Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Nicaragua: Eight Chinese Companies with Mining Concessions

The total area of the concessions exceeds the surface area of some departments such as Managua, Chinandega and Estelí, notes CONFIDENCIAL.

I’m used to living with the rope around my neck and a sewing needle in my fingers. Sometimes I believe I’ve stitched up a tear, but then…

Today’s featured artists are Celia Cruz, Albita, Lucrecia & Paquito D’Rivera from Cuba with “Oye como va” live in Palma de Malloca (2013).

The country already has a 94% renewable electricity mix, but plans to diversify by adding more than 100MW of solar by 2026.

Cuba has admitted for the first time that it produces cigars with prison labor, without free, decent, voluntary, & audited working conditions.

At the end of last August, the well-known Havana priest Father Lester Zayas protested a Yoruba ritual performed in front of his church.

We bring you some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Friday, October 3, 2025.

Ken Jamieson from Canada took our photo of the day: “The Peace of the Sea”, in Gibara, Cuba.

Reporters in the US can be silenced and deported for doing their Job is the message from the pending deportation of Mario Guevara.

Amnesty International denounced that El Salvador is using the penal system to punish human rights defenders and silence critical voices.