By José Luis Méndez Méndez on October 6, 2024
family members of those murdered in the bombing of the Cuban airliner. photo: Bill Hackwell
Almost half a century has passed since an avoidable crime went unpunished, and even with a long judicial process for more than eleven years in the Venezuelan justice system, justice was not brought to the 73 people who perished in the mid-air bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner off the coast of Barbados on October 6, 1976. For the Cuban people it remains an historical memory of pain that will never go away. (more…)
October 2, 2024
Greetings All,
photo: Bill Hackwell
On this Wrongful Conviction Day, Leonard Peltier, the longest-serving Indigenous political prisoner, is incarcerated in lockdown-modified operations conditions at USP Coleman I, operated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). (more…)
By Atilio Boron on October 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum
The powerful could not with AMLO, who took away many of their privileges and began to put an end to the plunder they had exercised for more than a century. Nor will they be able to with Claudia Sheinbaum. (more…)
By Ana Perdigón on October 2, 2024
Robert Serra, photo: Bill Hackwell
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has stated that the former president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, had hired a group of hitmen to assassinate the late Chavista revolutionary leader, Robert Serra. (more…)
By Yodeni Masó and Leslie Alonso Figueroa on October 2, from Beirut
the building that held a little piece of Cuba. photo: PL/ Yodeni Masó
The US – Israeli genocidal war is getting closer to home. This morning the building in Beirut where Resumen Latinoamericano’s Middle East correspondent Wafica Ibrahim lived was leveled by the IDF; fortunately she was not home at the time. – Editorial (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on October 2, 2024 from Havana
A dangerous war is being waged in the symbolic, in the realm of ideas, politics and psychology. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on October 1, 2024 from Havana
Death and destruction in Lebanon
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today denounced on his X account the incursions of the Israeli occupation army in the territory of southern Lebanon, and called for an end to the impunity of the Zionist aggression in the region. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 1, 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum Sworn in as President of Mexico, Photo: @TiempoDigitalMx
On Tuesday, Claudia Sheinbaum went down in Mexican history as the first woman president in 200 years of independence. Before presidents and other high-ranking officials from more than 100 countries and 22 international organizations, she promised to continue the legacy of her political mentor and predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, emphasizing the need to focus on addressing the poverty that affects 40% of Mexico’s 127 million people. (more…)