By Raúl Antonio Capote on May 22, 2023
Cubans carry the images of the 73 victims of the Posada planned bombing of a Cubana airliner. photo: Bill Hackwell
On May 23, 2018, in the early hours of the morning, Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles passed away at Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood, Florida, United States. He was a CIA agent, confessed assassin and dedicated counterrevolutionary considered one of the masters of terrorism against his own country of origin; Cuba. (more…)
By Andreína Chávez Alava on May 15, 2023
Venezuelan crossing the Rio Grande, photo: Jordan Vonderhaar
US foreign policy remains a war on two fronts: punish countries with sanctions and then punish their migrants too.
Last year, I wrote a long essay telling my family’s migration story amidst our country’s social collapse in the immediate aftermath of US sanctions. Since then, some of my relatives have returned home and left again as economic hardships continue to weigh us down. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on May 22, 2023
Iroel Sanchez
I write these lines motivated by the pain caused to so many of us by the untimely physical demise of the Cuban intellectual, journalist, computer warrior and revolutionary Iroel Sánchez Espinosa. The following is part of a conversation I had with him during my most recent visit to Cuba, in February of this year. (more…)
By Abdul Rahman on May 21, 2023
People’s Summit for Democracy in LA calls for the end to all US sanctions and blockades. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Economic sanctions, often illegally imposed, have a lasting negative impact on the populations in targeted countries and almost never achieve their stated goals, claims a new study published by the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). (more…)
May 19, 2023
The Peruvian Congress has approved the entry of U.S. troops to “train” with military and police of the South American country. With 70 votes in favor, 33 against and four abstentions, the plenary of the Parliament approved the measure, which was repudiated by the left-wing opposition members. (more…)
May 20, 2023
Communiqué from La Vía Campesina denounces the dissolution of democratic institutions in Ecuador, coupled with a recent decree on terrorism and the military supporting of the President. (more…)
By Graciela Ramírez on May 19, 2023 from Havana
Photo: Victor Villalba Gutiérrez
All of us who work on Resumen Latinoamericano in English are mourning the passing of Cuban journalist Iroel Sanchez at the age of 58. Frequently, over the past several years, from his popular blog La Pupilia Insomne, Iroel’s articles could be found featured here. His clear and hard hitting analysis of the vicious media attacks on Cuba, to the struggle that the Cuban people are waging against the blockade, were always done with the pride and determination of the Cuban Revolution. Iroel will be missed. – Bill Hackwell, editor (more…)
By Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez on May 19, 2023
Since the ruling class wants the “new” war scenarios to be the brains directed by NATO they also want the “new generation” ideological communicational armaments to be installed there, for hybrid and unrestricted demoralizing conflicts; they also want us to be fond of them, to accept that they have always been right in treating us the way they treat us; (more…)