The 20-member jury has given its verdict and it’s time to bring you the winners and special mentions of our 10th Anniversary Havana Times Cuba Photo Contest. Interestingly in the final round, all of the 60 photos still in competition received at least 8 points in our system of giving 10, 5, 3, 1 points to first, second, third and fourth places.
Read MoreNestor Moncada Lau, known as Chema, is the guardian who watches over the FSLN General Secretary, Daniel Ortega. This lawyer and experienced former official of the Ministry of the Interior’s State Security has strong ties of loyalty to Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo.
Read More“My name is Ricardo. I am 33 years old. They killed my father with a machete in front of me. They wanted me to see it. He refused to work for the gang and that is what happened to him. The gangs have killed my neighbors, my cousins and I am afraid for my own life.”
Read MoreThe United States infiltrated the inner circle of the presidential couple. With the sanction to Nestor Moncada Lau (“Chema”), Ortega’s private secretary, and liaison to the Police, paramilitary groups and intelligence activities, they have shown President Daniel Ortega that they know what is going on in the political kitchen of El Carmen bunker.
Read MoreThe 40th edition of Havana’s International Festival of New Latin American Cinema is on our heels. The Cuban capital will fill with movie debuts, retrospectives, exhibitions and tributes for ten intense days, from December 6th-16th. A lot of people in the capital take their vacations each year at this time.
Read MoreWithin the coming days, a total of 8,000 Central American asylum seekers are expected to have reached the Mexican side of the border with the USA, in Tijuana. Over 6,000 have already arrived. On the other side of the border, over 5,000 US Troops – around 2 for every 3 migrants – have been deployed with the latest high-tech gear. T
Read MoreUpon hearing that the members of the National Union of Nicaraguan Students (UNEN) in Matagalpa would support Daniel Ortega’s government, despite three days of protests during which more than twenty people had already died, Dilon Zeledon got up from his chair and said: “I disagree! We owe our presence here to the students. How are we going to leave them in the lurch?”
Read More“I was crying, I was angry, because they were taking away my cousin. Seeing that a policeman was filming, I got mad and threw the rock at him,” said the fourteen-year-old student from a Managua high school, who on November 22 came out in defense of her classmates.
Read MoreI thought I knew Bogota because I had already been twice in 2016. I was wrong. On both of those visits, I only went where I could get to on foot and, therefore, I never went onboard the Transmilenio. That’s why I can’t say that I really knew the Colombian capital.
Read More“This government is uglier than my handwriting,” Nahiroby Olivas, a student from Leon, joked in a video that he posted on Facebook on June 29. The yellow sign he’s holding contains the handwritten phrase: “He who doesn’t love his country, doesn’t love his mother.”
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