Virtual Trials Isolate Political Prisoners in Nicaragua
Virtual trials are indeed contemplated by Nicaraguan law, but regime authorities do not respect procedural guarantees.
Features
The Fate of Two Cuban-American’s Businesses on the Island
Not all private businesses on the Island receive the same treatment by the Cuban Government. We feature two cases.
Will Price Controls Increase Supply or Scarcity in Cuba?
A meeting of private business owners with a Deputy Minister of Finance and Prices exposes tensions over new price caps.
How Ortega Took Over Nicaragua’s Electricity Sector
Tirso Celedon, president of Agronegocios Comerciales, is the Ortega-Murillo family’s main figurehead in energy and real estate businesses.
Cuban Leadership Met to Discuss Their “War Economy”
Maximum profit limits for private sector sales to State companies took effect on Monday July 1st throughout Cuba.
Nicaragua: “We All Cried Over the Closure of the Institute”
Thirty days from graduating from a technical career, 180 young people were left hopeless. Forty workers and teachers were left unemployed.
The Main Cause of Cuba’s Great Teacher Shortage
The streets of the city of Matanzas have been filled with street vendors trying to survive. Some used to be professionals.
In Cuba, the Dead Own Livestock to Avoid State Controls
In Pinar del Río, inspectors detect 1,900 “illegalities” in livestock. Meanwhile, controls increase and production continues to decline.
New Law Would Open the Door to Losing Cuban Citizenship
In practice, government authorities have for a long-time treated hundreds of citizens who oppose the Communist Party regime as “non-Cubans.”
Ortega’s Transnational Repression “Tentacles” Denounced
Espionage, threats, denial of passports, disappearance of records, are among the new repressive methods of the dictatorship.