Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

“Information Blackout” Cloaks Nicaragua in Silence

The regime combines multiple strategies to silence journalists: harassment, intimidation, confiscations, imprisonment, forced exile, etc.

“Do you have the guts to bleed?” That’s the slogan used to promote a clandestine fighting league in Cuba offering up to 20 euros per match.

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Maria Corina Machado recognizes her peaceful struggle for Venezuelan democracy..

Today’s featured artist is Dominican pianist Gus Rodriguez with the song “Camino a Casa 21” (The road home) from “De Jazz en Cuando” (2024).

I remember my grandfather pausing in the doorway every time he heard the “Peanut Vendor” coming down the street.

We bring you some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

To Catch a Dictator. the search for justice in a world of impunity, by Reed Brody. Chronicling how the, former dictator of Chad fell.

On October 13, 2025, Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer García flew from Cuba to the United States, accompanied by part of his family

Erasmo Calzadilla from Cuba took our photo of the day: “Reflections”, in Seattle, USA.

Accompanying the Cuban dissident Luis Robles were his mother, Yindra Elizastigui, and his seven-year-old son.