Amidst tension, disagreements and misunderstandings with the government, young people in Cuba led low key initiatives on September 20th during the global climate strike, and they continue to carry out small awareness-raising activities this week.
Read MoreAs I promised in my previous article, today I intend to offer the criteria of some Cuban fans about the existence or not of a crisis in Cuban baseball, reflected in their most recent international results.
Read MoreThe first four speakers during the opening day, September 24, of the 74th session of the U.N. General Assembly—Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, U.S. president Donald Trump, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan —represented the very anti-thesis of what the world body stands for.
Read MoreThey fled Nicaragua to save their lives, hold onto their freedom and their physical integrity. In exile, some slept on the cold streets of the Costa Rican capital with empty stomachs. Others, from the United States, fostered the international denunciation of the violations of the Ortega-Murillo regime.
Read MorePicking up traditional practices that have no need for fuel: yokes of oxen to prepare the land and carts to transport products and organic matter, are measures that the Cuban agricultural sector is adopting in order to navigate national fuel shortages.
Read MoreThey arrived prepared, coordinated and ready. The majority were certain that they would not advance a kilometer from the four points where the march would start. And, indeed, so it was. On Saturday, September 21, Managua woke up militarized with hundreds of agents, patrols and paramilitaries…
Read MoreAs many as 4 million people around the world took to the streets Friday in the largest day of action focused on the climate crisis. Students across the globe led climate strikes in hundreds of countries, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Read MoreAt least 25 cases of political prisoners, published in Nicaraguan and US media, or as told to human rights organizations, have identified a pattern of abuse committed against opposition members while in detention: beatings, removal of fingernails, toenails and teeth, electric shock, acids thrown on skin, suffocation, cigarette burns, psychological abuse, sexual abuse and rape.
Read MoreLong lines of up to 50 cars outside the few gas stations that have fuel and hundreds of people waiting at bus stops for hours, became a reality for Cuban people in the second week of September, as a result of some fuel shortages.
Read MoreDr. Maria Werlau is a meticulous researcher of the crimes committed by Latin American dictatorships. Cuba, her bleeding Homeland, is at the heart of her concern for 67 consecutive years of dictatorships, first Fulgencio Batista, followed by Fidel Castro and those who continued in his footsteps.
Read More
