By Natalia Marques on October 8, 2022
NYC Mayor Eric Adams holds press conference to declare a state of emergency. Photo: NYC Mayor’s Office
On October 7, New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency in the city, claiming that since April, over 17,000 asylum seekers have been transported from the southern border of the United States to NYC. These migrants are from Latin America, seeking asylum from violence and extreme poverty, often caused by US imperialist economic policy. (more…)
By Erika Hernandez on October 9, 2022
Simón Bolívar International Bridge Photo: Telemedellín
On Friday, October 7, the new director of Migración Colombia, Fernando García Manosalva, announced new measures to facilitate the mobility of Venezuelans throughout the Colombia-Venezuela border area. (more…)
By Gustavo A Maranges on October 9, 2022
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent tour in Latin America countries shows how important the region is to the US. Only four months after the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, the United States is once again reaching into the region, with each of the 3 stops having its unique characteristics. (more…)
By Gustavo Veiga October 9, 2022 from São Paulo
Fernando Morais
An interview with Fernando Morais, journalist, writer and biographer of Lula.
-Who is Lula for you?
By Hernando Calvo Ospina on October 8, 2022
In March 1967, some twenty men of the U.S. counterinsurgency special forces were installed in Bolivia, some of them transferred from South Vietnam. They were part of the Mobile Training Teams. They would be in charge of organizing and training a battalion of jungle “hunters”, an elite corps also known as “Rangers”. (more…)
By Andreína Chávez Alava on October 5, 2022 in Caracas
Agreement signed to renew peace talks in Caracas
Venezuela welcomed the resumption of peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group, calling it another step forward for regional stabilization. (more…)
Families of the Victims of Barbados, photo: Bill Hackwell
Today October 6, on occasion of the 46th anniversary of the Barbados Crime, Resumen Latinoamericano shares an interview with the daughter of the Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 co-pilot, Miguel Espinosa, one of the 73 innocent people, many of whom were children, killed in that terrorist attack that the Cuban people will never forget. Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, the CIA operatives who planned the bombing and many others, never were held accountable, in fact they bragged about it. (more…)
La Jornada editorial on Oct 4, 2022, from Mexico City
Last week, Hurricane Ian’s passage through the Caribbean left Cuba with deaths and enormous material destruction in the island’s infrastructure and agriculture, as well as the displacement of tens of thousands of victims; in addition, it caused the generalized collapse of the electrical system, which has been reestablishing itself with an agonizing and exasperating slowness. (more…)