Avil Ramírez, has been responsible for rescuing the historical memory of Nicaragua, showing through newspaper clippings, the news that was recorded by the main newspapers since fifty years ago and that today warn us that we have repeated the history.
Read MoreThe hotel charged by the hour, but the two young Cubans – dirty, hungry and dazed after being released from detention in the United States and pushed back into Mexico – had nowhere else to go.
Read MoreYou end up forming some kind of allergy, rash and swelling included, when you’re bombarded with the same pests, day after day. What’s the trending phrase at the moment in Cuban political discourse? The national economy’s “Productive chains”. The president says it, and then so does Tom, Dick and Harry, every booster and amplifier in turn.
Read MoreCuba is experiencing a climate of growing tension as August draws near. Nearly half a million employees are waiting (somewhere between excited and anxiously) for the day they receive their pay-checks for July. They are waiting for the first benefit of a spectacular pay-rise that the government announced last month for the public sector.
Read MoreThe body of Josue Sandigo Reyes, 22, was discovered on June 16, in the community paradoxically known as Desamparados [“The Defenseless”] outside of San Jose, Costa Rica. An empty bottle of poison lay beside it. Sandigo had been one of those in the occupation of the National Autonomous University (UNAN) in Managua during the protests against Daniel Ortega’s government.
Read MoreOn the outer edges of Buenos Aires proper, where the paved streets end and the narrow alleyways of one of Argentina’s largest shantytowns begin, visitors can find the En Haccore soup kitchen.
Read MoreWhen the United Nations General Assembly met in 2007 to vote on North Korea’s human rights record, only 10 of the 56 African countries voted with the U.S.-led western coalition. The overwhelming majority followed China – either by voting against or abstaining from the resolution.
Read MoreWhen president Miguel Diaz-Canel announced unexpected pay-rises in the public sector in late June 2019 (to take effect in August), many experts warned about the dangers that a measure like this one might involve, coming at the most difficult time in Cuba’s economy this century.
Read MoreDespite a massive police deployment, students, former political prisoners and other Nicaraguan citizens participated in sit-ins or express protests in various parts of Managua and other cities of the country on Thursday, July 25.
Read MoreAt night, inthe port city of SanCarlos, Río SanJuan’s capital, there are hotels, restaurants, eateries, bars andevenslot machine casinos totally empty or withjust two people inthem. The fewbusinesses that have any customers are the exception.
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