By Pedro Jorge Velázquez on January 18, 2022
photo: Bill Hackwell
There are failures that I guess you get a taste for, or how can it be possible for the defeated to regenerate into new forms of failure? Are they guided by that feeling that someday it will work out, after trying so hard? (more…)
January 18, 2022
image: Lacoste
Republican President Ronald Reagan created the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in 1983, which along with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has functioned as an economic arm of the United States government’s interventionist policies, financing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and foundations disguised with names citing very laudable values like democracy and freedom, which in fact seek to change governments that do not subordinate themselves to Washington’s policies. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 18, 2022
Guantanamo, photo: Bill Hackwell
“The United States is violating the law by maintaining the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba as a prison, where most of the inmates are being held without criminal charges,” said attorney Thomas B. Wilner categorically during a conversation with this reporter via video call. (more…)
By José (Papo) Coss on January 12, 2022
MST school in Brazil, photo: Bill Hackwell
In the last decades, progressive social and political movements have successfully made inroads in the electoral activity of our continent, with its ups and downs. However, we cannot let our guard down, given our impressive advances of the last four years. (more…)
By Leonardo Flores on January 14, 2022
Luis Almagro photo:Alamy News
The Organization of American States (OAS) has never been a friend to the peoples of the Americas. This institution, ostensibly a space for multilateralism, has instead always been a tool for the U.S. Department of State. As Fidel Castro said in 1962, it is nothing but the U.S. Ministry of Colonies. That is truer now than ever before under the leadership of Secretary General Luis Almagro, who has been at the helm since March 2015. He is quite possibly the worst leader since the OAS was founded in 1948. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 16, 2022
2022 marked a new path of brotherhood and cooperation between Nicaragua and China. On January 10, just one month after the two countries re-established diplomatic relations, Presidents Daniel Ortega and Xi Jinping announced Managua’s adherence to China’s Belt and Road initiative. (more…)
By Gustavo A. Maranges on January 14, 2022
protest outside overcrowded prison in Chowchilla California. photo: Bill Hackwell
In the first part of this article, we went over the ongoing hypocritical accusation of high-ranking United States officials against Cuba for allegedly holding over 600 political prisoners after the July 11 protests. It is remarkable the way that the US, together with its allies inside the island, have manipulated this topic to create a false image of revenge by the Cuban government, and to promote the idea of a country with zero liberties. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on January 13, 2022
Bill Hackwell and Alicia Jrapko
Two days ago, I lost my life partner Alicia Jrapko, founding editor of Resumen in English. She fought a long battle with cancer with the same determination that characterized her life. Her family and I will carry the sadness of her premature departure forever, but we will also be better for the inspiration she left in each of us both, individually and collectively. If you read the beautiful statement we published yesterday, by Graciela Ramirez, editor of Cuba En Resumen, and Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban 5, you will get a picture of Alicia’s full life that, succinctly put, was one of struggle for a better world with a focus on Latin America.
Alicia touched so many people with her calm leadership style and inclusiveness, along with her infectious smile. She was one of those people that you loved to be around and I expected a considerable response when word of her death came out of Cuba; I just didn’t expect it to be the avalanche that it is turning out to be. I have received messages from all over from the many different types of people she touched. From the Cuban president to scores of Cuba solidarity activists and organizations around the world, to our mail delivery worker and neighbors, and Alicia’s young grandson who ran through our front door Wednesday morning looking for his Abi.
Alicia, who was a university journalism major in Argentina before she had to flee the military dictatorship in 1976, fulfilled her dream by becoming the founder and inspiration behind Resumen in English in 2015. The original concept was, and still is, to bring news and analysis primarily from Latin America-based journalists, scholars, and activists to counter the lies of mainstream media and describe the impact imperialism has had on the region for generations.
That was seven years ago. Since its founding Resumen in English has seen steady growth in readership and followers. In the last year we have been able to add two young Cuban journalists and correspondents in Argentina. It has been an accomplishment that can be traced directly back to Alicia.
As the other editor and her companion, I made a commitment and promise to Alicia that I would do everything I could to keep Resumen in English going. It is a personal and political honor for me to do just that.
Many people who know Alicia have asked what they could do to honor her memory. Two ways you can honor Alicia’s work are to circulate Resumen to friends and colleagues and/or make a financial contribution here in her name.