The United States is unfairly pointing the finger at Colombia as the sole culprit for the cocaine trade, the governor of the country’s top coca-producing region says. For the war on drugs to be successful, Camilo Romero says, Western countries need to reduce their demand for cocaine.
Read MoreBy Sinikka Tarvainen, dpa HAVANA TIMES – Colombia’s decades-long war against drug trafficking has yielded no results, with cocaine production
Read MoreThe price of Ortega’s repression of citizens civic demands has been “extremely high,” said The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), in its latest report on Nicaragua. The Economist warned that such a situation has “led to a dramatic deterioration of the economy” and that the current recession threatens to become a “depression.”
Read MoreNamed after British footballer Gary Lineker (who won the Golden Boot during the 1986 World Cup), and born into a family of professional musicians, this Brazilian artist had a name to live up to and at her* young 24 years of age, she has done just that, managing to form a critically-acclaimed band, record an EP, LP, and perform on stages worldwide.
Read MoreCommander Daniel Ortega closed the doors Friday to the national dialogue with the Civic Alliance, while reiterating that he is not willing to hold early elections. Instead, the Sandinista strongman emphasized that he will be stay in power at least until after the November 2021 elections, in defiance of the sanctions and the international community.
Read MoreCartoonist Pedro Molina: “The humor that makes the most sense is that which puts the powerful in their place. I’m not speaking only of politicians, because many times the real power doesn’t lie only with them… I’m not interested in humor that mocks the poor or the disgraced, I’m interested in humor that can bring the powerful down to earth.”
Read MoreIt isn’t luxurious nor comfortable. It’s not even a large space where lots of customers can come. Jugolandia is the entrance and hallway to a house located in the Playa municipality. It is the fruit of a desire to set up a profitable business, as well as to contribute to improving and strengthening customers’ health…
Read MoreThe last thing that the young opposition activist Bryan Murillo did on Tuesday night, just hours before police officers shot and killed him in his mother’s home in the Barrio Guadalupe of León, was to squeeze himself into a photo taken of his niece, Aylin Del Carmen…
Read MoreThe value of properties in Nicaragua has fallen between 20% and 30%, as a result of the crisis that has plagued the country for fifteen months, three experts from the legal, stock and financial sector told Confidencial.
Read MoreWhen the siblings turned themselves in to US Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, in mid-April, agents separated them. “Where are you taking him?” she asked. “He’s going to a better place than you,” she said an agent replied. But as we have found, Gloria’s brother, like other children in Border Patrol detention, certainly was not going to a good place.
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