Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Nicaragua: Exile and Civil Death is an Elusive Freedom

The released Nicaraguans were technically deported; that is, banished. They were stripped of their nationality and all their civil rights…

Livio Delgado from Canada took our photo of the day: “Nightfall on the Havana Malecon”.

The release of the Nicaraguan political prisoners is a highly relevant turn of events in favor of the region’s human rights.

“Prison changes you. But we are still committed to bring about change,” Felix Maradiaga and Juan Sebastian Chamorro stated.

I used to come here quite frequently in my teenage years, especially when I would skip school. There was this wonderful feeling… (37 pictures)

They will be able to recover their dignified condition as Nicaraguan citizens and their corresponding rights when democracy returns.

Among the political prisoners still held by the Ortega Murillo regime is Monsignor Rolando Alvarez, sentenced Friday to 26 years in jail.

The orchestrated process of the Cuban elections has begun. The official list of candidates for deputies has already been written.

Rogelio Polanco, 57, heads the powerful Ideological Department of the Cuban Communist Party, which governs all legal media.

Brewster Gisbourne from Canada took our photo of the day: “Golden Winter”, in Ontario, Canada.