By Alejandra Garcia on March 27, 2023 in Havana
Yesterday Cuba lived a historic day during the national elections to vote for the new members of the tenth legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power, the highest legislative power in the country. (more…)
By Ollie Vargas on March 24, 2023
For the first time in Bolivia’s history, the country is now an exporter of electricity. As Europe struggles to keep the lights on, Bolivia’s nationalized electric company, ENDE, will provide Argentina with 132 thousand volts of electricity, announced Energy Minister Franklin Molina. (more…)
By Alicia Jrapko on March 24, 2021
Mothers of Plaza de Mayo protest at the presidential palace demanding accountability for their sons and daughters. Photo: Bill Hackwell
Friday March 24th marked another anniversary of the deadly 1976 US backed coup in Argentina, with people again in the streets yelling Nunca Mas!, never again. We are re-running this personal article written 2 years ago by Resumen in English founder and editor Alicia Jrapko, in what would be one of her last writings. – editor (more…)
By Natalia Marques on March 24, 2023
Couple Liuba and Lisset are married in October 2022, soon after the passage of the Family Code. photo: Belly of the Beast Cuba
Cuba passed one of the world’s most progressive codes on families on September 25, 2022. All in one go, the small island nation legalised same-sex marriage, defined and upheld the rights of children, the disabled, caregivers, the elderly, and redefined “family” along ties of affinity rather than blood. This opens the concept of “family” to include non-traditional forms of familial relations, which exist outside the model of the heterosexual nuclear family. (more…)
By Uki Goni on March 24, 2023 from Buenos Aires
Photograph: Giancarlo Ceraudo
Today marks the 47th anniversary of the bloody coup in Argentina – editorial
On the night of December 14, 1977, the three pilots flew their turboprop aeroplane more than an hour out over the Atlantic Ocean. The technical log they had completed on takeoff registered no passengers, but that was a lie: on the cabin floor behind them lay eight women and four men, tortured, drugged and barely conscious. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 23, 2023 from Havana
The Cuban people welcome Team Asere home. Photo: Ismael Francisco
The World Baseball Classic (WBC) between Cuba and the United States was hard to watch. We knew it would be a tough game to win, but for the first time in 17 years, the island was back in the semifinals, among the top four national teams in the world. (more…)
March 23, 2023
photo: Cristina Kirchner twitter
On Tuesday Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said that the judiciary, controlled by the oligarchy, had been using lawfare as a mechanism to persecute progressive political and social leaders in the country. (more…)
March 20, 2023
Cuban doctor working in remote area of Brazil
The Brazilian government relaunched on Monday ‘Mais Médicos’ (More Doctors), a program created during the administration of the leftist Dilma Rousseff to alleviate the lack of health professionals in poor and isolated areas, and which was neglected by the former ultra-right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, who was hostile towards the participation of Cuban doctors. (more…)