By Raúl Antonio Capote on January 1, 2025.
photo: Bill Hackwell
The year that ended once again tested the resistance and strength of Cubans, in the midst of the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade, reinforced by the administration of Joe Biden, continuation of the policy of maximum pressure imposed by Donald Trump, and more than 60 years of U.S. economic warfare against Cuba. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on December 31, 2024
The decline of the European Union began with the establishment of neoliberal policies. photo: AFP.
Western Europe is reluctant to admit NATO’s military defeat in Ukraine, while vacillating over its place in the new global order that has the Russian Federation as a central player alongside China and the Brics+. The changes are happening with a speed that the traditional institutionality of the colonizing countries is unable to process sensibly and sanely. (more…)
By Resumen Latinoamericano editorial on December 31, 2024.
journalist in Palestine, an example of what communication means in times of barbarism.
With accumulated pain and sadness due to the monstrous provocations of imperialism, but also with the satisfaction that we feel continuance of the emerging signs of resistance and struggle, we reach the end of a very difficult year. (more…)
By David Brooks on December 30, 2024
Oakland California, Dec. 30, 2025. photo: Bill Hackwell
“Hot soup over a campfire under the bridge / The line for the shelter goes all the way around / Welcome to the new world order / Families sleeping in their cars in the Southwest / No home, no jobs, no peace, no rest” (excerpt from Bruce Springsteen’s The Ghost of Tom Joad ). (more…)
To Joseph Biden President of the United States of America on December 28, 2024
Mr. President:
The association that we constitute, part of a broad international community whose membership and high mission is indicated by its name, vehemently exhort Mr. President, in exercise of the constitutional power vested in him at the time of the end of his term, and as a gesture of goodwill to the peoples of the world, to grant a PRESIDENTIAL Pardon to Mr. JUVENAL OVIDIO RICARDO PALMERA PINEDA (SIMÓN TRINIDAD). (more…)
Por Diana Block el 27 de diciembre de 2024
Ramón, Rene, Gerardo, Antonio, Fernando y miembro de La Colmenita, 17 de diciembre de 2024. Foto: Alejandro Azcuy Domínguez.
Puedo recordar claramente el torrente de alegría que sentí cuando escuché la casi increíble noticia de que los últimos tres miembros de los Cinco Cubanos, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero y Ramón Labañino, habían aterrizado en La Habana el 17 de diciembre de 2014 después de dieciséis años de injusto encarcelamiento en prisiones de Estados Unidos. Los otros dos miembros de los Cinco, Fernando González, y René González, habían sido liberados previamente al término de sus condenas en prisión. (more…)
By José Manzaneda on December 28, 2024
Blackmailing Mexico to sink Cuba amid blackouts
In recent years, the Mexican government has come to the aid of the Cuban people on several occasions[i]. A month ago, it sent 400,000 barrels of oil to alleviate the acute electricity crisis on the island[ii]. (more…)
Single payer, medical missions, and the US campaign of disinformation
By Mark Ginsburg on December 26, 2024
Poster on wall of the University of Medical Sciences in Matanzas, also featuring Fidel Castro Ruz and the “Cuban Five.”
I was in Cuba (again) during the first week of December. I traveled with a delegation of members of the National Single Payer organization, which is working to achieve a national healthcare system in the US that would fully cover everyone under a single, comprehensive, government-funded program. We visited a variety of healthcare institutions in the cities of Havana and Matanzas, the capital of the province of the same name. (more…)