Today we look at the Chilean students’ movement, which led last year’s massive citizen democracy movement — the largest protests since the days of opposition marches to General Augusto Pinochet a generation ago.
Read MoreCuba’s welcome announcement of the end of the exit visa travel restriction poses two challenges to the Obama Administration.
Read MoreIf at the end of this story we succeed in establishing a social-democratic order in Cuba, I think we will have achieved much more than what lofty rhetoric holds.
Read MoreBeginning January 14, 2013, Cuba will allow its citizens to travel abroad without first obtaining exit permits, a key, and long awaited reform of President Raul Castro. They will be able to leave the island with a valid passport and visa from the country of destination.
Read MoreA standoff is underway in Texas over construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run oil from the Canadian tar sands fields to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast.
Read MoreMost Cubans knew the risks that were being run. They tell me that the thousands of children born in Cuba in July 1963 were known as “the sons and daughters of the crisis” among Cubans who had thought the world was on the verge of ending.
Read MoreFIFA president Joseph Blatter will personally request explanations from Cuban sports authorities over the defection of three to four players before the qualifying match against Canada in Toronto last Friday.
Read MoreSpanish politician Angel Carromero, 27, was sentenced to four years in jail in Cuba over the traffic accident in which Cuban dissident leader Oswaldo Paya was killed in July.
Read MoreThe Spanish Embassy in Cuba celebrated Dia de la Hispanidad (Hispanic Day, or “Columbus Day” in the United States) on October 12 with a reception in which no dissidents, opposition bloggers or anti-Castro journalists were invited.
Read MoreWhen I was a little girl I used to play like I was going to be a great scientist; I thought that I was going to discover something great. I saw myself as working in a laboratory one day, among test tubes and suspicious fumes coming out of them.
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