While greater Internet access has encouraged the creation of solidarity groups which share information about how to deal with food shortages, SNET, Havana’s street network, is fighting to survive in the face of Cuba’s new internet regulations.
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We replace belts and brake pads, Camaguey, Cuba. By Alfredo Angueira, Cuba. Camera: Blackberry cel
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Haitian authorities should conduct a swift and comprehensive investigation into the killing of journalist Pétion Rospide and ensure those responsible are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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Tens of thousands of workers around Brazil on Friday joined a general strike against President Jair Bolsonaro’s controversial pension reform plans, with protesters erecting burning barricades while public transport was affected in the main cities.
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Merchant Irlanda Jerez spent 329 days as a prisoner of the Ortega-Murillo regime. During that time, she was interrogated nude, beaten, tortured and groped by an official of the La Esperanza prison. She was released on Tuesday, June 11, but she was unable to return to her home in Managua because hours previously it had been sacked and occupied by the Ortega-allied paramilitary.
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UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is set to meet Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as well as opposition leader Juan Guaido in a visit to the country next week, her office announced Friday.
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I still remember that morning of the first day of the school year, in September 1986. I felt good, waiting for the bus that would take me to the junior high boarding school (7th-9th grade) in the Sandino municipality, over 80 kms from my home, in Pinar del Rio province as well.
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If it weren’t for the weight they’ve both lost it would be difficult to believe that Miguel Mora and Lucia Pineda Ubau have spent 172 days of solitary confinement in the maximum security cells of the Ortega-Murillo regime. The journalists are physically marked, but their spirits remain intact.
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While much of Nicaragua was jubilantly following the release of political prisoners on Tuesday, the United States Congress held a public hearing that addressed the national crisis, focused on the actions that country could take regarding the Ortega-Murillo regime…
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Training mental health and law professionals, the Cuban non-profit “The Oscar Arnulfo Romero Center” (OAR), is paving the way to extend counseling services that victims of domestic violence receive in different Cuban provinces, especially in Las Tunas.
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