By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 11, 2023
Henry Kissinger, – getty images
Henry Kissinger, who will not rest in peace, proposed in 1976 to bomb Havana, subject the city to a naval blockade and mine Cuba’s ports. He fantasized about it seriously, according to documents declassified almost a decade ago and published by Peter Kornbluh, a researcher at George Washington University’s National Security Archive. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 13, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza. Perhaps more than any other region, they have expressed their solidarity with Palestine. Most recognize that the partnership between US imperialism and Israeli Zionism applies not only to Palestine, but also to Israel’s role as attendant to US domination in this hemisphere. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on December 10, 2023
Ursula von der Leyen meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu
The genocide of the Palestinian people was recalled several times in the analyses of the Anti-imperialist Congress that closed in Caracas and that had as its theme the contrast between Bolivarianism and Monroism throughout history, that is, in confrontation between the struggle of the peoples for independence and imperialism, in colonial and neocolonial form. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 12, 2023 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
This January 1st Cuba will celebrate 65 years since the triumph of the Revolution of 1959 led by Fidel and a group of valuable men and women, for whom the gratitude of the Cuban people remains intact. Today, Resumen Latinoamericano honors that victory through three women whose lives, although they lived in different historical periods, have the Revolution as a common thread. They are my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and my mother. (more…)
By Fernando Buen Abad on December 10, 2023
Without an organized cultural and communicational community, our best decolonizing intentions are only islands of “good intentions”, perhaps erudite, ingenious or passionate. There is no correct praxis without correct organization. (more…)
By Luis Alberto Quevedo on December 11, 2023
Milei’s inauguration, photo: Bernardino Avila
Yesterday, Javier Milei’s intense life as a panelist came to an end and his new life as President of the Nation begins. Now his words and diagnoses will have to become government actions. For this reason, his first speech in front of the Legislative Assembly, at the very moment this mutation was taking place aroused so much interest. (more…)
By Susana Tesoro on December 10, 2023 from Havana
Seventy-five years have passed this December 10, since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was established by the United Nations. One could ask the UN where are the rights of the thousands of children, women, of the Palestinian people, murdered, or those of so many Cubans who today suffer the scarcity of food and medicine due to the genocidal blockade of the United States. (more…)
By Tala Alayli on December 5, 2023
illustration: Zeinab Elhajj
Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
-Fidel Castro (more…)