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Cuba & Challenges for Freedom of Speech in Latin America

The main threats to freedom of speech on the continent include phenomena linked to mass surveillance of citizens online by governments.

Education is “the ticket to getting out of poverty” says the Nicaraguan woman from a working class upbringing.

A few meters away from the sign that announces your arrival in Marianao is Lazaro Arturo Gonzalez’s house near the Quibo River.

The repressors now have a new and clear statute allowing them to criminalize, for example, the exercise of independent journalism.

“With all the dollars they extort from people here, you’d think they’d have power,” a woman protested aloud.

The discrete opening to foreign market investment announced by the Cuban government this month has piqued the interest of Spanish businesses,

Prisoners report that a typical meal consists of 40 beans, an ounce of rice, two small spoonsful of meat, and an inch-long boiled plantain.

Mireya Barrios admits that she does everything she can to try and enjoy a cup of coffee every day, amid the high prices and shortages…

The campaigns to Approve or Reject the new Constitution are being waged on a number of fronts. One is the poster & urban art war in Santiago.

Repression forced them to leave Nicaragua. In the neighboring country they organize concerts and have created new musical bands.