By Alejandra Garcia on December 31, 2023 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
This January 1st, Cubans mark the beginning of a new year full of hopes, full of challenges, and we will wait for this 2024 as usual, with our families, in a peaceful country. But we will also celebrate that January 1, 1959, when our people woke up to the news they had been longing for for centuries: The Revolution, the definitive Revolution led by Fidel, had won. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 26, 2023
Exodus from Poverty moves North
On Christmas Eve, a caravan of close to 10,000 migrants from dozens of nationalities began its journey from Mexico’s southern border northward up the American continent. It is possibly the largest this year and comes just days before a high-level U.S. delegation visits Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to discuss new measures to contain migration in the region. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on December 19, 2023
The challenges on the road to real democracy in Chile are evident. For the second time, the majority of the Chilean people rejected a proposal to replace the current Constitution, drafted during the bloody dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1974-1990). (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 13, 2023 from Havana
The end of 2023 is approaching and while Cuban families prepare to welcome in the New Year, actions are committed to tarnish the celebrations, thus causing pain and death. Cuban authorities foiled a few days ago a plan of terrorist actions by Cubans living in the United States, which would presumably be carried out during the New Year’s holidays. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 12, 2023 from Havana
photo: Bill Hackwell
This January 1st Cuba will celebrate 65 years since the triumph of the Revolution of 1959 led by Fidel and a group of valuable men and women, for whom the gratitude of the Cuban people remains intact. Today, Resumen Latinoamericano honors that victory through three women whose lives, although they lived in different historical periods, have the Revolution as a common thread. They are my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and my mother. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 5, 2023
Iran and Cuba signed seven cooperation instruments that strengthen relations in the economic, health and scientific-technical areas, photo: Alejandro Azcuy
Cuba does not remain indifferent to the escalation of violence in the Middle East, a region suffering the direct consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In every scenario, the government of the Caribbean island loudly expresses its support for the Palestinian people and rejects the Zionist regime’s ongoing massacre in Gaza. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 30, 2023
Today world leaders will discuss climate change at COP28, this year’s UN world conference, where the voice of Cuba and the world’s most vulnerable peoples, represented in Group 77 plus China, will be present. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 19, 2023 from Havana
President Diaz Canel receives a keffiyeh from a Palestinian medical student.
In little more than a month, 12,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel, including 5,000 children, before the passive gaze of the governments of the world. It is the people of these countries who are protesting in large numbers for an end to the conflict that is leaving Palestine in ruins, in almost non-existent living conditions. (more…)