By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 2, 2025 from Havana
Fidel and Jimmy Carter at the funeral of Pierre Trudeau. photo: National Post
On October 3, 2000, the first face-to-face meeting between Fidel Castro and James Carter took place. The Cuban leader and the former U.S. president were attending the funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the father of Canada’s current prime minister, at the Basilica of Notre Dame in old Montreal. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on January 2, 2024
Crisis or exceptional situations are a constant in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), not an alteration of a supposed normality we never knew in this, the most unjust continent in the world. And, for the record, the closest to “American Rome”, as Martí called U.S. imperialism. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on January 1, 2025.
photo: Bill Hackwell
The year that ended once again tested the resistance and strength of Cubans, in the midst of the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade, reinforced by the administration of Joe Biden, continuation of the policy of maximum pressure imposed by Donald Trump, and more than 60 years of U.S. economic warfare against Cuba. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on December 31, 2024
The decline of the European Union began with the establishment of neoliberal policies. photo: AFP.
Western Europe is reluctant to admit NATO’s military defeat in Ukraine, while vacillating over its place in the new global order that has the Russian Federation as a central player alongside China and the Brics+. The changes are happening with a speed that the traditional institutionality of the colonizing countries is unable to process sensibly and sanely. (more…)
By Resumen Latinoamericano editorial on December 31, 2024.
journalist in Palestine, an example of what communication means in times of barbarism.
With accumulated pain and sadness due to the monstrous provocations of imperialism, but also with the satisfaction that we feel continuance of the emerging signs of resistance and struggle, we reach the end of a very difficult year. (more…)
By David Brooks on December 30, 2024
Oakland California, Dec. 30, 2025. photo: Bill Hackwell
“Hot soup over a campfire under the bridge / The line for the shelter goes all the way around / Welcome to the new world order / Families sleeping in their cars in the Southwest / No home, no jobs, no peace, no rest” (excerpt from Bruce Springsteen’s The Ghost of Tom Joad ). (more…)
To Joseph Biden President of the United States of America on December 28, 2024
Mr. President:
The association that we constitute, part of a broad international community whose membership and high mission is indicated by its name, vehemently exhort Mr. President, in exercise of the constitutional power vested in him at the time of the end of his term, and as a gesture of goodwill to the peoples of the world, to grant a PRESIDENTIAL Pardon to Mr. JUVENAL OVIDIO RICARDO PALMERA PINEDA (SIMÓN TRINIDAD). (more…)
Por Diana Block el 27 de diciembre de 2024
Ramón, Rene, Gerardo, Antonio, Fernando y miembro de La Colmenita, 17 de diciembre de 2024. Foto: Alejandro Azcuy Domínguez.
Puedo recordar claramente el torrente de alegría que sentí cuando escuché la casi increíble noticia de que los últimos tres miembros de los Cinco Cubanos, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero y Ramón Labañino, habían aterrizado en La Habana el 17 de diciembre de 2014 después de dieciséis años de injusto encarcelamiento en prisiones de Estados Unidos. Los otros dos miembros de los Cinco, Fernando González, y René González, habían sido liberados previamente al término de sus condenas en prisión. (more…)