Cuba Sees Drop in Tourists as Trump Sanctions Take Hold
Cuba saw a 23.6 per cent drop in tourists in July compared to the same month in 2018 amid renewed sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump, new data shows.
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Author: Circles Robinson
Tall Tales from Ortega about Mega-Projects in Nicaragua
For a number of years, one of the Ortega regime’s strong points was their propaganda. A large part of the population was hypnotized by the siren songs that government spokespeople, the media, their allies and servants repeated over and over.
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Meet the Artist Who Places Crosses to Memorialize Migrant Deaths
More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to embark on an uncertain and perilous journey to the United States.
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Venezuela Opens Embassy in North Korea
Venezuela on Wednesday opened an embassy in North Korea, At the opening ceremony, Venezuela’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ruben Dario Molina criticized US “attacks” against the governments in Caracas and Pyongyang.
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Costa Rican Foreign Minister on the Nicaragua Refugee Crisis
The Costa Rican government estimates that at the end of this year the Nicaraguan migratory wave could increase, as a result of the political crisis caused by the dictatorship, and reach as many as 100,000 asylum seekers, since the crisis began in April of last year.
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Walking Art, Havana, Cuba – Photo of the Day
Walking Art, Havana, Cuba. By Laura McCarty (USA). Camera: iPhone 6
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Facundo Rivero (Cuba) – Song of the Day
Today’s featured artist is Facundo Rivero and his Quartet from Cuba with the song “Negra mi Cha cha chá”. (1954).
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Colombia: Needs of Venezuelan Refugees Exceed Our Capacity
Colombia said Tuesday that its capacity to deal with the mass influx of Venezuelan migrants had been “surpassed,” adding that it had only received 30 per cent of the necessary international funding.
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Salvadoran Rape Survivor Cleared After Prior Conviction for Killing Stillborn
In El Salvador, 21-year-old rape survivor Evelyn Hernandez, who was being retried on aggravated homicide charges for having a stillborn birth in 2016, has been acquitted.
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Daniel Ortega’s Lies about Nicaragua to the International Press
Daniel Ortega complains about international sanctions against his Government whenever he can. This time he did it before Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton, US journalists from The GrayZone portal.
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