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Havana, Cuba in Critical Condition

The contrast couldn’t be sharper: above, a tourist-postcard blue sky; below, we move nervously through filth and despair.

The last time I traveled to Cuba, you could already feel that breeze of sadness that would now turn into hurricane-force winds.

If anyone knows firsthand how hard a transition from a communist dictatorship to a democracy can be, it is Lech Walesa.

Today, Cuban authorities and social media voices among those of us who remember the ’90s are invoking that ghost again. Let me explain…

Actions by the Trump administration regarding Venezuela and Cuba have also created the expectation that Nicaragua is next in line.

Many of us naively believed there was a real possibility of breaking with the Chilean history of treating the Mapuche people as a security issue.

The disproportion between those who cling to the current model and those who want a political opening is now favorable to the latter.

I believe in the freedom of expression of the MCGA youths. We share the desire for the end of this regime, but they don’t represent me.

I am impressed with Minneapolis. I have never seen a city as supportive as this one. A large part of the Latino community is in hiding.

There’s plenty of verbal solidarity, but cars run on gasoline; when oral fuel is invented, then we’ll swim in abundance.