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Free Trade Zone Workers in Nicaragua Are Without Rights

New unions cannot be formed, and those that already exist cannot – or do not want to – protect workers’ rights.

Miguel “Mike” Bezos left Cuba in 1962. He came to the USA from Cuba wearing a jacket his mother had hand-stitched from cleaning rags.

“They’re afraid that we’ll all leave, and reveal how fed-up Nicaragua’s public employees are,” one of them reflects.

Applying costs nothing, and Nicaraguans with legal immigration status can be sponsors, even if they’re not relatives of the applicant.

What were the results of the process that was applied to Venezuelan migrants? Did parole stop Venezuelans entering the US illegally?

“We hear a lot about migration crises, but in reality, it is the migrants who are often truly in crisis,” notes UN Commissioner Volker Türk.

Priests, devotees and lawyers are outraged after the Ortega’s government decision to send Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Alvarez, to trial.

The eight priests and assistants and Monsignor Rolando Alvarez are all accused of the bogus crimes of conspiracy & propagation of fake news.

Access to digital technology and the Internet has opened up a space for a community of Cuban graphic artists to multiply and mobilize.

In Costa Rica’s hidden labor world in pineapple production, commerce and construction, there are no vacations, Christmas bonuses or rights