July 28, 2024
Martha Lucia Ramírez and Vicente Fox.
For the right-wing across Latin America and the Caribbean, the Venezuelan elections appear to be an existential threat. Ahead of the July 28 presidential elections, numerous political figures, former elected officials, and sitting authorities from conservative sectors of Latin American politics have united to condemn the ongoing electoral process underway in Venezuela (more…)
By Syara Salado Massip and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez on July 26, 2024 / Resumen Latinoamericano
photo: Victor Villalba Gutiérrez
The province of Sancti Spíritus, located in central Cuba, hosted the ceremony marking the 71st anniversary of the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez with photos by Yaimi Ravelo on July 26, 2024, from Caracas / Resumen Latinoamericano
The mere announcement of the appearance of the “gallo pinto” Nicolás Maduro on the gigantic stage installed on Bolívar Avenue, made the crowd that overflowed the length and breadth of that popular Caracas artery, and all the surrounding avenues and streets, tremble with joy.
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Por Bill Hackwell el 24 de Julio 2024 desde Washington, DC
fotos: Bill Hackwell
A pesar de enfrentarse a múltiples cuerpos de policía, llegados desde lugares tan lejanos como Nueva York, y a un Capitolio rodeado de pesadas vallas metálicas para proteger a un criminal de guerra, decenas de miles de decididos partidarios del pueblo palestino, procedentes de todo Estados Unidos, acudieron para decir no a la visita del genocida presidente israelí Benjamin Netanyahu, que estaba siendo recibido con los brazos abiertos por los especuladores de la guerra y la gran mayoría de los representantes demócratas y republicanos en el Congreso. (more…)
By Marina Menéndez Quintero on July 25, 2024
THINKING about the post-electoral scenario in Venezuela makes one fear moments of tension already latent and announced by a war of polls rarely seen in that country since the arrival of the Bolivarian process, and preceded by the reluctance of the right-wing Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) to assume the commitment to respect what the National Electoral Council (CNE) issues on Sunday night, voting day. (more…)
By Atilio Boron July 21, 2024, from Buenos Aires
Javier Milei
Javier Milei’s government is sliding Argentina towards a crisis of unprecedented proportions. An integral, multidimensional, multifaceted crisis. The unlikely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economics is sinking the main economic indicators to unprecedented levels. Activity indicators are falling, factories are running at half speed, retailers are seeing their sales plummet, inflation is far from being abated, the dollar is soaring, unemployment is growing uncontrollably and workers’ salaries, whether registered or precarious, as well as retirement and pension amounts, are collapsing month after month. All this is celebrated as a success by the exotic parishioners of the anarcho-capitalist sect and its unscrupulous beneficiaries. (more…)
July 20, 2024
Brazilian President Lula da Silva. Photo: X/@BRICSInfo.
US authorities monitored Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for five decades, amassing an enormous amount of data on his political and union activity, with at least 819 documents totaling 3,300 pages. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on July 24, 2024 from Washington, DC
photos: Bill Hackwell
Despite facing multiple police agencies, who came from as far away as New York, and a Capitol encased in heavy metal fences to protect a war criminal, tens of thousands of determined supporters of the Palestinian people, from around the US, came to say no to the visit of the genocidal Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, who was being welcomed with open arms by the war profiteers and the great majority of Democrat and Republican representatives in Congress. (more…)