The nutritious grain that mountain peoples of the Americas and high Asia cultivated were displaced by wheat and rice, but they are staging a comeback thanks to growing public consciousness about health.
Read More“Guided by the principles that you and God taught me, I couldn’t stay silent while seeing everything that was happening to the students.” This is the message that Maria Guadalupe Ruiz, a 22-year-old Nicaraguan university student, wrote on a piece of paper addressed to her mother.
Read More“I think that this crisis has been institutionalized, that is, people (inside and outside the country) have become accustomed to the fact that there is a crisis in Nicaragua, and that it is going through a slow process,” said former Foreign Minister Francisco Aguirre.
Read MoreStormy sunset on the Malecon, Havana, Cuba. By Jodi Newell (California, USA). Camera: Canon 60D
Read MoreIn the sun-scorched Brazilian city of Itaituba, in a part of the Amazon filled with legal and illegal mines, there are two streets where young men go after weeks away in the gold pits.
Read MoreToday’s featured artist is Frank Colon (US-Puerto Rico) with the song “Spanish Heart” from the album “Latin Lounge” (due October 2019). Submitted by Margo Colon from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Read More“I won’t look at Facebook anymore because of safety problems, I’ve already been attacked on social media,” business-owner Kira Romero writes, after making her project Firdaus public, which will be the first online store for Muslim women in Cuba.
Read MoreToday’s featured artist is Lucho Macedo from Peru with the song “Tumba la Cana” from the album “A Guapachar Con Lucho Macedo” (1960s).
Read More“Photography in Times of Crisis: Narrating the Crisis through Images”, was held as part of the public launching of a book compiling hundreds of photos from the most brutal and violent months of repression touched off in Nicaragua in April of 2018.
Read MoreCuba will have a new president of the Republic as of October 10th, for the first time since 1976. The election of the Cuban State’s main leaders will take place in a closed National Assembly session, its members electing these figures amongst themselves.
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