“It’s been a horror movie to get here,” George Zamora tells me while he remembers his 13-month long journey from Cuba. Today, he lives outside on the Ysleta-Zaragoza International Bridge, which connects Ciudad Jerez with El Paso, Texas. He stays there with the hope that he will be able to request political asylum in the US.
Read MoreMarisol, a young Honduran woman who had just arrived via Mexicali, showed me her orange wrist band. She pointed to a number. “This number means I cannot go inside of the camp to sleep.” But she and her three friends hang their wool blanket between the fence and two trees with big smiles. They had arrived.
Read MoreAlthough some migrants arrived earlier, the bulk of the Hondurans arrived just five days ago. The camp is in Zona Norte, on the north end of Tijuana, in a sports facility. The early arrivals were lucky to get floor space inside of the gymnasium where is it dry, safe and quiet. The more recent arrivals are camped in the soccer field… (36 photos)
Read MoreToday we bring you the survivors of the second cut of this year´s 10th anniversary Havana Times Cuba Photo Contest. Now in the second cut, the number of photos still competing is reduced to 154 and there are 56 photographers who still have at least one picture in the contest. (154 photos)
Read MoreThe orders that Rosario Murillo, acting as the FSLN’s national chief, sent to her political secretaries in public institutions of Managua during the first days of the April rebellion, reveal the strategy with which the government tried to deal with the social discontent that exploded on April 18th.
Read MoreThe Miami Book Fair is in full swing and one of the opening days most awaited events was when Rosa Maria Paya presented “La Noche no será eternal” (Night will not be eternal), a book that becomes the political testament of her father Osvaldo Paya Sardiñas, an opposition leader to the Castro government, whom she accuses of murdering him.
Read MoreGuatemala “scared” Daniel Ortega. The commander cancelled at the last minute his announced participation in the XXVI Ibero-American Summit, after several Nicaraguan and Guatemalan citizens indicated that they would protest the presence of the dictator at the meeting, which took place in Antigua, Guatemala on November 15-16.
Read MoreIt’s time to begin presenting the pictures competing in the 10th anniversary Havana Times Cuba Photo Contest. We received a total of 962 photos from 109 participants in the six different categories: Best Picture, Black and White, Cuban Countryside, Hope, Interiors and Intolerance. (330 photos)
Read MoreCarlos Silva Rodriguez shed tears every day during the heat of the protests, when reading the news about those the regime had killed. Today, the athlete is the first person to be accused of toppling one of First Lady/VP Murillo’s metal “trees of life”.
Read MoreNogales is a bustling Mexican city on the US border 70 miles south of Tucson, Arizona. For US tourists, it is known as a place for crossing the border to find inexpensive dentists and half-price medications. But for asylum seekers arriving at this Mexican town from the south there is a different story – one of hope, heartbreak and compassion. (21 photos)
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