By Leonid Savin on March 7, 2024
Both Russia and Latin America strive to build a multipolar and pluricentric world order and have their own integration projects
In recent months, Russia has significantly intensified contacts with the countries of South and Central America. With some of the states of the region, it is linked by long-standing ties of friendship originating from the Soviet Union era. (more…)
By Deisy Francis Mexidor on March 10, 2024
photo: Deisy Francis Mexidor
In order not to admit the lack of will to change the policy towards Cuba, the United States Government continues appealing to demagogic reasons, distortion and deceitful manipulation of pretexts. (more…)
By Judy Ancel on March 12, 2024
Juan Hernandez, photo: Gustavo Amador – Sipa
Ex-president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, popularly known as JOH, was convicted Friday in federal court in New York on drug trafficking and weapons charges. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 10, 2024 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
The ousted Cuban Economy Minister, Alejandro Gil Fernandez, is under investigation by the island’s Interior Ministry for making serious mistakes in his previous position. In a statement issued on Friday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that, from now on, authorities will initiate corresponding actions for total clarification of these behaviors. The president assured that there would be zero tolerance for corruption on the island. (more…)
By Raúl Capote Fernández on March 10, 2024, from Havana
They say it was the Spanish poet, novelist and philosopher, Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana, who coined the phrase: “The people who do not know their history are condemned to repeat it”; a maxim that seems to acquire an astonishing topicality these days in the USA. (more…)
By David Brooks on March 6, 2024
resistance continues to send signals of hope, photo: Bill Hackwell
Seems that everything here is on the brink of disaster, that is the constant narrative in the political arena, in the media, in academia and in the arts. By the way, with the Oscars scheduled for next week, we can see if Oppenheimer wins and remember that the gift of that scientist and his team could soon be back in the hands of the irrational actor Trump in the role of Dr. Strangelove. (more…)
By Dolores Curia on March 9, 2024
We are a wave now but soon we will be a Tsunami, photo: Bill Hackwell
Yesterday I had the good fortune of attending this massive protest that filled the plaza in front of the Argentinian Congress; it was too packed to count. With the setbacks in the standard of living, erosion of rights and growing poverty, since the election of right wing Javier Milei, this action was a statement to show that a determined fight is on and it is led by women. The demonstration was at least 95% women and LGBTQ people of all ages. It was clear to me that the long struggle to get abortion rights into Argentine law in December 2020 was not about to go backwards just because of the arrival of this reactionary, anti abortion, anti human president. It is a lesson to the people of the US, who recently lost federal protection to abortion rights by a medieval Supreme Court, that a united struggle that stays in the streets and disallows business as usual is essential.– Editor, Resumen in English from Buenos Aires (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 7, 2024
Chavez – the heart of my country. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Venezuela is beginning the presidential election race as the country marks the passing of Comandante Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan National Electoral Council issued the announcement on Tuesday, March 5, exactly 11 years after the Venezuelan leader’s death after losing his battle with cancer. (more…)