By Hernando Calvo Ospina on October 8, 2022
In March 1967, some twenty men of the U.S. counterinsurgency special forces were installed in Bolivia, some of them transferred from South Vietnam. They were part of the Mobile Training Teams. They would be in charge of organizing and training a battalion of jungle “hunters”, an elite corps also known as “Rangers”. (more…)
By Andreína Chávez Alava on October 5, 2022 in Caracas
Agreement signed to renew peace talks in Caracas
Venezuela welcomed the resumption of peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group, calling it another step forward for regional stabilization. (more…)
Families of the Victims of Barbados, photo: Bill Hackwell
Today October 6, on occasion of the 46th anniversary of the Barbados Crime, Resumen Latinoamericano shares an interview with the daughter of the Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 co-pilot, Miguel Espinosa, one of the 73 innocent people, many of whom were children, killed in that terrorist attack that the Cuban people will never forget. Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, the CIA operatives who planned the bombing and many others, never were held accountable, in fact they bragged about it. (more…)
La Jornada editorial on Oct 4, 2022, from Mexico City
Last week, Hurricane Ian’s passage through the Caribbean left Cuba with deaths and enormous material destruction in the island’s infrastructure and agriculture, as well as the displacement of tens of thousands of victims; in addition, it caused the generalized collapse of the electrical system, which has been reestablishing itself with an agonizing and exasperating slowness. (more…)
By Alicia Blanco on October 6, 2022
photo: Alejandra Bartoliche, for Resumen Latinoamericano
In the early hours of this morning by order of the Ministry of National Security, a “unified command” made up of federal forces of prefecture, gendarmerie and federal police with the collaboration of the provincial police of Río Negro, advanced by land and air on the Mapuche community of Lafken Winkul Mapu in Lake Mascardi. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 4, 2022 from Havana
President Diaz-Canel in Pinar del Rio
On September 26, Cuba was hit by Hurricane Ian, which didn’t stop intensifying as it passed through the western part of the island where it hovered for hours. There it left a trail of pain and disaster in those areas that were very close to its center and in most of the territory that were hit by its bands of hurricane-force winds. Thousands of people were left in the dark after it knocked down trees and electric poles and caused failures in the main thermo electric plants of the country. (more…)
By Julián Gutiérrez Alonso on October 4, 2022
photo: Jose Manuel Correa
Since the beginning of the Revolution, as early as 1960, when Lester Mallory, in a report to President Eisenhower, told him, among other things, that the only thing that was going to bring down Fidel was the “war of despair”. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on October 4, 2022
The principal perpetrator, in what AP News called “one of the most extensive bribery scandals in US military history,” popped up in Venezuela of all places. Leonard Glenn Francis bilked the US Navy out of at least $35 million. (more…)