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Jail, Threaten & Release: the “Revolving Door” Strategy

Repeated detentions trap Nicaraguans who oppose the government. The tactic is designed to lessen the “political cost” for the dictatorship.

I had just gone to four markets, returning home with only a quarter of what I managed to get the previous week. Cuba’s food shortage worsens.

The Police abducted the two youth to question them about the Nicaraguan University Alliance (AUN) and threatened to imprison them permanently.

Today one may think reading books on paper is a thing of the past. However, “Biblioteca Andante” in Cardenas, Cuba, proves otherwise.

Within the wide range of Cuban movies that deal with migration, I picked 10, whose characters suffer the “I-want-to-leave-Cuba” syndrome.

The bloody toll of the invasion of squatters, from April 2018 to date: 17 Mayangna & Miskito indigenous killed. Nobody arrested and sentenced.

“We have to produce milk so that anyone who wants to have a glass of milk can. And we have the land to produce it.” -Raul Castro in 2007.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made economic, gender and racial inequality starker in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Danelia Arguello has not left her home in a Somoto neighborhood, Madriz, because a police contingent unjustifiably prevents her from doing so.

Joe Biden in the presidency opens up a new landscape for US-Cuba relations. The question is whether it will return to pre-Trump status.