Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Walking Near Death

My learning began in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. A refugee camp in the jungles of Mexico, less than a mile from the Guatemalan border.

In Hong Kong, police have arrested five editors and executives of the Apple Daily newspaper, accusing them of colluding with foreign powers.

Rafael Rojas: Classifying peaceful dissenters as coup plotters, terrorists and traitors implies a limitation of political rights.

Cuba’s uncertain future hasn’t put a dent in its tourism development plan. Despite food shortages investment in agriculture lags way behind.

Larry Benvenuti from the USA took the photo of the day: “The chupa-chupa” in the 1990s in Havana, Cuba. He used a Nikon N90 camera.

In Peru, presidential candidate Pedro Castillo declared victory after a final count showed him with a 44,000-vote lead over Keiko Fujimori.

It is surprising that left-wing sectors in the region continue to almost religiously defend Otega and the current FSLN in Nicaragua.

“We would have filled a cart to go out [in the streets] and sell, even in the nearby neighborhoods, but we do not have the authorization,”

With the human rights violations, the government “is going down an alley that Nicaraguans don’t deserve,” UN official Alberto Brunori states.

A decade after the Domestic Workers’ Convention was adopted, the COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated working conditions of many…