“Food is scarce: you have to go to different places to find everything you need,” pensioner Rita Lina Pintado explained to IPS, referring to the main obstacle she faces to compliment her food rations that the Cuban State distributes at a low price every month.
Read MoreMario Arana, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Nicaragua (AmCham), warned that the Free Trade Agreement between Central America, the United States and the Dominican Republic (known as Cafta-DR) is “at risk”, due to the lack of political will on the part of President Daniel Ortega to seek a way out of Nicaragua’s social, political and economic crisis.
Read MoreAccording to Alexis Pire, a Cuban journalist living in Ecuador, “every detail about this civil conflict” was new to him. “From police ‘dressed up’ as robots, the armored cars and riot brigades, to burnt tires on every street corner.”
Read MoreEver since I used to pass through the Venezuelan State of Lara, always heading for somewhere else, I had the idea that this great area was pretty much a semi-desert or, at least, quite arid. (16 photos)
Read MoreWithout any institutional funds, community project Granjita feliz (The little happy farm) is run with its own resources and support from independent business owners, taking knowledge and (especially) joy to the capital’s children and handicapped.
Read MoreWhomever might come across Luz Elena Sequeira for the first time might not suspect that over the last 6 years, she’s run over 30,000 kilometers. That sum might be more credible when referring to driving a vehicle. But not in this case.
Read MoreIf one dreamed up an ambitious global #metoo success story, it might involve governments around the world enthusiastically supporting legal norms and action on sexual harassment with active support and cooperation from businesses and workers.
Read MoreHow many disqualifying adjectives can be said without breathing in 30 seconds against those that have protested against the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo?
Read MoreNicaraguan Ana Real paid for three dinners in Manhattan in order to obtain the famous interview that television anchor Dan Rather held with then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Read MoreThe fifth installment of the mini-series “Spoon River” presents well-known punk rock band Porno para Ricardo, a controversial band that was founded in 1998 and led by Gorki Aguila, one of the most irreverent artists to have been born in Cuba.
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