A few days ago, a news report that was taken from Telesur TV and published in the Cuban newspaper Granma got me thinking about a subject that we don’t generally worry about too much: youth unemployment. The article, which was only a few short lines long, reflects a reality that we should all be worried about.
Read MoreCuba’s results at the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, 2018, should make the Cuban people swell with pride because seeing their athletes’ win is one of their greatest sources of joy. However, comments in our media mentioned a “bitter pill to swallow”…
Read MoreDaniel Ortega’s loss of credibility with the US government has grown in recent years, and, after the brutal repression since April, Arturo Cruz, a former ambassador of Nicaragua to the United States, sees it unlikely that there will be an understanding between Ortega and president Trump, as the Nicaraguan president has suggested in his interviews with the international press.
Read MoreIn July, the FSLN delegation in the National Assembly approved two laws aimed at persecuting and criminalizing citizens, opposition leaders, business owners and non-profit organizations that support or donate to any civic campaign aimed at defending themselves from the authoritarian regime of Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreThe exile of artists and human rights defenders who have denounced harassment and death threats on themselves and their families in Nicaragua reveals a worsening of the crisis and an increase in terror in the country, lawyers and activists said today.
Read MoreEsther Marina del Sol Viamonte owns this property, in Villa Clara province, which, with Lisvany Garcia Diaz’s crucial help (a young man who graduated in visual arts but is a botanist by passion), they manage to self-finance and earn something from by selling plant species.
Read More“My children aren’t interested in the traditional advice I have taught them because they tell me that they aren’t seeing any results, that they can’t see themselves being successful,” I heard a man say this morning as I was getting into a collective taxi.
Read MoreWe are a people who beat ourselves up with pleasure. At least in Havana, it’s difficult to get something done or just go to a store without being humiliated. This is such a regular occurrence that most of the time we don’t even react when we are being treated badly. Why don’t we?
Read MoreThe crisis in the country has already caused some 215,000 people to lose their jobs according to a study from Funides, the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development. This in turn has increased the level of debt delinquency in the local financial system, with ever more people – up to 45% – unable to make payments.
Read MoreDespite the lighting trial of the supposed murderer of Brazilian medical student Reyneia Lima, there are numerous unsolved questions that the prosecution prefers not to investigate. Two of those are how the victim’s car disappeared in thin air and that the boyfriend who took her to the hospital is also missing.
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