Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Public Employees: “We Are Under Watch by the FSLN”

“You can’t do anything. You have to say what they tell you to. If they want you to go to the plaza with the Sandinista flag, you have to go.”

Peter Chartrand from the USA took our photo of the day: “Secure your Weapon” in Arizona, USA.

Today’s featured band is Orquesta Aragon from Cuba with the song “Quiereme Siempre” El from the album “Me voy para la luna” (1956).

Several workers posing with sticks in their hands, a man proudly displaying a stone & some neighbors caught on camera test firing with rifles

They denounce the government’s enactment of a month-long, 12-hour curfew & ban on public gatherings in the northern coastal town of El Estor.

The Saab case shows that Maduro’s brand of Chavism has lost the capacity to create heroes, no matter how many resources they invest.

Judges argue “work overload” or “reasons of force majeure” to extend the deadlines established by law to hold the trials.

Refusing to condemn a dictator who arrested the entire opposition leadership to save his re-election exposes a brutal disregard for democracy

Barbados has elected Sandra Mason its first-ever president, who will replace the U.K.’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state.

I remember once reading a book that said that dictatorships become more repressive when they are in moments of crisis.