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The Nicaragua Prisoner Release in a Regional Context

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

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

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.

Ortega is a loyal disciple of Fidel Castro, who utilized the dissenters imprisoned during Cuba’s 2003 Black Spring as tokens of exchange.

“Official discourse insists on “changing whatever needs to be changed” and in “letting productive forces loose”, but this is just rhetoric.

More than a quarter of a million Cubans abandoned the island last year, and the vast majority were young people, many of them highly educated.

French whole milk at over $4 USD was enough for a murmur of indignation to run through the crowd at the new private store.

Brad McBlain from Canada took our photo of the day: “Portrait of a Bird”, in Cayo Guillermo, Cuba.

Hoping not to bore you, I want to tell you about some of the things Cubans are talking about the most on the street these days.