By Alejandra Garcia on January 2, 2025 from Havana
Cienfuegos chess match, photo: Bill Hackwell
Twenty-one artillery blasts marked the beginning of the new year in Havana, Cuba, a tradition that for exactly two decades has also heralded the arrival of a new anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. Twenty-one cannon shots could be heard in almost every corner of the capital, in a solemn ceremony, as required by military regulations, and as a reminder that, no matter how difficult the circumstances may be, year after year, the country stands firm. (more…)
By Gustavo Veiga on January 2, 2024
Trump and Rubio, photo: Estrategia
In the foreign policy dialogue to be implemented by Marco Rubio, the new US Secretary of State, there is no room for subtleties. He is a hawk and does not bother to hide it. He said it recently, “Under President Trump’s leadership, we will deliver peace through strength.” Not the other way around, as a Gandhian or Mandela principle on the power of peace would indicate. Hispanic, son of Cubans, the Republican senator is a genuine political product of Florida. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on January 2, 2025 from Havana
Fidel and Jimmy Carter at the funeral of Pierre Trudeau. photo: National Post
On October 3, 2000, the first face-to-face meeting between Fidel Castro and James Carter took place. The Cuban leader and the former U.S. president were attending the funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the father of Canada’s current prime minister, at the Basilica of Notre Dame in old Montreal. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on January 2, 2024
Crisis or exceptional situations are a constant in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), not an alteration of a supposed normality we never knew in this, the most unjust continent in the world. And, for the record, the closest to “American Rome”, as Martí called U.S. imperialism. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on January 1, 2025.
photo: Bill Hackwell
The year that ended once again tested the resistance and strength of Cubans, in the midst of the tightening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade, reinforced by the administration of Joe Biden, continuation of the policy of maximum pressure imposed by Donald Trump, and more than 60 years of U.S. economic warfare against Cuba. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on December 31, 2024
The decline of the European Union began with the establishment of neoliberal policies. photo: AFP.
Western Europe is reluctant to admit NATO’s military defeat in Ukraine, while vacillating over its place in the new global order that has the Russian Federation as a central player alongside China and the Brics+. The changes are happening with a speed that the traditional institutionality of the colonizing countries is unable to process sensibly and sanely. (more…)
By Resumen Latinoamericano editorial on December 31, 2024.
journalist in Palestine, an example of what communication means in times of barbarism.
With accumulated pain and sadness due to the monstrous provocations of imperialism, but also with the satisfaction that we feel continuance of the emerging signs of resistance and struggle, we reach the end of a very difficult year. (more…)
By David Brooks on December 30, 2024
Oakland California, Dec. 30, 2025. photo: Bill Hackwell
“Hot soup over a campfire under the bridge / The line for the shelter goes all the way around / Welcome to the new world order / Families sleeping in their cars in the Southwest / No home, no jobs, no peace, no rest” (excerpt from Bruce Springsteen’s The Ghost of Tom Joad ). (more…)