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The Year 2024: One of Darkness in Cuba

Castroism has lost a good part of the little popular support it had left and will limp into January. Unfortunately, so will Cubans.

Rather than greater openness and flexibility, 2024 was marked by decrees that mostly imposed tighter control over the private sector.

Repression, family dictatorship and growing Chinese influence marked Nicaragua in 2024. We present an overview of the 10 principal events.

The world would be a better place if the teachings of all religions materialized in daily life, but humanity is imperfect… (10 photos)

Trump threatens massive deportations and the closure of programs that benefit migrants beginning on the first day of his administration.

On Monte Street, the smell of improvised chicken coops spreads through the nearby houses and gives the neighborhood a certain rural touch.

There are now some 1.5 million Nicaraguans living outside the country. The majority – some 800,000 – are in the United States

Cuban Women spend up to 30 percent of their salary on buying personal hygiene products, a chronic problem that has only worsened.

When dictator Fulgencio Batista fled in the early hours of January 1, 1959, few imagined the sweeping changes ahead for the country.

Pedro Garce, organizer of Havana gasoline lines, fights against ’Imperialism’ and the Bureaucracy of those ’From Above’.