December 30, 2022
Alicia Jrapko Vive!
As we move into 2023, we leave the last year with bittersweet memories. In early January we lost our beloved founder and editor Alicia Jrapko who, while battling a long illness, continued to contribute to Resumen in English until her final days. We took Alicia’s tender courage and determination as an inspiration to continue, and her example helped us improve and grow. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 27, 2022
Lula campaigning for president
January 1 will be a long-awaited day for Brazil’s progressive movement. On that day, Luis Inácio Lula Da Silva, once and future president, will officially replace the nefarious Latin American Trump, Jair Bolsonaro. With only a few days ahead, the country is already beginning to prepare for this historic day. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges and Bill Hackwell on December 27, 2022
Rescuers at the Saratoga Hotel tragedy. photo: Bill Hackwell
This year has been a defining year for Cuba. Let’s say it has been like the litmus test after two years of pandemic and important domestic changes. The economic measures implemented in 2021 designed to improve economic conditions did not reach its expectations in 2022, which remains the main concern of the island’s population. (more…)
By Francesca Emanuele on December 22, 2022
photo: Presidency of Peru
Unfulfilled campaign promises, accusations of corruption, and even an attempted self-coup cannot turn the many supporters of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo against him. (more…)
December 24, 2022
Carandiru prison in 1992
Brazil’s Official Gazette published on Friday the decree by which the government of Jair Bolsonaro has pardoned military and police officers involved in the bloodiest massacre in Brazil’s prison history when 111 prisoners were murdered in 1992. (more…)
December 24, 2022
photo: EFE
Robert Scola, a federal judge in Miami (Florida, USA) ruled that the Colombian-Venezuelan businessman Álex Saab, described in most corporate media as a front man for the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, is not entitled to diplomatic immunity, (more…)
By Carlos Aznarez on December 22, 2022
The Peruvian usurper “president” Dina Boluarte continues with her plans of prolonged permanence in a government that she assaulted as part of a right-wing plan. (more…)
By Michel Torres Corona on December 24, 2022
Thousands of Cubans have emigrated in 2022, either in boats that usually capsize or through the very dangerous “Central American route”, which popular humor has metabolized as “tour of the volcanoes”. We all know someone who has left. (more…)