August 1, 2021
photo: Abel Padrón Padilla
On July 25 — the very day when Cuban-Americans who walked 1300 miles to end the U.S. economic war against Cuba arrived in Washington, DC — the U.S. State Department issued a statement alleging its support for the human rights of the Cuban people. (more…)
By Marcelo Colussi on July 30, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
For some time now, American social science has been talking about failed states. A misleading concept, by the way. States do not fail. If in any case there are societies that live in the greatest poverty, or rather with enormous asymmetries due to an inequitable distribution of wealth among classes, this is a product of their own history, of their economic-social and political dynamics. (more…)
By Iroel Sánchez on July 31, 2021
We will live and we will win
Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has said in the pages of the Spanish newspaper El País that Cuba is a “military dictatorship” and that in order to reach that conclusion he has been informed by “the chronicles of correspondents”. One can disagree with his opinion, but one must start from the understanding that for a writer of fiction, as he is, and one of the best, the truth is not the most important thing; and it is precisely the truth that has been scarce in the reports on Cuba by the mainstream media. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on July 29, 2021 from Havana
photo: Alejandro Azcuy
Those who encouraged the riots in Cuba on July 11 were left empty-handed. The violent events that took place that day have been forgotten, and now Cuba is trending for more moving reasons. In just two weeks, the island has received thousands of expressions of solidarity and tons of real humanitarian aid destined to help us to face the economic and health crisis in the country. (more…)
By Gustavo Espinoza M. on July 28, 2021 – Resumen Latinoamericano
photo: courtesy Peru presidential office
Calm but firm in the exposition of complex points of view was the presidential speech with which Pedro Castillo Terrones started his governmental administration at noon today, on the occasion of the Bicentenary of the Constitution of the Republic of Peru. (more…)
photo: Bill Hackwell
By Adán Chávez Frías on July 28, 2021
Today, July 28, Venezuelans are commemorating the 67th anniversary of the birth of Commander Hugo Chávez; a date of special significance for our People and other Peoples of the world, who recognize the important contributions of the historic leader of the Bolivarian Revolution. (more…)
July 26, 2021
Peace signatory and former FARC combatant Yorbis Valencia Carabali, assassinated on July 25 near his home
Paramilitary violence has once again reached worrying levels in Colombia. Massacres, assassinations of social leaders and former FARC combatants, and incidents of forced displacement have been on the rise. The majority of the incidents have been concentrated in the Pacific and Northwest regions of the country where there has been a significant expansion of illegal armed and drug trafficking groups, according to human rights organizations. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell and Alicia Jrapko on July 27, 2021
Photo: Thomas Leuthard
Today with the height of imperial arrogance and hubris, the US State Department issued a joint statement to further its plans to destroy Cuba and all the gains it has made in health, education and welfare. (more…)