By Alicia Blanco on October 6, 2022
photo: Alejandra Bartoliche, for Resumen Latinoamericano
In the early hours of this morning by order of the Ministry of National Security, a “unified command” made up of federal forces of prefecture, gendarmerie and federal police with the collaboration of the provincial police of Río Negro, advanced by land and air on the Mapuche community of Lafken Winkul Mapu in Lake Mascardi. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 4, 2022 from Havana
President Diaz-Canel in Pinar del Rio
On September 26, Cuba was hit by Hurricane Ian, which didn’t stop intensifying as it passed through the western part of the island where it hovered for hours. There it left a trail of pain and disaster in those areas that were very close to its center and in most of the territory that were hit by its bands of hurricane-force winds. Thousands of people were left in the dark after it knocked down trees and electric poles and caused failures in the main thermo electric plants of the country. (more…)
By Julián Gutiérrez Alonso on October 4, 2022
photo: Jose Manuel Correa
Since the beginning of the Revolution, as early as 1960, when Lester Mallory, in a report to President Eisenhower, told him, among other things, that the only thing that was going to bring down Fidel was the “war of despair”. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on October 4, 2022
The principal perpetrator, in what AP News called “one of the most extensive bribery scandals in US military history,” popped up in Venezuela of all places. Leonard Glenn Francis bilked the US Navy out of at least $35 million. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez on October 3, 2022
Photo: Jonas Duarte
Brazil went to the polls yesterday under unusual political circumstances: Lula, the Workers’ Party (PT) candidate and champion of the poor, confronted an extreme right-winger, racist, misogynist, homophobic, and pro-dictatorship ex-army captain Jair Bolsonaro. Lula won the first round with 48.42% of the vote and looks set to win in the second round. But Bolsonaro, defying polls’ predictions, performed better than expected, scoring 43.2%. (more…)
By Gustavo Maranges and Bill Hackwell on October 2, 2022
The results of the first round of the presidential election in Brazil are coming and without a doubt it is the most anticipated news in Brazil, Latin America and the world too for that matter. Eleven candidates ran, but as everyone knew it was really a battle between the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the current president Jair Bolsonaro. (more…)
This is a reprint of the full-page ad that appeared in the Sunday, October 2, 2022 New York Times
An Urgent Appeal to President Biden
The US sanctions and embargo are preventing Cuba from rebuilding after Hurricane Ian.
The Biden Administration needs to act right now to help the Cuban people. (more…)
By Ángel Guerra Cabrera on September 30, 2022
Hundreds of Cuban doctors worked with their Mexican colleagues in the care of patients with covid-19 in the most dramatic moments of the pandemic. Photo La Jornada
When President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced the agreement with his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel for Cuban doctors to come to Mexico to provide their services an outcry arose. (more…)