By Randy Alonso Falcón on March 24, 2024
With total cynicism, the U.S. government and its embassy in Havana tried to dissociate themselves from the real and deep causes that led to last Sunday’s popular protests in some Cuban neighborhoods. “The United States is not behind the protests and these accusations are absurd”, said the State Department spokesman, while the diplomatic legation urged the Cuban government to attend to “the legitimate needs of the Cuban people”. (more…)
By Valerio Arcary, Resumen Latinoamericano, March 22, 2024.
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After the summer of 2024, the fate of the coalition government led by Lula remains uncertain. The evolution of the judicial investigations on the coup is cornering bolsonarismo, after the testimonies of the Army and Air Force commanders. But the extreme right maintains a counter-offensive after the neo-fascist avalanche on Paulista Avenue, seeking a position of strength in the streets to influence the Congress. (more…)
By Randy Alonso Falcón on March 23, 2024
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In a dispute in which veteran contenders fail to win the approval of majorities, Artificial Intelligence aims to be the real star of the US election show this 2024. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti, Resumen Latinoamericano, March 21, 2024.
May 1, 2022, Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is once again in the spotlight, in the center of a media pillory that periodically repeats itself with the same pattern: people protest, socialism has failed, the “dictatorship” does not respect human rights, etcetera. A script that, as historian Ernesto Limia writes in his book “Homeland and Culture in Revolution”, did not begin with the victory of the revolution, on January 1, 1959. (more…)
By Carola Chávez on March 20, 2024
Indigenous people in Delta Amacuro state of Venezuela hold posters that read “Maduro is my candidate” and “Hope is in the streets.” Photo: X/GobLizeta.
At first, Nicolás became my candidate because I knew that Chávez knew. And Chávez told us, in that heartbreaking moment, when we felt the ground opening beneath our feet, that Nicolás was the one who was going to lead us safely through the storm that Chávez did not doubt would come. (more…)
By Stephen Sefton on March 19, 2024
Haiti, photo: DW
The zionist genocide of the Palestinian people and the political and socio-economic crisis in Haiti both have their origins in their respective episodes of destructive foreign intervention in the first decades of the last century. Of course, the historical background also has some aspects in common. (more…)
By: Laura Mor on March 20, 2024 from Havana
Graciela Ramirez, editor of Resumen in Cuba. photo Yaimi Ravelo
The interactive room of Pabexpo was the appropriate scenario for the presentation of the international communication platform Resumen Latinoamericano, in the context of the third edition of the International Colloquium “Patria”. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 19, 2024 from Havana
My Country, Better Without the Blockade. Photo: Bill Hackwell
This past Sunday, a group of Cubans took to the streets of Santiago de Cuba, in the east of the island, to show their dissatisfaction with the economic situation in the country. In recent weeks, fuel shortages have caused long hours of scheduled blackouts, especially in that city, which, along with food shortages and salaries strongly affected by inflation, have turned the daily life of Cubans into an odyssey of frustration. (more…)