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Children’s Baseball in Cuba: The Same Old

It isn’t the first time that we are looking at child baseball in Cuba here on the site. The sport is marked by few official games and the little financial support it receives.

The Dollar Makes a Comeback in Cuba

From this week onwards, Cubans will be able to open bank accounts in US dollars at local banks so they are able to purchase electrical applicances, electric scooters and even place orders for special devices, with their debit card,.

Protests Ignite around the World

From Hong Kong to Chile, through Lebanon, Iraq, Spain, Colombia or Haiti, protests shake the world, with millions of people on the streets for different reasons, although with a common denominator: social discontent.

New Cuban Platform Supports Emerging Businesses

El Catre is a new service that offers private businesses the opportunity to launch their products on the international market.

Nicaragua’s Civic Alliance Presents a 10-Point Unity Program

The Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy presented a ten-point program, intended to form the basis of a great opposition unity to find a way out of the national crisis that the country has faced since April 2018.

Cuban Photographer Captures Social Unrest in Chile

Social unrest exploded in Chile a week ago throughout the national territory. We are in Concepción, BioBio region about 600 kms. south of Santiago, the capital. (36 photos)

Solar Energy Transforms Villages in Argentina’s Puna Highlands

“On moonless nights it was very difficult to walk around this town,” says Celia Vilte, a teacher from San Francisco, a highlands village of just 54 people in the extreme northwest of Argentina whose centre is not a town square but 40 solar panels, which provide one hundred percent of its electricity.

Cuba Tormented by Unstable Food Supplies

“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.

Ortega Puts Cafta-DR (Free Trade) and 125,000 Jobs “at Risk”

Mario 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.

How Some Cubans Experienced the Recent Protests in Ecuador

According 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.”