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Suppresion, Erosion, Demolition: Authoritarians vs. Academia

Universities are essential for a democratic culture. People learn to live with ideas different from their own & exercise critical thought.

In Venezuela the Public Health System does not escape the government policies of misery to which most of the population is subjected.

He looks at me, smiles and some wrinkles deepen near his eyes, which are still green but have lost their twinkle from yesteryear.

Of course, he can be criticized and doubted! Yunior Garcia is now a public figure and politician, even if he still doesn’t identify as such.

I sometimes see opinions from Cuban emigres going on about the cowardice or complicity of their fellow countrymen on the island…

With great fanfare, the regional elections in Venezuela were held November 21, promoted by the government as “Mega-elections”.

If there’s one thing they tried to drill into us, it’s that all Cubans are equal, that there is no “difference between social classes” here.

When my dog starts barking, I know I need to stop whatever I’m doing. He’s like a kind of alarm, he warns me of the beginning of a routine…

My friend told me that her boy had caught COVID-19 and had to be admitted into a school that had been turned into a hospital.

This isn’t the time for sentences, especially when many of those judging him weren’t there, on the frontlines to defend him.