April 4, 2024
Associated Press (AP) interview with Johana Tablada, Cuban Deputy Director General for the United States at MINREX by reporter Andrea Rodriguez. (more…)
By Alfred de Zayas and John Perry on April 3, 2024
2018, armed right-wing thugs seeking the overthrow of the Nicaraguan government burn down Radio Ya. Photo: Tortilla con Sal.
When the United Nations sets up a “commission of inquiry,” it can result in a powerful analysis of violations of human rights law, such as the one appointed in 2021 to examine Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and its Apartheid practices. But other commissions can become political platforms aimed at demonizing a particular government by crafting narratives that give the semblance of objectivity, while suppressing all evidence that contradicts the prevailing geopolitical consensus. (more…)
By Raúl Kollmann on April 3, 2024
Gen. Laura Richardson, photo: Pg 12
The head of the U.S. Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, will land this Tuesday in Buenos Aires. The visit is usual. She arrived in the country in 2022 and met with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; in 2023, with the Minister of Defense, Jorge Taiana. This time, the main host will be the Chief of Cabinet, Nicolás Posse, to whom President Javier Milei entrusted the new carnal relations of the government with the United States. (more…)
From the Network in Defense of Humanity on April 3, 2024
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, counts among its enormous achievements to be the country that has held the most democratic elections in all of Latin America and the Caribbean, whose transparency has not been able to be refuted. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti, Resumen Latinoamericano, April 2, 2024.
Alex Saab
Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab, was acquitted of all charges by Florida Judge Robert Scola. The sentence, reported by the media, followed the pardon signed by U.S. President Joseph Biden on December 15, 2023. On December 20, Saab was released after a prisoner exchange with the United States. (more…)
By Caroline Oliveira on April 1, 2024
Military personnel during a student protest against the military dictatorship – Arquivo Nacional/Ministério da Gestão e Inovação Social
The Brazilian transition from the civil-military dictatorship to the New Republic in the 1990s could have been a period to revise the authoritarianism embedded in the country’s society since its formation. However, the authoritarian traits – boosted during the dictatorship – are legacies Brazil has to this day. (more…)
By William LeoGrande on April 2, 2024
The US has a history of harboring anti Cuba terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles. photo: Bill Hackwell
Trying to make sense of U.S. policy toward Cuba is like trying to make sense of a play in the theater of the absurd. The rationales offered by the policy’s defenders make no sense, and when they try to explain, they sound like characters in an Ionesco play. Recent legislative proposals from Cuban American members of the House of Representatives are prime examples. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on April 1, 2024
photo: Abel Padron Padilla
Artificial intelligence is neither intelligent nor artificial. The booming technology of machine learning produces forms of knowledge unheard of in human history, but it is not based on artifice or on the intelligence of robots, but on the work of specific human beings: artists, musicians, programmers, writers, designers, audiovisual producers…, whose creative and professional work is appropriated by a handful of companies. (more…)