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Nicaragua’s Growing Debt with China May Darken Its Future

Will the new Chinese financial life-raft eventually weigh down Nicaragua’s economy? We include some expert opinions.

“I embraced permaculture as an ideology of life, with a consciousness of caring for the environment & generating as little waste as possible.”

Faced with permanent harassment on his farm in Cardenas, Matanzas, Ernesto is considering selling his animals and abandoning the country.

As virtually all areas of Cuban farm production continue to decline, donations from other countries are once again essential.

In one of hundreds of memes, a citizen offers to work at the pace of the thermoelectric plants: one day of work for a week of rest.

These human masses in waiting share the same fears: connection failure, running out of money, or a power outage. Any of these can happen…

“U-Turn” transactions are fund transfers related to Cuba or any other sanctioned country conducted between two non-US banks.

Cuban officialdom does not mention several obvious problems with midnight markets: blackouts, lack of products and corruption in the food sector.

Caution among those who benefit from Biden’s measures on the Island, given the uncertainty about them becoming reality.

The current energy crisis with prolonged blackouts could lead to the collapse of the system and a transformation to democracy.