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…)
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 Alejandra Garcia on September 29, 2022 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is slowly rising from the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, which left desolate images in the western part of the country. Fallen trees and power lines crossed in the streets are part of the scene of many of the communities that felt the force of its winds, especially Pinar del Río. It is also very common to see the same neighbors cutting down trees with axes in hand, sweeping the streets, piling up the leaves that are already beginning to dry on the pavement. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia, 8am, September 26, 2022, from Havana
photo: Granma
Cuba dawned today with great expectation for the long-awaited news: The Family Code will be law, after the majority of Cubans supported the document during the popular Referendum held on Sunday. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 20, 2022
Cristina Fernandez
Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a few days away from surviving death by good fortune, is fighting with all her strength against a fictitious corruption case conceived and built by the ultra-right wing of her country. Hatred, political persecution, and injustice took her to court this week, where she has been victorious so far. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 13, 2022, from Havana
Eusebio Leal, photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba has much to thank Eusebio Leal, who was, until his death, one of the men who most traveled, studied, and loved our country. Wherever he scratched, life from the past reappeared: from the most emblematic work of architecture of Old Havana to the most humble of the surrounding community buildings. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 6, 2022, from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
Cuba is immersed in preparations for its most important civic event in years: the Families Code referendum. On September 25, the island will decide on the approval of this document, which was reviewed and discussed by all communities and institutions in the country beginning back in early February. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on September 1, 2022
University of Havana students. photo: Roberto Suarez
The pandemic has had devastating effects on every aspect of people’s lives, but one of the worst ones was that it forced tens of billions of children and young people around the world out of schools. They were a population at moderate risk of having severe symptoms of COVID-19, but they still got sick. Many died despite medical efforts or infected the most vulnerable at home. (more…)