By Alejandra Garcia on October 13, 2022 from Havana
Cuban President Diaz Canel, helps remove Hurricane Ian debris in Pinar del Rio, photo: Alejandro Azcuy Dominguez
Fifteen days after the passage of Hurricane Ian through western Cuba, authorities, technicians, neighbors, and entire communities are continuing to work tirelessly to reestablish the services most demanded by the population, and much remains to be done. This territory is today the epicenter of the recovery efforts amid the devastation and pain. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on October 11, 2022
On Sunday the inhabitants of the Venezuelan community of Las Tejerías lived through a sudden and devastating tragedy. After several days of heavy rains, the community located in the municipality of Santos Michelena, in the state of Aragua, suffered landslides in 21 sectors of the area, leaving dozens of homes and families buried under the mud. (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…)
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 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…)