By Graciela Ramírez on January 29, 2022
“they will not prevent us”
This January 27, while we were preparing different notes on national and international affairs, our website cubaenresumen.org was silenced. We could not upload any information, we thought at first it was due to a technical problem with the website. (more…)
January 29, 2022
protest against the IMF in Buenos Aires, photo: Bill Hackwell
Readers should not come away from this editorial in today’s La Jornada thinking that the IMF has somehow reformed itself, it remains as predatory as ever. However it is an interesting development that deserves following as they maneuver from this defensive position. – Editorial (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 27, 2022 from Havana
March of the Torches, photo: Bill Hackwell
One bright Sunday in the mid-19th century, little José Martí walked the streets of Havana hand in hand with his father, as Cuban poet Fina García Marruz described in a famous essay, a result from his rigorous biographical research. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on January 26, 2022
Cuba, in spite of the suffocating US blockade, is ready to send, at solidarity prices, tens of millions of doses of its vaccines against covid-19 to low-income countries. This was announced on January 25 by senior executives of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health and the biotechnology industry at an international conference organized in Havana (more…)
By Héctor Silva Ávalos, Resumen Latinoamericano on January 27, 2022.
photo: efe
Today Xiomara Castro assumes, with Latin American presidents of all ideological signs looking on including the Vice President of the United States as witnesses, the position she won at the polls last November; President of the Republic of Honduras. Her detractors would have preferred that she never set foot in the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa. (more…)
By Carlos Prigollini on January 26, 2022
Neoliberalism kills
The lack of self-criticism usually translates into a lack of political cadres and therefore of candidates. If we add to this the absence of a project due to lack of communication or intellectual laziness, the situation becomes a wide and nourished floating strip of politicians, while the people and the most vulnerable sectors suffer the consequences that the right wing takes advantage of to sow chaos, hatred and other typical characteristics of the colonizers, who have caused so much damage to Our America. (more…)
By Gustavo A. Maranges on January 25, 2022 from Havana
BT news team visits communities for unannounced interviews
The Cuban reality has become one of the most common topics among the main hegemonic media of the Western Hemisphere since July 11, 2021. “Shortages”, “unfair trials”, “lack of freedoms,” are the main keywords that grace their headlines. (more…)
By Lautaro Rivara on January 24, 2022
Gustavo Petro, front runner in Colombia’s presidential elections
The Latin American and Caribbean electoral calendar for 2022 promises to be no less hectic than that of the previous year. Among the upcoming elections and referendums of different signs – Costa Rica, Mexico, Chile, Peru, perhaps Haiti – (more…)