October 14, 2025
Venezuela’s Embassy in Oslo after it was closed on Oct. 13. Fredrik Varfjel/AFP
On Monday, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry announced that it has begun the first phase of a comprehensive restructuring of its foreign service, ordering the closure of its embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia.“As part of the strategic reallocation of resources, the closure of the embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia has been ordered,” the ministry said in a statement. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez, Roger D. Harris and John Perry on October 14, 2025
image: Depositphotos
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.” (more…)
By David Bacon on October 1, 2025
Tina Modotti [publicity still as “Rosa Carilla” in “Riding with Death”, 1921, photographer unknown]
By Emir Olivares Alonso on October 14, 2025 from Mexico City
delegates from 35 countries demand an end to the blockade of Cuba.
Dozens of delegates from 35 countries demanded that the United States government and Congress end the “genocidal” economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba. (more…)
By Adolfo Pérez Esquivel on October 14, 2025
Adolfo Esquivel, foto: Bill Hackwell
I send you greetings of peace and goodwill, which humanity and the peoples living in poverty, conflict, war, and hunger so desperately need. This open letter is to express and share some thoughts with you. (more…)
October 12, 2025 from Havana
Fidel speaking at the UN for the second time, October 12, 1979
On October 12, 1979, in the “20th Year of Victory” for the Cuban people, Fidel returned to the same United Nations chamber where two decades earlier he had delivered his legendary four-hour speech, the longest in the history of this international organization. On this occasion, he addressed the audience as president of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to present the results of its Sixth Summit, which had just been held in Havana. Would the Cuban leader be able to deliver a speech as significant as the first time? (more…)
By William Serafino October 13, 2025
Resumen is running this article to give a different angle of the possible direction that the imperial intentions of the Trump Administration might go in its aggression against Venezuela. While tensions remain high and no matter what comes next it must be remembered that the end goal for the empire is to end the Bolivarian Revolution of Chavez that has continued under the leadership of Maduro. – editor (more…)
By Ivan Restrepo on October 13, 2025
Migration is neither a recent phenomenon nor unique to a particular part of the world. foto: AFP
In February 1947, Eleanor Roosevelt, writer and activist, and wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945); Peng Chun Chang, Chinese scholar, philosopher, human rights activist, and diplomat; and Charles Habib Malik, Lebanese scholar, diplomat, and philosopher, began drafting what would become known a year later as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was adopted by the countries that were part of the nascent United Nations (UN). It was a response to the “acts of barbarism outrageous to the conscience of mankind” committed during World War II. The declaration was signed at the Chaillot Palace in Paris. (more…)