Bob Menendez, a Corrupt Man in the U.S. Senate

By Deisy Francis Mexidor on September 23, 2023

photo: EFE

New Jersey Democratic lawmaker and fervent hater of Cuba, Robert “Bob” Menendez’s dirty laundry has finally caught up with him and forced him to resign as chairman of the influential U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (more…)

Cuban President Pays Tribute to Malcolm X in Harlem

By Deisy Francis Mexidor on September 19, 2023 from New York City

photo: Deisy Francis Mexidor

“We have come to honor Malcolm X and, with him, to pay tribute to our African-American brothers and sisters, to the people of the United States, to those who fight for justice, against exploitation and segregation. To all those who believe, like Malcolm, that a better world is possible.” (more…)

Cuban Reporters Denounce US Delay in Visa Issuance

By Yosley Carrero on May 20, 2022

Deisy Francis, photo: Bill Hackwell

Cuban journalist Ibis Frade has been waiting for more than two years for a U.S. entry visa to be granted to her by the U.S. embassy in Havana. The 33-year-old, who had been working as a United Nations correspondent for Cuba’s Prensa Latina news agency since November 2017, came to the Caribbean nation for a month-long vacation in December 2019. Yet she has been unable to return for work at the UN headquarters in New York as she has not received any response concerning her visa application. (more…)

Ricardo Alarcón and his Battle for the Five Cuban Anti-Terrorists

By Deisy Francis Mexidor on May 2, 2022 from Havana

Ricardo Alarcon

Photo: Bill Hackwell

The story of the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorists, who served long and arbitrary sentences in the United States for defending their country against attacks being organized in Miami, would be incomplete without mentioning the diplomat and revolutionary Ricardo Alarcon, who died Sunday in Havana. (more…)

Uprising in the US is Demanding more than Reform

By Deisy Mexidor Francis on June 19, 2020

Photo: Bill Hackwell

Prensa Latina interview with Resumen Latinoamericano in English co-editor Bill Hackwell (more…)

Peoples of the World Defend the Sovereignty of Venezuela

Call to Respect the Sovereignty of the People of Venezuela 

Given the unjustified pretentions of the empire and its lackeys to ignore the elections that took place on May 20, 2018 in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and the start of the new presidential term of Nicolás Maduro, (more…)

‘Latin America is Experiencing an Onslaught of the Neoliberal Past’ an Interview with Rafael Correa

By Deisy Francis Mexidor on May 27, 2018

Rafael Correa is charismatic man who knows how to communicate. Two qualities that helped him to reach the presidency of Ecuador in 2007, a nation that up to that point had been on unstable political ground. (more…)

The Cuban 5 on Robben Island: A Tribute to Mandela

By Deisy Francis Mexidor on June 25, 2015

Photo: Prensa Latina

Photo: Prensa Latina

Gerardo Hernandez, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and René Gonzalez visited the island where Mandela was imprisoned and paid tribute to his example of the triumph of human spirit over adversity
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