By Alejandra Garcia on February 5, 2023, from Havana
31st Int. book fair to open in Havana Feb. 9
Cuba and Colombia are once again forging closer ties of brotherhood after the nefarious years of the right-wing Ivan Duque. This week, it was news that the island will dedicate its emblematic Havana International Book Fair to the South American nation as a sign of peace and respect. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 31, 2023
In the 2000s, a vulture fund succeeded in driving Argentina out of the international markets, preventing it from accessing them for 12 years. The case transcended as Argentina versus Elliott Management Corporation, a group of investors that won a lawsuit against Buenos Aires in 2002 and, in 2012, even seized the Libertad frigate, the flagship of the Argentine Navy. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 24, 2023
Maduro addresses thousands of Venezuelans on day of democracy.
“As of today, every January 23 we will commemorate the victory of the people of Venezuela against Yankee imperialism and its defeated coup d’état,” Nicolás Maduro said Monday to a rally of people who gathered to demand an end of sanctions imposed by the United States and for bringing to justice those who plundered the country’s funds for their own benefit. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 19, 2023
17 dead in Juliaca
Today protestors against Peru’s unelected president, Dina Boluarte, began flooding into Lima after a month and a half of social unrest that has left more than 50 dead, mainly at the hands of police forces. The demonstrators, mostly farmers from the south of the country, spent the night on some university campuses and intend to march to the center of the capital while the state agents are trying to encircle their perimeter. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 15, 2023
Jose Pertierra, photo: Bill Hackwell
On January 9, U.S. President Joe Biden announced new immigration measures for Cuba in an attempt to contain the crisis that has persisted on the southern border with Mexico since the era of his predecessor Donald Trump. The initiatives explicitly seek to discourage illegal migration of Cubans to the United States, while allowing a limited number of Cubans to enter the country under the so-called parole process. At the same time, those who do not qualify will be expelled. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 10, 2023 from Havana
Antonio Mella statue near the University of Havana. photo: Bill Hackwell
Ninety-four years ago today, Cuban communist leader Julio Antonio Mella was assassinated in Mexico City by the Cuban dictatorship of Gerardo Machado. He was just 26 years old at the time, and had already written dozens of progressive texts, initiated several student organizations and founded the Cuban Communist Party that prevails and honors his legacy. Resumen Latinoamericano traveled the streets of Cuba’s capital in search of his memory. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 5, 2023 from Havana
US embassy in Havana, photo: Bill Hackwell
Yesterday the US embassy in Cuba resumed a limited immigrant visa process after nearly six years without consular services. The administration of the nefarious Donald Trump (2017-2021) closed the headquarters and reduced its employees under the pretext of alleged acoustic attacks against its diplomats, a theory almost taken out of a fiction book that was discarded by scientists and official reports. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 3, 2023
Lula inaugurated by ordinary Brazilians. photo: Lela-Beltrao
Inequality, prejudice, racism. These were the words most often used by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to describe the condition he is receiving of his country after four years of the nefarious Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil is in pain. It doesn’t forget the hundreds of thousands of deaths left by the Covid-19 and the mismanagement of the former government, nor the high rates of poverty and violence that skyrocketed since 2019. (more…)