May 27, 2017
On the occasion of the victory of the Strike of Freedom and Dignity, the valiant battle of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, confronting the occupier with their bodies and their lives, we salute the Palestinian prisoners on achieving their victory, not only for themselves and their families, but for the entire Palestinian people and global movement for justice and liberation. (more…)
Independista Lolita Lebron leads the NYC Puerto Rican Parade in 1980, a year after she was released from prison.
Over 40 corporate sponsors, police and firefighters, have withdrawn their support and sponsorship of the annual Puerto Rican parade to be held in New York City on June 11. (more…)
By Mari Mari Narváez on May 17, 2017
While many of us could hardly concentrate on everyday matters as we thought obsessively about the fragile and unfortunate fate of Oscar López Rivera, the former political prisoner painted peacefully in the prison in Terre Haute Indiana. (more…)
By Raul Burbano on May 18, 2017
Photo: Bill Hackwell
Since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1999, Venezuela has achieved impressive gains in health care, education, and reduction in poverty, while at the same time wrestled economic and political control from the country’s elite. (more…)
April 27, 2017
Telesur: Thank you for receiving us, Mr President. Bashar al-Assad: I welcome your team and Channel Telesur to Syria. Telesur: Let me get straight to the most recent event.
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May 19, 2017
On Friday, 19 May, Palestinian prisoners entered their 33rd day of the collective hunger strike launched by 1500 Palestinian prisoners – out of a total of over 6300 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails – on 17 April 2017, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. (more…)
May 19, 2017
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, urged Brazil to maintain austerity measures in a report released Friday, one day after scandal-ridden and unelected President Michel Temer refused to step down in the face of widespread strikes and protests. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez on May 13, 2017
Pablo Beltrán. Photo: Resumen Latinoamericano
Last Thursday, in Havana, Cuba, the director of Resumen Latinoamericano interviewed the chief of the peace delegation on the Colombian ELN, Commander Pablo Beltrán. On that same day, the leaderships of the ELN and the FARC guerrillas met with Cuban leader Raúl Castro and presented him with a report of what both delegations had discussed for several days in the Cuban capital. (more…)