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Celeste Mendoza and Her Rumba

Celeste Mendoza, a.k.a. “La Reina del Guaguanco”, was the first woman to sing this form of rumba, having been an exclusively male genre until then. Today we bring you her music.

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Chernobyl in Cuba, Brewing against Oblivion

Valery Legasov, Chernobyl’s leading scientist, faced death with these words: “What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.” Cuba had its own nuclear miscarriage.

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Nicaragua: “Under Your Ashes”, a Song About Loss and Hope

Music quickly became an essential element of the civic protests that began in April 2018, against a new family dictatorship that has made Nicaragua bleed. A new generation of artists, including Bruno Cortina, was moved to compose the soundtrack of this new civic rebellion, which has left 326 dead, more than 700 political prisoners and the forced exile of some 60 thousand people.

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Nicaragua: The Children of Ortega’s Political Prisoners

It’s 1:00 p.m. on Monday, May 20. Abril Ariana, 10, Roberto Leonel, 8, and Angel Neomar, 3 months old haven’t had their Dad at home for many months. Their mother, Mazkiel Hernandez, has made countless visits to the El Chipote jail, to the La Modelo prison, to the courts and to the local and international human rights organizations to denounce her husband’s detention.

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Venezuela-Nicaragua-El Salvador Money Laundering Network Exposed

The immense fortune created by the combination of high oil prices and the copious extraction of black gold from Venezuelan subsoil laid the foundation for a “Bolivarian Joint Criminal Enterprise” (BJCE), according to a new report signed by Douglas Farah and Caitlyn Yates, the president and investigator for IBI Consultants, LLC.

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