By Alma Muñoz and Néstor Jiménez on December 11, 2024 from Mexico City
Claudia Sheinbaum
In view of the appointment of the next U.S. ambassador to Mexico, retired Colonel Ronald D. Johnson, former CIA officer and former member of special forces of the army, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo assured that “with this ambassador or with others we will defend our sovereignty, our condition of equality and we will collaborate and cooperate in everything that is required, but always in the interest of the people of Mexico and the nation.” (more…)
By Arnold August on December 4, 2024
While genocide is a clear cause of the democrats’ defeat, economic issues are usually mentioned. What lingers behind the significance of the “it’s the economy” narrative? (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 11, 2024
On Tuesday, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected “in the most categorical terms” the so-called “Act to not recognize stolen trademarks in the United States”, recently signed by outgoing President Joe Biden. In yet another further attempt to strengthen the almost century-old blockade, the White House announced this new political move to widen the theft of authentic Cuban trademarks registered in that North American country. (more…)
By Stella Calloni on December 10, 2024 from Buenos Aires
Argentine pensioners protest Milei’s austerity
Today marks one year since the inauguration of President Javier Milei, of the ultra-right alliance La Libertad Avanza (LLA). The situation is worsening and the permanent lying and falsification of data and figures are denounced every day by the alternative press, because the ruler, who considers himself as a “mole infiltrated to destroy the national State from within”, has under his control most of the local mass media, (more…)
By Elson Concepción Pérez on December 9, 2024
Syrian terrorist groups taking over Damascus. Photo via The New Arab
I have read in the media, and in some blogs of the so-called social networks, all kinds of analysis about the Syrian collapse. In some cases they seem to me markedly disqualified by their superficial and absolute subjective judgments on the government of Bashar al-Assad, and also on the confrontation or not with the armed groups that in 13 days occupied power in the Arab country, without much resistance. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on December 9, 2024 (RHC)
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez today condemned through the X account the Israeli army’s occupation of the demilitarized strip in the occupied Syrian Golan, established in the 1974 Separation Agreement. (more…)
By Resumen Latinoamericano on December 07, 2024.
photo: Bill Hackwell
Human rights organizations have expressed their “deep concern” about the latest armed attacks in communities in the municipality of Pantelhó, in the Highlands of Chiapas, which have caused forced displacements of over 3,000 of the Tseltal and Tsotsil population, as well as psycho-social impacts, especially on children, due to the generalized “terror”. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on December 9, 2024
Yamandu Orsi
On November 24, the Broad Front won a victory that many assumed was impossible. The old specter of a potentially triumphant right-wing weighed heavily. The alliance between all the right-wing parties in the second round made the center-left foresee a negative outcome. (more…)