By Atilio Boron, Stella Calloni and Paula Klachko on August 16, 2024
Petro and Lula photo: AFP
Presidents Petro and Lula are proposing an unusual “transitional cohabitation government and new free elections” in Venezuela to calm their incomprehensible impatience to know the definitive results of the presidential election. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on August 15, 2024
The “senior official” who preferred to remain anonymous knows as well as all of us that what is needed to advance U.S. relations with Cuba is political will. In the Caribbean we call it “pants”.
Two days ago the U.S. publication Politico published an article entitled “Washington and Havana are stuck in a diplomatic impasse”, that compels us to make some clarifications. (more…)
August 15, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva insisted Thursday on maintaining a “cautious position” on Venezuela, while continuing diplomatic talks with his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro. (more…)
August 9, 2024
The National Lawyers Guild disputes repeated Carter Center press statements regarding the July 28 presidential elections in Venezuela. The Center issued a public statement less than 24 hours after the closing of the polls calling on the Venezuelan government to immediately publish the election results for each polling station across the country. (more…)
By Juan Samaniego. Resumen Latinoamericano, August 15, 2024.
Milei and Musk
The Argentine president’s reformist agenda seeks to eliminate environmental, social and human rights protection standards in order to attract foreign investment. Booming demand for lithium plays a key role in Milei’s new policy. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 15, 2024
Mijaín López, photo: Victor Villalba Gutiérrez
Miserable is a society that imposes repudiatory practices of inquisition and falsehood. Miserable are those who deny Cuba the joy of its nine Olympic medals, the same number won by Denmark, a country without a U.S. blockade and without the press and the media reproaching its performance in Paris. (more…)
By Brett Wilkins on August 14, 2024
Photo: Ringo Chiu/AFP
“Hundreds of millions of civilians around the world suffer – and hundreds of thousands have died – even in times of ostensible peace under the broad economic sanctions imposed unilaterally and illegally by the United States.” (more…)
By Rafael Bautista S. on August 13, 2024
The alignment of certain governments to the crutch of “fraud”, to delegitimize the last elections in Venezuela, is seriously fracturing the region. The consequences of this new conformation of a bloc aligned with the geopolitics of the dollar, only outlines a scenario, (more…)