By Jemima Pierre on May 22, 2024
Sec. of State Antony Blinken meets with Kenya’s President William Ruto on Sept. 21, 2023, in New York. photo: Jason DeCrow, AP
The US is behind the multinational military invasion and occupation of Haiti. How did we get here? (more…)
By Gabriel Brito on May 14, 2024
Flooding in Rio Grande do Sul. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert
Floods in the Rio Grande do Sul region of Brazil call for immediate interventions to tackle health effects and long-term mental health repercussions. Calls to implement a National Environmental Health Policy increase among researchers and activists (more…)
By John Kirk and Stephen Kimber on May 15, 2024
Margaret Trudeau smiles as Cuban leader Fidel Castro holds her youngest son Michel after the Trudeaus arrived in Havana on January 26, 1976. Photo by Fred Chartrand/CP.
Havana syndrome’ and Trudeau-as-the-son-of-Fidel non-stories are only the latest erroneous claims promoted to discredit Cuba (more…)
By Yaimi Ravelo on May 21, 2024 from Havana
photos: Yaimi Ravelo
The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity, together with a team from Resumen Latinoamericano and a group of Palestinian students studying medicine in Cuba, paid a somber visit of respect, on Tuesday, to the Embassy of Iran to sign the book of condolences to honor Ibrahim Raisi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and his companions, who died last Sunday, May 19, in an unfortunate plane crash. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on April 26, 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni confirmed Italy’s commitment to NATO after she met with Sec. General Jens Stoltenberg.
“Look to your future”. With this slogan, accompanied by a poster showing a soldier wielding a rifle, ready for war, the Italian army carries out propaganda in schools, while involving primary school students in visits to barracks and war games. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on May 21, 2024
Luis Abinader, and his wife Raquel Arbaje Soneh react after the preliminary results of the presidential election, in Santo Domingo, photo: Henry Romero, Reuters
On Sunday, presidential elections were held in the Dominican Republic, giving the victory to the incumbent president, Luis Abinader, who is heading for a second term full of challenges. Social debts and marked inequalities persist in the country, amid a deficient health care system, along with the expansion of the informal economy, while overall poverty stands at 23.0 % and extreme poverty at 3.2 %. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on May 21, 2024
Southern Command head Laura Richardson
Between June 13 and 15, the G7 Leaders Summit, the organization responsible for the neo-colonial and financialist policies implemented at a global level, will be held in the Apulia region, in Italy. (more…)
May 20, 2024
Javier Milei
In Madrid this past weekend, the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, referred to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez as a “scumbag” and referred to Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, as “corrupt.” As a result, Spain has recalled its Ambassador to Argentina until further notice. (more…)