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Fiscal Deficit and US Dollar at 200 Cuban Pesos

The excess liquidity and inflation we’ve seen in Cuba in recent years, “is almost always linked to financing the country’s fiscal deficit.”

Three Nicaraguans recount the difficulties they’ve had getting a sponsor, and the desperation they feel in their country.

Although the Ortega-Murillo regime released 222 of its political prisoners in February, there are still several dozens around the country.

After a three-year break due to Covid-19 restrictions on travel and movement we returned this year with our 12th contest.

The survivors initial testimony said that those who had set fire to the house were hooded men accompanied by police.

It was the birthday of Donald Trump and Che Guevara, however in Cuba it was just another day of stepped up repression against critical voices

US organizations are asking their Government to take new action or comply with previous measures so they can provide urgent aid to Cubans.

Havana could be seeking to “indirectly put pressure” on the United States to change its policy towards the Island.

Ortega attacks Europe and the USA in a meeting with Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, and insists on reviving his failed canal project.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights says that there are “serious and sufficient indications” to doubt the official version.