the European Parliament has said and the next European Council, which is responsible for foreign policy matters, will say so,” Borrell concluded.
Scientists John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, October 8, for fundamental discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences indicated that Hopfield, of Princeton University, in the United States, created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns contained in data.
While Hinton, from the University of Toronto (Canada), invented a method that can independently discover properties in data and that has become important for large artificial neural networks in use today.
The Nobel Prize in Physics is the second to be awarded in the round of these awards, after the winners of the distinction were announced on October 7 at the field of medicine.
Spanish midfielder Andrés Iniesta announced his retirement as a professional footballer on Tuesday, October 8, at a conference in Barcelona.
“I guess you’ll let me get excited today. But they are tears of emotion, of pride, not of sadness. They are the tears of that boy from Fuentealbilla who had the dream of being a professional soccer player. And I achieved it, with a lot of work and a lot of effort,” said Iniesta, who is 40 years old, at the beginning of the event.
At his farewell, Iniesta was accompanied by around 450 guests, including his wife, Ana, his six children, his parents and his sister. Also present were some former FC Barcelona teammates such as Gerard Piqué, Xavi Hernández, Anderson Luis de Souza “Deco”, Sergi Roberto, Marc Bartra and Sergi Samper, with whom he coincided at the Japanese Vissel Kobe.
The Spanish footballer hangs up his boots with 39 titles and without ever having won the Ballon d’Or, despite having marked an era as one of the best midfielders in history, a distinction that he came close to in 2010, when he took the podium with Xavi and Messi, his teammates in the Barça team.
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