By Aram Aharonian on August 14, 2023
far right economist Javier Milei,
Argentines never cease to surprise: on a wintry but sunny Sunday, they put the recycled bipartisanship in intensive care in the Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory (PASO) elections, when the ultra-right-wing Javier Milei, until two years ago a TV panelist, became the chosen character to reset the system. The outsider won and all the rest lost. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 13, 2023 from Havana
Fidel Castro Center, photo: Bill Hackwell
On August 13, Cuba honors Fidel. Newspapers, TV, and radio stations feature his enormous life that is synonymous with our freedom . Cuba remembers the birthday of the man who led a Revolution “bigger than ourselves,” who in his 20 years took up arms, along with a small group of other brave men, to change the fate of a country in favor of the most oppressed. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on August 11, 2023
The obelisk in the center of Buenos Aires. photo: Nuevo Diario.
The recent repressions against social movements in the province of Jujuy and in the city of Buenos Aires can be compared to a repetition of the violence, terror and disappearances of men, women and children suffered by Argentines prior to the 1976-1983 civil-military dictatorship. (more…)
Resumen Latinoamericano joins the hundreds of organizations and individuals around the world working on a new campaign to collect 1 million signatures demanding the US:
Take Cuba off the State Sponsors of Terrorism list and end the blockade of Cuba!
Sign the petition here and pass it on to all the people you know and work with
For more than 60 years, the US government has pursued a hostile policy against Cuba with the clear political intent to isolate the Cuban people through a cruel and inhumane blockade. In the midst of the pandemic, the Trump administration sought to further damage the Cuban economy not only by reinforcing the blockade with 243 new sanctions, but also by including Cuba on the of State Sponsors of Terrorism list. This designation has prevented Cuba from doing transactions using international banking systems and from acquiring necessary goods on the international market, such as fuel, food, construction supplies, hygiene products, and medicine. (more…)
By Margaret Kimberly on August 10, 2023
It was always about the oil. United States assertions that the government of elected president Nicolas Maduro was illegitimate were always a ruse needed to get U.S. corporate hands on Venezuela’s oil company, CITGO. (more…)
By Ana Hurtado on August 9, 2023
Charlie Chaplin, a victim of the witch hunt
History is selective because it has always been written by those in power. We have witnessed centuries of official discourse in which we have been handed down generation after generation what has been chosen to remain in history. Who have been the great winners, who have lost. And until recently we humans believed and nodded our heads without questioning anything. (more…)
August 10, 2023.
Fernando Villavicencio
In response to the assassination of Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio while campaigning yesterday, former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa claimed that “Ecuador has become a failed state. Those who seek to sow even more hatred with this new tragedy, I hope they understand that it only continues to destroy us.” (more…)
By José Luis Méndez Méndez on August 9, 2023
photo: Prensa Latina
The fascist groups within the terrorists of Cuban origin immediately allied with the September 1971 Chilean coup plotters and set out to serve them with the knowledge acquired from their CIA training and the skill achieved in decades of exercising terror as a method of achieving their objectives. (more…)